TIE TURF

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 105, 28 January 1920, Page 8

TIE TURF

SCRATCHINGS FOR C.J.C. MEETING. , By Telceniflh—Prcse Aeeociation. , Christchurch, January 27. Chimera -was scratched this morning for fan Craven Plate, and Little Kiver for (ho Middle Park Plate, «t the Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting. xoteslnd comments (By Glencoe.) The Pahiatua meeting will be held tomorrow. Acceptances for tho C.J.C. Midsummer Handicap close to-morrow night at 8 o'clock. Acceptances for tho Taranaki meeting nra due on Friday. Entries for the Woodville meeting, to be held on February 18 and 19, close on Ifridar next. *• Nominations for all events at Hie Transanal Jockey Club's Summer Electing close on Friday. y Christclnirch writer 6tntw that Imnrililxm has won the Foxton Cup four v«urs in succession. As a matter of fact, last week's performance marked the first appearance of Imaribbon on tho .'J''o.tton courso. Moorfowl has now 6tnrted eight times and won six races, her total in stake inonev boinur 3100 eovs. 80-Peen was the unlucky performer dtirins the three days of the Wellington Racing Club's meeting .last week. ,On Tuesday she lost the Telegraph Handicap by a nose, on Thursday she filled third place in tho Metropolitan Handicap, whilo on Saturday she was third in tho Citv Handicap. The experience, however, was by no means a new one for the Bezonian mar«, whose racing career has been vory largely made up oi placed performances. She opened her two-year-old, career with a win at Mas-, t.p.rton. after which sho was twice in « nlnco at Trentham before going to Eiccarton to win the Welcome Slakes.. That was her last success tlint season, thouirh she was in second placo on two other occasions. Aβ a three-year-old lio opened with a win at Masterton, and l.i tar in the season she won two more races. Between times she wne placed ! eleven times. So far as the present seai son is concerned her money-earning effort? are confined to five lots of placemonev. so that sho is overdue for a winning performance. . It. transpires that Mr. W. E. Bidwill was actine for a lady owner in the Wairarapa when he purchased tho. two youngsters at tho Waikanae sale last week. Tho lady in question has not previously raced horses. Hor team will be trained by P. Hazelman at Tauherenikau. Mr. H. E. Troutbeck, who has been on a nine months' trip to England, is arriving back by the Ituapehu, due. at Auckland on Monday next. It.. O'Donnell sent Melee and bolden Orozier to Hamilton on Monday, and the pair will represent Mr. G. L. Stead there next week. As Bieht and Left has been sent up to the Taranaki meeting, the Yaldhurst two-veor-old will be an absentee from tho 0..T.0. Middle Park Plate, to be run on Saturday. In his absence the Chokebore bracket (Moorfowl and Winter Wind) will have plenty of admirers. With three valuable weight-for-age races in his engagements at the rnranaki and Eemoiit meetings, the fteadowned three-year-old Surveyor should be able to pick up a couple of good stakes durine the next fortnight. ' Paddington Green figures amongst the entries for the jumping events at Hαwora. He has already been schooled, but so far has not shown much aptitude for the jumping business. Tho Kiccarton-trained Bon Spec has been entered for the open sprint events at the Eirmont moeling. . He is also to bo entered at Wanganui, which con?>-<-should euit a horse with the pace of the son of Boniform, Undo Ned. runner-up in the Auckland Cup. is amongst the acceptors for thj Takapiinn Cup. It is said that he win bn ridden bv H. Gray, and he may be a efibrt-nriced favourite. If fit and well, tho Feildine winner, First Salute, should lw the most dangerous of the opposition. The Hastings jockey P. Cress was taken seriously ill nj Wellingjon during the week-end, and he is af present confined to his room. ' . K Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that M. Edwards, the well-known trainer and driver pi lteht harness horses, suffered a silent fracture of the spine as the result,of a mishap on the Now Brighton training track yesterday morning. He was oxercisuiff a three-year-old colt by Logan Pointer-Scarlet ftoso when it stabled and fell, and Edwards was thrown from the sulkv. landing on his back, and sufferinK tho injury mentioned.