THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1464, 12 June 1912, Page 3

THE TURF.

. $ NOTES AND COMMENTS. tßi Glenooe.l Acceptances for tho first day's events at Hastings next week close to-morrow night. Snowliko (Multifid—Snowstell), a two-year-old belonging to the Messrs. Stead, has proved untramable, and is to be sent to tho AVaikanao stud. The New Zealand Cup winner, Rridge, mado his iirst appearance in a hurdle race in the York Hurdles, two miles, at Flemiiigton, on Juno 1. He was jiot mentioned in tho betting, and finished last. Studgroom J. Hay, writing from Bu?hy Park, reports that the Treiilon mare Ma Mio Rosetto (dam of Signer) slipped d»ad twin fouls to Sun Fran last weuk. This is a stroke of ili-fcrtune, as something good was expected of the mating. Mr. Moore lias decided to send Ma Mio Rosotto to San Fran again this -season. Tho ex-New Zealand jockey, C. O'Neill, who has been riding with much success in Tasmania for tho past three months, left for Melbourne on "Wednesday last. Ho will remain there until after the big steeplechase meetings, and then return to Laniiceston and set up as private trainer. While in Melbourne, O'Neill will have the riding of Flavel, Ciiveau, Bn.rracq, Joe, and U'.T.S. In all probability Flavol, who won tho last Hobart Cup with 9st. 61b., will be O'Neill's mount in the big hurdle races at Flemington and Caulficld. When the veteran trainer, T. Lamond, died in_ Sydney last week, he was 72 years of age, and as jockey, trainer, and owner had figured- in the racing world for 60 years. He had trained the winner of nearly every important racii in Sydney and Melbourne. At one time he-was Mayor of tho Waterloo borough. No New Zealand-trained horses are entered for the big jumping events at Caulfiild or_ Flemington this year. The only horses in whose doing Dominion sportsmen are likely to tako interest are Bridge and Wimmera. They have been entered at both meetings. 11. Cairns rode a good double at Adelaide nn June 1 where he won the Birthday Handicap of 1500 sovs. on Swatrgcr, by St. Alwynnp, and later in the "day, scored on tho New Zealand-bred Obsono, who annexed the Norwood Handican, seven furlongs. Both horses paid goocf prices on the totalizator. Cairns has won several good vaces on Swagger, the.=e victories including the Warrnanibool Cup. A Sydney exchange, says: "Bv many people 'amateur' and 'gentleman , are regarded as synonymous terms as applied to individuals riding at picnic meetings. Such, however, is far from being the case, and, according to all accounts, there have been a few happenings at picnic fixtures this year which would have been too warm for even, the 'hottest' of professional riders to contemplate. From what can bo gleaned it has been a caso of 'me to-day and you to-morrow' in some quarters, and the scandal is such that it is to receive the attention of the A..T.C. Neither have owners been quito guiltless." With Idealism, Bollin, Faunus, and Mollington to represent it this season, the Karaniu stable will not want for jumpers, though tho loss sustained by the accident to Napper was a very serious one. The first-named of the above quartet has shown form enough at different times to make one think that he would turn out a very good one, but, on the other hand, ho has pften failed badly when fancied by his trainer. That naturally induces Ih'e opinion that he is not honest. Bollin has raced over fences several times, but. so far, has not earned a winning bracket. Faunus has yet to be produced in a jumping race, but he is the right stamp of horse to make an idea! hurdler, nnd it is paid of him ■ that ho is a natural jumper. Mollington is a big bav gelding, a halfbrother to Contendcnt, but, though he has been hunted, he lias not so far faced the starter in .a race. Ho was entered for the Grand National last year, and was Ijcing prepared to race, but, when A. Julian was suspended by the AVanganui Jockey Club, the training of the jumper ill question was not persevered with. There aro several horses in the stable in question which should make splendid hurdlers, and, amongst them, may be mentioned that.useful gelding Peary. The best of him has not yet been seen. Last season he went amiss, and had to be thrown out of commission, but he is now again in work at Hastings, and may be given a run at the Napier and Wellington meetings. Glenmore is said to bo a suro runner in the Hawke's Bay Steeples, and, provided that he has got over the racing which ho had at Ellcrslie, ho will be a hard nut to crack, the more especially as the field promises to ha a weak one. The Marton-trained animal was off his feed dicing the greater part of the time- he was at Auckland, and, under ordinary circumstances, he may be expected to improve on his showing there. < ' Referring to tho death of Orthos, who broke his neck while galloping at Mentone, the Melbourne "Herald" sovs:—"The post-mortem examination revealed a remarkable thing. It was ascertained that the leg which gave way and caused all tho trouble had, at some previous time, been fractured, and had not knit properly, 'the bone at the . seat of tho injury having .turned black in, the process of decay. The only explanation to be offered is that Orthos sustained the original injury some years ago when he came down in the smash at Rosehill in which T. Clayton was killed. Several horses fell, and Orthos was one of them. Ho was in a bad way for a long while afterwards, though subsequently stood training." Despite the instalment of starting machines on English racecourses, the starting thero seems to be generally faulty. "Augur," in "Sporting Life," thus discourses on tho subject:—"lt was rather an aggravating experience on Tuesday, for the Australian rider, H. Carslnkey to ride Cbirpaway first past the post in the falso start for the Maiden T.Y.O. Plate, and I may add that that miserable fiasco has been criticised in terms far more emphatic than complimentary, the fact being that all racing folk have become disgusted with the prevailing system of starting, which all but those who arp blind can see is in diametrical opposition to the rule directing that horses shall start from a ■ standstill. It has been suggested to me that an objection might, with solid fojindation, be laid against any start in which horses are palpably in action, but as to that I will express no opinion. All the same, I will repeat what has many times been written, and that is that tho slovenly starting is doing great harm to racing, and means should be found, or at least should be tried, of improving on a parlous condition of affairs. It scorns, stronge beyond comprehension that the fact is not recognised by the stewards of the Jockey Club, who from time immemorial have been tho promoters and upholders of everything that is good in the interests of racing. The worst feature of all.is that whereas all should bo of the very best at Newmarket, the acknowledged headquarters of the turf, the starting is the weakest feature." FIXTURES. i June 19 and 20—Hawke's Bay J.C. Winter. June 26 and 27.—Napier Park E.C. Winter. July 4 and s—Gisborne R.C. Steeplechase. July 17 and 20—Wellington R.C. Winter. August 13, 15, and 17-C.J.C. Grand Na. » tional Meeting.