TURF TOPICS

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 65, 28 September 1901, Page 19

TURF TOPICS

By Seahorse,

J. McCombe will have the mount on Fulmen in the New Zealand Cup. L. H. Hewitt will have the mount on Palaver

The price paid for Haydn is said to be £225, at which figure, with ordinary luck, he is likely to prove a great bargain.

The Tattler mare, Mustella, formerly owned in the Wairarapa, competed unsuccessfully at Ellershe on Saturday last.

The South Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to license bookmakers at its spring meeting, at a fee of three guineas.

Spalpeen, for whom 750 guineas was said to have been refused, could only get third in the Avondale Stakes last Saturday.

Glenogle and Glenalada'e, Sir Geo. Clifford's pair of Clanranald horses, have been given to mc for the Stewards' Handicap and New Zealand Cup double.

The racehorse Rona, full-sister to Bobadil, died on board the steamer Obra, while returning to Melbourne from India. She was consigned to Mr. Glasscock.

The Porirua 1 epresentatives in the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap are Boreas (a previous winner of the race" 1 Ostiak, Jemima, and Stepma. Weights aie due on October 10th.

Nonette put up a time record for the Avondale Cup (2min Usee. The race has hitherto been run at Avondale, where the best time registered was Record Reign's 2min 12£ sec.

The spring meetings will get going in earnest next week. Wanganui on Tuesday and Wednesday, Masterton on Thursday and Friday, and Hawke's Bay on Saturday and Monday (7th).

Seaton Delaval had a day out at Ellershe last Saturday. The stock of the Melton sire come early His progeny have won the Avondale Stakes and Guineas, the first classic races of the season, two years in succession.

Nonette and four stable companions remain in the Auckland Guineas. Corrick was probably left in by mistake. Canteen and Cure are engaged. The only "foreigner" likely to put in an appearance is Mr. G. G. Stead's San Patricia. The A.J.C. Derby winner, Hautvillers, is in the V.A.T.C. Caulfield Guineas, Toorak Handicap, Caulfield Cup (7st 131b), V.R.C. Derby, Melbourne Cup (7st 121W Spring Stakes, St. Leger, and Caulfield Fifth Futurity Stakes (1902). Jemima, who was engaged in a trial hack race at Wanganui, has been entered for the Stewards' Handicap at Riccarton. Cure, who has an engagement in a hack race at Hastings, has been entered for the weight-for-age events at the C.J.C. November meeting. Miss Abbott, of Otahuhu, rode Tiurne, an inmate of J. B. Williamson's stable, who took part in the Avondale Steeplechase last Saturday, in a working gallop at Ellerslie one morning last week. This young lady is a sister to E. A. Abbott, the well-known Auckland light-weight, and W. G. Abbott, equally prominent in athletic circles. Tiurne is by Foulshot, and half-brother to Strike and Forward Guard.

Though the bookmakers lost heavily over San Fran in tho Sydney Metropolitan, the owner did not win any of their money, as he considered the price too short, and let his horse run for the stake only, which, however, works out to over £2000, and this, with the value of the Spring Stakes, brings San Fran s earnings to be about £1000 more than he could have been bought for a month ago. San Fran was bred by his owner, Mr. J R. Smith, of Tucka Tucka, who is also fortunate in owning Far Nicnte, tho sire of Sequence.

The "yellow jacket, black cap" of tho Yaldhurst stable will not be unfurled in tho New Zealand Cup this year. Mr. Stead is well represented in other handicaps and weight-for-age event*. Royal Artillery, Field Battery, St. Michael, Skobelef., and Cruciform, are in the Stewards' Handicap, Royal Artillery, San Remo, Menschikoff, and Knight Errant in the Canterbury Cup, Menschikoff, Royal Artillery, San Remo, and Knight Errant in the Jubilee Cup, Skobeleff, San Remo, and Cruciform in tho Metropolitan Handicap, and Royal Artillery, San Remo, and San Patricia in the Jockey Club Handicap.

The Avondale meeting will be concluded on Saturday.

The veteran campaigner Claymore, who pulled off the steeplechase on tho second day of the Rangitikei meeting, and returned his suppoiters a good dividend, had not previously won a race for three years, when he scored in the Beaufort Steeplechase at Riccarton.

Grey Seaton, who won the hrst tw o-year-old race of the season, at Ellerslie, on Saturday last, was bred by his owners, and is a halt-brother to the New Zealand Cup candidate Canteen. The Messrs. Nathan also started Northumberland (full-brother to Miss Delavcl), who was bracketed with the winner.

The racing days of that w ell-performed son of Gozo—The Chicf —arc over, and he is to be sent forthwith to his native Tucka Tucka pastures, to be pensioned off for life. His owner, Mr. J. R. Smith, could have sold the old horse, but refused to let him go into other hands to be knocked about from pillar to post.

Mr. W. Rathbone has budt several boxes on his Hampden property, a few miles out of Waipawa, and has his team —consisting of Optimist (Apremont— Flatter), Sheldrake (Gold Reef—Merganser), Fleka (St. Andrew —Flatter), and Apres (Apremont—lnisthona)—in work there. Barshot is also in evidence, hacking work being hi 9 task at present.

The Auckland Racing Club is not satisfied with the way some of the licensed jockeys in that district have behaved during the past season. The following have been granted conditional licenses for thiee months —J. Katterns, W. Satman, E. A. Abbott, S. Lindsay, J. Grahamo, B. Thomas, T. Hall, F. McLennan, F. Speakman, and W. Heap.

The committee of the Takapuna Jockey Club have whitewashed the racehorse Pokomoko by remitting the unexpired term of the disqualification imposed upon him. This action has been endorsed by the A.R.C. committee, and Pokomoko is once more within the fold. Indeed, he has already made his appearance at Ellerslie, and is looking very well, too.

The Hutt-trained candidates, Ringlet, Ocean, and First Light, were each successful at the Rangitikei meeting. Aide-de-Camp let his connections down twice, and Melwood showed in his gallop that he will not be quite cherry ripe before November. He is not engaged in the Stewards' Handicap, run the same clay as the New Zealand Cup, but is in the Metropolitan and Jockey Club Handicaps, on the second and third days of the fixture.

The long-suffering bookmakers had a turn up over the Rangitikei meeting, which, according to their own account, rarely happens to them. It was in tho Maiden Hack Race. A substantial sum of money had been sent up to Auckland from the proper quarter with which to back the St. Leger—Lady Cureton colt, Cure, but the man who had the working of the commission arrived on the scene just late enough to find that the race had been run before he could get to w r ork on the spoliation businesss, and that Cure had won easily.

Dan McLeod, the Auckland pencillei, won a double at the Avondale meeting on Saturday last with Regalia 11. (who is not going to prove a dear purchase after all), and Necklace's daughter, Jewellery, who, earlier in the day, finished out of a place in the Maiden Race. The latter scored in the Maiden Plate, which Mr. McLeod won last year with St. Elyn. Frank Macminamin has a useful string in his care at present, including the above-named pair, also Nonette, Formula, La Gloria, Scottv, Cacehus, Cressy, Haydn, Royal Conqueroi, Well.took, and Kissaline.