BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 396, 24 August 1889, Page 3

BITS OF TURF.

Ifc has been wisely decided this year nob to issue the weights for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase till after the Dunedin Exhibition Meeting. The date fixed for the declaration is the 6th of December. The first foaling of the season at Sylvia Park took place on Monday last, Steppe (Hermit's half-sister) producing a colt foal to Nordenfeldt. - . Oddfellow has been purchased by a wellknown Aucklander, whose intention it is bo have the horse trained at "Wanga^nui by R. Wheeler. ' ' J • , • Catesby was shipped to Tologa Bay on Tuesday, where he is 4 fco take up stud duties. , •• Harry Harrison has had an- addition made to his string in the shape of a two-year-old colt by Somnus — Fishwoman. The colt has been named Glaucus. Tranter, the son of Musket and Pungawerewere (full brother to Brigadier) was submitted to auction in Melbourne a few days back, and tound a purchaser in Mr W. R. Virgoe, of New South Wales. He goes to stud duties. Engagement's withdrawal from the Melbourne Cup is said bo be not due to any infirmity on the- parfc of the mare. She is doing good work. I hear that when Drake landed in Sydney a couple of weeks back, he laid 1,000 to 50 in one hand against Corunna winning the Victorian Derby. Just fancy ! Mr W. Walters has bestowed the name of Pinfire on his three - year - old colt by Torpedo out of Yatterina, and the two - year - old filly by Romnus — Fanny Fisher has been named Lady Emmeline. The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club is suffering the experience of. many similar institutions. Ab the annual meeting it was announced that gentlemen elected to serve on the Committee would have to attach their signatures to a prorniesoi'y note given to secure the Club's overdraft with its bankers. Ahua, purchased by Mr D. Rubherford, is now an inmate of H. Lunn's stables at Middletpn. The " Canterbury Times " says as there has been some discussion about the height of this horse, it may interest to learn thab he stands barely 15hd 2in. , The erst Auckland pony, Little Minnie, ran in Mr R. Blaikies name at the last Sydney Driving Park Races in. the Handicap Gallaway Race '(14hd lin class), ,but could only gain third place. She started at 5 to 1. , • At Sydney Tattersall's last week, one wager of SO to 40 was taken in favour of the Hon. *J*. White's team hunched for the V/R.C. Derby.. Munn<in'forms a- Napier scribe thab Quilt lias notye^quite got over the injury he re.ceiyed . oja his foot .whilst in Auckland. .Sbrep'hon ia said bo be looking well. Renata. has 'grown and thickened out since he left the training track, bub he is backward. The will of the late Samuel Martin, the Melbqurne trainer,, has been proved at 1 £17,200; the biggest part of which hasi lefc to his brother James Martin, who is in Queensland. It is reported that no horse engaged in the New Zealand Cup js doing more ab Riccarbon,. or doing it better, thanthemuch-talked-of Lorraine. Old Anteros' stock coming on for the present season seem to be earning high praise from those residing in the neighbourhood wherein they have been foaled — that of the Clarence and Richmond River country in New South Wales. A local journal says that Mr H. P. Somerseb has some splendid young stock by Anteros. One is a bay colb from Emily, formerly the properby of Mr Rush, and bwo fillies, one from Starlight, the other from Venus, who> is by Reugny from Josephine. When the last batch of files Jeft England Lord Falmouth was su Bering from dropsy, ' and his appearance again on a racecourse was considered unlikely. A cablegram from London states that the Hon. James White's colts, Nareilan

and Kirkham, have been inspected by a large number of the leading racing men and best judges of a thoroughbred in the United Kingdom. The colts are universally admired, and pronounced most taking specimens of their breed. Training operations afc Randwick have lately been interfered with by rain. Rudolph, Sinecure, Singapore and the others of White's are out every morning. Their task is to canter a mile and a half and then put in a good mile. When J. Morrison rode Chester to victory in the Melbourne Cup, it' will be remembered that he had his leg brokon during the race. • The injured leg never thoroughly healed, and a bony substance caused great pain and lameness, for which "M&rrison is now about to undergo an operation with a view to their removal. T. Sanders, who rode Dunlop when he won the Melbourne Cup, has purchased the New Zealand mare Apropos for 450 guineas, and she will in future be trained by Nichol- { son. Moss Rose has also changed hands. Before the English mail lefl they were laying 6 to 4 on Donovan for the Sb. Leger, which is to be run on the 11th of next month. , Chitabob was next favourito at B to I,' while 100 to 8 was offered bar two. A fancy watrer of 500 to 50 was laid against a filly' winning: the St. Lege.r. There are 36 fillies in the Sb. .Leger, including Seclusion, t Minbhe, and L'Abbessode Jouarre, but how many will go bo the post is another matter. The Auckland-bred mare Ricochet, which was missing for some weeks from the Windsor (Sydney) paddocks, has been found, and is said to be in foal. The lion. W. A. Long v starbed his three-year-old colt Daniel at the Warwick Farm, (Sydney) races a few days baok in the Pace Welteiv and he ran a dead heat for second place, the speedy Bernardo getting home' first. Anent Daniel's running the " Sydney Telegraph' says: — "Though he ip. not as" ' ready ' as he is likely to be by Melbourne Cup time, he showed possession of plenty of pace and may mako quite as bold a bid for the big piize of our neighbours as Abner did for the Newmarket Handicap after winning a welter race at Liverpool." According bo, lasb .accounts, Clogs has broken down sq badly that her standing another preparation is. extremely unlikely. Ringmaster, who ran third for the kiver.-, pool Cup a few days ago, carried 7s t JUb, ; Veracity, the -winner, had Bst ; and Pdeler, who was seepgd^ 6st ljQJp. The English -.bred stallion Metal ? whip "has been in the' sale list in Sydney for some time, has found' a purchaser in Mr Charles Baldwin, of Durham Court, Manilla. The price paid for him is set down as £500. As a result of their successful year, 1 the committee of the Victoria Racing Club have granted Mr Miles' a" bonus of £50, and raised the judge's salary from £100 a ye.ar to £250. The ranger's "consideration" has been mci eased by .C5O, and£loodonated to the Melbourne Hospital. Whakawni ran into a tree at Sandringi ham (Melbourne) recently and scratched himself sufficiently to cause his preparation /ft^'Be interfered with. '*' According to a Wanganui paper StoneJ\yaH .Jackson (by the Painter) has been sold by Mr Morton to Mr McNicol, of Auckland, for £65. The Tasmanian steeplechaser Chandler, recently purchased for 600gs. by Mr W. Branch, has gone into Mr James Wilson's stable. Mr E. Cutts has determined never to run a horse of his own at the Forbury again. This accounts for Dudu being missing from the Exhibition Cup entries. The Victorian Derby candidate, Richelieu, is said to be tjhjriving nicely, but he has not grown and furbished quite so much as might have been desired. Another Derby colt, Prince Consort, is doing good sound work. During the past season, the Hon. 0. White's horses won 27 races, for which they received £12,912 18b. For twentyfive seconds they received £2,109 ; and seven thirds brought in £540, making a total of £1-5,561 18s. The horses have been placed more than the fifby-nine bimes mentioned above, bub bhere has been no prize gained for so doing. The Commibtee of the Victoria Racing Club have upheld the disqualification of the New Zealanders F. Panetti, owner, and C. Stratford, rider, for 12 months, for suspicious running of tho hoise Escapade at Oakleigh Park, Melbourne. Donovan, who appropriated the Prince of Wales Stakes ab Ascot, was the first Eng-lish-bred colt to win the race with full penalty, and thereby followed the example of Iroquois (who was bred in America) in 1881, and of Wheel of Fortune in 1879. Since the accident which he met with prior to the Grand National Steeplechase, Redleap has been confined to his box suffering from bad feet. * ' ' A Sydney paper'^ays- that the Hon. James White has beep offered and refused £10,000 for Abercorn. The tempting offer is reported to have been made on behalf of an American would-be purchaser. The Sydney police are making it warm for the " tobalisator shops," and the obher day a big; babch of offenders were fined in various, sums. In one case bhe fine was £20, in anobher £15, and in several obhers £10. There was a time when the Geelong meeting (Victoria) was looked forward to with interest as being likely to furnish a key to the winner of one or other of the big spring handicaps, bub this is now changed. The meeting: took place on August 3id, when the Winter Handicap fell to Mr S. G. Cook's Jebusite, who has been showing a lob of form of late. He is nob engaged in either the Caulfield or Melbourne°Cup. A filly named Hermitage, won the Kij^t Tw'o-yeaiVold Stakes. , She is, by St^Albans, oub of. Solitude; by Rpbinson .Crusoe-J-La Mousso (imp),, by Fjying bubchma'n, 'and is* engaged 1 in the forthcMircg^M'aribyiteMtf" Plate. -' '« '■ • ' *™V' t - ... The lis6 ok .registered bookmakers in tho August issue, of the*" '^Victorian Racing Calendar" shows a,ver^'iparked"- l fallin'£ H (iff in numbers from ' last "yleai*. "« -'^b^lhfe saddling paddock there ar^ il^iflopisdc of 155 last year, while the hill section" has beep reduced from 137 to 81. ■ .. Citadel, a son of Ingomar, further distinguished himself by winning the Dublin Plate, at a hunters' steeplechase, at the Dublin Metropolitan Meeting. At the annual meeting of the Victoria Racing Club it Avas determined in the allot- 1 * ment of the dates for each year that not more than 12 days' racing be allowed any club, or upon any proprietary course. It was also determined that pony racea or mixed pony and horse races be subjected to the same conditions as regards distances, weights, and value of prizes as are in force as regards horses. By a previous action of the V.R.C. in determining not to recognise pony racing, a- number of .trainers, owners and jockeys were virtually disqualified. This was remedied at the meeting by reverting bo the old order of things. The following rule of betting has beon adopted by the American and Coney Island Jockey Clubs :— " If a horse be disqualified on account of incorrect weight the decision shall not apply to bets, provided the weight, published in the programme or corrected on the notice-board was carried."

The wise husband will postpone his engagement to "see a man" until tomorrow.