Turf Topic

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 February 1901, Page 21

Turf Topic

The disqualification of Mr. R. W. Paterson expires on April 9th. Dr. Cleghorn has been elected a member of the flawke's Bay Jockey Club. The summer meeting of the Hawke'b Bay Jockey Club resulted in a profit ol £353. Blazer is to be reserved for the Champion Plate, run at Riccarton on Saturday. Lochiel's progeny won over £8000 m Australia during the first half of the present season. The Takapuna meeting will be continued on Saturday, and concluded on Wednesday next. Ringlet's yearling brother has been unsexefd. He will be raced under the name of Rmgman. The Hon. Jas. Carroll supported Enterprise, a 7 to 1 chance, who won a steeplechase at Cauliield. The Hutt-trained horses Melwood and Fashion appear among the entries for the Auckland Easter Handicap. The best price on offer in Melbourne on Saturday^last about Advance for the Newmarket Handicap was ten to one. Dan OBrien has evidently tired of New Zealand jockeys, and has engaged a Sydney horseman named Harry Cook. The entries for the Hawke s Bay Cup are about the poorest the club has ever Sceived The race is now worth only £250 to the winner. scribes worked out the Midmake the acceptance. The lumping mare Venice, who was a tew weeks back shaped trom fc Wellington to Sydney, has gone into the same stable as Korowai. Knight Errant (St. Leger-Forma)is Auckland autumn meeting. The Napier Park Racing Club has room and secretary's omce. The Welhngton Racing Club k*t £2^7 over the Zealandia Plate. »ut 1 There were no less than five double ~^ofr^\hrtS.yr old Queen's Signal ifiL Andrew-Wai-maraiaTshould be heard ot again. With Advance and Boreas out the out litleason was deteated by screw Porirua beach wouldimake a new horse ot him. * Shearsby went SoTith on Friday last with Fashion, West Guard, and Aprile. The latter has not Btarted, but may be gxven a run in the Post and Telegraph Stakes. She is also engaged in the Hack Handicap at Wanganui. Advance and Seahorse have never met in New Zealand, and they do not appear likely to come together in Australia, as Seahorse has been withdrawn from the Australian Cup, and will probably be seen out at Ellerslie tlus autumn. The Hon. J. D. Ormond does not intend that Renown shall spend his days in idleness. He has been entered for the C.J.C. Easter and Autumn Handicap. When the colt was withdrawn from the New Zealand Cup, the reason given was because his owner intended keeping him for w.f.a. events. Fred Gentry, formerly a well-known Blenheim rider and trainer, is said to be returning from Australia shortly, where he has been for several years past. Gentry was for some time with Percy Martin, at Caulfield. As the song says, "they all come back, they cannot stay away." C. Rudings is, however, an exception. The last of Rosalind's progeny, a two-year-old colt by Westmere, appropriately named Rosemere, has been purchased by a Christchurch man, and will be prepared at Riccarton. Rosalind reared seventeen foals in twenty years. Probably the best of them were Black Rose, Redwood, and Royal Rose.

Advance promises to be one of the heaviest-backed horses ifor the Newmarket Handicap for several years past. He is backed for £10,000 in Melbourne, probably the stable commission; £7000 m Sydney, and, more recently for £1500 at ten to one. It is probable that a party of Maorilanders will make the trip to the V.R.C. and A.J.C. meetings to see him perform. The disappointing Art Jewel is to be tried over hurdles, and his name appears among the maiden jumpers, at Pahiatua. Among the entrants is a horse called Moody, who may, like his namesake, develop into a Grand National winner. Moody, and his halfbrother Sankey, brought the Hobbs Brothers into prominence as trainers and jockeys. At the midsummer meeting of the C.J.C. this week the prices for admission were reduced to 5s for gentlemen and ladies free. The prices of admission to racecourse enclosures are altogether too high, especially where there is three or four days a week and a man takes his wife and family. Half a crown for ladies and double that amount for men is quite enough to pay to get inside. Boreas and Advance were shipped to Sydney on Saturday last. They will compete in handicap and weight for age races at Flemington and Randwick. J. McTaggart, who rode Boreas into second place when Tortulla won the Wairarapa Cu~ and Tortulla into second place when Boreas won the ZeaJandia Plate, will have charge of the Porirua horses during J. Prosser's absence. C. Jenkins, who accompanied the horses to ride them in their work, and J. Prosser, are making their first trip to Australia. Sumcient attendants have been taken to have the horses carefully looked after by night and day. The postponed meeting of the Takapuna Jockey Club, held on Saturday last, showed a falling off of slightly over £1000 in the totalisator returns compared with last year. The first two winners were bred, and are owned, by Messrs. Buder, the North Shore sportsmen. Volee, who scored in the Maiden, is a full-sister to Cuirasette and Cuirass, a promising colt, who met with fatal injuries at Avondale. Hikipene (St. Hippo — Anna), who pulled off the Calliope Handicap, is a fullsister to Takapuna. Orange and Blue and Lady Avon, who finished in front in the Pony Race are two of Soult's progeny. The stock sired by the St. Simon horse are on the small side, but prove their usefulness in the galloway ranks. Orange and Blue is the first of the stock of Rose and White (Nordenfeldt — Rosarina). A couple of the fields were smaller than generally seen at Takapuna. After Blazer won the Railway Handicap at the Hutt, for which Advance accepted, but did not start, friends of the Southern horse stated that the Porirua champion would not take them on at the distance. Both horses were engaged in the Champion Stakes, run over seven furlongs, at Riccarton, their respective weights being Advance lOst, Blazer 9st 81b. Had Advance not gone to Australia they would probably have met. Last season Renown beat Blazer in the race, and a gentleman who should know what he is talking about informs me that Advance is a better horse than Renown. It should also be borne in mind that in withdrawing Advance at the Hutt the Porirua stable had the Australian trip in view, and the Railway Handicap at the Hutt carried a 71b penalty in the Newmarket. The Porirua stable have good trying cattle in Ostiak and Boreas for sprint courses. If ever Blazer and Advance meet I am quite prepared to see the Porirua horse assert his superiority at six furlongs and over that distance.