Notes by “Turf.”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8840, 17 June 1907, Page 2

Notes by “Turf.”

Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase run on W eduesday. i The Grand Prix de Paris, run at Paris on Sunday, resulted: Saus Souci 1, Mordaunt 8, Ping Pong 8. Aqua Regia, 9.13, was omitted from the telegraphed list of acceptances in the Hawke’s Bay Hurdles.

Nadador does not appear to have suffered from her fall at the Gro.it Northern meeting, for in company with No Shot on Friday morning she gave a good exhibition over the country, jumping faultlessly. Kaipetipoti also put up a pleasing performance over a mile and should bo hard to beat in the Whakatu Hack Hurdles on Wednesday. Oreusot has been running prominently and may soon earn a stake. The same remark applies to Strathcoua.

Hurimoaua, who acted as runnerup to Bonheur at Otaki, is sure to win a hurdle race or two during the coming season. Handicapper Morse was congratulated on his adjustments at Ellersile, more especially when the topweight, Kaitere, won the Great Northern Steeplechase. Since the nominations have closed for the New Zealand Cup several commissions have been worked in favour of Apa, Frisco, Mahuta, and Elevation. The racehorse Defender was run over by a train and killed on the line between Ellerslio and Penrose, on Wednesday night. The horse, it appears, had been turned out in a paddock adjoining the railway lino, which it was thought was securely enclosed. By some moans Defender found a means of exit, and straying on to the tineas the 11.15 p.m. train was going through to Onelxunga, he was cut to pieces. Defender was the property of the Ellerslie trainer, Mr T. A. Williams. In the hacking of a successful double, people at times admit to a unique reasoning in arriving at that end. A case of such, the accuracy of which is vouched for, is related to me in connection with the Great Northern Steeplechase and Prince of Wales’ Handicap, decided at Ellers-, lie. A man hurrying along Custom Street, bout on 'catching the race tram, caught sight of one of the Kauri Timber Company’s drays, the side-boards of which carry the well known letters, “K.T O. ” On went his considering cap; aud, after consulting his race card, the solution of what he termed was the dray lead for the double was Kaitere and Tui Oakobau, which, as my readers know, came off.

“Win when you cau; you may not bo able to when you would, ” is an old turf saying, and, it can be further added, is a line of reasoning that, strictly followed, in not a tew cases,leads to wealth. That it prevents a deal of trouble is apparent to the uncultivated as well as to the cultivated racing man. That the clever division dearly love to run a bye, and that they will incur grave risks in that respect • evidence is forthcoming at almost every race meeting, and I fear we may not look for marked reformation iii that quarter. One might have thought, that the experiences of certain persons over the Hierarch case would be taken—sat least for a short time—as a pointed object lesson; but unless a good few keen men have lost that grip of the situation which they are usually credited to hold, there were elements in a certain race decided at the recent Ellers!!c meeting that, even with the ink scarcely dried upon the document meting out a series of life disqualifications, people were again in the field to take a war risk. The jockey, or was it the horse?, saved the situation, and those who were watching matters again breathed freely. Those engaged in racing horses for a living, as well as those who. are not, can take as a reliable guide the words enclosed in inverted commas at the commencement of this paragraph.— “Phaeton” in the Auckland Weekly News. '