Ture Topics The New Zealand Cup.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 70, 2 November 1901, Page 19

Ture Topics

The New Zealand Cup.

By SiJverspur.

llu >.»\v Zealand Cup has been engaging a coiividoiahh amount of attention in -p«i tins cntk's latch but as usual opinions «uv \et\ divided. Battleaxe who heads the list, IS a mucli btttei hoise than Ins stable-mate Okoaii who showed such good foim in Hawkes B.\\ n-centh and, aceoiding to liunoui, he has been backed b\ his connections Fulmen is leckonod a bettci hoi so than the othci Punedin candidate, Canteen while Pampero is supposed to be off-colour. He would piove a better annual than either were Jewell. Of Toitulla and Ideal. I pretei Piossers chaige who will make a big showing Of that lam quite satisfied Certaanh hoi weight will not tiouble her Palavei is \ei\ well treated with 7st 91b to cam and', as she has a male and a, half iace to her ciedit and is related to pio\od staveis, she must be very handy at the finish In fact Ido not know what is likely to beat hei Ut course there aie no champions in the ciowd the field is rather mediocre, and such being the case the Hawkes Bay mare has as good a show as any Ido not think Strathnairn will be equal to -the task and the same may be said of the two Welbngt on horses, Fashion and Melwood. Botli have won latterly, it is tiue and the former is full-brother to that bulhant maie T>udu but it does not seem likely that he will emulate her performances. Kahuwai is m fine fix, and the win of Mr Donnelly would be decidedly popular but I am afraid that the two miles will find hw out A horse I did fancy some time ago— Sinus— has not been performing up to expectations but he may be all right on the day, and it he is m a galloping mood he will account for moie than will beat him If Mihtarv gets home he will surprise a lot of people and so would Glenaladale, who carries Sir George Clifford's colours "Dun Fliin, in the same stable w ould be a 'better horse to back, but he has al-w-a\s been hampered by an infirmity, and Cutts has had a deal of trouble with him in conseouence Mr Oimond thinks Idea] has onh a fair chance she is not as well as «he was this time last year and "Will-o'-the-Wisp does not look am too bright on paper I think the i e^ult w ill be — P\IA\ER Fllmfv B \TTLE\\E * * * The Ponrua horse Ostiak is allowed to be well m the Stewards' Handicap with Bst 121 band I believe he will win. His mo^t hkeh opponents will piobablv prove to be Goldspur and St Denis In the C.J (' Welcome Stakes the Seaton Dela\ al colt Ponrua should show his superiority Oi loft and Golden Vein brine the likely place-getters. Mr Stead will, no doubt, elect to win the Derby with Mensehikoft and the Oaks with Cinciform

Medallion's &on Cameo is under a cloud and this accounts for Ins defection from the New Zealand Cup He had been well backed too The one-tune tiam-hoise Goldspur is o-oing great guns in his woik, and will be decidedly hard to beat in the Stew aids' Handicap at Chnstchiuch The colt by St Simon— Moonga, located at the' One Tiee Hill stud Auckland, is said to be a veiy fine one He is half-brothei to Seahoise sent to Kngland recenth The well-know n tiainei And\ Robertson, who had that good maic Meigansei in hi<3 charge when she scoied all hei races has left the race tiack foi hotelkeeping He is now at Otalmhu Theie is a general consensus ot opinion that San Patricia Mi Stead's repiesentatne in the Auckland Guineas will down Nonette in that event She beat him at the Hutt as a two-"* ear-old \Heeecl that no feu 01 than fom S\ dne\ trotteis are lacing m New Zealand under names that they used not to beai but so far th<?\ have not been found nut " It onh leniains for somebody to gn c the show aw ay " and something partieularh strong will come to light So long as those concerned with them pieserve amicable relations however nothing of this sort is likely to be heard of.

Ladas. with t'23 9<)B to Ins uedit, is leading in the list of stallions tor Kngland Mi Khv Mo<-s was asked to place a puce on C antcen loconth but letused to do so Bcale\ is fa aid to be \ei\ umeliable, but .is she is possessed of speed she may account toi <i iace at C hiistchuich Single Stick II imported b\ the GovemiiuMit toi the puipose ot {letting remounts foi the anm, has just been take n up to the Waikato The tiamei of Kahuwai thinks shejias a (rood outside chance m the New Zealand Cup. The maie is well and lias been putting m some good gallops Mi G G Stead appears to once again ha\e a mortgage o\ei the (' J C Derby and Oaks His lepieseutatn es a,ie hist-class but what dn ulends will they pa% ? The gloat i aihinc «<is <■<•> c n toon th on the list of winning sires when the last boat left England Theie werp soion winneis in his winning list, with a total of £3(>Bf> The Austiahan-bred Merman b\ Grand Flaneur- -Seaweed is now doing dut\ at a fee of 100 guineas at the Cobham stud He is repoited to be looking wonderfully well. Mr C L Mackoiso\ has paited with Daitmooi whom he only owned a fortnight Ho could not stand the hoi so after he lace-d at Napier Paik and decided to part w ith him A populai stallion is piohtable property in England For the use ot the Kings two stallions Peisimmon and Flonzel II . €14,000 has been paid in foos this \oar by owners of mares Mi. H. C. White, of New South Wales, who has won a goodly number of laces on the English turf by the aid of several hoi ses, has sent two yearlings, a colt and a filly, to cain> silk in the Old Counti\. The\ are bred to English time The Ponrua maie Tortulla ought to win a race before she leaves Christchurch She is \ery well, and her Wanganui perfoimance, when she ran third, must not be taken into account, as she had a big weight in 9st 9lb to carry to the front Tattersall Adams will do just as much business at Hobart bv getting subscribers to forward then money to him thiough the bank as heietofore The object of the Federal Postal Bill will, of com so, be defeated, but theie are more wav; than one of dining a carnage and pan through the Act. Related of a well-known hoise owner, who is leputed to be not over liberal in Ins dealings with those under him, that on a lecent occasion when he made a big pot," he promised the juvenile who lode the animal something handsome The paients of the lad who had been apptLsed of the fact, natuiallv expected something big in the way of a threefiguie cheque but nothing of that kind happened then way The lad was presented w ith a cheap seven and sixpenm vatch, and he was so pleased with it that he sent it home to his little biother to play w ith Why should the Auckland Racing Club ask the Hon. G. McLean, of the Dunedin Jockey Club, to lepresent them at the next Racing Confeience? Cannot they send a man down to lepresent then views 0 Mi Frank Law rv MHR, would be a good man, and he will be in Wellington at session tune when Parliament sits So will Mr Homes also a member of the House When the last Confeience sat nearly all the Hon Georgc-'s motions and amendments were knocked out, and he stated with much warmth that it was a case of North against the South, and always had been He said the same a veai prc\ iousK The action of the Auckland Club m the encumstances is inexplicable Mi Whitmn the Saiatoga (United States, Ameiica) sportsman has a gieat legaid toi S\dne-\ Paget's nding and the othei &a\ his whim cost him lathei deaih Paget it might be explained is a gentleman ndei, and is not beloved b\ some ot the sporting genti\ Theie was a race confined to gentleman nders, and Mi \\ hitnev bought a horse expiessK toi the iace, pacing Traanei T Heale\ 3000 dollais foi it with the promise that he w ould sell it back to him toi 2000 dollais The lacouas worth onh 470 dollais to the w innei but Mr Wlutne\ had the satisfaction of seeing Sid Pa^et got home b\ a neck e\ en it his \ictoi\ was somewhat costh Untoitunateh his losses did not ondthoie toi it was a selling event and owners of othei horses m the iace who wore not e(|uall\ m low with Paget's ruling <r,i(-hpi<v] round the judge's box aft pi the iace and piocoeded to uin the horso up knowing that tho\ had Mr Whitno-\ in a tight place about i etui nine: him to Hoalev The hor^o was entered foi l"i 00 dollars and the ow noi of the second and his fnends made him <u> to 4100 dollars bofoie the^ would let him off It cost him theiofoie 4000 dollars in all foi his partiality to Pagot's ioeko-\ ship.