THE RACING WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 6

THE RACING WORLD.

i.BT WHALEBONE.) RACING FTSTUKES. f'e.aru?ry S sad 9—Taranaki J.C. Sommer F'fc-rusry 9 and 10 —Ghfborn.' R C. Su.rn.ui.ir EYbru-ry 0 and 11—Canterbury J.C. buin£*apakura Racing Club's Amir_ai —Febm:iry 11. '.'■:■-octj 15 .j'.'j 13—Sgtnoct S.C Summer IVL-rusry 16 r.iiJ ii—Poverty liny T.C. Aa- .' bru-ry I;, 2a aad c Sj- Otahuhu Trotting ' lu'i Hi-mmer. >\-brunry, __, ii and 25 — Duneilin J.C 1 t;;. z an 1 i- W'r.iiX. iuui J.C. Aj U"i.-: '. :.-t'_ 2 atl 4—Wescport .I.C. Autum_ ... rcli i> —Northern Wuirci K.C. Autumn .. rcL 17 tiuil lir^- Chiuemurl Jockt.y Cod Annual ->.ji£±! 1 and s—Avondaie J.C. Autumn iiarch i>o and April 1— Wellington R.C. AUtUiUil April :_>, 24, 33—Auckland R.C. Autumn In England last year there were no races cv the tiat c/f tnret- miles or over. J. Rae left yesterday for Gisborne to see NetdJe and Needlework race there. The Wallace gelding Scotch Thistle is reported to have been sold in India for £2i5. Nominalions for the TuniiUi Racing Club's Annual ilseting close on Friday, the luth, at 9 p.m. llarshai Soail has h«cged hands, and An.l. Llali Is lo tr.--.iu U.r.L i: is cipecied fi::t he will ,-i. South to-day. one fortunate bacscr was snccessfoJ ia I UxLing the double on each of tu= '."•. Wilson. .1 Wi:.>o ; ;. and R. W:son were three of r . :i-* horsemen who were cp in the X-kauuiiii un Situr-d-iy. The Wairoa i.tiawKe's Bay) meriting- id t-> \it postponed from to day iv coiiseuuoncv j. w. tl a wfear-ver, out conciUued No less mac fifteen Auckland horses left Annoyed gives yror-isa of re _ .nrnias to her ucsr ror.n »g>,i:i. ;-iif hai certuiiiij' improved wuiidenuny sine* into L). N. wap or rh- c:\iL o-; Connoisseur Ci-'tip tC: T lit .iis: »iay ol Ltle Afiicall luj. Ciub . n:uLi ijj). The !- ; ck -- cived i - Lie. „ ro while avraitii is hoped >.. i= i i.ii jiace mt geiding oat of couila—sdoii L.=. ioiig. urn >■ p.: ;•.;.. Li.c ring with a rcejrve o: lu.Ut».<.4.s o:i iii_n. was soiu in L'.:id iasi niomir lor lui:^s. Forth, who has been an inmate of J. TViorpe's stable bi-ct* th? A.R.C. Summer .• -et'iig, returned to his oiu quarters at L.. nanncn s uariug tu-i week. Ribbonwood is evidently in biz rerruest amongst Australian briu-aers. as "it is reI >rted that the son of Wildwood's visiting list totalled 50 this season. Mr J. Longhlin is said to have offered fcTTOO for Master Alix. but no business refc.uted, and it is understood that the owner's t--it_-e is in the neighbourhood of £1000. In a recent contribution to the "Badminton Magazine." Mr Leopold de Rothschild expressed the opinion tha: in England "racln & - is a business nowadays with one and aIL" The judgment, with damages, obtained by •Tod Sloan in his action against the French Jockey Club some time ago was upheld last month by the Paris Court of Appeal. It is rather odd in these days to read in the list of acceptances for a race an entry o;" an unnamed horse. That of Bnehanan's gfciding. 6.10, appears in the First Hack Race at Taranaki. At Waioeka. Opotiki. much interest is D ' ;ia S taien in the coming meeting. Kiatere Bad All Fours represent the best known torses, but there are said to be a number by Sabretache coming out. The hurdle races at the Wellington R.C. Autumn iieain-.- are valued at £150 and £.y.Xr respectively, and arc over the popuiar distances ••f on-.- mile and three-anarters sad one mile and n-haif. I)o'u>vac. whose <>;i:!i i.< reported from Fnglar.d. md wh'. won £5.1 Min stakes for tbe l.mt" C !'. rtiat'd, is one of the very small uutiitw who have won so much muney during their tnrf careers. The totalisator returns at the Takapuna Joc-,:pj- Chi!.'.- s'-jlotict Meetinc w-re better o.i the day than <m either of ih' p-ei-eding ones, ami the increasins: popularity of Rohe tson's double totalisator was Ai.-o shown by th. rccurn<. N'.ima was mar!.=- the medium of so!i<] sun-ort for the twenport Hsnaican last Saturday, tie W:is badly p!at--d at the sia'-r. end although he finished up in third position, never seemed to iret properly ca his legs at any part ■•:' the journey. Shortly before the :.:--: mail left Snxlnnd the crack hurdler Mart lire- and Xar.-i----tu:l were matclic-il • > >nr fv.o ini'i ; cvr the sticks Cor £""■' a s-.i-Je th" O-rraer carrying list 71!. in rh- iatrcj--* u<;. Portion of the stake was to i>c :i cup value £_ou. Moifaa, who ran cuplact-d In the Sandown Steeplechase is -rated to look remarkably well, a;,d ft j. .■•-■-,il-ted rv-at by the time the T .=-..-r (i ..| Graii'i National comes roccd in March he will be in a poslti"n to show hlrjs"'f -r, ;uorc . attractive ccloars. ■ i '- is . Ji '■'■' '-be form he was uJ .'•-}'"■'■■ ' ,v --*i. hc~CT' r, he met weak 0 •r.sition. as there was nothiur there to g..y-o with him. sbot:'_ win the Criven rati- at the C.J.C. Mid=.immer Aleeiing. S-iCuy, if himself, run best of the outers in that event. dw-lared or. Monday." to*' ue were held over in order [.., a Mr Even t- witness C,i« lacing at T_ka;-i:na on all 1 " - :ii " !' d: ;■ it, - :v f ., L .j -, 3CCC t . ances there should be a srood afternoon's entertainment on Saturday at the old tryst. After ccunpeting iv the st-.-epleohase on th' se. mi • .-* •P -■ ■~■ .. ~ c . Prim-e-ss of Tunic pnllel up very distressed' and it was with dirh.-ultv sh- was ... t home 1 " 5 l ' onrse - Sll *- was taken back te rhamt-s on th* Thursday, and will prooably have to be eas?d up for a while. There wr.s only one t'eke.l invest.nl on '-• doJ t>le Cweuiad and Sonltfish last Sat-u"i-ay. and had the larter manau'r-d to win «i? Summer Hamlin;,, the ucMer of t_b e ti_ ■!.... woblu have received a dividend of f' a thousand pounds. Dnfortnnat«»ry c ,l^ n -- hoT -" rv '"'-"- it Ji'J not come off, Boultfish being last ail the way. Waipnna was a strong rip in the pad-OcK-k ar rakapana last Saiurdav fcr the K.-cimcr Handicap, and Le received a lot o, sapoorr. He n-.n wolj. and was only a head by the wiTiuer. rxjttie v. Cotton did net ride him one of the best of ra< es. and had he uot made his run .ar from home, be might have landed turn a winner.

_ The entries received by the Rotorua Jockey Club for their two days' meeting, which is to take place on the 2Uad and 23rd of tins month, are very satisfactory, and there is the material for a good meeting. Only three ponies haTe been entered fcr tin- pony ranes, oue chieiiy to tlie fact tiist | the Otahuhu Trotting Club's uony events j are on about tic same time. "The handii caps lor the meet'iug appear in this issue. i j _The I-rjuiari Grand National Steeplechase, ! of SOuCra., was ran at the Toliygunge (Cal- ; carta; meeting last month, and was won by i Austraiian-bred gelding named Badger | i. to l,i, who easily beat the eve::-uioney . favourite, Miibnrn. Most of Badger's preI triors efforts in the jumping line ha-i be-en | in poi-!t-to-;.>.jtnt stec-pischasas and the : bu title g neld. The J&JniancF.bnrg n.->Edicap of 2300sova was --.>c by Mr James Ticeioo's Cordon . Kouge, by Gay Hermit; the same owner's ', chino:. second, ami Teiegrapho third. Corj do ■ Souce sx?rtfd at .>0 10 1 o;zered with- | i t t, kerV zi'l >•■ on easiiy by two lengths. . Tha i.te pafd £103 10/, and for piaces £19 ; '■ l. i-ij 17/, and £4 17/ —not bad in a field ; cl 15 tors;:.? i/iiiy. i Orange and Pino, who b-as been dropping j lower r.iij lower in the list of weight:.; for I fomn rime, came cat In b==r true £orm Last Saturday, zrd e:;?ily aconnted for tbe i Pony Race. Orange and Eii-p was only cari rying 7.12 so there was not much merit I attached to her win. but it is satisfactory j to ti.ow that she is not entireiy a hack . number yet. i That the double event totalisator is j gaining in favour with tbe betting public ; Is cvi seed by the fact that tbe large sum j of iJHTO was passed through the machine | on the concluding day of the Tstapuna i Meting. I think I am safe in saying that this is the largest amount that has yet been put through by the double totalisator in New Zealand. j i Syren', the gcod looking daughter of I Cyrf-nian and Torment, half sister to that' ! sterling pony Annoyed, was made a strong favourite in th: ilarine Handicap at Takapuna last Saturday. Unfortunately, howi'ver. foi her backers, she had the misfortune tc fall when they had gone a fur'ong, consequently no lino as to her abilities cot'd be record d. I think it i.5 pretty safe to say that bad she stocd up she would have troubled tbe winner. Te Aroha seercs to have lost a lot of the brilliar.'-y whi h she displayed in her efforts last season: nn the other hand, her staying powers 5-em to have increased corresponding.?. In both of the races which she won ut Takapuna she came at t.-e right e:=d. 11l f_cl. it was simply her st.;yi_g al-iiity uhat won her her r.ices. V.'c may tonndentiy expect to gee her 3gEntg over longer journeys during tne seasea than she has hitherto essayed. Notwithstanding that Snalpeen was ! awarded the lisht impost of H..7 in the hurdles last Saturday, and that th? field he was meeting could not, by any str-tch of irrr= dnation. be considered first class, he couid not go bettor than gala third post- ' in a nenl of As Fpalpeeu is creeping up ii; aze. and is as'.a!lion to boot, it 1 does not h.ok as \i he is likely to regain ; the form 1' • showed at the commencement j of bis jumping career. A high compliment was naid to Mr C. 1 OTonnor's starting last Saturday by W. . Bainbridge, the Enjrlish trainer and rider. who in course of conversation informed mc . that he had never seer starting in the Old Country to equal '"t. and that .Mr covn- | try. who is recognised asthe leading Btart- ■ cr iv England, could not be compared to . Mr O'Connor. Mr O'Connor was certainly at his best at the recent Tahapuna MeetMiss Lottie gave a glimp?e of her old ! to; li when she accouided for the Summer | Handicap last Saturday The mare coni trr.cted in:lueru;a last November, and in ! cohsconence was treated to a spell. She seems to have shakrn off the ill effects of b -r tiilmecu, and bh'.iuld r«-'pay watching now that she has shown return to form. Her victory on Saturday was in no small measure due to the escellentmanner in which she was handled by M Ryan, who must be given credit for riding a splendid race on her. A party of three made up a ticket od tbe double totalisator last Saturday at Takapuna. and one of the number, a novice at totalisator betting, was deputed to get the necessary pasteboard. After a lot of squeezing and jamming, he managed to do so, but on getting out of the crnsu, he found he had got the wrong number, tl was useless to try and get it altered, so they had to retain it, bemoaning their fate the meanwhile. However, to the surprise and satisfaction of the parties concerned, the double which their ticket represented won, and they received the sum of £52 16/ as the result of the mistake. It is better to be born lucky than rich. It was anticipated that the totalisator trrnofer in France last year would be much greater than previously, but the returns for .the first nine months of 1904 showed a fall-ing-off of £160.000. as compared with the previous year. When the matter was being discussed in Parliament It was stated that in 1002 the machine turited over £10,000.000 in 1903 £10.280,000, while up to the end of November the figures for 1904 were only C9.70?.5-!O. One of the members asserted that one reason for the was that the superiority of M. P>lanc's stable hud prevented the events of the turf being as speculative as usual. Secton Pelaval he-ids Ibe list or winning sires at the recent Takapuna meting with four w'-inhia' Soult had tbree £t. Paul, Eton, St. Ix-ger. Krater;'.lte. and Cannon two c.-v-h. and Muskapeer, Tasroan. Freedom, V'in.ire, Brigadier, Torpedo, St. Hippo, and Blairgowrie one each. P. MacmsTifmin was the mrirt successful trainer, horses trained by him accounting fcr fouf events. C. Weal :mkl D. Moragban c:.rU had three successes. P- Stenning two, and Gall, Under, Hearon, Williams." Williamson. Wright, J. Chaafe. jun.. P. Ross. W. King. Parr. Sccats. Howe, and Kae one er.ch. Dccley is an easy first amongst the winning horsemen with five wins: McClnskie, Cress. Gray, O'Connel,, V. Cotton, vV. Wilson, and M. Tiyan had two apiece; and Julian, McLeod. Neaiey, Taylor, Barr. and Sceats one each. There Is en? matter in connection with racing in r.rcl about Auckland which the clubs co-newned seem to bother themselves very little about. I refer to the posting up ■•t overweight carried in the various races. In o?:e event at the Tnkapnna meeting a horse carried no less than 241bs over her allotted poundage, but yet no publicity was riven to this fact. It is not fair to the public, who keep the game going, that such mould be the case, a ad they have a risht to be considered in tbe matter. It is not a pleasant feeling to fi-nd out after you have backed :i horse, and ft has been beaten, that instead of it carrying fist lOib, as it appears In the book, it carried Sst 61b. The " i!::'imna Club are not the only ones who :"■;!: to do their duty in this manner, as even at Ellerslie no provision is made for the posting up of overweights: in fact. with the exception of the Auckland and Otahnha Trotting Clubs not one of the Cubs racing in Auckland attend to this matter. It is to be hoDed something will be done to have this defect remedied in the li.i.ure. A blackboard would answer ail requirements. Particulars of the South African Tnrf Club's Summer Meeting, of which we recently had private cable information to the effect that the New Zealand geldinsr Tradem lad had won two leading handicaps, are to hand. The races won by that gelding were the Boxing Day Handicap of 400sovs and New Tear Handicap of 300sovs, one miie and one mile and a quarter respectively: and the first he won by a head and tne second by three-parts of a "length, Noble riding him in each. This horseman was successful in two events on Veldt and was second in one steeplechase on Connoisseur and third on Thelma in another. The Stepniak colt King Log won the Electric Handicap at the same meeting. Commenting on the second victory of Tradewind. the "Cape Times" says: "The big race—it hardly, by the way. deserves the distinction of being .ciassificd as big. for ie excited no more interest than any of the others, a 'ondition. perhaps, caused by the circumstances that there was no ante-post bett.ng, and that it lacked the usual element provided by the running of uj>-country horses —was chiefly noteworthy for the triumph of the most fancied candidate of the day, th" chestnut Tradewind. Mr St. Leger relied on Cumbarl, and scratched St. Moritz, who was the only delinquent. A field of eicht was thus left, and a good race was witnessed. Tradewind found the distance suit him. and strode home a good winner." Sensprcy. the Taranaki-hred pony, got second in the galloway event at the same meeting. A 9hort time ago I wrote regarding the censure passed by writers on the Auckland stewards for not holding an inquiry into the accident which befell Nlgb-"-*! In the

Ancklacd Derby, and stated that the stew- | ards were unanimous in their opinion that I nothing occurred in the race that called for ' any interference on their part. I furthermore stated that the stewards were of opinion that as Mr Stead gave It publicly to some members of the press that his mare I was interfered with, it was his duty as a | sportsman to have complained to the stewj ards regarding the foul riding which he alleged was the causa or. the accident. For j these remarks I have been taken to task by a writer in the Christehureh "Weekly j Press," who says that I state the stewards ! S2w ■nothing during the race to warrant any i Inquiry, and in the nert breath state that I owners ought to give uid to stewards by | asking for inquiries which they (the owuj ers) deem are necessary. Perfectly cori rect, but sorely the writer knows or" ought !to know that it is possible for foul rid;ag [or other illegal acts to take place and still jbo passud unnoticed by tbt=se i:: authority, a it Li almost an impossibilitr for n"-y i body of stewards, no matter bow keen •'.■;.■.' ! are, to eetect everything that occurs uui- ! log a race (although ia this case thay Had !en czcc'ilent view from the look-out tower, j and saw nothing hi the shape of ridi i:--sj, and_ I still mainuui that in the iiue.rest of the sport an owuer vcho is iv yosi Ecsssion of istormation ci an illegal act by ■ c iiicn he has suffered ought to lay an lnfori motion reKaidiug the same. The writer , then joes on to say that he saw all that , could be see=j of the lace from the Press stand, and admits that the field disappeared from view, and that when they disappeared Hewitt was in the saduie, and that when the field came into sisht again Nightfall was riderlesr.. I am glad he makes the admission that he (like all others in the Press stand) lost si-ht ;of the horses; but how does he reconcile i this fact with the account of the race | which appears in the paper he represents, in which he states that Nightfall received : a bump, losing a couple of lengths, which, I however, she quickly made up, only to get another bump which brought her dowu? Surely he did not imagine this occurred. His remarks about the reception accorded to Gladstone when he returned to scale are unworthy of notice. In concluding his efj fusion he belittles the Auckland stewards by sarcastically referring to the Paritutu inquiry, and takes them to task for not holding an inquiry when they saw the Press ! comments regarding the Nightfall case next ! Bioming From his point of view everything that anyone chooses to make a fuss about or to mention to a Press reporter should Le made tbe subject of an Inquiry. What a farce racing would become! if Mr Stead, or any other owner, has a serious I grievance (line the one under notice', theu ;he would bo acting in the best Interests of i the sp&it by at one? laying it before the ! proper ant cities, instead cf letting it git jto their knowledge by a side wind. The i fact that be has cover entered a protest |on;ht to lip.ye no we'.-ht with a gentleman ;of Mr Stead's standing, as anyone whose I opifion is worth having would "quickly recognlse that Mr Stead was acting in the best interests of racing end t&t from any monetary gain that would arise from the decision of his complaint. PAPAJiTRA RACING CLUB'S MEETING. The following acceptances have been received for events to be run at the Papakura meeting on Saturday nest: — Maiden Plate Handicap, tj furlongs.— Jean 0.7. Cairagno 7 lU. Marshal Ney 7.10. I.utietta 7.3, Plueskin 7.3, Terence 7.0, Kereru 7.0, Ineocnito^.O. Fl.virg Stakes, o furloncs.—P.en Blair 8.5, Calle Iris 5.3, Celerity 7.7, Woodmount 7.0, Luneta 7.6, De'ia Rosp 7.5, Freemount 7.0. Whawbai 7.0, Merry Soult 0.10, Hector G. 7. St. Cyril 0.7. Pony Handicap, 0 furlonsrs. —Girton Girl 8.11, Orange and «lue 5.4, Lucrcce 7.11, Whawbai 7.10. Gladys Rose 7.5. Sally Homer 7.7, Lady French 7.0, Shrewsbury 7.0. Lady Lottie 6.12. Sevtitiel fi.lo, Ngahere 6.10. Marisa 6.0. Lncy Godfrey 6.7. Papatura Cup, 1 mile.—Annoyed 7.11, Donmore 7.5, Calle Iris 7.0, Eonommna 7.0. Seatonia 7.0. Sonlrflsb 6.10, Mechanic 6.5. Mary Scaton 6.7. Hack Handicap, 5 furlongs. — Cniraguo 5.7, Marshal Ney 8.7. Luneta S.C. Celerity 5.4. Plueskin S.O, Virago 7.11, Terence 7.11. Kereru 7.10, St. Cyril 7.7, Ngahere 7.0, Autahi 7.0. Incognito 7.0. Railway Handicap, C furlongs.—Annoyed 7.13, Orange and Blue 7.9, Jean 7.9, Calle Iris 7.6, Bonomiana 7.4, Jack Brown 7.3, Seatonia 7.2, Woodmount 7.2. Sonltfish 7.0. Mechanic 7.0, Freemount 6.10, Mary Seaton 6110, Hector 6.7. ROTORUA JOCKEY CLUB. The following weights have been declared by Mr J. Chadwiek:— First Handicap Hurdles, 1} mile.—Hakaria IJLS, St. Rowan 10.9, Albuera 10.0, Rolf 9.13, Ambition 9.12, Sunshine 9.10, Mangamahaki 9.7, Nick Hunt 9.6, Evermore 9 4 Kuranui 9.2, Lady May 9.2, Success 0.0, Yonng Matai 9.0, Bachelor 9.0 Rotorua Cup. JJ mile.—Miss Lottie 8.12 Golden Sands 8.0, Idas 7.10, Annoyed 7 7 Laortice ai3, Seatonia 6.11, Corporal 6.9 Electric Handicap, 5 fnrlongs.—Gweniad 9.2, Liberator 8.13, Ben Blair 8.0, Sergins Lh S^^J; 5 - Lady Clare 6 -!3- SiHcia 6.13, Whakahihi 6.1 L Rolf Certainty 6.7. Royal Shell 6.7. w First Pony Handicap, 6 furtongs.—lnspiration 8.13. Forth 8.3, Sentinel 6.12. VTaimangu Handicap 7 furlongs.—ACTanus Laodiee 8.3, Sllicia 7.12, St. Rowan 7.8, Pamperia 7.3, Success 6.12, Royal Shell 6.10, Bachelor 6.7. Shorts Handicap. 4 fnrlongs.—Gweniad 9.4, Ben Blair 8.1 Lao-iice 7.6. Inspiration 7.3 Liidy Clare 7.1. Whakahihi 7.0, Rolf fio^i^r^H 2 ' Hillflower 6.11, Certainty 6.9, Forth 6.9, Sentin-1 6.7. Railway Handicap. 6 furlongs.—Liberator 5.12, Golden Sands 8.7, Annoyed 7 9 Agra pus 7.7. Sergius 7.5, Laodiee 7.3, Seabird 7.3. Seatonia 7.1, Brookby 6.12, Corporal 6.11, St. Rowan 6.10.