TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1337, 9 December 1915, Page 12

TURF TOPICS.

Royal Artillery has had about a dozen winners this season already.

£9927 was passed through the totalisator at the Waipa meeting on Saturday.

J. Williamson intends bringing the ’chaser Hautere in from his long spell in the North during the week.

Multiply’s absence from the list of Auckland Cup candidates is said to be due to soreness.

The trip to the Tauranga races is to be taken by quite a large number of Auckland sports this week.

The Whatawhata races, an oldestablished meeting, take place on New Year’s Day. q: « * *

P. Brady, the horseman injured at Ellerslie a month ago, has been making good progress under Auckland Hospital treatment.

Mr. G. L. Stead recently bought in England, through the British Blood Stock Agency, a filly by Bayardo, which realised 510 guineas.

The Te Aroha Racing Club will have no race under lOOsovs. at their annual meeting, and the chief race will be worth 250sovs.

Waimangu won the first and champion prize at the Manawatu A. and P. Association’s show for thoroughbreds.

W. G. Irwin, the well-known Ellerslie trainer, is about again after a good spell off the course at Ellerslie as the result of sickness.

It is claimed that the Alexandra meeting, to take place as usual this season, will be the 52nd held in the district.

The nominations and acceptances and forfeits for the A.R.C. summer meeting compare favourably with the best of previous years.

The non-acceptance of Rewipoto for one or other of his A.R.C. summer engagements disappointed a few people.

Few people could be found to credit the official time given for the Waipa Cup, viz., 2.7. Private watches made it about 2secs. longer.

Jack Jellicoe, the English-bred colt imported by Mr. D. S. McLeod, may carry silk at the A.R.C. summer meeting.

The gelding Penniless, who ran second in the Ofiaupo Handicap, has only been broken and fed since April last. He was one of the few horses that ran twice at the Waipa meeting.

Monorail was unsound and on Friday last changed hands for 16 guineas at auction at Messrs. Buckland and Son’s haymarket. Sea De’i] was sold, worth the money, for 30 guineas to Mr. C. Walker.

Bradbury, by Bezonian from Mallaig, who, like Bourlang, the half-brother to Balboa, also by Bezonian, was sold in Australia by Mr. lan Duncan, ran well in Queensland two-year-old races without winning. Bourlang’s successes in Adelaide and Melbourne brought in £ 749.

Spalperion is not racing nearly so promisingly as was his wont last season.

Glenopal is one of the progeny of Glengowrie to make good. Gallupin has not improved on the flat by being raced over hurdles.

It is estimated that six hundred racegoers and week-enders travelled by the special train from Auckland and intermediate stations to Hamilton on Saturday last.

Quite a hundred visitors to the Waipa meeting on Saturday missed the return special to Auckland, and most of the tote staff returned by the Sunday morning express train.

Ingomar’s name appears in the respective pedigrees of General Joffre and Lady Glen, winners at the recent Takapuna Jockey Club’s spring meeting.

Twenty sires are represented hi the list of those whose yearlings are to be sold by the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at their approaching annual sale.

Yearlings, now two-year olds, offered for sale at Alexandra Park last January, with four months of the present season gone, have won in stakes in the region of 2500sovs.

Defunct Soult claimed the most winners at the recent Takapuna meeting, and Soldier and Marconi kept up his reputation at the Waipa meeting.

Merry Roe figures in the acceptance Fsts in both the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap, and is in some quarters talked of as a possible competitor in the shorter race.

Bunyan’s son Torotoro is not engaged in the Great Northern Derby. There are some left in the race that he would bear favourable comparison with in appearance.

The country-owned Glenspire is as consistent as ever, and is one of the few sons of Gienapp racing in this Island. His dam, Remorse, was a useful mare in the South Island.

It reads like a bit of flattery paying up for a maiden candidate that has never won a race in the Auckland Cup, but Christine is in the race still. She is trained up North.

A horse in strong demand locally for the Railway Handicap is KingLupin, who, report says, is to be the elect of the stable, as he has more dash than Tinopai.

The A.R.C. Derby does not promise to attract a good field this year, but Desert Gold is in a class by herself. The 250sovs. for second and 150sovs. for third are partitions of the stakes ihat are worth considering.

Hopye is going to make good as a hurdler. He was a long way back at one stage of the hurdle race at the Waipa meeting, but was closing up as the business end was reached. For a beginner he shapes well.

Some people are ticking off Maniaroa as a likely winner of the Auckland Cup this year. Maniaroa’s sire, Maniapoto, comes of the 12 family, but his dam goes back to Vesta, from which mare have descended plenty of useful and some brilliant horses.

Half a dozen handicap races are down for decision at Waipapakauri on Monday, December 27th. The names of Blue Garment, Freemantle, Luperin and St. Amiel (late Othello) are amongst the far North candidates.

The new number board at the Waipa meeting was much appreciated, but in three races the names of the horsemen were not hoisted; these were the trotting races and the race in which amateur riders took part.

Gluepot is a gelding that should get his name on the winning list over hurdles when the company is not too select, but he ran his race before the start on Saturday at Claudelands.

Soultline, who was foaled in 1903, won a race recently in India. He 'first raced at three years old, so this is his ninth season on the turf. He has therefore had a very good innings, but like a number of members of the Soult tribe has shown great vitality. » • • “

Some of those who were not in as good a position to judge as the club’s official thought Positive won the last race at Claudelands on Saturday. It was a close thing between that gelding and the dead-heaters. * * * * The new secretary to the Waipa Racing Club, Mr. A. J. Bray, worked well for its success, aided by Messrs. F. D. Young, Jas. Cook, and other Auckland race officials in his department. * * * * All Black, Boniform, Marble Arch, Elysian, Penury, Rokeby, Finland and Hymettus are sires with representatives to be disposed of at the yearling sales in Auckland that are represented also by progeny in the A.R.C. Derby, Foal and Royal Stakes. * * * $ The imported filly Heather, foaled in 1911, by St. Denis or Bachelor’s Button from Guidwife, by Surefoot, was purchased last August twelve months at Christchurch by Mr. H. D. De Latour for 160 guineas, but must not be confounded with Heather, by Vladimir, who won at Ashhurst and Feilding, putting up penalties up to 161 b. increase on her original weight. • • • •- Maltster and Pistol, with 28 and 22 respectively, claimed more winners up to November I.3th than any other sires in Australia. Antonio claimed 18, Flavus and Linacre 15 each. Bobadil, who is from Stepniak’s sister She, had 14. Carbine’s son, Wallace, had seven winners of £17,417, which is over £BOOO more than St. Alwyne’s nine winners had secured.

Lady Lobelia showed about her best form to date on Saturday over hurdles, but is a long way removed from the class of El Gallo, her brother, who was too highly placed in the Waipa Cup. Though he ran a good race in that event the concluding stages found him wanting in pace, and an Auckland Cup is beyond him, unless his trainer can work a marvellous improvement in the Spalpeen gelding.

The good second and third monies attached to some races in these days make it worth while racing for. Seventy, twenty and ten per cent, is a good way to divide up money available for prizes, and more horses would be ridden out in accordance with the rules if this practice was more largely adopted. In hurdle races especially, where the riding fees are heavy, good second and third monies come in handy for those who have to pay.

The first four horses carded for the Te Awamutu Handicap at the Waipa meeting had their names commencing with the initial letter “G,” and each was got by a different sire, and in each case an imported sire. Glenspire, Glissando and Glittering Sands was the order in which they finished, and Kaween just cut Gallupin out of fourth place.

Marconi has been transformed from a gelding without confidence in his ability to jump—or, as some called him, a determined jib—to a useful light timber topper, and has about paid his owner by this time for spending so much patience and money over his education. There are a good many more that would be better suited in jumping races than on the flat.

Torotoro, who won the Maiden Handicap at the Waipa meeting, beating twenty-one others, was unable to start at the A.R.C. spring meeting owing to injuries received on the train. The son of Bunyan and Black Watch was second favourite, and came from behind and won in good style from the biggest dividend payer of the day, Master Florence, who owed his position of second to getting well away.

Wallace (3), by Carbine (2), heads the list of winning sires in Australia from August Ist to November 13th, with seven, which have won 14 races worth £17,417. Charlemagne 11. (8) has had 11 winners of 18 races worth £7369; Bezonian (1) has had one winner of three races worth £749. King Rufus (7) two winners of two races worth £lOOO. Martian claims one winner of half a race and place money worth £lBBl. This last-named amount was earned by Reputation.

There is every prospect of the chestnut filly Greenstreet, owned by Mr. Greenwood, the Canterbury sportsman, racing at the A.R.C. summer meeting. This filly was got in England and foaled south of the line on board ship when about four days from New Zealand. She will not be the first foaled aboard ship to race in New Zealand, however, though perhaps the first probably foaled on the way from Home to the Dominion.

Some overweights were carried in races on the Claudelands course on Saturday. Mr. Dickey put up 141 b. above the weight adjuster’s assessment on Kaween to secure the services of McFlynn, but the mare yawed away to the outside of the course, and seldom does run well the lefthanded way of courses. Kaween would probably pay her way at the stud; she comes of such a good family. She does not show form good enough to persevere with her.

Tn October the Elmendorf Stud, founded by the late J. B Haggin, was to have been disposed of on behalf of his heirs. The stallions included Ballot, Hessian and Sain. 68 brood mares, and 31 yearlings. At one time there was nearly 250 mares at Elmendorf, but when racing in New York was practically wiped out, Mr Haggin cut down his stud. Ballot was bought by Mr Haggin about th'rqe yeans ago. the price paid for him being the highest for an American-bred stallion since Mr L. Winans gave £15,000 for Sir Martin in 1908 In his time Ballot was a great racehorse, winning according to an American exchange, eighteen races and over £30,000 in stakes. He is by Voter. who is a young stallion, is by Watercress, and on the maternal side descends from the Musket family.