Turf Topic

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 63, 14 September 1901, Page 19

Turf Topic

By Seahorse.

Pampeio <md Ideal aic equal favouiltos for the New Zealand Cup at 8 to 1. West Guard was taken up recently, after a spe.ll, and looks well on it. Besides the useful pair of Vanguard mares, A Shearsbv will ha\o Mooishaum, who competed at Marton, and others in hand at Wanganui The Austiahan-bied Gossoon — Windmill two-year-old colt Spalpeen, trained b\ J B Williamson, at Ellersho, lias been showing good form on the t.iack Mi Leonard Marshall is said to ha,\o been offered 700 guinea* for the youngs! or At the Birchwood (Southland) Hunt Club meeting last week Typhoon (Natator- Hippona), half-brother to Boreas, won the Maiden Hurdle Race and Hunt Club Cup So far the Sou'westoi gelding has not been started in a jumping race He has a nice lot of schooling mate« at Porirua There was some splendid racing, in fine weather, at Randwick. Two time, rocoids were broken, by Hautvillers (2min 37 \ sec) in the Derby, and by Sequence (lmin 38 3-oscc) in the Epsom The aged Whakauatoa demonstrated that lie is still able to show a clean pair of heels to the best of the sprinters Pie got close to Trieste's seven furlong record — lmin 27sec. Harry Moore's Australian trip has not been a lucky one. His Record Reign ride was. unsuccessful, and during his stay at Sydney he has received a couple of falls. After fulfilling his engagement to ride Kaimate at the A.J.C meeting this week he returns to Auckland, and expects to be at Ellershe for the opening of the Avondale meeting on the 21st instant Haymaker, who ran third in the Manbyrnong Plate last season, won the Three and Four Year Old Handicap at Flemington last month. He ran seven furlongs in lmin 30^sec, and beat a good field Haymaker, who is owned and trained by Mr M. P. Whitty, is by Cardinal (son of Newminster) from the English-bred mare Harvest Lass, by Haivester, from Berley (dam of Malfcstci), by Barcaldine from Lonely, by Hermit,' and is engaged in the Victoria Dei by and the Melbourne Cup (bst 131b)." Sunrise, a son of Robinson Crusoe horn Sunshine, and therefoie a fullbrother to Sextant, a hoise that Mr. D. OBrien had carrying his racing livery some years back in New Zealand, is a piolific begetter of winners. Unfortunately his stock have to do a lot of racing for the stakes they earn, and their value must be of small amount, for last season in the adjoining colonies Sunrise had 28 wins to his credit while the total amount won by the efforts or his progeny only mounts up to ±-3/J4. In. the list* of 227 salhons whose offspring proved victonous last season in the sister colonies, there are only two sires whose descendants won more events than Sunnse's productions They were Lochiel (40) and Gozo (30). The stakes won by the New Zealand born salhons stock amounted to £12,6b8 os 4d Gozo]& lepresentatives securing £10,892 bs lOd By the last mail from England Mr. P. H Morton received advices fiom Mr H C White in reference to the purchase of the stallion Vendetta for the Russley stud Mr. White, who made the purchase writes to the e fleet that the son of Orme is not only a goodlooking horse, but also shows a lot of charactei, while his dam Nemesis is a particulaily fine-looking mare \ endetta is a brown and takes more aftoi Galopin in colour but he has t.lie stiaight forelegs and up light pastoins that are characteristic of all Orme b stock Mr White was just in time to secure Vendetta for the Russley stud, inasmuch as an American was after the horv\ but Mr White had wired an offer which was accepted before the trans-Atlantic purchaser had time to inspect the animal. The best two \earhngs out in England this season are bv Oime, and the young stock of St Gatien are bringing pnees in America tanging from 2000 to 3000 guineas Vendetta is now on the voyage out in the steamship Sophocles, accompanied b\ the St Simon hoi so Louis XIII whom Mi White has purchased for the Hn\ilah stud and the Lochiel mare Old Clo' who has this season been mated with the Trenton horse Aurum The trio aie undoi the care of H J Cnpps who took Clean Sweep to England „„<] should ,irn\e in S\ dnev on the 23id instant.

At the monthly meeting of tho Hawke's Bay Jockey Club stewards last week 48 trainers' licensee and 38 jockeys' licenses were granted It was stated that Haydn was to be spelled, but his name appears among tho jumping candidates at Wanganui , also the Ponrua pair Gobo and The Guard. Mr A. L D. Fraser has bestowed the name of Kiwa on the three-year-old gelding by Captain Webb — Fair Nell. Kiwa is in training at Hastings, and will probably sport silk next month. Tho New Zealand and Auckland Cups are each worth 1500sovs. The Riccarton winner receives 1200sovs, while at Ellershe the second and third horses receive 2oosovs and loOsovs respectively The Cup candidates Melwood, Fashion, and Tortulla will probably be seen out at the Wanganui meeting next month Mr. Watt has engaged St. Mark, Cure, and Indian Queen, but Palaver's name is missing. Jadoo's three-year-old half-sister by Captain Webb, owned by Mr. Stanley, lias been christened Wainuueio One of her stable chums, the two-yeai-old gelding by Captain Webb- -Hine-nui te Po, has been called Bounce Jemima, who has been supported in doubles for the C J C. Stewards Handicap, at Riccarton, is engaged in hack events at Wanganui She may not start in the Stewards, nominations for which event are not yet closed Fied Davis, the Napiei horseman, who bears the Hon J I) Ormond's "cerise" jacket, has had a seveie bout of influenza, but is getting all right again, and will be seen out at Hastings next month The Squire of Kaiamu has not patronised the Wanganui Jockey Club. Mr R Smith, who has filed the position of president of the Pahiatua Jockey Club for about nine years, recently resigned his stewardship The resignation was accepted with regret, and, in consideration of the services he had rendered to the club, he was elected a life member. Taking a hint from the chairman of the Racing Conference, the Dunedm Jockey Club has decided to pay stakes in full There has been a general increase in stakes all round Some of the owners — especially the battlers — would apreciate a decrease in tho amount of nomination and acceptance money. The following foalings have taken place at Mangatarata during the past week — Fair Nell (Apiemont — Idalia), a colt to Cyrenian (the St. Simon stallion, owned bv the Auckland sportsman Mr. Maishall), Kie Kie (Lord of the Isles-— Toi), a colt to The Possible. Fair Nell and Kie Kie will be included in The Possible's harem this season The Australian Jockey Club recently increased the salary of their handicapper (Mr John Daly) by £100 a veai Some clubs in this colony aie inclined to be mean with the most lesponsible of officials They cannot appieciate a good man when they have one One club on the Westrahan goldne'ds, where tho spott is comparatively in its infancy, pays its handicapper £500 a year. Eland (St. Leger — Antelope), a two-vear-old of Mr Geoige Huntei's in Gooseman's establishment, is skipping along extra well in her essays She has the reputation of easily holding, from a time point, all the rest of the youngsters that have been seen out so far on the Hastings track It will be noticed that she is a full-sistei to that good performer Blue Jacket Tho pick of the two-year-olds at Flemington is the young Bill of Portland — She colt, Billah, a full-brother to Bobadil. Billah somewhat resembles his illustrious relative, and his action when extended is such as to show that he w ill be able to gallop somew hat faster than the average His stable mate, Mai io, though promising, is hardly as. good as Billah, whose mission is the Manbyrnong Plate At the Amberley Steeplechase meeting la&t week Melwood was backed for 11000, at hundreds to o and b. If iuiv of the light-weighted foui -year-olds aie to attract Mr. Hartgill's attention on the first Saturday in No\ ember it will piobably be Glenaladale, Formula, or Fashion. Ladybird (Carbineer — Winnie), dam of Melwood, was best known as a performer over hurdles, at which business all of Winnie's progeny have proved themselves great stayers. Francis Kuhn, whose jockey's license was held over by the A J C. until opportunity offered to give him some friendly advice, was reinstated last month. He scored a double at Randwick last Saturday. To get a first favourite home in such a big field as the Epsom Handicap shows that he uses his head, and is able to take care of himself The Victorian R Lewis, whose riding some Melbourne scribes have le(ontlv ad\eisely criticised won the Derby for the second yeai in succession, and acted as runner up in the ftpsom