SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 14

SPORTING.

The Eailway Department advertises train arrangements in connexion with tho Timaru races on May Ist and 2nd. Each day a. special train will leave Christchurch at 7.55 a.m. and run direct to the course, returning from Timaru in the evening. Tickets at cheap fares are being issued. The Ambcrley Kacing Clnb's Annual Meeting comes in at a very convenient period this season and fits in admirably with other Canterbury fixtures to be decided next morith. The attractive programme drawn up should meet with a ready Tesponse from owner's of both gallopers and trotters, the good assortment of events catering for all classes. The recent Tains have put the tracks in excellent condition, and when nominations close at the Canterbury Jockey Club's rooms at 8 o'clock to-night the list should be a lengthy one. Acceptances for the Marlborough Racing Club's Autumn Meeting are due to-day.

Nominations for the Egmont Bacing Club's Winter Meeting close to-day. Nominations for the Auckland Eaeiug Club's "Winter Meeting (Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplechase, "Winter Steeplechase, Cornwall, King , George, and York Handicaps) close at 5 p.m. to-day. Acceptances for the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting arc due on Monday.

G. Murray Aynsley is breaking in a yearling filly by Paper Money from Stardanccr, the dam of Limelight, Starland, and Starmist, and a yearling filly by Paladin from Mazabuka, the dam of Millimetre. The same trainer is u'.so handling Glen Almond, a two-year-old by Bonny Glen —Prim, and Rebuke, a filly of the same age, by Clarenceux— Keproachful. Royal Mac is coming to hand nicely under "W. Holmes' care nt Eiccarton, ;ind the big horso by Mountain Knight— Flora Macdonald sprinted three furlongs nicely yesterday morning. Eoyal Mac has not*raced sinco the Eangiora Jockey Club's Annual Meeting in October, 1923.

The steeplechaser Charlatan is to bo nominated at the Egmont, Wanganui, and Auckland Winter Meetings, but so far no definite arrangements have been made.

Nadarino's yearling brother is being broken in at Trcntham, and the name of Climax has been claimed for him.

Master Sandstone is to be returned by 11. Telford to his owner in Invercargill. It is reported that the gelding has betome affected in the wind and at present ho is running in the paddock.

The English filly Merit is being kept going in her training at Trcntham. Sne was always more or less sore while the tracks were bard, and it is thought that she may be better suited by the soft going during the winter. Fool's Paradiso looks in great order at the present time, and the racing ho had at Riccarton did him no harm (says the "Dominion"). Ho has been entered atrHawke's Bay, where it is intended to race Master Peter, but it is not certain that the Absurd three-year-old will make hhe trip. *

Nigger Minstrel will race again, next season. This is the considered opinion of a prominent Wellington sportsman who saw the son of All Black last'week. His log has fined down, and is still improving, and the colt is quite sound. He will bo put into work again in about, two months' time.

|Tho Merry Momont mare Ladyflngors has-run her best races on soft tracks, arid- her prominenco when racing at the Wairarapa Eacing Club's recent meeting'will gain/: friends for hc r a t some : of the early Winter fixtures..'.';. A Wairarapa writor says that consequent on his fall at Ellerslie, Suggestion will nbtbo x raced again this season. He has been a good stake-earner for Mr W. E. Bidwill.

Tho amount, accruing to the New Zealand filly Los Gatos as the result of her iwin in'the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes Was £4963, making her total earnings if or the season £7315. "She is a half•sister to.Fluency, who'won over a distance in Sydney a few seasons ago, and as she is of lighter typo than, the averago AbßUtd, may get a distance with ■age.

; '. J. Munro, the rider of Windbag, who finished second in the Sydney Cup, was most disappointed after tho race (says an exchange). He is emphatic that ho would hare won the Gup. but for ;the fall that occurred. "Windbag very nearly came down," he said. "In fact, I thought he would go down, but he managed to recover himself, 'though it was a touch'and go. As a result he was running in second or third last position when he found his balance. Otherwise he would have been running in about sixth position, and would not have been required to make* up so much, ground, it was this extra ground .that he had to regain that cost him the race."

; The Martian horse The Cypher has been sold to the Queenslander Mr J. Magoffin, at whose stud mares by "Charlemagne 11., Cooltrim, and Positano an sheltered. One of The Cypher's mates in the coming season will be the dam of Kurgan, winner of 55 races. The prize-money won by the first horse in the various on the first two days of the recent Australian •Jockey Club's Meeting was as follows: —First day: First Hurdle Race £561; Autumn Stakes £1840; Doncaster Handicap £3028; Sires' Produce Stakes £'4063; St. Leger £2401; and the • Tocal Handicap £Bl2. Second day: i Flying Handicap, firstAlivision £705, second division £705; Sydney Cup .£6233; Easter Stakes £812; First Steeplechase £552; First Nursery, first division £697, second division £687; High-woight £842.

'•• Several of the riders of the horses •who fell in the Sydney Gup were badly injured, and later the surgeons reported 'that E. Donnelly, rider of Boyal Boue, sustained concussion of the brain; Q. E, Robinson (Prince Minimbah), shock -and concussion of the brain; Franklin (Spearfelt) a fractured skull and scalp ■ wounds, and Marsdcn (Kingslot) concussion of the brain and fractured ribs. An English trainer of note who has {retired this year is Charles Morton, who trained for Mr J. B. Joel. "Audax," of the "Horse and Hound," said that • for Mr Jool ho did wonderfully woll, winning the Two Thousand and Derby .of 1911 with Sunstar, and taking the One Thousand Guineas of 1913 and 1914 by the aid of Jest and Princess Dorrie, which pair secured the Oaks. Morton had prepared two previous Oaks winners for Mr Joel in Our Lassie and ; Glass Doll. He also won for him the Eclipse Stakes, the St. Lcger of 1908 with Your Majesty, and had charge of Black Jester when the latter won the great Doncaster event in 1914. "Added to theso great victories for his 'regular employer, Morton had the care of Lord Derby's Tranquil at Wantage for several weeks prior to her easily winning the St. Leger of 1923.