NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Vladimir is srtill working at Win-gar tui. J. Chevally will m future ride Emir. Paritutu is still favorite for theN.Z. Cup. W. Davies djd not take Lajidwern [to the Marton meeting. The Epsom Handicap will be decided on Saturday, 29. The N.Z. marc Miss King is back again at Rand wick and training on nicely. • Scot Free is doing splendid work at ftar.ihyick and good judges tip him^to witi oi:c of I4i¥ QMS- .

The steeplechaser Up-to-date is being spelled at Bacchus Marsh.

Narcissus will be a competitor m the Steeplechases at the Bulls raeet-

fcoriet, m W. IKraft's stalble at-Bulla is being tfried at the jumping "business.

Emir is to he given another chance to distinguish himself at the A. J.C. meeting.

The double Antonius and Scoii.Fwe* has been backed for £7000 for ithe* two Cups. '"

Czarovitoh is favorite for the Caulfield Cup and Scot Free for the Melbourne Cup.

Happy Valley (full sister to Ailsa), owned by Mr G. G. Stead, has foaled a colt to Multiform.--

Hokio will' m future be trained byC. Birkett at Waverley, as tbe Adding has been purchased by Mr E. Borlase.

Owing to the successful passing of forged totalisator tickets the Johannesburg Club was defrauded of £300 recently.

That good mare Kalmea, who intf»er r day brought a lot of grist to- W. Home's mill, has dropped a colt to* Field Ba/ttery.

Vanadium, 7.2, is being backed from* the right quarter far the Metropolitan?, Handicap and will see a short prices before October 1.

Seddon, the full toother to WairiM, m Ike Foulsham's stable, will- be" given a run m the Juvenile events at the A.J.O. meeting.

If Uenuku is the' colt he is cracked up to be, the Avondale Cup ought to be a good thing for him, as he has only 6.13 on his back. Report says Savoury is quite sound again and will win a good handicap m the spring. Let's hope so, for Trainer Dave Price's sake.

Sir Percivale is now trained by Fred. Holmes at Ricoarton. II he can be kept on • his legs McManaway's cast-off should pay his way down south.

Mr T. Robinson, better known as "Murrum'bidgee," will leave for Sydney to-day and will be present at the A.J.C. meeting -at the end of the month.

Nominations close on October 1 for the Wellesley Stakes 1907, Wellington Stakes 1908, N.I. Challenge Stakes 1908, and N.Z. St. Leger 1909.

J. Killorn, the pony rider m Sydney, has lately been having a phenomenal run of luck and whenever he rides a pony it invariably starts favorite.

The Hawera owner Walter Young left on a trip to Sydney last week, and he will be present at the A.J.C. meeting, which opens at Raridwick on Septembet 29. Messrs Scott and Martindale forward us a treble card. The races are the N.Z. Cup, Stewards' Handicap and the Melbourne Cup and the price is £300 to ss.

The N.Z. horseman Clarence O'Neill has left the Melbourne Hospital and gone to his residence at Caulfield. ,His thigh is now set m plaster of Paris, ■» and it will be many months before he will be well again,

The Christchurch horses Vardp and Sandy, owned by Harry Salqmon, ran into plaaes at the Newcastle meeting last week and just missed scoring. Vardo will most UHely win a .Trial Flaw nex* time oi w»Hn.g.

Trephine has been sent to the stud m the Auckland district.

Mr T. H. Lowry's Royal Fusilier (Hotchkiss— Janet) will stand the season at Hastings.

Mr A. Woods will act as starter for the Taranaki Jockey Club at their next meetioi"-

The disqualification recently imposed on Mr S. McGuinness, by the Taranaki Jockey Club, has been removed.

The Hutt owner Mr W. Davies, paid a flying visit to Wanganui on Tuesday to transact some private business.

The Auckland hurdler Spalpeen, Who has been off the scene for the past eighteen months, is to be given another trial this season-

Hey wood, the full brother to Melwood, has been sent to Auckland from Gisborne, and m future D. Monaghan will train ihim-

Putty has been purchased from Mr T. Williams by F. McGrath, of Randwick, and the St. Leger gelding was shipped to his new home on Monday last.

Messrs Baxter Bros., of Westport, have sold the brown horse Veneer, full brother to Mabutonga, to Mr W. Davies. The price Raid is- withheld, but it would be a good sum. Veneer arrived m Wellington last week.

But for Spearmint,. Carbine's stpok this season would only have won m stakes about £3000 ; as » it is,- the total reaches £20,000. Spearmint must be a handy sort of animal to have running; about one's back yard.

An offer of 5000gns was recently made, it is believed on behalf of the King, for Collar it* but Mr Crick refused to sell. After the Derbies are over, the ex-Minister of Lands might be very sqrry that he did not close with it. . >•

Maniappfcp put up a track record for Randwick over fc, mile one morning last week. The black horse got over the distance m lmin 45eec, and on that form he must be very hard to beat m the Metropolitan Handicap, with 9.2 on his ba-?k. He will carry a lot of coin for New Zealantiers, and Hood will have the mount.

A Melbourne paper says "Collarit has been well backed for .the Melbourne Oup." 'Truly the gambling mania has a great hold on the people of Horsetralia. Crick's colt has not won the A^J.C. Darby, yet, but, because he won three two-year-old events, the public are foolish enough to back him to win the hardest race m the Australasian colonies.

It is somewhat singular that the horses for whom J, Wren paid suph high prices a couple of years or so afjo have proved signal i'ailures. Grand Rapids and Pius have done no good even m West Australia. G-apon has only one single race to his credit, Ellis is still a maMen, and the 500---guinea colt Roberts' died without sporting a racing jacket. The} Auckland horseman, Tjm Howard, passed through Wellington on Tuesday bound for home. Howard stopped •behind after the National meeting at- Christchurch * under engagement to do some riding at the Amiberley m«etiai-~ and m his last effort— Sir James m the Final Steeplechase—he bad the misfortune to fall, but got off with a severe shaking. •....' A local bookmaker '.reeeived a wire from Hokitika on Saturday last Q.fipi> ing to take IQO to 1 Mebarry to win the Timaxu-Christchurcti road face ; 50 to 1 that he would be first or second, and 25 to 1 that he would run first, ' second or third. Despite the fact that there were 181 starters tbe bookmaker replied refusing the wager aad so saved himself paying 'out £1/75.

The appeal of Leonard Adams, bookmaker, against his conviction for obstructing the footpath m Vuleanlaaie, Auckland, has been finally settled, and Mr Justice Edwards has confirmed the conviction. It is not known as yet whether the matter Will be taken to the Privy Council, but as Adams is shortly leaving t ox -a trip to Englafcd it is -quite possible that it will.

The Hotohkiss-^-Edith Cure-ton colt, who was purchased by J. Wren #t Auckland two "years ago, is named Ellis, and so f»r has failed to win a race. He was heavily supported m the three and four-year-old Handicap at the V.R.C meeting, but he was bumped early m the race and this spoilt whatever chance he had.,, All the same, he will win soon, as his breeding must show at some stage of his career.

The great English hotse St. Simon has indeed been better than a goldmine for his owner. Commencing at 50 guineas m 1886, St. Simon's fee reached 150 guineas five years later, and since then it has kept on increasing utttil it is now 500 guineas. During the' period he has been at the stud St. Simon foas served !766 mares and the total sum received for his services up to date is £236,617, the foregoing figures being' supplied by the Duke of Portland's representative to the English paper, "The Tattler." Up to the end of last year St. Simon's progeny had won 517 races of the total value of £522,632. His sons' and. daughters have also done remarkably well at the stud. In the United, Kingdom Ms sons have sired the winners of 1563 races of the value of £573,434-, and the stock from St. Simon mares have proved victorious m 433 events, .worth m thei aggregate £208.576.

"Punter" writes as follows from Newtown :— " Dear Cannie Chiei,— What a heap of money you must thtofe- Auckland people have to risk m bets. Why. there are few men m New Zealand who will put £500 on a racehorse, so I think you must be m error about the amount of bullion sent from Auckland. Was it a printer's error— £ for d. ? If so it was an 'ell of a mistake. In any cage I might. inform you that it" was difficult to get J>s on the Aucklanders. Hitherto I believed you talked rationally, but you are either oijt of your element m the football world, or else you are one of the ordinary mups, If you can get the chat you might let us know by next Saturday the amount at stake m the "Times" v, "Post" match." This paragraph was not written by "Cannie Ghiel," though it appeared under his name. I am sorry to hear "Punter" could not get his 5s on the Auckianders, but he would be better toiling to earn 5s than gambling;. " know nothing about the il Tirafcb"-"Post" ffifttch,— Oaunie. Chiel.

Assegai has been scratched for the N.Z. Cup.

There are 126 horses m the Melbourne Cup.

Letherin is now owned by four Master ton sports.

This year the Melbourne Cup will be run on November 6.

W. Tuck's Tautoru will be^seen out at the Wanganui meeting.

St. Lyra continues to jump badly m her work at Wanganui. Acceptances for the Jtangitikei meeting are 4ue on Thursday.

Notus is the latest horse to come into the market for the N.Z. Cup,

Gawain is being spelled and will not bg taken up again for a couple of months.

The nominations for the hurdle events at the Wanganui meeting are very poor.

Exmoor has been nominated m the flat and hurdle events at the Wanganui jneetrn?.

The ex-New Zealander Delaware has been backed for £5000 to WJo the Oaulfield Cup.

Uenuku . jjs suffering from influenza and is an unlikely starter at the Avoudale meeting.

Mr Hvighe's horses, D'Nil and Delamere, are again amongst the active brigade at Pordell. 1 4 •

This season, the Nelson Jockey Club will hold its annual race meeting on January 15 and 16:

Mr S.'H/CtaUan. has bee-n tryj«g to purchase -Prospector , with a view of shipping him to JSwßland,

The first acceptance for the N.Z. Cup closed last night, and the n^mes should' be published to-day.

Mr Ulip Shannon, of Wellington, has been appointed handicapper to the Horowhenua Racing Club. .

W. O'Cohnell had the bad luck to break a collar-bone when Early Van fell with him at the Ashburton meeting.

Clementine has been purchased from Dr. Paget by a Christchurch owner, and will m future be trained by W. Clarke.

The- Merriwee marc, Arc Light, is again m commission, and will be given a run at some of the Spring meetings. .

The Gorreze welding, T.M.S,, who used to rufi seconds m Sydney and Melbourne; won a race at tbe Kal^ goorlie Cup meeting, for a change-

The Kalgoorlie Gup was won by May Kine. a 10 to 1 chance and ridden by Bullock, who won the last Melbourne Cup on Blue Spec

The Auckland bred horse Beddings ton is an inmate of G-. Gibson's stable at Hawera, He should win a. race or two shortly, as he has been doiopi some good work^at home.

Reported that the National winner, Realm, is to be given a chance to distinguish himself on the flat, and will contest the next Australian Cup. Will he repeat Marmont's feat and win that race ?

Jack Fielder, the Sydney ex-jockey,, who was stricken with paralysis m Melbourne recently is to be given a benefit by bis Sydney fcriendr, and with the proceeds he will go to the Hot Lakes, Rotorua.

W, Davids has entered Bajlarat, Kohunui and Armamento at the Wanganui meeting. T&e first named is very frig, but time should change that and; if she keeps up she should , enrich her owner further later on m the season. :

Martello is doing well at Fordell. and this year be might show his best form in i public, --On -the track at Fordell be was always able to do anything that Solution did, and his repeated failures m, public completely mystified his connections,

The president of the Pafciatua Racing Club, at the annual meeting last week, made a great defence for the totalisator. It would be something out of the common if a, president failed to reler to this much discussed question m his yearly speech.

Antonius, who was bred by a, priest, and. who last season won ail the two-year-old events till the advent of CoJlarit, is m work at Randwiek, and he and his doughty opponent will try conclusions, again m the A.J.C. Derby. ; . . ....

The Auckland horse Irpnmould was backed for all the available money to win the N.Z, Cup last Monday. Some thousands were secured about Mr Colbeck's gelding and there is very little money left" even at the short price of 10 to 1.

A year or »two back an Australian visitor to Mr Prosser's stable at •Porirua was viewing the horses and among other things he was told that Achilles was rather bad tempered, but tfie big chestnut was always a good doer at meal times. Being a bit of a wag the Cornstalk pencilled a Limerick on the stable walls, reading as follows :—

'♦ Porirua boasts a horse called Achilles, Temper wild as the north WillyWilles ; He frets and he fumes Yet he always consumes As much feed as two overgrown filles." ■•..■ Mr Monk's horse has been the subject of another poem, Here it is : ""HatclHt-lees was a wonderful horse,

The moonbeams are gleaming, A splendid sight he was, yoho !" The author of the latter was formerly a resident of the Wanganui district, but it is unlikely that he will ever again reside anywhere but Porirua. What a terrible thing that sand is, and what a bore Bumpkin BurKe will be if he ever mixes saßd ana moonbeams and horse-racing m his poetical productions.