CAULFIELD NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7957, 21 October 1905, Page 2

CAULFIELD NOTES.

(Received Oct, 21, 1-1 a.m.) MICIjBOUHNE, oct.2'J. The t ips of the Sporting Judge are Boahdil or Torah. The forecast of the weather is 'fine with cool and light winds."- A big crowd of inter-State and other visitr ors is expected. There was a large amount of belr tins to-day over the Caulfield Cup, i and it was fairly well distributed. Maniapoto was backed to win £SOOO at 1(10 to (i aiuUi, Kmir £2OOO at 10(1 to 74, Canteen £-4000 at 100 to 11 and 2, l'roceedor £3500 at 100 to ■ l| awl 2, Warrior £3500 at. 100 to , Dcmas £3OOO s,t 10ft to 2|, Toialv £3OOO at 01 to 1, Dant/zic £4OOO at 100 to 2, Koscmead £2500 at 100 to G, Moani £2OOO at 100 to 3.„ Closing prices are Gto 1 Torali, 10 to 1, Boabdil 12 to 1 Kmir, Marvel Loch and Pius, 15 lo 1 Maniapoto and Rosemead, -10 to 1 Warroo and Roller, 20 to 1 Scott Ftee, 5,0 to 1 Canteen. NOTES BY "MOTUROA," At tlite Otaki Maori Racing Club's Meeting last week, There were great complaints against the starting. Mr Alf. Woods, the newly-appointed starter for the club, by his own request was', permitted to use the flag instead of the 'barrier. This decidedly, retrograde step, met with pronounced' opposition from owners, and in almost every instance it w a s proved! that it was,futile to attempt to get horses away on even -terms without) the aid of the tapes. A local sport ■ who was present at Otaki, -informs i mo that never, during all his racing experience, extending over, some Mriii'i . ty years, has he witnessed such a i disgraceful exhibition of starting. Ho says -it was so deadly that owners * held a meeting at the close of the first day's races and 'informed the stewards that unless a barrier was provided the s.cond day they would not accept, with their Worses. Thq stewards promised to acceod to the j request and accordingly wired away to Mr Saywell for his machine, but owing to the shortness of notice it • ' was unavailable-. The most ' instance was in the Flying Handicap, "* the first day. In this race Margucrll itc got allying start of fully six lengths, Regulation and Kremlin being left hopclesrly out of it. As tins ( j result of no barrier the scratching; pen was freely used the second day, only three horses starting in the two principal events, the Railway and Ngatihua Handicaps. to be hoped the officials of the club will benefit by their experience and insist on the use of the machine at theiq future mectingsThe following are extracts from a recint itsue of the New Zealand, Times on Urn gambling question. The article was a comment on the views' exprrssul 'by l'r. Nclig-an in an address at Auckland. "\Miat is gambling'!'' The question was once bluntly asked by Archbishop Whately at a social sat'lieiing ■ oil prominent) men ; and lie cut, short a recondite reply from another celebrated diving' by giving as the answer to his own question—"lt is a breach of the 1 tlrti-th commandment,." Bishop Neligan confessed that in all his reading- lie had not been able to find a better definition of the practice. He set out lo establish the thesis that) each of the three laws, by which human law is conditioned—ths economic, the social, and the moral—is violated by gaimbling. The chief point insisted upon throughout is that thosei who gamble commit the sin of covetousness ; but that, which is proved up to the hilt, really vi'tiates the whole argument, for it is clear that if gambling stands condemned on thai ground, so do most of the activities of commercial, industrial, and professional life. The desire, for gain at. the expense of others is, in fact, the ruling passion of -humanity,,, it is the basis of all competition and enWrpri.se, and if this is to be suppressed as an anti-social, immoral, and generally objectionable thing, nothing will remain but. the dead, monotonous level of State socialism. The condemnation of gambling on these high l grounds, therefore, involves an entire recoils true lion of, the s(.»!al and eommercjal fabric."

The Caullield Cup will be decided to-day.

OssachkolT, winner of a double at Duiiedin, is a three-year-old colt by Slcpniak, out of Miss Uclly. He in well spoken of by southern writers.

| Auckland papers report a great imI'l'ovement in Lady Annie this sea--1 sen. She should be worlh following : in coming engagements. Owing to the action of the V.R.C. [ ami V.A.T.C. officials in refusing Mr "reus entries, it is reported lie is going to dispose of his race horses. Uoxes have been cngagiil at Kllerslic for D. O'Brien's pair, Multifid, ami tirenade, in view of the ARC Spring meeting. ' The A.R.C. have removed the disquallficatikir, inflicted on T. Quinlivan wnr ii, 1903 Cnnecfe, iMslie"""" 6 ° " le 1>0 " y Inip at K1 "

0 th « WHlo«lo.v Stakes, is-a J2 J"' J by (jlanromvkl from Mtalowla sU ;: s " t,s ,u ''' 1,,,5 l appearance under

Armistice was scratched for Hie Aew 'A'aiaivdl Cupat 10.30 a.m. on Thursday. 1