SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 3 October 1904, Page 2

SPORTING

VICTORIAN HACLNG CLUB OCTO-

JiEU MEETING. A WIN FOR GLADSOME. (Per Press Association, j

MIOLIIOUHNE, Oct. 1. The October Stakes resulted : Gladsome 1, Nuncio 2, Dangai •!. Tho winner started nt 3to 1 and won by three lengths. Time, 2,

min 9jsec. j Submarine, who won a double at Rangitikei meeting, was bred by hitij owner, Mr E. .?. Watt, and is the lirst I'ottl of Uluewater (by St. Leger; ° —Hlueflre)., liluowator cost Mr Watt >J .'!SU guineas as a yearling, but never V sported silk. n The other weejt the stallion Sou'- r wester wias found dead in his box g nt Mr L'tiku i\l a rumaru's stud farm, t l'orawanui, Lower Rangitikei. Sou'wester was fored byMr F. S. Reynolds, New So\ilh Wales, in 1879, and «'i, "ut by Goldsbi'ough from y Seabreeze. I'.? was brought to Dun-

Odin as a .VuKling, and was trained I and owned by 10. Cutts. lie was fairly sucoesslful on |ihc turf. He won

theHawke's Hay Cup, C.J.C. Metropolitan Handicap, Wellington Autumn Handicap, and was also successful at Auckland and Tiinaru. .

Sou'-wester'a bust represent afaivo on the tuif was Boreas, but Dexterity and Lotion were both useful. He sired a groat many jumpers, Uie best of who'" were Haydn, Nor'-west, Dingo, ° Troubadour, liaurjri, and Marina.

Betting on the New Zealand Cup l shows little signs of life, and it looks as if it would be a poor race for the layers. Achilles is being quietly nibbled at at 1U to 1, and 1 think it ' willl* found he is one. of the most huavily backxd horses in the race, M„hutongais also in demand, and Calibre and Halberdier show signs of

coming into favour. In referring to Uie contest in <he Craven Plate on the third day of the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meoting tho Sydney Mail says :—A battle between such high-class gallopers as Gladsome, Cruciform, Emir, Lord Cardigan, Fitz-Graftnn

and Abundance in tho mile and aquarter weight-for-agc race could not fail to arouse the greatest, interest, and, as a natural corollary, induced inutih speculation. Gladsome opened Vup favourite at 6to 4, but Cruci-

r form, Lord Cardigan and Emir were| . ■J supported with spirit, and in the end ■, tho winner of the Spring Stakes , weakened a. trifle in the quotatiuna. ij Abundance was well backed, but . very little money was in the market : for Fitz-Grafton. Confident that - Fitz-Grafton had not shown his beat' ! form in the Spring Stakes, and if, - let run his own race the hoi's*); • would do credit to his parentage i] and retrieve his lost prestige, Mr 3 McGill ordered his jockey to come i' through from end to end at his best] i 1 pac<>. At tihe post; Emir showed signs' ■j of temper, and -a few of his ol'po- - nents narrowly missed the weight of t lis beets more than once. At last ,| Mr Mackellar got them inline, and

■' sent the field away evenly on its ' important* errand. Following inI otructions, Fitz-Gnafton's rider at ence took him to the front, and set the pace a cracker, but the others were not inclined to allow the CJueenslander to steal a march, anA kept him close company all the way. Near the half-mile post Cruciform and Gladsome sot out to run down the loader, and already the severity - of the pace was telling plainly upon .! Loid Cardigan, Abundance, and Lord r- Fitzroy, and before the three fur-| . longs was reached their case - was entirely hopeless. Turning into| s the straight, Fitz-Grafton was stilt i, in front, with the two mares press-1 e ing him on the left, and Emir fol-' r| lowing closely in his wako. At the! - distance the Queenslander drew out' i-| a length, and a little farther on the] p two New Zealandws were beaten and i holding out sigmale of distress. Here .-" Fitz-Grafton hod tho race won, but e interestedly watching the two Strug-' y, gling mares on his, left shoulder, 1 Scott did not see Rmir creeping up e on his right until the big son of Wols lace had his head in front. Sud-j ■- denly awakening to his new danger' h Scott g>ot to work rather hurriedly,

on Fitz-Grafton, but tho post was al too near, and a half-neck flat wen against him. Tho honours of tr, race were all with Fitz-Grafton, bu no more so than were the honours c riding wi th the Victorian jockey, I Lewis. To get through as Lewis di on the rails was a lucky chance, on to get between the rails and anothc

horse is a position eminently suit* to a horse o( Eiiiir's"disuosition, a lie always! Ilni:ihes as straight as gun barrel at Handwick when he ha a horse cm the left to keep hi] straight ; 'but if on the outside Bmi invariably makes in the direction c the judge's box. Emir does not bor out (or any reason of cowardice o trickmess, but on account of tl:

rimnn.g at Handwick being the r< verse to the way ho lias been race "' and trainod_ in Victoria. In view o . | the fact that tlw horses had to rui ■ tho greater part of the journo; J- against a strong gale, the time (2mii 20sec) was very fast. Despite th J defeat of the favourite, the crowi gave Emir a hearty cheer on his n " turn to weigh, and Fitz-Grafton wa ; not forgotten by any means by ad ' mirers of a good horse. Mr McGH 1 was generally commiserated with a losing such a n. important race liy i fluke, but was also congratulated o owning such a horse as Fitz-Grafton