NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 141, 29 February 1908, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Newmarket Handicap to-day. P. Coffey is now training Pearlie at Haw-era. F. E. Jones rode six winners at the Dunedin meeting. Armamento was lucky to win the Dunedin Cup. The time, 2.39, shows what a poor lot opposed kirn. Clanchattan galloped very unkindly m the earlier stages -of the Dunedin Cup, ami lost the raco by it. The Sydney jockey, T. Clayton, was recently married, aad is at present m Melbourne on his honeymoon trip; ••■■■■■ ; - ■• ■■-. ■■'■■ ■ •••• 'Apologue and TartaH. afte m strong demand for the Australian Cv?. Tulkeroo might show them that he should have been fancied. R. Marsh, who trains for Cjng Edward, and other gentlemen m England, jhas 60 horses m work, 25 of them being owned by "Eddy." Lady Adair had a good following m the Hurdles on the second day at Woodville, but she never showed the slightest s-i&hs of winning form. The Riccarton owner-trainer, P. T. Hogan, took Cooee, Royal Shell, and Post Card to the Dunedin meeting. bu"t returned without notphing a win. Fireiron broke- down badly m tlio Sandown -Park; Handicap run the same day r that Munjcet scored. May the N.Z. mare land tke : Newmarket to-day. • ' '.'•< "Petrovna downed Lupulijie ; easily m the Railway Plate at Duricdiu. Thrre was no end of money fer Lupulite, and the race was a good one for. -the bookmakers. , . , x . At Woodville it was whispered that before leaving New < 'Plymouth, Hydraulic had. accomplished a ; five furlong 'gallop_ fasp enough to win any race m the North island. Since Loiret went into O'Nmll's stable that trainer has been most successful, with her. . She has already won two Cups, and appears to have a good chance of annexing a .third. 'The attention of light, boys is directed to an advertisement . m this issue. The stable .shelters good horses',, who can win rsices, and, a boy r could' not do better than give it a trial.. ■ '.. ' ' . , . ': .;;..: .. ■ . Suttee, broke her back, m the Berwick Hack Handicap at Dunedin and had to be destroyed. This was very bad luck for the marc's OAvners as she was capable of winning a good handicap. The Victorian jockey, E. Turner, will ride Munjeet m the Newmarket Handicap to-day. Turner is a very smart horseman, and- Ins -a particular aptitude for siting out . jfr'st from the. barrier. Good luck to 'him today. ■ \ "(The sensational gallop of Scotland recently cabled ov?r here is thus, re-: ported m Melbourne "TrutV '.— After one o'clock Scotland oame out and ran five furlongs m lmin l£sec., the ..first half m 48sec ; shoes on, on the sand track." , The °rowd hooted Leeside when he won the Hurdle race on tho second day at Hobart. He wrs made a strong favorite on the first day, when he failed. Scoullar was ..called on for an exr/lanation, which was deemed satisfactory. . My Dunedin correspondent advises that The Seer was very strong at Dunedin on the opening thy, and lie thinks it is a wender the. reins did not ■ break. The second day he /was kept m the rear the whole way and I on the concluding -day lie showed lair . form. It is sugj*fcste£ that he will show much bet cer form m tke Easter Handicap. The Nelson meeting, which tak«s place thjs year on April Ist and 2nd, promises tn te the most success- i ful yet YtttH m SL*sy Hallow. It J does not clash. w:t<h aay other meetings »s it hes* don? m tibs past, an* several rwzvers m the V r a.iv?,rt.pß..,r.nd Manawatu ; districts, ,.' Veiades Tjrcin.'•thim, h^ve signified their .iatc»ti«i of livaHng a trip. " ; Albert Jaclrsop, who was recently located at F-eilding, has now gone t« live at Trazii/fctm. vnd is m ekarge ;of King Post. Hiro. Roosevcldt. a Conqur r or— Success filly, and a fullbrotbfir to Vv'illiam. The latter is just getting over *n attack of influenza, and the Sucocss filly is being brokem m. Associated wii>h Jackson is F. Jones, late of Kaiamu, and .between the two of them they should turn out a winner or two. An exchange says :— Mr Miller, employed by Mr Begg on Riversdnle, had ah unfortunate mishap with - his racehorse, . True Blue, at the beginning of the week. The animal was found cut about the forelegs, and about twenty stitches had .to be put m. It is not exactly known how the accident happened, but it is surmised that the draught horses broke into the loosebox, and the cut was made on going through the doorway. There is a probability that True Blue will have to be destroyed, so serious are the injuries.

Wanganui Cup next Thursday. Wanganui on Thursday and Saturday. Motoa is first favorite for tfca J?Jying at Wanganui. Greenloaf looked very well at Woodville, but ske had no luck. H. Carr Won a double on Grandstand at Wiagatui last week. The Voucher looked freshened up a deal at Woodville, but she can be a bit bigger still; Mr S. E. Cooper, has leased Supplement from her owner, and intends to race the marc on the West Coast. Hiro is very well at present, and when the sting is out of the ground Mr Liskirk's gefcting should land a race. ' The Petroleum gelding Kelso has a goodish bit of pace and is very smart away from the barrier, but as yet he lacks staying ability. Xavier had an engagement on the Maiden Plate at Woodville, but though F. Lind was there, tke horse was not taken through. The owner of Armemento was the means of several fielders taking off their bags after the little brown horse won the Punedin Cup. . The winning jockeys, at Woodville were :— R. Hatch 5, W.. Price 2, W. Young 2, L. Wilson 2, and, T, Prichard, H. Price, G. Price, D. Price, ■ and" A. Oliver T each. V ' " . The Sans R^QjgeMiiifirS^n' Jose, who was cast in.-his hpx. gecently.-is now quite. right acain. He s/tarted m the Maiden at Woodville, but he had not don« sufficient work. The appeal case, First View versus the 'ill-fatod and now defunct Suttee, will come, up for hearing at the s annual meeting of the New Zealand Racing Conference, to be. held m" WelJLiagton on tke 28t-h . inst. ... ... , I can see nothing m■■ Mount Cook to make me think he will ever be a champion. He is a very badly shaped animal all over, and- his pasterns are peculiarly..- formed. . , The totalisatdr wwains 'm evidence at Cambridge for 'the first time last Saturday, on the occasion of Rotorua races. The machines-w ere under the jcontrol of '-Masses H H Hayr a-nd Co., of Auckland.: - : " The hurdler Papatawa.has" : not been herself of late, f>nd ha? Atons no work consequently 'she was ' uiia^l" >to show her best ■*. form .it Woodville The race shc-uld improve "liter, and she will be very bad f«* -$- &i a t, Dannevirke. ;;f ' First ' Mate has won' a race at last, after a ffreat many failures.' He had a run On the, first day but £ot i bad passage and cduld Jonly finish third. On the second rfcy he. Avas 1 again unlucky, but "■ at th'c [finish 1 scraini'led up m time to score bY a HjSad freia Dream. v Cyrene showed a remarlvattle burst Of speed witftt. She outcd. tlie" rest c£ the field m the Handicap at Woodville. Nothing was, ever near her except ;Cjpcanie, z.M a ' bad Vunip sent the • last-named to the rickt•about, icaviSe: Cyreiie-ip win by tkvea lengths. '■■■'■-•■ ' : ; ; ' Waicola was ieport«l.tp,;J>aYe accomplished a sensational pallor tt Woodville,..; and was rcckoiuda moral for any sprint race, she, started m. On the first, day , she w^i'ss" witHtrawn after Mc'Ks,y hatFH^n \<Wed ty Hydraulic, but on 1 the concli:d.ing ilzy she was trotted "tiiti. wjt^ Sbajpaus Q'Brion in J/ thc- saddli?.-" " SU ! cid'.'r-wt run mitiy. pl^iccv '■";■'. ;'- y An amusing /iiici'dcntV took, place a t a the Woodville. meeting. " :A lady ianuifed of a wesll-knowh siiorVliow.' l-.« was doing ?' Only fair. .he.Vrepliad, I backed, a dead 'uri last time. What was ;.th*t:.? asked the lady.' Oh, So-and-so said the sptrt. piVinjaj the name of 'a horse m the .'hurdles- The laily turned abruptly cii hci* heal and walked away, and later en Ui» sporl? discovered that ; iicr husband own« 4 the horse. "..'-.' Local followers of racing wijl remember Tpgos, who used ip fac ia r ed m these pfrts by "Bonsof >! Urowa. Afterwards . he wa«i. shipped to Australia and sold' there, buVbp.twaie to an untimely j*nd heiijg run (into by some -trucks engaged m shtfi.in.ls nr.ullock tin' tJiq Miners 'T.V. cour«e, George Gi 1 lies, ■ who owned liivS . sued the contractpfs tut i nilrAj, a"cj atpeal' to the F-all Court met ! vnth a similar i;csuft. • „.;■••. - ; .■ - • -.. Gauz« has a . ..very scratchy Action, m her ..preliminary and a host ai people refrained from l-ac]iih-g h-r o» that aqoount. a.i> WoodvjH •", tut tktrf was nothing wrong with her yli*a it came to racing,' a^d she V-ejt tha President's Handicap field m h«> low manner. „,'Tiie Jijexf" clay rhi was saddled up again, but an rxisn tea pounds oa her back, a fuflonK f rtier to go, and the cut-throat te&i ice (4 some of the other ridn-s, settkritljß Porirua mare>. - * '■•.'-.. . Says "The Don" m the. "Wint^ Record" of' recent. date :-^rhe ifremviing odds ' offered by the bookj^jojeera about The Seer's chajice m. the Rttnsard's Wcitcf on Wednrgday V 7er» Mitficient to make many knowing ones leave him alone, but , when lie >]j t^HI out at the start, the xace looked hfe a Rood tiling for ; hinu Uovrewer , ho was steadied -after goin^.a iirßplp of furlongs, > Luresome running up 1» him, and jßcCombe showing thi> sr'^atest indifference to • M^Tvay 's efforts on .• Lutesome, i^iliowedr Mie.; latter- 4o- wcai by a head. McCombe is reports -to have said after the rate that he thought he won by a head, hut if so, I cannot quite realise how bis cl^rivs to be a first-claps lrors^man cog. *>c considered. Confide'uig +h« briVian* cv of -the horse, the betting, ?nd ttie rfding of The. Seer, and ■■his ''-cent writings about the "crookedn p ss" the turf m Southland, it will^e interesting to have "PpntißrlV . xomarks upon the incident. '

„ Silver Shell looked nice and big at Woodville, but the class was above her. The Auckland horseman, A. Julian,: will ride Cachuca and Claremont at Wanganui. Nova cut up badly m the Woodville. Cup. and finished second to last. The hard going" must have sickened Mm. Bonnie Doon showed a great burst of speed on the second day at Woodville, and she just went .under by a »ut. '. ']'.; : [[' ' No money for Armamento m the Farewell Handicap at Dunedin. They must have won' too much over the Cup. The starting of Mr C. O'Connor at Woodville was particularly good, and he was applauded" on several occasions. Bonnie Doon is galloping very freely at present and she can never be left out; of the calculations m a five furlong" sprint. The Dunedin iiare Octave is very '. smart away from the barrier, and m this respect- she very much resembles Gold-spur. Concussion was well boomed before ■Woodville, but the best he could do was to run second to. Playmate on the opening day. ' "... The racing Ikon had at Woodville should be the means of improving her arid -enabling her to show better 'form sfo TJaiinevirfce. -« A.t the -turn m the Cup at Wgoclville, Waapafcu looked all over a winner; but she stopped^to : a walk, and was lucky to run third. :■■■ ■ ••The.Peildi-ng jockey. A.' Oliver, who has been having' rather a' bad time of •it.* lately j was "able to resume riding at the Woodville meeting; Loiret held a very haAdy position the whole way m the Cup, and eventually won nicely. She will make her next appearance m the Dannevirke Cup.. , ■:.. , . Te Kainui jumped one hurdle on the .first day f . at Woodville,, and. knocked down the rests./ This-, was handy .for Playmate, who only had to run on the flat.'. : ... ..- v .-.Loohiela fell on her nose just after the start of her first effort at Wood.yille. and then, got.up and ran third. ThW next dgLy'sijie got bumped inside out, and finished tin, the rear. • It the/ connections of Merrie Zea- . land could ha,ve,£ot their" money on lasit week there, would have Leon . no • bookmakers left to tell the tale. i'Or perhaps the Toledos would have been produced. : "■- Jack Cameron has worked a big im- ' provemrnt m Seaton Dale, and the colt should go .on winning races. He is not a . goo,d beginner, but; thfre is no question of his pace when ho gets steam ftp. The well-known hurdle, horseman, .Jack O'Connell, has been, p-ranted a trainer's iicr-hse; by the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club.;, At, present he has San Jose under his car^, and I. trust he will soon lead m has first winner. The Looi^naiers objected to the ■conditions- of the Wood v ills Club and several would not take out M?chses, but made a bank, and ' put on one man to beti ' The first day N was no good, but the ; second day three of them cut up £250. : . . At Woodville the bookmakers put up a noble fight m their efforts against the machine,, and- the trip ;- must a, profitable one., The public' are getting more, used, to the. Tommies now, though some of the latter are' a< bit ahead of them, yet. ' Kurawaka has at last succeeded m winning a good, handicap. In the Cup she ran badly, "but next day different taclics were adopted and she was rushed to the front. She led all the way, and just lasted long enough to win by a nose from the unlucky Aberration. It was an experiment starting Chicane m the final event at Woodville, as the mare had never been oter the distance before. After rrpbability and G-auze had run themselves to a standstill, The Possible mare ran on and landed the race m a very taking manner. ' In Dream Mr D. Buick has a useful sort of mare. She was not started on Wednesday, but had a. flutter on the following day, . Her pace is un- j doubted but i^he runs very green and was tacky to finish second. When she becomes more educated she should win a few hack races. * , Tho owner ol Aberration can safely frave a snout on himself and reckon he was unlucky. In the Woodville r Cup the horse's girth troke and the | saddle slipped off; and next day the race was filed away by bad judgment. There might be a different tale to j tell at Danoevitke. It looks us it thy will- never be able to put much money en Royal Blue again. He jumped beautifully for the greater part of the first day, but got into the last hurdle and went round m the air and nearly unseated his jockey; This evidently frighten- { ed the horse, and next day. he gave a very poor exhibition. Jockey McKay, \rfoo rode Motoa at Hawera, and was called upon by the stewards to explain Ms jockeyship, is very sore at the remarks m "Truth" last week, and approached me with a full explanation; From his point of view Ms argument was good, but ■■■■ he did not say .if ■' he told anyone Motoa bad no chance, or why the black borse steered suob an erratic course. Mr G-. P.^Donnelly, having removed into his new house at Otatara (H. 8.), his, team of racehorses" was taken over from Ngatarawa on ' v Wednesday to the new stable." at Tara- . dale. Whilst riding the horses over, a boy named Percival, who recently arrived from Western Australia to serve as an apprentice m Mr Donnelly's stables, was thrown. His companion went to Fermhill and rang up Mr Donnelly^ who was. soon on the. soene with his motor. The boy was lyirlg m an unconscious condition, and was taken to the private hospital at Hastings. He has an ugly wound on the back of his head, but the doctors who were called m are of the opinion that the injuries are not serious. ■■-. :•■ : - ••.■, ; : •■ ■

The owner of Sea King gave the ling a big knock over the success of his colors m the big handicap at Wingatui on Saturday. The Porirua team for Wanganui will consist of Gold Crest, Marguerite, All Red, Swimming Belt, Taitoke, Maui, Ataa/hua, Consuello, liurawaka, and Pawa. At the conclusion . of the Dunedin meeting, Mr J. R. McKenzie sold The Brat to bis trainer, R. Emerson. I trust the latter' will have some luck with the Stepniak mare. The Menschikoff— Armilla filly purchased by Mr H. Gainsfrrd m November last, is being ridden daily and is now as quiet as a sheep. She is engaged at. the Wellington meeting next Spring. r Mr P. Herman purchased All Guns from T. Sheenan during the D. J.C. meeting. The price has hot transpired, but it is understood- that the horse was sold subject to certain contingencies. , . I had a look over Wirral m tho paddock last week at Feildihg., He. looks very well, and has apparently settled down. I expect, he will fee given a run ait the Wanganui meeting next week. m ■ Petrovna was reckoned a moral for the Anniversary Handicap, at Dunfedin and several big punters from Christ-' church who usually follow Mr , H. F. Nicholas -horses were m on Petrpvna. Needless to say they wore very, long faces after the race. - Mr E. Trask, vice-president of the Nelson Jockey Club, was a visitor. to Wellington last week. , Mr Trask was over, for the benefit. Of his health, but while here he bestirred himself m getting a few nominations for the race meeting on April 1 and 2. The hurdler Tirole Was sold for 25gns last Friday and the following day he raced, m his new owner's interest. at Wingatui., If he keeps sound he should prove a cheap purchase, but unfortunately the "if" is there. He goes into; R. McKay's stable. ... - :A visiting bookmaker from Sydney who attended the D. nedin meeting, reckons that the public plainly showed that they were not usejd to the Tommies. He says, "They stood arid stared at us just like the people do round the monkeys at the Zoo m Moore Park. It never entered their heads to have a bet. 1 /