TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1355, 13 April 1916, Page 15

TURF TOPICS.

Mr. John Norton, newspaper proprietor and politician, is dead.

Sweet Corn is an out-and-outer sometimes and an in-and-outer at other times.

Ring Lupin, Tararu Jack and Ihapuna are Auckland horses entered for the Feilding meeting.

Paraoa should take some beating in the Easter Handicap at Waipukurau, but there- Is material for a good race.

With Adjutant, Battle Eve and Cease Fire winners at Trentham and plenty of khaki in evidence it was a military day on Saturday.

Adjutant is the third winner of the Wellington Racing Club’s Autumn Handicap that Sir George Clifford has owned.

Fancy Woolloomooloo being again in evidence in a race. The Austral-ian-bred grey has been entered for the Ladies’ Handicap at Waipukurau.

Clapgate won the Lincolnshire Handicap, the Lingfield substitute for the old-established race. Lux and Stapleton were second and third.

Those who expressed the opinion some months ago that Eligible was entitled to be considered the second best of his age in the Dominion and better than Nones would appear to have the best of the argument now.

Nominations for the Feilding Jockey Club’s autumn meeting are very good, for most of the races. The Mangahone Stakes and Denbigh Stakes, six furlong events, might have filled better, however.

The Prussian Government’s studs total 19, with 124 thoroughbred stallions doing stud duty. Among the stallions at Graditz are Galtee More, Ard Patrick and Dark Ronald, and those at Beberbeck include the Sydney Cup winner Cadonia.

Vol. XI. of the “Australian Stud Book” has been pushed along to such an extent by Mr. L. G. Rouse that it will be published before Easter. This, says the “Referee,” will enable buyers at the yearling sales to learn what are eligible for inclusion in future volumes.

Last week James Ryan was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude and Albert Lewis to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour for robbing W. H. Kelly, a well-known Sydney bookmaker, of £5OO. The men concerned broke into Mr. Kelly’s house, and, armed with revolvers, relieved him of the amount mentioned.

The Perth paper, the “West Australian,” mentions that the W.A.T.C. committee, with the object of assisting recruiting, have, following in the steps of the English Jockey Club, decided not to grant licenses or

registrations to persons of the agd required for military service unless they can show good reason for not answering the call. The new rule does not apply to persons already licensed or registered. Presumably is applies to bookmakers, as well as jockeys and trainers.