TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1398, 8 February 1917, Page 12

TURF TOPICS.

R. Reed had four winning rides at Taumarunui.

Several of St. Paul’s descendants competed without success at Egmont.

With Lovesick, sister to Nones, Mr. G. D. Greenwood won the Lyttelton Plate.

Auckland horses should get a bit of stake money at the Taranaki meeting.

Hushman and Dingle were two winners by Husbandman at the Egmont meeting.

Pergola, by Marble Arch, paid the best dividend at the Egmont meeting when she won the Ma’den Scurry.

Revocation, a winner at Egmont, is by imported Cheshire from Applause, and was bred by Mr. J. Casserley.

Mrs. S. A. Foss, one of the part owners of Empire (who won at Takapuna), and who also raced Elysian, Master Soult, Royal Soult and other horses, died on Thursday at Remuera. The Foss-Stuart syndicate have raced consistently for a number of years, and the deceased lady had many friends.

Five favourites won at Taumarunui on Saturday and one second favourite, while four second favourites ran second.

J. O’Shea being the first horseman to win a race on the Taumarunui racecourse was presented with a goldmounted whip.

Zetes, by Ngatarua from the Soult mare Iseult, won, in the hands of J. O’Shea, in a small and moderate field on Thursday last on the Hawera course.

The first horse to win a race on the new course at Taumarunui was Keystone, by Marble Arch from Monoquil.

It is said that £3OOO was asked for Bisogne of a Sydney would-be purchaser recently, but the offer did not lead to business.

Mr. Peter Jackson, a well-known Newmarket billiard saloon keeper and sport, has enlisted and gone out of business.

Mr. T. H. Lowry won two doubles at Egmont with the aid of Tete-a-tete and Egypt, and got the lion’s share of the money.

Pohehe, a son of Mallaig, and a year older than Homeric, so far has not shown much promise in the colours of his owner, Mr. W. Duncan, of Wanganui.

Battle Eve, Biplane, Briar Patch, San Sebastian and Lovesick were five first favourites that won on Saturday at the C.J.C. midsummer meeting.

Sir George Clifford bred four of the winners at the C.J.C. meeting on Saturday, Briar Patch being the only one that did not carry the chequers.

Biplane’s win over Koesian, Wrestler, Kilrea, Kilkee, Trentham Rose and Gamecock, in the Middle Park Plate, was decisive and brilliant. It was Mr. G. D. Greenwood’s second win.

The Auckland-owned filly Marabout started first favourite in the Trial Stakes at the C.J.C. midsummer meeting, and finished amongst the also started division.

Lightning scored another victory for Bezonian, and Glittering Sands, in the same stable, also had a win at Taumarunui. Lambess keeps picking up races with his team.

Mr. G. D. Greenwood has won the Egmont Stakes three times in succession, once with Emperador and twice with Bimeter.

Mill o’ Gowrie and Glenopal, winnesr on Saturday, were not returned as acceptors for their races, and stay-at-home punters who backed something else, were sore.

Robur, a half-sister to Di Gama, was started for the Maiden Hack Scurry at the Hawera meeting, and was one of the biggest outsiders and was ridden by B. Clarke.

Anderson, rider of Comely, winner of the Craven Plate at Riccarton on Saturday, was suspended for two months for crossing. Sartorze fell, and Kaminohe lost his r : der during the race.

Briar Patch and Comely, who ran second and tlrrd in the Hornby Welter to Battle Eve at the C.J.C. summer meeting, each accounted for a race afterwards during the same afternoon.

The Canterbury Jockey Club only put £14,571 10s. through their totalisator on Saturday, as against £18,990 10s. last year, which was a record. This is a decrease of £4429, and the smallest return for six years.

Carbiness is suited best -n welters and when the company is not too select, and the daughter of Campfire won at the Taumarunui meeting on

Saturday from Monorail and Achilledes, the last-named being set to concede too much weight.

Revocation, who won at Egmont, traces back to Sprav, a founder of a great colonial numberless family. Normanby, a winner at Egmont, traces to Spray, who was got by Hippocampus from Foam, by Ravensworth — Maid of the Mist, and is a member of the 32 family.

Housewife would only need to be at her ’best to give a good account of herself in the Woodville Cup with 7.8 to carry, as against 9.5 on Rewi Poto She has not repeated her Avondale Cup form, when she narrowly missed to Colonel Soult in September, but has not started often.

Robinson, who rides for R.- Hannon, was at Gisborne riding for Mr. Lysnar and other owners last week. R. Reed rode Mill o’ Gowrie in both her wins at Taumarunui, and also Glenopal, who won the Cup for Mr. Hannon, and was also on Glittering Sands when that mare won.

The Taumarunui . Racing Club’s summer meeting proved successful, despite the threatening weather, which, however, did not present any serious disadvantages until the racing was well advanced, and then it rained heavily. There was a large attendance, and the club’s new course was much appreciated by the visitors and owners, and it is safe to say that racing will become popular there.

The sum of £9615 10s. was handled at the totalisators on Saturday at the Taumarunui R.C.’s meeting, as against £18,711 last year, when the meeting was held on the Claudelands course at Hamilton. But for the rain that fell well over £lO,OOO would have been handled.

The Auckland horses engaged at the Taranaki meeting on the first day are Housewife, Ring Lupin, Lady Penury, Waiuta, Rockfield, Pendoon, Signo ’ and Thrace, the last-named in two races, the Mimi Welter with the minimum, and Moturoa Electric Hack Race, in which all carry the same impost.

For Analogue to beat him in the Atkinson Memorial Stakes, Master Lupin, winner of the Wanganui Cup of 1915 and Wanganui Stakes of 1916 and other good races, must be right out of sorts. There were only two starters for the 35050v5., and therefore the third money, 15sovs„ would go to the winner.

Normanby, winner of the Ladies’ Purse at Egmont, has been apparently named after Normanby, who won the Egmont Cup there in 1883 and other good races elsewhere. Serf, his dam, is a member of the successful Spray —Maid of the M ; st family, not of the other Spray family which has been one of the best of colonial racing families. This duplication of names is regrettable, even though so many years have elapsed.

Mill o’ Gowrie will be useful at the country meetings over short courses. She won nicely over five furlongs at the Taumarunui meeting on Saturday from Gaycium and Lightning the first time, and from four moderates in her next essay over the same ground. In add tion to winning twice with Mill o’ Gowrie, Mr. R. Hannon won the Taumarunui Cup with Glenopal, another of his breeding. A silver cup

accompanied the prize. Mr. Hannon must have quite a number of such trophies now.

And yet another of the progeny of defunct Multifid has come to light. This was Pink Tie, a hrndsome little daughter of Necktie, who belongs to Mr. Dan Tye. It was appropriate that she should succeed in tying the field up, and satisfactory to turn the tables on Keystone, who beat her earlier in the day. If she had only run in pink colours the coincidence would have been complete. Charlie Coleman had the little lady in pink condition.

Keystone, who got his name on the winning list at Taumarunui, is a halfbrother to Soltano, who was a crack three-year-old. Keystone started once only at two years old, did not run at three years, ran five times at four years, being placed second once, and has at last made good, but is only moderate at best. If he had only landed the goods in the Trial Handicap at Takapuna, in which he started favourite with B. Deeley up, his connections would have had a good win. His second to Rockfield at the Takapuna meeting probably caused him to be in demand there again.

In Trouble, a recent winner in Brisbane, has been protested against in each of his last three winning races. The owner was so incensed on the last occasion that he decided to get rid of all his racehorses.

The imported sire Sarto is to go into a North Island stud next season.

Mr. Pat Campbell, a long time Canterbury horseowner, and for many years honorary starter to the C.J.C., died in England on January 30th.

A well-known Hawke’s Bay sportsman has been negotiating for the purchase of Kurapai, whom many regard as the makings of an ideal National Steeplechase horse.

A West Australian bookmaker, Ted Fitzgerald, who went to the front, took £2OOO to £l5O that he would be killed, and so he was, and the two pencillers who laid the wager will pay over the amount to his widow.

An unusual kind of racing penalty was inflicted when P. Kelly was recently fined £lO on account of the death of his two-year-old Sweet Comedy at Caulfield. The stewards found that the rider named was responsible for the accident through “coming in too sharply on Sweet Comedy.” The filly galloped on the heels of another horse and fell, breaking her off forearm. She was subsequently destroyed. Sweet Comedy was purchased as a yearling by J. McCann for the South Australian legislator Mr. David James. McCann trained and raced her in Victoria, but fortune did not smile on her efforts

Fancy Rewi Poto and Depredation being handicapped on the same mark (9.0) for the Taranaki Cup! Waiuta may run a good race. Toatere, on Australian form, would have some friends, though he may be really partial to a shorter distance. Lady Penury is in good form, but Master Lupin must be off colour, judging by his Atkinson Memorial display, and Analogue has his full share of weight.

Sunbird at her best would be fancied. Paraoa is well enough tieated. but does not represent the class expected of her last season.

R. J. Mason has trained fourteen winners of the Middle Park Plate, twelve for the late Mr. G. G. Stead and two for Mr. G. D. Greenwood. Emperador holds the time record, Imin. 13sec„ for the race for a three-year-old, and Biplane’s time, also Imin. 13sec., is the best registered by a two-year-old since the race was instituted in 1884. Sir George Clifford has won it nine times, Mr. Dan O’Brien won it three times, and Sir George McLean and Messrs. E. Lyons, E. Cutts, T. Sheenan and “J. Monk” once each’ Visiting owners have had only three wins in thirty-three years.

In Desert Gold, Bunting and Egypt All Black has got probably the best trio of their respective ages and sexes combined at the present time in New Zealand. Desert Gold is certainly the best of her age and sex. We don’t know any four-year-old gelding that would beat Bunting, tut how much he is behind top class as represented by Desert Gold there would be differences of opinion. Egypt is some pounds behind the geldings The Toff and Sasanof, though the best of the colts of his own age.

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