TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1417, 21 June 1917, Page 8

TURF TOPICS.

Want, by Penury, is to be raced over hurdles soon.

Auckland horses made a good showing at the Gisborne meeting.

N. Cunningham has sold Master Park, the pacer, in Christchurch.

Unregistered meetings are at an end in Western Australia. C. Emerson is to make his debut as a hurdle race rider shortly. * * * * Golden March should have a winning turn soon. He should make a iine ’chaser. * • * • The Wellington province will lose e ght days of racing in the coming season. The yearling colt Registration has been sold privately in Sydney, the price not be’ng disclosed.

The Adelaide Racing Club since ISB9 has distributed £ 238,575 in stakes.

The imported sire Capture is dead. Hemorrhage of the brain and fracture of the jaw was the veter nary 'finding.

The Wellington R.C. will race as usual in July. See the three days’ programme.

The Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting will be as attractive as ever.

Sandy Paul has come back to a bit of form again, and showed it by winning at G’sborne over the country. * * * »

The imported young horse Th urnham is.to be at the service of breeders at Ellerslie this season.

A. Pringle is two wins ahead of J. Bryce on the list of trotting horsemen. A. Pringle’s long suit is the saddle, J. Bryce’s in driving.

Sandy Paul has returned to winningform after a good spell off. tie comes from good old New Zealand fam lies on both .sides.

Mr. E. S. Luttrell has been presented with the Trentham Gold Cup, fully inscribed, won by Kilboy. Good luck to him if he can win more.

J. Lambess is doing well with Kauri King after persevering with him so long. He is in his right place in welters, and what a good one he should make over fences.

Though sent by wire at 10 a.m. on Saturday, the acceptances for Fionnuala, Cokely and Glendalough for the Napier Park meeting did not appear in the list n Saturday’s papers.

Marconi’s win in the Park Hurdle Race at Gisborne came as a surprise to Auckland punters. There was no money for him locally, but plenty for Master T'mi, who fell.

S.T.H., by Brakpan from Ayah, who has been winning along the western line in Australia, was purchased out of the Orange Municipal Saleyards for £6 10s.

A local backer of horses received a wire on Friday which was delayed over three hours. It meant a considerable difference to h’s finances at the end of the day.

The ex-Aucklander Doughboy had a winning turn recently in the Lachlan Handicap, after being beaten m the Forbes Pony Club’s Handicap the same day.

Mr. Leopold de Rothschild’s death was cabled early in the present month from England, where he was a prominent owner for many years.

It was hard luck for Bunting to break down at all in Quensland, but it would have been harder still if it had happened before he won the w.f.a race and the Brisbane Cup.

The total entries for the Epsom Handicap number 207. a record. The entries for the Metropolitan total 178. Shrill and Sweet Corn are included in both.

Miss Martian, by Martian from Miss Dalrymple, won the Lake Welter at the Kembla Grange races. New South Wales, on September sth. The Novice Handicap was won by Arch Marella, by Marble Arch —Seatonella, at the same meeting.

Marconi, Malaya and Kauri King won successive events for Auckland owners on the opening day of the Gisborne R.C. meeting. Lady Penury wound up with a win in the Winter Oats Handicap on the same day.

£48,491 10s. was put through the total’sator in three days at the Adelaide R.C. meeting. They can do better at Ellerslie almost on any one day now in the autumn or winter.

Desert Gold has started 33 times, and has never been out of a place. Carbine started 43 times, and was unplaced once —in the Canterbury Plate (1889) at Flemington, when Abercorn. Sinecure, and Melos finished in front of h m.—“Terlinga.”

Imported Buckwheat and Sunstar each had thirty-three foals to represent them in England last season. Polymelus, the champion sire, had 32. and Spearmint 27. The last-named gets bays and browns consistently.

Waimatao, who was the subject of recent litigation, is a good sort for the jump’ng game.

After the 20th the result of the pruning knife, otherwise the loss of days of racing and trotting in New Zealand, will be made known.

Messrs. Pyne and Co. will sell highly-bred mares and their progeny, the property of Mr. G. D. Greenwood, dur’ng Grand National week.

A cable from Sydney informs us that Mr. G. D. Greenwood’s colt Biplane was injured by a tram car on the way to Randwick, and may not be able to complete spring engagements.

Mutiny, the hero of many equine battles on the flat, over hurdles and country, and certainly one of the most useful all-round horses we have had, died on June Ist at Te Mahinga, Hawke’s Bay, aged 31 years and ten months.

Just after Bunting won the King’s Plate at the Queensland Turf Club’s meeting, Ormsby, returned as by Birkenhead —Arethusa, won the Highweight Handicap in a field of twenty. One paper gives the breeding as by Wankerphast from Fousolette. Which is correct?

J. Williamson, the Ellerslie trainer, has been exempted from active service sine die or until a brother returns from the front, on an appeal to the Board. One of his brothers is nrssing and two others are in khaki, one on the way and the other in camp. Mr. Williamson has a string of horses in work.

What the Auckland District Rac’ng Committee have recommended to be done in connection with the curtailment of racing in the province in the coming year has not been officially disclosed, or unofficially either, so far as we know, but a perusal of the list of meetings held last year should give a pretty good idea of what meetings will be held next.

Lots of worse horses than El G'allo have been boomed even more.

A thunderstorm, with considerable rain, passed over Ellerslie and Auckland on Sunday morning.

Mr. E. J. Watt intends removing All Black and Wolawa. his stud horses, and fifteen brood mares, to Australia when the war is over.

The Wellington Steeplechase is worth lOOOsovs. That should fetch the best in the land. Why leave it for other shores?

J. O’Shea, has still a chance of reaching his total of winning rides of last season. He has had 67 to date.

The Canterbury Jockey Club’s profits of last year amounted to £4285. and that sum has now been donated to various patriotic purposes.

Red Pennant, by All Black from Red Plume, therefore full-brother to Bunting, has been nominated for the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups by Mr. E. J. Watt.

At a recent country meeting in New South Wales a backer won £3OOO over a horse that paid £lB in the machine. He got £2O to £1 for his money, but if he had put it into the machine the dividend would have been reduced to about a third.

Two-up is a favourite pastime with soldiers in the trenches in France, and they don’t get run in for gambling the wealth they are able to accumulate out of their pay.

Cisco, by San Francisco from Lady Wallace, by Wallace, who was turned ■out for over two years, won at the May meeting at Rosehill and paid a solid dividend. It is nearly six years since he won the A.J.C. Derby and seven since he captured the Breeders’ Plate at Randwick.

The owners of Waimai. Tenacious and Luperino may not be able to send their horses to Australia for the V.R.C. and V.A.T.C. winter meetings. It is said that the getting of passports presented a difficulty for some of the connections who would have F’ked to make the trip.

The Hon. E. Mitchelson is away on a visit to Vancouver. Mr. H. T. Gorrie is acting-chairman of comnrttees of the Auckland Racing Club and o f the Auckland District Racing Committee during Mr. Mitchelson’s absence.

Mr. T. H. Lowry is credited with again being the leading w’nning owner in New Zealand, with nineteen races of the value of £11,164. Nine horses contributed to the total, and the statistician in the “Evening Post,” “S’r Lancelot,” gives the figures: Desert Gold £2925, Estland £2050, Bjorneborg £1695, Egypt £1645, Marco Bello £lOB5, Beltane £915. Pourparler £255, and Balboa £149. Bjorneborg, Marco Bello, Beltane and Balboa were sold during the season.

Fearing conscription, a big lot of slackers got out of Australia to America. Since America has declared for conscription they are getting back —in fact, all slackers are ordered out of the country, or must register.

A number of pencillers fiom different parts of the Dominion who were present at Wanganui when racing was going on there, have rece’ved summonses to appear before the S.M. in that town.

Sabrenui, winner’ of the Tramway Steeplechase at Gisborne, won the second race of the season, the Hunters’ Hurdle Handicap at Riccarton on August 15th, and the Hunters’ Hurdles at Poverty Bay in October last.

Fisher is out of Eduam, a daughter of Maude, dam of St. Elmn and Mahutonga, but though he was on terms with St. Elmn and slightly leading Gladful at the last hurdle, a Southern writer, who was not present at the meeting and d d not see the race, contends that Aucklanders had no right to infer that he might have won. Why not?

General Latour, by Soult. (imp.) from Merry Nif (imp.), is advertised for sale n this issue. He is a nice individual, and is certainly one of the best sons of Soult at the stud. General Latour was a good performer, and has proved that he can get winners.

Lady General, who has won several races this season and last, is a splendid advertisement for Mr. Walters’ young horse.

The Spalpeen mare Fionnuala is to be raced over hurdles. With that object in view she has been nominated for the Hawke’s Bay jumping events by Mr. L. C. Raven, who has purchased her outright from her breeder. Mr. Kavanagh. The lease of the mare expired, and Mr. Kavanagh did not want to have the mare jumped, hence the deal.

Desert Gold and Estland, according to a report in a Southern paper, are to be sent to Randwick, but the name of Desert Gold does not appear in any of the handicap events run at Randwick, nor of Estland either. Derby and weight-for-age honours are awaiting good horses in New South Wales.

The committee of the West Australian Turf Club has determmed not to do anything that is likely to hamper recruiting. By a recent order, it notifies those concerned that ah single persons applying for licenses under the W.A.T.C. must furnish to the registrat’on committee military reject certificates dated since February last. No others need apply. Other chibs might render assistance to the Win the War party by acting similarly, says an Australian paper. The same thing was suggested by the N.Z. Trotting Association, and would have been adopted had not conscription been introduced, since when followers of trotting have the same chance as anyone else of being called up. (For further Turf Topics see page 17.)