Turf Topics

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 11, 15 September 1900, Page 16

Turf Topics

By Seahorse.

Seahorse is going to Melbourne. None of the Hutt horses are entered at Wanganui. St. Paul has accepted for the Avondale Cup on Saturday. The \\airarapa Cup this year will be run on December 31st. Lochiel's progeny were in evidence at Randwick last Saturday. Fred Barry came up from Christchurch this week on business. First Blood started the season at Timaru by running two thirds. Advance has been engaged in the Wanganui Stakes, run on 4th October. Mr E. Aldworth is president, judge, and a steward of the Marton Jockey Club. Goldspur's weight in the Flying Handicap at Oamaru this week was 11.10. The Otaki Maori Eacing Club will race on Demonstration Day and the following day. The Canterbury Jockey Club has granted F. Demuth a provisional license to train. Skipper was a lucky purchase for Mr Victor Harris. Three wins in as many starts. Melwood was probably left in the Avondale Guineas, to be run on Saturday, by mistake. The Auckland contingent at Wanganui consists of Rosella, Hastings, Laetitia, and Bluejacket. George Hope has accepted the position of trainer to Mr J. Holmes, of Bangor, Canterbury. Zealous and Eattler, full sister and brother to Seahorse, are engaged at Avondale on Saturday. Ngatihuia is not to be put to the jumping business yet, and is engaged in the hack flat races at Wanganui. The Canterbury Jockey Club voted W. Naylor £10 from the Jockey's Provident Fund, and £1 Is medical expenses. On the first day of the Marton meeting £2924 was put through the totalizator, which is £15 more than last year. The Hotchkiss — Queen Cole colt, trained at the Hutt, has been left in the Avondale Stakes, but is not likely to start. The General (St. Hippo — First Love), engaged in the Avondale Stakes, is a half-brother to last year's winner, Lady Avon. The St. George horse Merrie England got a good advertisement at the Marton meeting, where his son, Merry Boy, won three races. Messrs Duder Bros have retired Waterloo (Cuirassier — Hune), three-year-old brother to Drum Major and The Doctor, to the stud. The application of L. H. Hewitt for a jockey's license was held over by the C.J.C. committee at a meeting last Tuesday, but he rode on the following day at Timaru, and won. Lancaster scored at Eandwick in good style on Saturday last. He started an even-money favouiite in a field of fifteen. He is likely to see a short price in the Melbourne Cup. The Porirua stable is represented at the Wanganui meeting by Gobo, Boreas, Advance, Tortulla, Ngatihuia, and Fashion. With the exception of Boreas they are all in great buckle. Scotty is not engaged in the Avondale Stakes on Saturday, but Frank McMenamin has a strong hand without him, viz., Jewellery (St. Leger— Necklace), Kissaline (Hotchkiss— Brown Alice), and Chantiily (Seaton Delaval — Claiente). Mrs D. G. Eiddiford presented Mr H. Jackson with .a handsome silver cup, donated by Mr S. Gibbons to the owner ot the winner of the Rangitikei Hunt Club Cup. Mr L. Cohen, one of the stewards, made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion. T. Quinlivan has engaged C. Jenkins to ride Mr Watt's horses in their classic engagements this season. The registered owner of the blue and white banner will not be on hand to withess the performances of his string at the Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Napier Park, or C.J.C. meetinss, for he does not intend to return to New Zealand before the end of the year.

Mr W. H. Hartgill has been appointed judge to the Pahiatua Racing Club. The first two-year-old race of the season will be run at Avondale on Saturday. Sir Lancelot's half-sister by Apre- ' mont, Mount Ida, produced a filly to The Officer at Karamu last week. Whitirea and Lady's Link, two of the inmates of Jones's quarters at Hastings, were last week responsible for several good gallops. Laetitia or Zealous should win the Avondale Cup on Saturday. If St. Paul succeeds it will be the fourth time he has won the event. E. Connop has relinquished the control of Barbarossa, and Morag's relative has been returned to his owner, Mr Loughnan, of Palmerston North. The Poverty Bay Turf Club have obtained the services of Hany Piper as starter for their Spring Meeting, which takes place on the 25th and 26th of next month. Straybird is such an improved horse that he ought to win the Steeplechase at Avondale on Saturday. In fact, if he has not too much taken out of him in the Hurdles he should nearly win the double. Variety, one of Mr Watt's brood mares, is booked to visit Torpedo this season, and Fleetwing, dam of Straybird, the pioperty of T. Quinlivan, jun., will also be mated with the Te Mahanga stallion. Scottish Minstrel and Cannie Chiel are the only South Island horses engaged at Wanganui. The last named is going up for the Guineas. Nobility and Beddington aie also likely starters, and these three should fill the places. Eelatives of Survivor and Merman (a couple of colonial-bred horses at piesent located in England) in Keviver (Clan Stuait — Melissa) and lodine (Autonomy — Seaweed) were each leturned winneis at the Eosehill (N.S.W.) meeting held recently. The following foalings are announced from Mr Leonard Marshall's stud : — Chic, by Howitzer — Fair Lillian, colt to Cyrenian ; Minda, by Cuiiassier — Bianca, colt to Cyrenian ; Lady Hamilton, by King Cole — My Idea, filly to Captain Webb. The alterations made in the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's programme for the season show an increase of £20 in the spring, £57 10s in the summer, £111 5s in the autumn, and £154 10s in the wintei meeting, a total increase of £343 5s over last season. The Turk, who returned six supporters £48 15s each at the Marton meeting, ran in the name of Mr Edgar Galpin, who is out in the Transvaal with the New Zealand Contingents. The win was extremely popular, and the owner was given three hearty cheers. G. Wrights stable may pay following at Ellerslie on Satuiday. He has engaged Eosella and Laetitia in the Cup, Liquidator in the Stakes, Beddington in the Guineas, Hastings in the Flying, Ambition in the Hack Handicap, and St. Amy in the Maiden Plate. First Foot has not been added to the lists, for although preparations were made for the operation, it cannot be performed, for a time at least. His companion in the paddock, the Gold Reef — Seal Brown youngster, half-brother to Bradford, has been emasculated. At the meeting of the committee of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club last week Mr Donnelly moved that the gate entiance fee be reduced from 2s to Is, but it being pointed out that the present charge was as low as at any metropolitan meeting, he withdrew the motion. Sara (by Saracen, three years old) won one race at Timaru and ran second in another. Saracen is now in the Gisborne district, and has the best written advertisement I have seen this season. It is probably the woik of his late owner, Mr J. 0. Haywood, of Greytown North. Coeur de Lion appears among the entries for the Wanganui meeting. After his return from the Grand National meeting it was intended that he should be treated to a rest from racing, the idea being to run him with some of his owner's mares. This plan has evidently been altered, for Leonora's son is in evidence on the Hastings tiacks again. The Marton meeting appears to keep up its reputation for big dividends. An exchange says. — "At the Club's meeting held on September 6th and 7th, 1899, some sensationul dividends were paid out, notably, £88 10s on Waiwera in the Handicap Hurdle Race on the nrst day, £25 13s on Egmont in the Ladies' Bracelet, and £42 3s on Menaderva in the Hack Steeplechase. There were six investors on Menaderva, and the same number on Waiwera. Altogether theie were 124 starteis in the two day's racing, and had an investor played ' Chinaman ' — investing £1 on every horse competing during the meeting — he would have cleaied the nice little total of £100 18s the total dividends paid out during the two days amounting to £224 18s. At the meeting just concluded, the largest dividends returned were — In the Trial Steeplechase, The Turk, £48 15s ; in the Bracelet, £25 13s, exactly the same dividend as was leturned in the Bracelet last year ; Purimu, in the Final Welter, £28 135."