SPORTING.

Shannon News, 31 August 1923, Page 4

SPORTING.

Mr. TJlic Shannon has been, reappointed judge to the Mastertottißaeing Club.

According to reports, the success of General Advance in the C.J.C. National Hurdles was the. means-of ; & good deal of money' changing hands. Mr. F. E. Loomb heads the list of Auckland trainers with 17. wins to his 'credit for the racing season just closed.; No Bother- . (Coronet—Fuss), and trained by A. Juilan, at Ellerslie, developed tetanus on Saturday/'morning, and had to bo destroyed. 1 Victorians are still hopefhl that the

New South Wales champion, ; Beauiford will .be .on hand. at-Flemingtdn to contest the weight-f6r-age races at'the

' V.B.C. Spring Meeting. A writer, in 'the Sydney. Sun remarks: Usually.Beauford has been knocked;out at the end of' his campaign in l Sydneyy hence his failure to go south for the big, meeting of the past. But perhaps Beauford’s trainer has hopes that the champion will stand better this spring, and ;this coincides with the view of all who ; have seen Beauford since he resumed • training,. that he , looks better and S stronger than ever before as the result of a year's spell/ Perhaps, too/ the respite between' the A.JVC. and V.R.C. meetings will afford the opportunity of freshening the champion . .after his exertions at-Randwick; The English bred stallion Greyspear ‘ went up to auction in Canterbury this week, and he fell to the bid of Mr. H. , Hilton, of Masterton, at 410gns. Greyspear was -got by a son of Carbine in Spearmint: The luck which some jpekeys have -in securing mounts on the winners of important events at the- eleventh hour is remarkable. Another case occurred at the Grand National Meeting, when S; Walls, who was to ride Poanui, secured the mount on General Advance when the former went amiss. The dam of Happy Man, when i carrying him, was sold at Walters' sales at York (England) for 25gns., and Mr. Fred. Hardy gave but 30gns. for Happy Man himself as a yearling. Happy Man recently won: the Goodwood Gold Cup; run over a distance of two miles. J. M. Cameron has The Hawk in steady work at Randwick, but'so far v the* son of Martian has not been ask-

ed to do any serious task on the track. Mark Time is reported to-be working. well on the Hawera tracks, and will probably be a starter in the Marton Handicap. Six fillies, throughbred racing stock, were shipped by the Zealandic at Liver ; pool on August 18th for New Zealand. They are: Sweet Charity, -by Diadumenos—Maundy Thursday; Strona, byStoirnaway—Dark Blue; *Sam|ares, by Winstanley—Sammova; Vernal, by Black Jester—Verne; Cymene,. byCylgag—Hippocrepe; Pinafore, by Swinford —Pintado. ' Charlie Jenkins has joined Mr. JV Prosser’s staff. Santonio, which was fancied in some -quarters for the Winter Cup at Riccarton, did not get away-well. Adrienne; trained ’at MhrtonbyColeman; is reported to be doing air that is required of her on the tracks. Up-to-date the Grand National Steelpechase winner, has won ■£8,455.

A half-sister by Buckwheat to the crack Eurythmic is amongst the ponies running, at the Sydney meeting. The Auckland Racing-Club paid away in salaries and wages last season the sum of £13,552 19s sd. Mallin (Wolhwa —Llanasheen), owned by Mr. E. J. Watt, which won. the Trial Handicap at the Brisbane meeting, was piloted by Roy Reed. Tarquin, TJn Fils and ! Advent arc in capital fettle, and this trio will run well jat the forthcoming hunt meetings.

In' the Trial Hurdles at Riccarton the Palmerston-trained ! Rowan is reported to have given a good exhibition of jumping, but pulled ,up very sore, and will need a spell. In addition to Thespian, W. Rayner has Listowel and Deluge engaged at Marton, the former being in the Marton Handicap, while Deluge will, all going well, be given a run in the Electric Hack. First Born, Dodo and Anticipate are daily attendants on the Bulls tracks. The last-mentioned has furnished nicely and should come good this season. Mattock and Projector,* also owned by Mr. J. B. Gaisford, are resting. Two yearlings, one by Bisogne and the other by All Re 3 have- been handled.

The nominations received for the

Rangitikei Hunt Club meeting, which is to be held the day after the Marton J.C. meeting, on the Marton course, are remarkably good, and the indications are that this meeting will also be a big success. Sydney is on the eve of the most brilliant two months of racing that Australia has known. The sport will be almost continuously at Randwick, and the best horses from Victoria and .New Zealand will strive with those of New South 1 Wales for supremacy.' A third (Rowan) 'and a 3 second 1 (Santonio) was the best .theiPhlnififstoh-.

trained horses accomplished at the Ricearton fixture. There was nothing wrong with" the condition of the animals when they left there, but tbe opposition encountered was particularly formidable.

The'Marton Jockey Club has received splendid nominations for its spring meeting, which is to be held on September 5, and will open the new •season in earnest on this coast. Among i those figuring in the lists are Mark •Time, Listowel, Gamecock, 1 ’Amour, 'Bonnie Heather, Demos, Thespian and Martulla.

The mishap that befell Rouen in leaping the concluding obstacle in the Grand National Hurdle Race contest at Riccarton on Thursday, it would ■seem> sent a candidate out of the contest that threatened danger. It would, jof course, have added greatly to the interest in the concluding stage of the race had the son of Bezonian stood up to tackle General Advance. One has, however, to bear this little fact in mind, that Rouen would have had to fight it out with 11.3 in the saddle 'against a rival that had only 9.11 to ..carry. It is to be hoped that Rouen ; suffered no injury from his mishap at Riccarton, for he is ticked off to make good as a hurdler in the event of his 'remaining sound. General Advance, the winner of the .Grand National Hurdles, carries the colours of Mr. Acton-Adams, who won •the Grand National Steeplechase with Lochella four years ago. A year ago he, filled third place in the Trial Hurdle Handicap, after which he was raced on she flat 1 with fair success, until two .-months ago, when he was again tried among the jumpers at the Auckland winter Inceting. He failed badly in the vGreat Northern Hurdle Handicap, his poor showing being a great disappointment to his trainer, C. Christie, who ■has all along been confident that his ; horse would perform much better in the ; Grand National Hurdles. General Advance is a brown gelding by Advance, from Electra.

The distribution of races was very !'even at the C.J.C. National meeting as between the North Island and the South Island stables. The Northern contingent won 12 races and the southerners 11, while the remaining race resulted in a dead heat between a North 'lsland and South Island representative. Riding honours were well divided. A. Wormald headed the list with three wins and a dead heat, while A. McDonald was on three winners. R. S. Bagby rode two winners and a dead heat, J. Roach two and H. McSwceney two. Twenty-one trainers led in winners. W. Hawthorne had three, winning a double with Birkenella and one irace with Vagabond. J. McCombe scored a win and dead heat with Sunny Lock and J. T. Jamieson had a .similar record with I'Amour.

The death occurred at Waipukurau on Wednesday of Dr. O/Callaghan, who for several months was medical superintendent at the Otaki Hospital. During his term in Otaki he made many ’'friends, and much sympathy will be extended to his widow and two children. ; Two years ago a well-known Te Kuiti resident returned from a holiday to Australia with two turtles. After a -week or so one disappeared, and has not been seen since. The other haunted "the precincts of the house for nearly three months before it, too, Anally disappeared. On going to the gate one day last week, one of the members of the family was considerably surprised to sec one of the turtles sunning itself on the banks of a creek near the gate. For twenty months the turtle apparently had lived near the creek, incidentally The Leader of the Opposition told the jHouse about a woman prisoner who always ; ill-behaved in gaol, and when the matron asked her for the. reason, she said she could not stand it any longer without a cigarette. Given a cigarette a day, she behaved well. • The Minister for Justice said the suggestion that cigarettes should he provided for all women prisoners was one that he could not approve off-hand. He would have to look into the matter. He had understood that cigarette smoking had the effect of depriving women of a great deal of their charm and pleasantness. (Laughter). Mr. Holland "(chairman of the Labour Party): What is the effect on men? (Laughter). “I am of the opinion,” said the Hon. J. G. Coates, when delivering the Railways Statement in the House of Representatives, “that if a suitable rail motor-vehicle can be devised it should go far to solve the traffic problem on ■some of our suburban lines and nonpaying branch lines.” “Newspapers have'reported a certain amount of success in some of the Australian States with imotor-trains. I have arranged for the department to purchase two or three first-class motors for conversion into suitable railway motor-trains for trial on some of our branch lines. The experiments will be very closely watched, and the service will be extended if satisfactory.”