SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 March 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

j RACIXti FIXTURES. . March 30 and April I—Wairarapa U.C. Autumn, t March 31) and April 1, 3, and li—Austin • linn .IX'. Autumn. April 1 and 2 Keiidiiig J. 0. Easlv Meeting. April 1, 2, and (i— Auckland it.C. Au- ' tunin. ' April I—l'atca R.C. Annual. ' " ■ April 1 and 2—Catcrbiiry ,I.U. Autunir. • April I(l—Manuia Hack ii.C. Annual. April 10 and 11—.South Canterbury J.C. Auluimi. i;acl\(J i.\ al'stkalia. Uece!ved 27, 1.1;S a.m. Sydney, March 2(i. No tar there has been little straightout wagering on 1 lie Doncaster Cup, and no transactions of any note worth recording. I'ATEA ACCEPTANCES. I'cr I'hss Assoeiatio'i. I'aien. .March 2(1. Hurdle .: Inglewood, Integrity, Champion, Tomlergiiic, Showman, liedshanl;. Kakaramca Stakes: Catapult, Sporting Life, St. .Maria, Lantern, St. Helieis, -Miss Kit, iiui ton, Irish liifle, Lent. Easter Handicap: Slavey, Toddv, l.'hlando, Jesuit, Stayboy, Silver Lead, Lady Sylvia, St. Cyress, Showman, Lingerer, WaionT. iiormtgh Handicap: Integrity, liillow, Silver Lead, Daisy Paul, St". Cyress, White Star, Showman, Uetlaw. Alton Handicap: Nlavev, The Dane. Toddy, Uhlando, lesult, .Stayboy, Sylvan Park, Lady Sylvia, Lingerer. Flying Handicap: Lady Lancelot, Somali, Tambour .Major, Silver Lead, Daisy Paul, White Star, Moldavia. Final Handicap: Sporting Life, St. I'.Maria, Lantern, St. Heliers, Catapult, Miss Kit, Burton, Irish Rillc, Lent, [\eulba, Tangitu, Kusunerc, Sporting (Jueen, Snip, The Cippcr, Noifa, Beti" cent, Inaha, Vizier, Sedgemoor, Nestorei'u, Uoldeu Flake, Fishermaid, Bellevue. Farmers' Plate: To Kuiti, Exhibition, l'angitu', Regard, Mongolian, Lone Star, Noifa, Vizier (late Option).

TURF TOPICS. By "Moturoa." Jving Billy still maintains his position as favorite for.the Easter Handicap at the A.R.C. meeting. Carl Rosa and Waipuna are reported to be in splendid condition and doing good work on the Ellerslie track. Stcpdaneer went slightly lame aft:r doing a gallop at Ricearton last week. Over 200 yearlings are to be offered for sale at Randwick during the A..J.C. race week.

Lady Joan (Sir Foote—Etra Weenie), who cost '20(10 guineas as a yearling at Randwick last autumn, won her first race recently. As the value of the stake was only .€125 she lias still a long way to go before returning her purchase monev.

Tin; defeat of Poseidon in the Champion Stakes was (writes ''Ajax" in ilie '"Referee*') the most sensational incident in conneetion with the \ .K.C. Autumn meeting, The scene ( alter Dividend beat him was a verv stirring one. There was great cheering both for Dividend and for Poseidon! Everybody had come to regavd Poseidon as invincible, and no one except the superstitious ones who noted that Poseidon's number 011 the card was l:i dreamt for a moment of defeat, liven Uie majority of the rmgmen refused to take the long odds oll'ered that Poseidon would win. They did not object t» belling on safe lines, viz., 2 tii 1 against backers miming what would run second to Poseidon of the other three, in case Poseidon won they could not Will or lose on these' figures, but if the colt ol tlie season went down they scooped the pool. And so they did! I am not going to try and take away the credit of Dividend's line victory,' but there can lie no doubt that Proeeedcr worried the life out of Poseidon, and won the race for Dividend. Why Claylon did not drop behind Proeeedcr instead of racing with him all the way, ill) one except himself knows, but 1 feel eertiiiu that the best horse ever foaled would have been beaten in a similarly run race. Proeeedcr and Poseidon simply cut their own throats, and Barden, waiting patiently behind with Dividend all the way, came along at the psychological moment, and, running past" Poseidon, won easily. This was Poseidon's second defeat fur Ilie season, and it must have been disappointing to ill-. "Piobertson," his owner, who only arrived from England a few days ago in time, however, to see Poseidon win the Loch Plate. .Mr. AV. T. .lones, it may be remembered, was similarly unlucky in big events in Australia when out of the country. I'oseidon is probably getting sick of the amount ol racing he has had since the early spring, and lie has started to show signs of irritability, lie fought for his head in the first part of the Cha inpio/t as he lias never fought before, but still as [ have indicated, the way the race was run was more than responsible for the defeat of Poseidon than the humor he was in.

AA hen the Ameer of Afghanistan was at a race meeting at Calcutta last month hi! wanted to know whether it was arranged as to which horse was (o win before the competitors left ilie paddock. Seemingly the Ameer has his own ideas as to the best wav to make racing i«.v-

Seemingly they do not believe in lads riding in public :it a very earl)' age in some parts of America, as a San Francisco paper says that the local authorities of the National ISociety for the Prevent ion of Cruelty to Children have served notice upon the officials of Ascot l'ark (Los Angeles) to cease allowing jockeys under sixteen years of aye lo he employed at the track or prosecutions will be instituted. The society declares that a recent investigation disclosed that several of the boys riding there are under the limit of sixteen years.