TURE TOPICS

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 September 1900, Page 16

TURE TOPICS

By Seahorse.

Tire has been turned out. South Australian Derby run on Monday. Blazer is doing satisfactory work at Wingatui. Eecord Eeign went home on Wednesday last. Epsom Handicap and A.J.C. Derby run next Saturday. Pipi and Ejector are engaged in the Hurd c races at Timaru. Mr Wilfred Stead is said to be a much improved horseman. Denny Morrigan took Deadbeat back to Auckland with him. Auckland Racing Club raised Secretaiy Peicival's salary to £500. Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting opens next Saturday. Marton and South Canterbury Meetings on Wednesday and Thursday next. St. Paul has 9st 121b to carry in the Avondale Cup. Two years back he won with lOst 81b up. Major George regrets he did not nominate Zealous (Seahorse's sister) for the C.J.C. Oaks. Glenloth the Melbourne Cup winner of 1892, was sold in Melbourne recently for sixty-five guineas, Medallius (by Medallion) was sold at Christchurch for 17 guineas, and has joined M. Mnher's Gisborne team. Mr Baldwin made a present of the hunter Glenogie to Mr Gray and he has gone into Murray Ansley's stable. No horse has yet won the Grand National Hurdles and New Zealand Cup. Will Eecord Rekn put up another record ? Dave Chapman has appealed to the Wangnnui Jockey Club against the decision of the Feilding Jockey Club in the FamousVibration case. After the purchase of La Carabine by Sir Bupert Clarke, the daughter of Carbine was backed for the Melbourne Cup to win £3000 at 100 to 4. Dr. Cleghorn has had enough of Marlborough. When he returns from England, where he is at present on a holiday visit, he intends settling in Napier. If Record Reign can run two miles and jump eight hurdles with 12st 121b on his back in 3min 46$secs, in what time could he run two miles on the ft&i with Bst 111b up? Dave Price, the well-known trotting horseman, was married on Tuesday of last week. He drove two winners at the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting on the following Friday. Takapuna (St. Hippo- Anna), who was engaged in the New Zealand Cup, and has been kept in the Derby, has been entered at the Marton meeting. lam of opinion he is not elegible to start. Sir Rupert Clarke made a splendid purchase when he bought La Carabine for 1200 guineas, for within a few hours he was offered a thousand guineas profit on his bargain. As the bait was refused, it is safe to assume that La Carabine will remain in Australia. Plain Bill, who was unable to start at the C.J.C. Grand National meeting, will, all going well with him, compete at the next Kangitikei meeting, and it is then intended to race the son of Flintlock at Wangamii and Auckland, and if the horse stands up to his work, he will have a try to win next year's V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase. When the last mail left England it had been determined not to let the Grand Flaneur horse Merman race any more, and arrangements were made for him to stand next season at Fox Hill. Report said that the fee would be 100 guineas. Had he remained in Australia it would probably have been difficult to dispose of his services at a tenth of that figure. That well-bred colt Lancaster, by Hotchkiss — Frailty, who has been backed for both the Cups, and was the first horse well supported for the Melbourne Cup, scored a win at Caulfield on 11th August in the Malakoff Stakes, 11 furlongs. The favourite was Ingliston, who was being hailed as the winner^ when Lancaster put in a good run and accounted for him by a neck. Wait-a-Bit and Ballistite were among the starters. Owing to his success, Lancaster's price for the A.J.C. handicaps has been shortened very considerably.

W. Clarke -will ride Kecord Keign in the New Zealand Cup. W. Brown is riding Malatua in his work and will have the mount in the New Zealand Cup. R. Derritfc occasionally rides St. Ilario in his work at Biecirton, and will ride Mr Stead's colt in the New Zealand Cup. Multiform returned from England on the 22nd August, and Screw Gun left for the Old Conntry in the same box four days later. Innocence, who ran second to The Grafter in the City and Suburban Handicap, was sold at auction in England last month for 3100 guineas. The brothers Reiff were again to the fore on the first day of the Brighton meeting, the Americans riding, between them, the winners of five of the se^en events on the card. The racehorse Roberta injured himself so badly in the Broken Hill Forced Handicap on Bth August that it was deemed advisable to destroy him. He was by Eobert the Devil. The Derby colt Dorchester (late Chesilton), by Bill of Portland — Wood Nymph, met with a serious accident to one of his knees a few days ago while working at Eandwick, which may prevent him from ever racing. After a lapse of two or three years Sir Eupert Clarkes colours were earned for the first time in Victoria on Bth August in the Findon Harriers' Khaki Ha.idicap by Metallic at Moonee Valley. Unfortunately for Sir Eupert, Metallic broke down. A trio of Major George's youngsters were spurted in company over three furlongs at Ellerslie recently. The youngsters engaged were Shellback (by Nelson — Hestia), Battler (by Nelson— Moonga), and St. Margarette (by Nelson — Sister — Agnes). Battler showed to most advantage. The following is a list of the mares to be put to Cyrenian this season : — Waiorongomai, Lottie, Moonga, Hestia, The Maid, Temptation, Mantilla, Waiongonora, Brooklet, Primula, Fair Nell, Tireuse, Lady Hamilton, Iphimede, Woodbine, Anniversary, Parera, Puwerewere, Missfit, Impregnable, Falconet, Chiara, Windmill, Matahanui, Welcome, Silk, Hinemoa, Pit-a-pat, Izma, Mano'a, Chic, Cuirassier — Woodbine mare, Nelson — Sister Agnes mare. Whether Le Var incurs a penalty or not P. Bolger intends to take the son of Lochiel to Victoria after the goldfields meetings. In reference to Mural, though he is engaged in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, it is by no means certain that he will leave Westralia until after the New Year. The big son of Carbine may win one of tht chief races on the goldfields, and his owner, Mr Ogborne, is of the opinion that Mr Frank Dakin has given him half a stone too much in the Melbourne Cup. Two years in succession Caulfield G.N. Steeplechase has gone to a grey, with top weight on its back. Domino last year and Chelsea this. Again the question : Why is it that the colour rarely comes to the front on the flat, but gets more than an average proportion of success in jumping races ? Because, with the exceptions that prove the rule, it is slow but sure. One of the exceptions, Eeaper, won a seven-furlong race at Caulfield the other Saturday and, may be heard of in the Cups anon. The Grand National Hurdle Race in Adelaide on 11th August fell an easy prey to the well performed G'Naroo horse Ebb, who is an inmate of C. Quinns stable. Evidently the race was little better than an ordinary hurdle race. Stuart King, who won the Fulham Park Plate for two-year-olds, is by Georgic's sire, Clan Stuart, from Regina, by Forest King from Ghinni Ghinni, by Barbarian (son of Hercules), and was bred in New South Wales and sold as a yearling at Bandwick for 50 guineas. The colt is very speedy, and likely to have a profitable season. " My word," remarked P. Johnston, after he had ridden The Friar in the Lincoln Steeplechase on the third day of the meeting, in which the son of Hiko pulled up very sore, " we were not ciawling to-day, I assure you. I knew my hoise would jump, and I took them at their fences just as fast as The Friar could gallop. The result was that The Guard, Morag, and Kauri Gum fell, but Straybird got away from me after we jumped the Kennels double, and the remainder of the journey The Friar finished on three legs, and it is little wonder that he strnck the sod wall and post and rails. If my horse had not broken down, you would have seen an interesting finish." Mr W. H. Hartgill, who filled the judge's box at Riccarton last week, gave several decisions as to the relative distances between the placed hoijses which surprised pressmen, and in the Splwyn Handicap he placed Sir Launcelot thud, whereas from the press stand he appeared to finish in fifth position. Pressmen usually accept the judge's decisions as to distances as they do other official verdicts, but probably in nine cases out of ten their own opinion is not far astray. When the meeting had nearly concluded, Mr Hartgill's attention was called to the distances given by him, and he admitted that he had made a mistake in entering up a verdict in the official book.