TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1338, 16 December 1915, Page 12

TURF TOPICS.

Maui Nina was the only competitor at the Tauranga meeting that did not get a place during the afternoon. * * * * Munster and Glenopal are Auckland horses nominated for the Stratford meeting. * * * * There are reasons to anticipate that Castalia will represent Mr. F. Hall in the Auckland Cup. * * * * R. J. Mason has booked accommodation for three horses with E. J. Rae, at Greenlane. * * * * Coleraine, who claimed five engagements in one day at the Bay of Plenty meeting, secured one of the events. The acceptances for the Thames meeting are very satisfactory in all races save the Goldfields Cup and Stewards’ Handicap. * # * ♦ Warstep, Snub and Wardancer are the trio which will comprise Mr. Dalgety’s team for the A.R.C. summer meeting. * * * * Lady Ami, the Taranaki mare, is now in E. Pope’s stable at Remuera. She is engaged at Stratford in the Cup and other events. * * * * Light-'fingered gentlemen were in evidence on the steamer returning from the Tauranga meeting, and losses are reported. • * * * * Jolie Fille has won the Tauranga Cup three times. She scored in 1912, 1913, and week. Self, the runner-up this year, won last year.

Self’s owner claimed a 51b. allowance for her in the Tauranga Cup, as she was ridden by an apprentice. Deeley might have won on her without an allowance. v a • « J. George has his horses Crown Pearl and Glenroy entered at Stratford, and there are a few others entered that would probably have been racing at Ellerslie if the Taranaki country club had not made their programme so attractive this year. * * £ ♦ Mr. J. D. Kemp, owner of Jolie Fille and Plenipotent, was the only owner to win two races at the Tauranga meeting. Patricia Delaval, winner of the Railway Hack Handicap at Tauranga, was bred by her owner, Mr. W. H. Paterson, at Motiti Island. * * * * Chime, who was purchased by her present owner from her breeder, managed to get her name on the winning list last week at Tauranga. * * * * Sir Solo, winner of the Auckland Cup of 1913, is at headquarters, and is looking very well, as also is his stable companion Red Ribbon. They are the first arrivals. * * * * Last year at the Bay of Plenty meeting there were more than twice as many horses engaged as there were this year, and more than double the number of starters. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry have been most liberal donators to the patriotic funds, and the £lOOO recently given for the convalescent camp at Rotorua is one that is highly appreciated. >F * * * Amongst the horses entered for the Waipukurau meeting, to be decided on December 27th, are St. Amiel (late Othello), Blue Garment, Luperin and Freemantle. * * * * Some useful horses are invariably in evidence at the Taranaki and Stratford summer meetings. Rewipoto and Crown Pearl represent the top form in their respective departments. * * * # Though the fields were poor by comparison with last year at the Bay of Plenty meeting the stakes were ever so much better, and there was a very fair totalisator return. Last year £3395 10s. was handled. This year £3319 was put through the machine. * * * * Patricia, dam of Patricia Delaval, a recent winner, is represented by a chestnut colt by Monoform at the coming sale of yearlings in Auckland. * * * * Sixty-eight yearling lots are catalogued by the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency for their annual sale, which is fixed for January 4th at Alexandra Park. There will be a supplementary list also. * * * # J. O’Shea is giving Deeley a good run for leading place amongst the N.Z. horsemen, but Deeley, though leading, has not yet reached his score of last season for the . same period, and there has been more, racing. * * * * Patricia Delaval, who paid the best dividend at the Tauranga meeting, is a daughter of Seaton Delaval and Patricia, who was got by Patronus from Bijouterie, by Mahaki from Bijou, by Medallion from Sapphire, dam of Bluefire, St. Conon and Mannlicher.

Reputation has been having an easy time at Randwick since he returned to his trainer’s (Frank McGrath) place after the Melbourne Cup meeting. * * * * Algoe, by The Welkin from the Seaton Delaval —Waitemata mare Kamo, owned by Mr. E. E. D. Clarke, won the Encourage Stakes at the Bendigo meeting last month. * * * * The Canterbury horses intended to compete at the Auckland R.C. summer meeting should all be on their way North by now. Most of them were booked to leave yesterday (Wednesday). » # • * Delenda was the only one of the seventeen competitors that ran at Tauranga that was saddled up three times. Thirteen others ran twice, and three only lined up at the barrier once. « * * • During the running of the Flying Hack Handicap at Woodville on Wednesday of last week, Hillersden came down in the straight and broke his leg, having to be destroyed. His rider, Kemp, sustained serious injuries. » * ♦ * The Messrs. Riddiford will be represented at Auckland by Chakwana, who is nicely weighted in the Railway Handicap with Bst. 41b., and Menelaus, the full-brother to Nones, who will contest the two-year-old handicap events. The spirit of sport in the Australian is hard to quench, says an exchange, and impossible to kill as long as he lives. In the midst of carnage almost without a parallel, our soldiers at Gallipoli were at latest advices indulging in speculation on the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. Half a dozen amateur bookmakers were doing fair business in laying doubles, and a couple of young fellows from Ballarat had straight volumes on both races. • • • • Son-in-Law, winner of the Cesarewitch, demonstrated that it is not always advisable to attach much importance to the way a horse shapes in his preliminary. Son-in-Law, who only cantered, moved as if he were an abject cripple, with the result that he immediately eased three points in the betting. Despite his soreness, Son-in-Law was always well placed, and outstayed the second horse, Eau Claire. There was comparatively little antipost betting on the race, the card not even being called in the Subscription Rooms the previous evening. In his notes on the race “Vigilant” said that > although he had witnessed upwards of 40 Cesarewitches, he had never known one to arouse less interest. * * * * Carlatour, by General Latour, who paid a big dividend for second place at the Woodville meeting—nearly half a hundred of the best and brightest, or their equivalent—was sold for 140 guineas last year at Alexandra Park by the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency, on account of Mr. W. Dunn, her breeder, to Mr. W. J. Douglas. She is by General Latour from Cardoon, who is this year represented by a filly by Elysian, to be sold at Alexandra Park. At the same sale Mr. Douglas’ representative bought a black filly by Finland from La Cloche, one of Mr. T. H. Lowry’s lots, for 230gns., who is identical with Tino Atua, who is assessed by good judges as one of the best that has raced this season in the North Island.