BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 6

BITS OF TURF.

The owners of Cuirassier tell mo they I have every hope of bhe big horse getting right again, as ifc is now certain his ailment .is nob a thorough pin. Everyone will be gla.d to hear this. Collellp has, arrived afc Christchurch to ride Tiraillepr-'in the New Zealand Cup , Carbine nearly threw., Mick OBrien twice' before /the Caullioid. Stakes, and .it took fifteen minutes to get him tq the post.

Mv Andrew Town, the well known Newr South Wales breeder, has been compelled! to file his schedule. The whole of his. l Hobartville establishment is surrendered to his creditors. t Mentor, the Melbourne Cup winner of: last year, is advertised to stand the season at Mr D. S. Wallace's place at Bullurk, : A'ictoria. Ho will bo limited to 10 mares at 20 guineas each. The dispute over the purchase of Morrie England has been compromised by the pay- , ment ot £600 to Mr Broadribb, of Melbourne. The majority of the Christchurch bookmakers lost heavily over the victory ot Boh vi the Caulfield Cup. The jockey, W. Brown, who rode Nelson in so many of his victoiies, has again gone into E. Cutts's employ. Concerning the heavy wagering over Carbine- for the Melbourno Cup a week of two back, a Melbourne paper bays the commission was not executed tor Mr Wallace. Tho facts are that some time ago " the Count," Mr Abrahams, laid a plunger £20,000 to £2,000 about the horso, and being desirous of getting back the money commissioned Mr Jack Cohen to work tho commission tor him. Hence the shorten ing of Carbine's piice. The Wanganui-bied two-year old filly Omaha, by A'-mamcnt — Cornelia, bus been purchased by ono of E. Cutty's pah on?, and is now located at Christcluuch. Tho piicc paid foi tho tilly was £200. It ia stated Son-of-a-Gun might be purchased just now for a very trilling advance on 50 guinea?. When Singapore was quoted at 7 to J last week for the Melbourne Cup, Ben/on' chief backer at tho Victorian Tattersall's Club stated hi-s willingness to lake 600 to I 400 that he beats Singapoie— 1, 2, 3— in the Cv p. T. Craig rode two capital races on Hurricane at the Pukuranga Meeting on Saturday, which &ays a great deal, for the horso is a difficult ono to ride. Hurricane was picparcd by J. B. Williamson, and he had him looking at his best. lviifus by King of the King from Princess Alice, who won the V.R.C. Derby fne yeais ago, was one of tho thiee etarteis for a Soiling Kace at Oakleigh Park (Melbourne) a few days back, and was rather easily beaten by St. John. Bravo was knocked .back in the Melbourne Cup bot-fihg. la£t Meek, owing to, having hurt himself while being put in the train for Ballarat. The opinion is general among those Svfio witnessed the Cauliield Cup race that the son of Grand Flaneur would have won- oi)ty' for holding' a bad position- 'througlfo'irf, and ~he was several times disappointed. It is reckoned theTafcurangu Hunt Club ' exchequer will profit tp thg extent pf about £](JQvovei"'last~ Sajbuwlay's meetings -This -will put the Club ton a good financial footing again*' •• -'- " Chaldean broke a« blood vessel i« the •Caulfield Cup, .'but' for Vhich, his Mends say, he would have \vou." The Hon. Jntne'l White headed the list of i pi i/.e winners at the G.uiMield meeting »vith £1,7 / 13, J. Cripps's single win returning - : £1,500. ~ Rammage, who had the mount on Boz in the Ciiulfield Cup, &ays he Avas very fortunate in securing a good p6<-ibion throughout the i ace, and gi\es sticngth to the opinion that the nice was a good thing for Bravo by ;i3-er£ing that "Boz Was^ tiring fast at the T.ie (/.uilfield Foal Stakes winner, Victor T-lugo, has changed hand?, the Hon. J. White having disposed of him to a patron of Walter Hickenbotham's stable. Mr Brodiibb, a Victorian squatter, was a £5,000 loser over Moorebank'c defeat in tho Caulfield Cup. Dunkeld's new owner is Mr W. Bayers, of Melbourne, m ho "runs" an hotel, and is a well-known penciller. -*~*~" i This week's papers ftam, Sydney show' that the e\-A(rcklaftd pcrtiy Signess has won tw o races lately. At Cjiitei^bury, Pa«k l ho carried 9st7£b( home and beat "a field of tliittcen, while at ihe Sydney driving Phi k meeting I}e,was~^isa.in{successful wibh 9dt Tlb-iii'tiie'satVUc. -- i\t,thd recent meeting of the Sydney Hunt Club, held at Wai wick Farm, the racehoipe Charcoal and his trainer and jockey, Uainsford, were disqualified for twelve mohths, the basis of the chaige being that Charcoal had been .gu.iity-ef.,- suspicious running. The A.J^.w. '^o'm'mittco after going into the Mhole matter have lesolved tiiat; there was no grQu.nd k -for the disqua i lication, and thcreforo'ient^vcd ifc. :.<! Iq thcpalnjj days ot the Geolong ."table, Jemmy Wilson was the crack boy of the stable, and used to ride at sst 121b. He rtiow turns tho beam at something like 13tt. A'tfied JUair, who rode Blink Bonny in the Caulh'old -Imp at 6st 21b, is now 9ot ; while ('buy, who used to ride, at 68b41b, is now O^tSlb. When tho last mail left England, T Loates was far ahead of x tjie, winning jockeys .o'l the flat, with a recoid of 106 wins for 406 mounts, between March 25 and August 30 inclusive. (J. Barrett followed with S9 in 428 ; I<\ Barietb was next witli 62 for 295 ; and then came J. Watts, 53; T. Wcldon. 45 ; and J. Fagan, 44.