THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 10

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS,

[H\- Glencoe.]

The Marton Jockey Club's spring meeting—a one-day fixture—will be held to-morrow.

>Tho movement towards Sydney continues. Tlio latest is that tlio Napier trainer, J. M'Laughlin, is leaving, 011 Friday next with Prince Eddio and Loch Mabcn.

Tho tracks at Hastings are in a very heavy stato at present, and not much work is being done 011 them.

It] was Birkenhead that was purchased last week for stud purposes, not his son Zimmerman, as was inadvertently stated in this column yesterday.

Tlio following paragraph from a Sydif?,v paper will interest New Zealand owners who havo jumpers racing at Randwick next month:—'Tho "brush" jumps at Randwick .(he states) aro not going t-o prove so casj r to negotiato as was anticipated. They vary in height from 4ft. to 4ft. Gin., and in width from lft. 9in. to 2Et. 6in. There is littlo likelihood of horses going through them, in l proof of which I might mention that tho brush is so tightly' packed that an list, man can walk along the top of the jumps without making much impression. Perhaps it may be different when tho brush dries, but whilo it is comparatively green it will require a good jumper to got safely round Randwick. I have already heard complaints concerning tho schooling jumps, tho general opinion being that the last of the threo is altogether too high .for a beginner to tackle.

Up till recently D. Maher was at the lior.d of this season's winning jockeys' list in England. His total was 69,. as against A. Whallcy's 63, F. Wootton's 59, and E. Wheatley's 01. Wootton lias made up a lot of leeway since July 23, up to which date ho had only ridden 36 winners as against D. Mailer's 69. At tho rate that lib has gained on Mailer and Whalley during tho past month Wootton's appearance 'on top. for tlio fifth successivo year is by no means an improbability. D. Maher lias not headed tho list sinco 1908, when he scored 139 to Wootton's 129.

So far tho best two-year-old in Melbourno is "Mr. S. A. Il&wdcn's" colt Blague, who is trained by the ex-New Zealander, Adam Skirving. Tho medical man " who adopts tho above racing name gave ICOgns. for the dam <f Blague, who was then carrying the present youngster. The colt won the Fulham Park Plato, and during tho following week, under tho crusher of 9st. 81b., he again scored easily in tho Dequcttvillo Stakes at Adelaide.

At Williamstown on August 23 11. R. Cairns, the well-known. cx-Trontham jockey, rodo the runner-up in the Hurdles, and was also on Lorn, who occupied a similar position in the Welter Handicap. This must bo about the twentieth time that Lorn has filled this berth lately.

It is not often that one man owns tho first and second favourites for the Caulfield Cup, but this is the oxperienco of E. A. Connolly this, spring. His imported horso Sea Prince is first favourite, with his New Zealand purchase, Anna Carlovna, next in demand , and the pair aro well clear of tho others. It will bo no surpriso if the last-named jumps into favouritism before the day, and tho 'Persimmon horso may then be reserved for tho Melbourno Cup.

Mr. W. Davis, tlio Trentham trainer, purposes sending tho following mares to Sydney to bo sold by Messrs. H. Chis-bolni-and Co. in October Swan (Pilgrim's Progress—Lcda), Trip (Scaton Delaval —Sunbeam), Companion . (Torpedo—Ladies' Man), and Ycsami (Tho Officcr—Elf). Mr. W.'Montgomery, of Auckland, wished to said his blood maro Lady Regel to Mr. Sal. Green's horso Comedy Kin£, but he received a roply that 110 service was available.

The nominations received for tho Otaki Club's spring meeting are very satisfactory, and tlio club should havo a successful gathering.

The A.J.C. Derby colts Breastwork and Gpand Marshall, tho property of tho Victorian sportsman who-races as "Mr. S. A. Rawdon," wero out under colours at Canterbury Park on August 23 (says the "Sydney Morning Herald"). Breastwork, who is by Positano (imp.) from Cross Battery, by Stepniak, took pait in tho Flying Handicap, with 6st. 111b. in the saddle; whilo Grand Marshall, who is bj Soult (imp.) from Lady Hester, by St. Leger, rail in tho Three-year-old Handicap under 7st. 41 h. Though looking well, neither got iiito tho first flight in their respective races.

A cablo to a Melbourne paper last week stated that a very short prico had already been taken about The Tctrarch for next year's Epsom Derby, to be run on May 27. Tho Tetrarcli is a grey colt, by "the French-brcd Eoi Herodo (son of Lo Samaritinn) from Vahren, by Bona Vista (son of Bond Or) from Castania, by Hagioscope (son of Speculum) from Roso Garden, by Kingcroft. He was bred by Mr. E. Kennedy, and sold as a yearling to Mr. D. M'Calmont (his present owner) for 1300 guineas. His first outing was in a Maiden Plate at Newmarket, and he won easily. Subsequently lie took tlie Woodcote Stakes, at Epsom, and the Coventry Stakes, at A-scot. In tho last-named event ho led from start to finish, and won, pulling up, with ten lengths to spare, from Courageous, with Saint Cyr a length away tliird. There wero eight starters, and the smart time of, lmin. 2 4-ssec. was registered for the fivo furlongs.

A London exchange says that the fielding against Aboycur for tho St. George Stakes at Liverpool on July 23 was remarkably strong. At the outset bookmakers asked for odds of 3 to 1, but soon they were perfectly willing to accept something not as good, and nover ceased to take the poorer price even when Mr. CunlitFo's colt was leading his field by a couple of lengths with only half a mile more to go. aft°r this he collapscd in very sudden fashion, and it really lookc/1 as tboupa Aglidoe could have beaten him at level weights. Having regard to the fact that the last time ho ran Aglidoe had not tho remotest chance with Lomond pi 2filb. in tho Trial p+ Ascot Aboycur's form was poor, indeed, for a Derby winner, and it is to he feared that the season's three-year-olds, with tlie possible exception of Light Brigade, are a sadly moderate lot, for they never soom to run twice alike. Aboycur looked '"pll in himself , but wore a hood and blinkers.