SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 14

SPORTING.

TURF GOSSIP.

Acceptances for the Feilding Meeting close on Thursday. Nominations for the Dunedin Summer Meeting and the Tnumarunui Annual Meeting close on Friday. Acceptances for the South Canterbury Summer Meeting close on Monday. Two New Zealand-bred horses which were taken to Vancouver by the exIfiiccarton trainer, W. J. Holmes, but were ineligible to race there owing to not figuring in the New Zealand Stnd Book, are due back in a few weeks' time, and will go into N. C Price's stable at New Brighton until Holmes's health permits him to take them over himself. The horses concerned arc "Waihemo, a four-year-old gelding by Quin Abbey from Tinoreka, and a four-year-old gelding by Quin Abliey from Tinopono. The latter had the name Star Stranger claimed for him on arrival at Vancouver, but a new cognomen' will have to be found before he races in N'ew Zealand. The well-known steeplechaser, Sir Rosebery, has been brought in again by his owner-trainer, W- Garrett. The Sir Knox—Mcrrie Rose gelding is verybig in condition and is only l>eing hacked about at the present time. When It. Lewis so far unbent as to wave his cap to acknowledge the plaudits of the crowd, when returning to weigh-in after the Melbourne Cup, many peonle had an idea he was waving a farewell, so far as big races were concerned. Lewis, however, had no such idea- Fit and well, he does not feel the half-century he is approaching, and, questioned as to whether he contemplated retiring, replied that he w.ould continue in the game while Mr E E. D. Clarke and J. Scobie wanted him As that will be as long as Lewis likes, the chances are that five years hence the possibility of his retirement will still he under discussion. Lewis is well placed financially, and it seems that he now really derives more pleasure from riding a winner, and thereby filtonine: he is still a force to be reckoned with, than from the resultant winning fee. Nevertheless, what he has received from Trivalve's three wins this season is sufficiently substantial to co;int even with him. 'Lewis rode his first race—a winning one, too—at Climes, over 38 years ago. At the Kinloch dispersal sale there should -be spirited bidding for the following lots:—Sweet Charity (imp) with bay filly foal by Martian and served by Limond- Strona (imp) with brown colt foal by Martian and served by Diaequenod, Cyme'ne (imp) with bay colt V Limond and served by Limond.

Trotting notes.

At the New Brighton Meeting to be! held on December 15th and 17th the two principal events to be decided are the Mace Memorial Handicap on the first day and the Waimairi Handicap on the second day, each worth 400 sovs. The Mace Memorial is for horses that can do 4.34 or better, and the I Waimairi Handicap is confined to those that can do 4.31. Nominations close at noon on Thursday. Dreamy Child, dam of Dreamalion and _ Ricardo, has foaled a filly to Travis Axworthy. Roy Logan has joined F. G. Holmes's team. The special horse train arranged for the Forbury Park Trotting Club's Meeting ori Friday andl Saturday will leave Christchurch at 8.10 a.m. tomorrow. A special train taking passengers and horses will leave Dunedin for Christchurch on Saturday evening. During the past three weeks the Auckland-owned and trained Jewel Pointer has won £lslO in stake money. He will be unlucky if he does not add to this total to-morrow, for there are four prizes attached to the race and only seven horses engaged.. Padlock, winner of the Mangere Handicap at the Otahuhu Meeting on Saturday, is an aged gelding by Hal Zolock—Rawene and was making his first appearance since the Auckland Trotting Club's Spring Meeting in 1926. He has been troubled by unsoundness, but when right is above the average and may win more races in the near future. The acceptances received for the second day of the Otahuhu Trotting Club's Spring Meeting are satisfactory so far as the majority of the events are concerned, but the small number engaged in the Fergusson Handicap and Visitors' Handicap are a bit disappointing. The Fergusson Handicap may still provide a good! race, and with Jewel Pointer, Blaok Lila, and Cardinal Logan, the placed horses in the big event on the first day, still engaged another close contest may be expected. Jewel Pointer has been penalised 12 yards for his win on the opening day, but Black Lila is still on 4.32 and Cardinal Logan on 4.27. The race on the opening day should have done Cardinal Logan a lot'of good, andl he will probably again start Favourite. In to-morrow's race Jewel Pointer and Amaris will bo bracketed.

WELLINGTON NOTES.

[THB PRESS Special Serrtcs.] WELLINGTON, November 21. 0. Cox, who was at Levin on Saturday with Euphonium, said it was very unlikely that he would take Reremoana, Lady Cavendish, and Lady Desmond to the Auckland Summer Meeting. The form of the team at Riccarton had not come up to expectations, and their Christmas engagements would be at Manawatu. Crown Area, who ha& been more or less ofi colour this spring, and in consequence could run only in the Stewards' Handicap at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, is now getting on well. d. New said at Levin on Saturday that Crown Are* would probably forego his Auckland engagements at Christmas and race at the Mnnnwatu Meetir.ir. The nominations and acceptances rereived by the Ashhurst-Pohangina Racing Club for its Annual Meeting to-morrow constitute a record for the club, and after acceptances had been posted it was found necessary to divide the Maiden Race and the Siberia Hack Handicap. At Levin on Saturday the president of the Ashhurst Club (Mr R. McDonald) said that notice of a sufficient number of scratching* had been received in the Maiden Race to obviate a division, and it will therefore be run as one race. A division appeared inevitable, however, in the. Siberia Handicap. .Ulster Gamp was having his first Btart m a hurdle race when he won at on baturday, and with experience w Sh ° uld i , do well at «h« game. Hi* &S - flat Was tair - and w£ a way S fi „ , on a( . to ™'n ii[ U - rth ? r " sset « llis aW'tY Sere \Z " "i heflVy g rol,nd - *> thai Prior I? 00 ? oSpeet3 flheaf? "f liim. dav Sont hevia on SaturtG'i&^,M no * started s ™* 60 that g AZ Me ? in * 'P M »™h last. f io P re & d •on u B ome of his raees, and with

another yeai on to lm age he looks like turning out a good sort tins season. , ~ ~ Desert Lad, the three-year-old sewing bv Acre from Innoladdcs who scored" in the Maiden Race at Levin on Saturday, put up an impressive performance, for he was giving the leaders a Ion? start when they had settled down. R- Reed rode him very skilfully. He had the horse with whit-n to accomplish the task, but altogether it was an accomplished feat of horsemanship. Innoladdo. the dam of Desert Lad, is by Sir Laddo from Tnamorata, a mare bv Torpedo, bred bv the late Mr W. DougUs. Innoladdo was onlv a moderate performer herself, but the mating with Acre has to all appearances resulted in something verv promising in Desert Lad. Plane, who finished second to Desert Lad in the Maideu Race at Levin on Saturday, is a four-year-old. a halfhrothcr bv Warplane to Birkie, a useful sort, who used to win in the same colours a few seasons back. Plane showed promise when first raced justtwelve months ago. but after three races he disappeared from the scene. He hnd a couple of races oarliei this season, and now that he has struCK form he should not bo Ion? in the maiden class. Broad Acre and f.e Champ, both by Acre, a fonr-vear-old geld ins and a three-year-old ' filly respectively, who carry the same colours as Grown Area, are both promising sorts, and should not, on their form at Levin, be lone in working their way out of the maiden renks. Le Chamn is a handsome filly out of Lady Rowley, by St rowan. She got a very poor start in the hack sprint on Saturday, and then finished well upMandarine ran a good race on Saturday but his action was not at all suited' to the turning course, and he lost ground at the critical stage of the race.

Bissac, who won the hack sprint at Levin on Saturday, and incirlcntally paid a substantial dividend, is n sister to Orcades, who was beaten by Mirensonta in the open sprint. They are by Bisogne from Vestalis, a well-bred Martian mare, who is also the dam of Euchre. Bissac was ridden by T. Metcalf. who was having his first mount since coming to the North Island to try his luck. G. Jones, who was at Levin on Saturday with Mr W. Gaisford's three-year-old Excess, said that Commendation, on being put into work for his Christmas racing, began to be troubled vith his feet. It was considered advisable eventually to send him down from Greenmeadows to Oringi, and he has been turned out until the autumn. He will thus not be at the Auckland Summer Meeting. Jones said he hoped it would be possible to race Commendation in the autumn, but ho did not appear to be sanguine about it, so possibly he will not be seen out again till next season.

The well-known ha.ndicapper, Mr J. E. Henrys, who has been spending a for months abroad, is at present in San Francisco, on his wav back to New Zealand. It was Mr Henrys' intention to have been a passenger by the Makura, which arrives from San Francisco to-day, but he is detained there by the serious illness of his daughter If Miss Henrys is sufficiently recovered. Mr Henrys intends to return to New Zealand by the next steamer from Vancouver. OTAHUHU T.C. ACCEPTANCES RECEIVED. (PBI-m ASSOCIATION TSLEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 21. The following acceptances have been received for the second day of the Otahuhu T.C.'b Spring Meeting:— INNOVATION HANDICAP (In .harness), of 300 sovs. For unhoppled trotters. 5.2 class. 2m. Billy Carbine .. scr Peter Tracey .. 24 Colonel Thorpe scr Roma Bingon .. 60 Real Todd .. scr Gold Star < .. 60 Royal Bob .. scr Roez ' .. 108 Bright Light . . 12 Anseline .. 108 EPSOM HANDICAP (in harness), of 300 sovs. 8.33 class, ljm. Dillon Huon .. scr Percy Dillon .. scr Surveyor . . scr Peter Grattan .. scr Beatty .. scr Uraraic .. 12 Concertina .. scr Master Huia .. 12 Red Star .. scr Bingen King .. 12 Hohora .. scr Master Cute .. 12 Halgana .. scr Ursuline .. 24 Golden Park .. scr High Sea .. 24 Maid of the Taipare .. 48 Mountain scr PAPATOETOE HANDICAP (in harness), of 300 sovs. 4.50 class. 2m. Golden Grattan scr Roi Alto .. 24 Gold Dial .. scr Bluewood .. 36 Great Eyre .. scr Wild Nut '.. 36 Kolmar .. scr Floraline 48 Charming Pronto scr Childe Audubon 48 Raylefte .. scr Potroleuse .. 84 Anselino .. scr Toll Chimes .. 108 Tony Victor 24 FERGUSSON HANDICAP (in harness), of 1000 sovs. 4.38 class. 2m. Lord Nepean .. scr First Carbine .. 24 Amaris .. 12 Jewel Pointer .. 60 Black Lila .. 12 Cardinal Logan 72 Holly Boy .. 12. FRANKLIN HANDICAP (in harness), of 350 sovs. 4.30 class. 2m. Daytime .. scr Nelson Tasker .. 36 Buz Buz . . scr "Wallroon .. 36Reliance ~ scr Uncle Bert .. 36 Padlock .. 12 Dick Dillon .. 48 Gold Jacket ~ 24 Waikaha .. 43 Woodvale .. 36 Florent ' .. 60 Direct Morning 36 Nelson Fame .. 84 VISITORS' HANDICAP (in harness), of 400 sovs. For unhoppled trotters. 4.44 class. 2m. Ngatira ..12 Peter McKinney 36 Mutu .. 12 Tradesman . . 48 The Tartar .. 24 Sister Beatrice 48 Tiger Salve ..24 DUNEDIN HANDIOAP (in saddle), of 500 sovs. 2.14 class. Ira. Caprice .. scr Lady Dunmore .. 12 Amaris ..scr Holly Boy .. 12 Black Lila .. 12 All Bell .. 24 Anselm .. 12 Nelson Fame .. 48 ROYAL HANDICAP (in harness), of 850 sovs. 2.52J class, ljm. Huon Grattan .. scr Our Patch .. scr Hypo .. scr Van Rich .. 12 Padlock .. scr Muhvaree .. 12 Lord Minto .. acr Pitaroa .. 24 Ruapere .. scr Scandal ~ 24 Marionette .. scr Cute Lad ~ 24 Bonniewah .. sor Goldman .. 36 Buz Buz .. scr Lady Joan .. 36 Kingsclere .. scr