THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 250, 16 July 1919, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS Weights for the C.J.C. Grand National Steepleclmso anil Hurdle Haco and the Winter Cup ale due on Friday next. Weights for the Mamiwatu Hunt Club meeting are due on-Friday. , -, 'l'lio ilanawatn Hunt Club has received good entries for its meeting, on July 30. Tho hack races, have-filled extra well, and-trainers in the ■surrounding disfriaw are no-doubt, going to seize ■ this opportunity to give their horses a race. •The .well-known jockey A. Oliver,-.who is just back from France alter .threo years' servico in the artillery, was present during the Trehlhaiii meeting, but he would not accept nnv mount,s. Oliver is quite, well and is regularly doing riding work nt Awnpuni. He will make-his reappearance in the saddle at the Maiiawatu Hunt Club's meeting on July-30. _ ■After tho Hawke's Hay.Jockey Clubs meeting, trainer TV F. IJuinlivan, acting on behalf of Mrs. M. A. Pony,.sold Hex, the coming, two-year-old son of All Black and-Gold-Foil, to W. Stone, of Hastings. The Gisborne sportsman Mr. C. J. Bennett lias claimed the. name of Over Thero for his full .brother to- Uaswine. • News'by tliis week's mail from Melbourne slates that there-is every ■ likelihood of the Keinball I earn being returned to the Dominion shortly. The colt by The Welkin - from J.aml Rose that cost UOO guineas as a yearling, has been- named Weldone. He ami Trespass, who is a half-sister by Tressaily to Veronal, both appear likely to hold their own in the Dominion. The Hastings trainers W Stone and ,T. Griffiths..are awaiting an opportunity to.-get their horses home, and they will not go on. to.Riccarton. Kipling, who has been spelling for some time .after an operation, has again joined J. ■Coyle's Marlon .team. Tho chestnut gelding is: on the big side and looks'-like taking a lot of wock to-get .into racing condition.. '.Tho-rather-appropriate name of Verbosity lias boon claimed for the two-year-old gelding by Demosthenes from Suratura.

Advices from Woodville state that the rising two-year-old full sister to Desert"Gold is going. on the tight wav in. her preparation, and she will bp well forward for the early spring meetings. During t'lio progress of ~the racing it T.renthiim J.' M'Louglilin; spurted liis coming two-year-ofd Fortune-teller (Beaonian—Sea Queen), and IT. Telford ha<l four youngsters by the same.siro with the colours up. Two aro. colts from Pophia and R-atisfaire, and tho others are lillies from Philomel and Ilistorictte. Tlie Marlborough Racing Club recently disposed of its .course, at. Riv.erlnnds, whore racing has feu carried on for oyer thirty years, and has purchased a property nearer tho town. | At Hastings L. Wilson has in work.fqr tho Doujias Estate it . ray v lrftl-grown brown gelding by Mountain ICnight from Morigpmii. The yoijngstor is. the first of his sire's progeny; and as lie is well'forward ho is-expected to l>o ablo jo. race at 'some of the early spring meeting?. , Tlie HaJloraas-I)krain'o. Jilly in '.-T. Ayres's stables at Trentham. yrill race '«» Itoda. The. filly is on the small side, as yet, but this is accounted for by her being '.i late foal. She is to race iii Mr. Harold 'Brown's colours. A Napier writer says: "If .the installation of the double machine become.; legalised institution" on the racecourses in the' Dominion, it will "not meet with the approval of the executives of racing aubs, for, it wilL .inean the .locking, up of a deal of money and will consequently affect the turnover, for, presuming that tlie double was on tlie- third and fifth Taces, it would moan that, there would bo less money to be invested in tho intervening event than if there had been no double machine operating, and, again, if a : big return'was paid over as a result of picking tho two winners, it's an oddsOri bet tlnvt the majority of it would find n, ihousing' somewhere else than in tho totalizator." : ■In recounting incidents bearing on tho A.J.C. Autumn- Meeting, "Musket" in the Sydney "Siln" pens the following "Take my saddle across to the course; 1 might'get.a mount," said young M'Na. maraj, rho" apprentice jockey, when tho stable: lads .'froni H.iJChippcmlaHV estab- i lisluaeiit were leaving'for" Kaiidwiek; At , the' races Ma.rfc'Thompson, trainer ol \ Hem; was still iii' search of a jockey. Somebody' told hilii Chippendall's two apprenticed! were disengaged, so lie approached that" trainer. "Which" is Ilia lighter?" he asked;- Oh-, : M'Naniara can ride at Gst.-71b." was:tlie reply. "Can lie -jmlip a liorse out of the barrier smart, ly?" -"You needn't' worry about that; He will get away all right." So M'Jianiara was engaged for the winner of the Doncaster. On' the Monday he had no mount in the Sydney Cup, but other in. Alienees were again busv arranging mat. ters for. his benefit. Tlie jockey booke'l for lan d'Or was 51b. over, and F. .T. Mareden; trainer of that horse, was- in soiirch of a Gst. 101b. boy. Suddenly he thought.of M'Namara, and, quickly seek, ing out that youngster, engaged him on the spot to ride the winner of the socdnd leg of tho double. "Well, there's luck for you," .said one,of the old jockeys when' lie saw M'Narriara win. The win. ning percentage that came to M'Xamara as-the result of his two winning. rides was ~£Bl3 16s. ; AUSTRALIAN RACiNG. ■Melbourne, July -15. The. following weights have been allotted in the Australian .Hurdles:—Snub, list. 111b. (top weight!; Silent Way ana Glfldful, lOst. 81b..; Beltane, - lOst.; Vaquero, fist. 81b". Steeplechase;—.Taek Eice, 12st. 81b. (top weight)'; - Vaquero, . lOst, 71b.; Pro Teni, Ost. lllb. -. THE WINTER CUP, By Telegranli—T'ross Association. Christchurch, July 15. Miramar was scratched for the Winter Cup at 9 a.m. to-day.