Turf Topics

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 October 1900, Page 16

Turf Topics

By Seahorse.

Materoa is racing at Gisborne this week. Blenheim meeting on Monday and Tuesday next. Harry Piper is assisting at the Poverty Bay meeting this week. Nominations for the Wellington Cup close on 31st October. Can Skobeloff continue the successful ruu the Stepnjaks have had of late ? Eosella, Beddington, Lsetitia, and Hastings have arrived back in Auckland. The Carbine horses, George Frederick and War God, should run well at Flemington. W. Crossan intends entering St. Denis, Nihilist, and Proposal at the Hutt Spring meeting. New Zealand Cup, Welcome Stakes, and Stewards' Stakes next Saturday, 3rd 'November. The first of Gipsy Grand's progeny are engaged to run at Riccarton in the Welcome Stakes. After running consistent at Wanganui and Hastings Grusoe deserved his win at Napier Park.' The totalisator turnover at the Dunedin Jockey Club's meeting was .£5134 in excess of last year. At Wellington Park, Bangle (MusketLocket) has produced a full sister to Casket and Binglet. Joe Gallagher will be riding at Riccarton on Cup- Day, and get back to Elkrslie for the three d.iys there. Kenti Bed Ribbon, and Sir Redvers should Score at Blenheim. The best of the local division is Hotu. Two of Malua's progeny finished first and second in the Caulfield Cnp. Will Malatua win at.Ricparton ? Only one first favourite has won the Caulfield Cup in 'twenty years. This was Calma, who succeeded in 1883. Three-year-olds have been most successful ; in the New Zealand Cup. There is nbt 'one' of this'age engaged next week. Malatua and Fulmen have each acted as runner-up in the New Zealand Cup. Will either go one better next month ? Gorrick (Hotchkiss — Queen Cole), who ■is trained at the Hutt, is among the acceptors for the C J.C Welcome Stakes. On his running in the Eclipse Stakes, Kinglike should have run the Caulfield Cup in 2.35. He failed to get a place in 2.36}. . There should be some competition for the yearling brother to Skobeloff, Romanoff and Indian Queen at Christchurch next month. The race, between Blazer, Boreas, Jabber, Goldspur, and Benzoni in the Stewards' Stakes should be worth the trip to Riccarton. In the event of either Record Reign, Dundas, or MalatUa winning the New Zealand Cup, firms of bookmakers may be the biggest winner^. The New Zealand Cup being run on a Saturday this year, local sports will be able to get down on the Friday night and return on the Saturday night. Hastings's win in the Railway Handicap, at Napier Park, was the only one George Wright had during his southern trip, and would ]ust about pay expenses. The stock of Zalinski (Nordenfeldt — Frailty) are shaping well in Australia. Clean Sweep, who won a good handicap at Caulfield, is a half-brother to Blackwood. Ideal will be the Hon. J. D. Ormond's representative m the New Zealand Cup. She is not class enough, but Renown would very likely have won had he been kept in. Previous winners of the C.J.C. Stewards Handicap engaged this year are Boreas, Chasseur, and Benzoin. The late Percy White rode the first two. Can any of the trio score again next week ? Grasspan, on his running at Caulfield, is probably the best two-year-old in Victoria. He is trained by T. Payten, who also scored with Hautain and Lord Rudolph. Grasspan is bj Grafton, sire of Heriot, a two-year-old filly owned by Dan O'Brien.

Dr Bill, Binglet, and Frontier will have twelve months' enforced spell. The well-bred Casablanca (St. LegerBianca) scored a win at Napier Park. The Hon. J. D. Ormond has never won a Canterbury Derby. Will Renown break the spell ? The Wellington Racing Club's book programme for the year is the neatest thing issued this season. A final payment of lOsovs in connection with the New Zealand Cup has to be made on Wednesday next. Although Advance declined his Stewards Stakes engagement, the Porirua stable will be represented by Boreas and Ostiak. Whetu had t*vo soft things in the hurdle races at Napier Park. On the second day he carried 12.0. W. Higgins had the rides. Should Dan OBrien (trainer of Malatua) not come under Rule 142, the same as E. Cutts and R. J. Mason ? The two lastnamed are licensed trainers. " Wager." — Sir Modred raced at the Hutt as°a four-year-old. It was at the Cup meeting won by Hilda. The race he started in was the Railway Stakes, won by Mischief. James Scobie won one race at Caulfield with Clean Sweep. His team for Flemington includes La Carabine, Malster, Paul Pry, The Bride, Militades, Skylark, and the juveniles Altitude, Floradora, and Haut Villiers. Captain Russell's Heiress, the Wellesley Stakes winner, won the Grand Stand Handicap, seven furlonirs, at Napier Park. She is not engaged in the Stewards Handicap at Riccarton, but is in the Oaks and should run well. Although the weather at Napier Park was bad, the totalisator turnover (£9083) was only less than the corresponding meeting last year. Clubs are having a bad time all round, and Blenheim stands postponed indefinitely. Palliser (by Nordenfeldt — Radiance) died recently in the Southland district. He won the Metropolitan Handicap, and afterwards became Murray Hobbs property. He was one of a team taken to Victoria, but did no good. Captain Scott, who married the widow of the late Hon. t James White, won the Leopardstown Grand Prize of 600sovs, in Ireland on 27th August, with the two-year-old colt Ca Ira 11. (Abercorn — Copra), full brother to Cobbitty, Coil, and Cocos. Mongonui (Carbine — Moonga), who paid a good dividend in a hack race at Napier Park, is full sister to Bundook and half-sister to Seahorse. She has done nothing since winning a hack scurry at Masterton, her first attempt as a three-year-old. The Hawkes Bay Jockey Club dealt rather harshly with the local bookmakerowner, R. W. Paterson, in taking the stakes won by his horses Dr. Bill and Ringlet. The Hon. J. D. Ormond and Mr. T. H. Lowry, two of the stewards of the Club, benefitted thereby. Whatever beats Malatua should win the New Zealand Cup. Dan OBrien has not won the race since Tasman got home in the first year (1883). Before then it was the C.J.C. Handicap, aud the rose and black stripes were carried to the front by Tambourine, the owner riding at 9st 91b. Bushman, who scored in the Second Hack Hurdles at Napier Park, is a stable companion of Torpma's and full brother to Vagrant, one of the Gipsy King geld ings Bill Keith took to Australia. Keith has had several trips to Australia with horses. Probably the most useful lot he took over were Tongariro, Soudan, and Co. Musket's progeny have played a prominent part in the decision of the last four Caulfield Guineas. Anruiu, who won in 1896, was gob by Trenton (a son of Musket) ; Bobadil, who scored in the following year, was out of She (a granddaughter of Musket) ; last year's winner, Tremarden, was got by Trenton ; while Kinglike, this year's winner, is by Wallace (a grandson of Musket's). Martin Taylor, the well-known Christchurch sport and greyhound racer, was in Wellington on Saturday last. He informed me that, after the Auckland Cup meeting, he intends taking a trip to San Francisco with some longtails, to race for a big stake there. Martin took Otto Cribb across to Sydney about a year back, and would have made a hat-full of money had he stuck to the Christchurch boy. He has won twenty-two fights, and recently defeated Mick Dunn for the Middleweight Championship. When Otto first arrived in Sydney, he " put them on " with Dunn, and Larry Foley, who saw the " go," advised Martin to take the boy back to Maoriland.