TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1347, 17 February 1916, Page 12

TURF TOPICS.

The Wanganui Band discoursed good music at the Taranaki races.

Defunct Soult was represented by Permit, Jolie Fille and Summer Rose as winners at Te Kuiti.

Emperador has run for the Taranaki Cup three times and been second twice.

Flying Start was certainly very unlucky to run three successive thirds during his Taranaki trip.

Pursefiller got a double for his owner at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting on Saturday. sp: *

Collector, by Conqueror, and King Chiara, by Soult, were double winners at the Taranaki J.C. meeting.

Racing in rain at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting on Saturday would be a pleasant experience for the squatters there.

Glerispire, who won the Stewards’ Handicap this year at Te Kuiti, won the Rohe Potae Handicap there last year.

Very few racecourse appointments in New Zealand are more up to date than those of the Taranaki Jockey Club.

Cleft (8.10) proved too good for Genevieve (8.2) in the hack race at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting on Saturday.

Ring Lupin, the double winner at Te Ku ti, is a half-brother by Lupin to Mighty Atom, and was bred by Mr. W. C. Ring.

Tinoreka met her Waterloo in the Stewards’ Handicap at Te Kuiti. when the useful Glenspire, who was receiving 51b. from her, beat her.

Client should have supporters at Wanganui when he appears with the colours up. He has a handy weight in the Stewards’ Handicap..

Mossman’s first win, in the Maiden Scurry at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting, is a happening to chronicle as long overdue.

Goldsize was ridden by J. Chaafe in the Taranaki Cup and by Emerson in the Paul Memorial Handicap. Self was ridden by Thompson in the Taranaki Cup and by J. O’Shea in the Paul Memorial.

In the Taranaki Stakes, Tinkler, by no means a bad-looking two-year-old by Bezonian, fell while the race was in progress, and at the time appeared to be going well.

Master Lupin is the pick of the Wanganui Cup lot on form since the New Year meetings in these parts. Colonel Soult should also give a good account of himself with 8.7.

Merry Roe, Self, Inspector and Goldsize were brought back from Taranaki on Saturday. Mr. Abson has sent Housewife and Thoolomi on to Wanganui.

The ex-Thames mare Lady Middleton has not lost her pace, but she cannot stay and does not go on with the business, though she gets away as well as ever.

Toatere continues to win good races for his Taranaki owner, Mr. J. Hawkins. The Armidale Cup, of 500sovs., run over seven furlongs, was secured by h’m on Thursday last in New South Wales.

Goldsize has been placed three years in succession in the Taranaki Cup, a win, a second and a third having ben registered by the little son of Gluten.

Auckland horses have won the Taranaki Cup three years in succession. Goldsize, Phosphorus and Self have won in turn, but prior to Goldsize winn’ng there was a run of outs for eleven years.

If Tete-a-tete is produced at Wanganui in her best form Bimeter, Emperador, Nones and Flying Start, who represent the best of those over two years old, will have to make aaste in the Jackson Stakes. The two-year-olds Hyttus, The Toff and Bjorneborg read best of their age, which were still engaged in that race after declaration of second forfeits.

There were four starters for the Te Kuiti Cup this year as aganst seven last year. Tinopai won the same event then, carrying 9.5, which included a penalty, as against 8.10 this year.

Glorify, who ran third in the Farewell Handicap at Te Kuit’, s a chestnut gelding by Golden Gate, son of imported San Francisco, from the nbred and handsome little mare Glory.

Pateonga, who won the Timaru Hack Race at Taranaki, is a four-year-old gelding son of Marble Arch, and a half-brother to King Chiara, who won a double there at the same meeting.

Jack Jellicoe is not as good a fighter as his name would imply, but the English-bred colt had a win and a second at the Poverty Bay meeting. There have been lots of winners by his sire, Myram, in England dur’ng the past few seasons.

Latest reports from Melbourne state that the Australian Cup favourite. Patrobas, is galloping well at Caulfield, and there is every possbility of him reproducing his Melbourne Cup form in his next big venture.

A message from Melbourne states that Messrs. Buick’s crack colt Three, by The Welk’n —Teppo, who claims an engagement in the Newmarket Handicap with 7st. 131 b., has arrived safely at Caulfield.

Owing to Deeley being unable to complete riding engagements at Taranaki and Te Kuiti he had no opportunity last week of adding to his winning list.

During race week in New Plymouth hundreds of visitors, many from inland parts of Taranaki, used the beaches between the breakwater and* Fitzroy for sea bathing; indeed, hundreds of people have been camped within a short d’stance of the harbour.

Apparently it is not safe to write Jolie Fille out as a spent light. In Achilledes, who is not racing up to form, and Hadj, who is no class when, he likes and not a. good one at any time, she had a soft thing on in the Rohe Potae Welter at Te Kuiti.

Summer Rose, by Soult from Alba Rose, was expected to bloom early in the day at Te Kuiti on Saturday in the Maiden, but failed to gain a place. Later in the day she blossomed forth in the Te Kuiti Hack Handicap, when, Gaycium was most in favour. ,

J. O’Shea added to his winning scores last week and is now leading Deeley, whose accident at Takapuna, which was not viewed seriously at the time, proved to be a source of trouble and kept him out of the saddle at Taranaki and Te Kuiti. O’Shea bids fair to put up his best record this _ season, but. Deeley has little chance of getting near his best previous total this season. He may, nevertheless, come out top sawyer.

Gaycium, who ran second in the Otorohanga Hack Handicap at Te Kuiti, is a five-year-old mare by imported Gazeley from a Phoebus Apollo mare from Cissy, sister to Trenton.

Prince Eddie, by Royal Fusilier, perhaps the biggest horse racing over hurdles just now in these parts, has at last got a win over the battens, but met probably the weakest field he has ever had the luck to meet.

iNgapoto, who broke his back while racing at Takapuna, it was intended to race at the winter meetings. His owner at Inglewood has a very fine full-brother to that gelding, a two-year-old standing well up to 16 hands. He has more of the Musket about him than Ngapoto had, and is shorter in the back.

After twenty-two failures Housewife deserved her Taranaki Paul Memorial Handicap success, though she did carry the bottom weight and was given every chance to score. She put up a time record for the race and carried the lightest impost it has been won with.

J. O’Shea had three winning rides at Te Kuit : , one second and a third. J. Conquest had two wins, also a second and third. Robinson had a win and three seconds. It was a close thing between* Tinopai and Soldier, ridden respectively by Robinson and Conquest, in the Cup.

Some racegoers have been expecting Crown Pearl to be relegated to hurdle racing, and perhaps he might shine at that game, though apparently his owner-trainer still hopes to win more money on the flat with the son of Coronet, and may not ask him to jump obstacles, as did Paritutu, whom he so much resembles.

Mr. Mathews, who imported Ouida to these shores, sold to Mr. J. Hawkins, of New Plymouth, during last week, a yearling filly by Maniapoto from the Boyne, therefore a full-s’ster to Rewipoto. The price paid, it is said, was 400 guineas. The filly combines the St. Simon and Musket strains, and looks likely to be a payable racing proposition. She is to be sent to Australia about Easter time.

Auckland-trained horses altogether had a very good innings at the Egmont and Taranaki meetings. Merry Roe especially showed herself to be of better class than anything else that raced at both gatherings, and in the hands of J. O’Shea started better than she has sometimes done and her form was quite up to her previous best.

Master Lupin and Denise Orme were not started at the Taranaki meeting on either dav though they were at New Plymouth. They were hand’capped for the second day, but their owner-trainer did not pay up with , either. Master Lupin has got into the . Wanganui Cup welX with only $7.11 to carry or 51b more than Lady Penury received.

But for the presence of horses owned by the Canterbury sportsmen Messrs. G. D. Greenwood, J. B. Reid, Gerald Stead and Sir George Clifford, who supplied six of the starters, and the one representative from Hawkes Bay sent over by Messrs. Richmond and Struthers, the Second Taranaki Stakes, which provided the closest finish of the meeting, would have been a second rate affair. No Taranaki horses came out to oppose the seven visitors.

Bimeter, Emperador, Flying Start was the order in the Egmont Stakes and in the Hawera Stakes. The firstnamed failed to give 101 b to Emperador in the Taranaki Stakes and a head-and-head finish saw Emperador, Bimeter and Flying Start closer together than prevously in the fastest run six furlongs at the two meetings. Bimeter, though beaten, put up as good a go as did Merry Roe when beaten the previous day in the F’y--sng Handicap under the same impost, 9.10.

Lord Multifid, believed to be the fastest horse ever sent from Taranaki to race in Australia, is to be brought back to New Zealand from the Commonwealth, as the injuries met with when he collided with a fence will prevent him racing. He will be used for stud purposes. He was handicapped on his private reputation in some of the races he was entered for on the other side, but his owner says would have lived up to it had he not been unfortunately injured. In his one race when only half strung up he showed what he was capab’e of over there.

Permit is a six-year-old son of Soult and a little mare named Lady Arawa, who ran successfully in Taranaki in the days when unregistered race meetings were the vogue all over New Zealand. Lady Arawa was got by Arawa, a fast but unlucky son of St. Leger arid Vacillation, who was by Knottingly, and her dam was a mare called Maid of Athens tiiatcould gaTop fast. Perm t has just won at Te Kuiti. but was expected to materialise earlier.

Big nominations, do not always nresage big acceptances, and big acceptances are not always an indication of big fields. The scratching pen was at work very freely on the day of rac’ng at Te Kuiti, and some of the fields were on the small side. Nevertheless, there was keen speculation, and a majority of the events had plenty of runners to ensure good business, and the totalisatbr returns for the day reached to £13,662, an ncrease of £1406 over last year.

If Housewife could not beat a mare r.f Self’s class in receipt of 171 b, the weight between them in the Paul Memorial Handicap at Taranaki, might well be called very ordinary. The only remarkable thing about Housewife’s performance is that she led for part of the way, was then outpaced for severa 1 furlongs, and caught, the stopping leaders coming home and put up record time for the race, which, if she has any pretensions to class at all, riiight well have been expected from her carrying 6.8.

Waiuta is the only two-year-old that has a penalty to carry in the Juvenile Stakes at Hamilton. By reason of her w n at Takapuna she wi’l have- her poundage increased from 7.4 to 7.9. Master Florence represents the best three-year-old form engaged and will carry 8.12, but two-year-olds with any pretensions to class should make him gallop. He and Causeway can both sprint four furlongs well, however, and Strdeaway may by now have developed some form. It will be interesting to note whether Waiutat can again ibeat those of her own age. Figures are in her favour sti’l, notwithstanding the 51b penalty.

Overweights at the Te Kuiti meeting were carried in quite a number of the races. Sooner or later the country clubs will need to have a higher m'nimum. Meeting after meeting overweight alters matters and sometimes places the handicapper in a false position. Tinopai, who won the Te Kuiti Cup, only carried an impost she-wou’d have been allotted at Ellerslie in an important race. Soldier carried 51b overweight, and there was thus 191 b between- them,as against 281 b when he just beat her in the Waipa Cup on December 4. Probably Soldier is a bit fitter, now. On the other hand, Tinopai may not have been quite sd well as when she won last year carrying 9.5.