TURF TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 11 March 1907, Page 3

TURF TOPICS.

iiy "Moturoa." Truce's time in the Wangamii Cup, 3min 2 4-osce is the same as that leg'stored by Mars in 11103. which constituted a record for the event.

Although the result ot' the Cup came tis a surprise to many, the win was still deserved, as the Graft on mare has been running into second place very consistently for some time past. The acceptances received for the second day of the Wangamii meeting were decidedly disappointing. The Club is one of the most progressive in the col ony, and deserves a better response from owners. The totnlisator .figures a t the DaniHTvirke Jockey Club's Annual Meetill" showed an increase of ,C2:)U!>. Polyanthus was the last to lini-.lt m the Autumn llan.Leap at the Dilutevirko meeting and evident!lv appc.tr-: to have lost form. The crrat c Signalman has at last I,ecu relegated to the stud, and no doubt starters w 11 uoi. regret his ahtence from the barrier. Aberration has been sold to a Ma*terton sportsman, and will in future bi trained at Opaki. Sherlock Holmes is reported to be training well at .Maslerton. A Wanganui writer st.ites l.iat llaltmdicr Who is at present enjoying a spell av 11 shortly be broken into harness and used as a buggy lior.v. An Otago exchange remarks tn.it Denmark,"a livo-year-old geld ng by (.Hutu's tfirthday, who was hawken about as a two-year-old and sold to u Northampton butcher for .C 5, is performing well over .fences in Kng.and this season. He won another race, the Andover Steeplechase, at N •übnry. just More the last mail left. Wenmark figures amongst the candidates for Liverpool drawl National honours, and should he win the great crosscountry event at Ainlrec, the fac that he was once sold for a ' liver \ult give to the victory a tinge of the higlilv sensational. The riding tactics d splayed at a certain meeting in th.: South Island recently were according to a Southern writer, at times brazenly impudent. The writer states that lie has at <litferent times drawn pointed attention to the riding at various meetings, hut some stewards have either very little knowledge of racing or else they have very little backbone."

Vlr P. 11. Reynolds has been obliged to relinquish ail idea of winning races with Solution this autumn Michaei Cannody has the reputation of being very skilful with weak-legged horses ; but lie could make nothing out of Solution. Swimming was 'tried as a last resource., and it was thought that as Solution (lid very little work before the Metropolitan she might, with the aid of a few spurts, he got well enough to win the Futurity Stakes. It was not to, however (says a Melbourne writer), and on Monday Cannody advised Ml' Reynolds to scratch Solution for all autumn engagements, in the hope, of getting licr to stand again iu the spring. This advice Mr Reynolds took, and Solution will be turned out for a rest. When Mr Reynolds gave 4000gs for Solution he displayed the pi uck of a Bob Sievier or an Ernest llrodribb, Not only had Mr Reynolds never seen Solution; but he bought her in the face of her having been refused by Sir llupert Clarke, after his trainer, James Scobie, had thoroughly overhauled her. Solution lasted through the spring, and in this respect the purchase was justified ; but her defeats in 'the two Cups must have heen very costly. . '] |