RACING IN AUSTRALIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1557, 13 September 1905, Page 2

RACING IN AUSTRALIA.

PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF NEW ZEALAND HORSES. A DAY OUT AT SYDNEY. By telegraph, Press A’as'n, Copyright Sydney, Sept. 12. The phenomenal success of New Zealand horses yesterday is the one topic of conversation in sporting oiroles. Machine Gun, despite a thumping impost, made light of the opposition, and acted up to his New Zealand reputation, being a sprinter of unusual excellence. The field for the Metropolitan Handicap was the smallest sinoe 1897. Maniapoto allowed Fashioda to lead him on sufferance, aud instead of knooking up at the mile, as his Epsom Handioap running indicated, in a twiokling. and with a brilliancy hardly deemed possible at the tail end of a bitterly run race, heleft his followers as though they were hobbled. To ail but a comparative few, Maniapoto’s auooesß was a prodigious surprise, oulminating in groans as he entered the enclosure, but if inconsistent, he proved himself a great galloper. The Steeplechase was the best of its kind ever seen on the coarse. A peonliar feature, and one not complimentary to our ’chasers, is that the plaoe-g'etters, and Haydn, who finished fourth, were all bred in New Zealand. Haydn’s running waß challenged by the stewards, but the explanation given was acaeptod as satisfactory. Nightfall added a great victory to the day’s triumphs. She had to be ridden hard to hold her place. She was shut in in the straight, and all bat went to her knees at the distance, yet recovered, and just beat Canteen. “ With Mr Stead,” says the Telegraph, “ rests the honors of yesterday’s racing, and indeed the honors of the meeting to date. Eaoh time his oolors were reoeived with ioud applause. An effort will probably he made by some Australian sportsman to keep at least one of these marvelions Multiform oolts in the country.” Commenting in its leading columns, the

paper says: " The New Zealand triumph was almost of a volanio oharaetar. It may, perhaps, be acoounted for by the rather poor quality of the Australian horses and the exceptional excellence of the New Zealand horses this-year, especially Mr Stead’B. The victories of horses owned by a sportsman of Mr Stead’s position and oharacter, who oan afford to raoe for the stoke and honor, who takes pride in having finelybred horses and running them fairly, is one of the very best things that oau happen at races."

Tbe Herald says: “Never in the history of the turf of Australasia has such a series of successes been achieved. In future the day will probably be known as 1 New Zealand's day.’ ”

MISHAP TO NOOTUIFORM, Bs telegraph', Press Aos’n, Copyright Received 10.13 p.m., Sept. 12. Sydney, Sept. 12. Nootuiform lashing oat struck his hind leg on the palings of the horsebox, and injured his hook. He will be scratched for to-morrow and the remaining engagements.