THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 3

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

RACING fixtures. April 18 and 20-Wairarapa R.C. Autuiun. April lg 20, and 21-Auckland R.C. J.C. Autumn. April 18, 20, 22, and 25—Australian Jockey Club Autumn. April 2it—Beaumont J.C. Annual. April 20 and 21—Riverton R.C. Easter. April 20 and 21—Kumara R.C. Autumn. April 20 and 21—CJ.C. Autumn. April 20 and 21—Feilding J.C. Autumn. April 29 and May 2—Wellington R.:\ i Autumn. May « and 7-Hawke's Bay J.C. Ajtumn. May 6 and 7—Marlborough R.C. Autumn. May 13 and 14—Asliburton County R.C. Autumn.

May 23 and 25—North Otago J.C. Winter. I TURK TOPICS. (By " Moturoa.") A preferred bookmaker is one who iwilling to wait until you get readr to settle. 1 lie Auckland and Wairarapa Autuuni meetings open tlii, day week.

Hie Australian J. C. Autumn meeting, which commences on Saturday next, promises to be full of interest to New Zealaudera. Elevation Ost. lib., and Alaranui tfet. 101b-., are engaged in the Doneaster Handicap, run over a mile on the first day of the gathering. • » • • On Wednesday, April 22nd, Elevation .meets Mountain King, Poseidon, .Scotland and Co. in the All-aged Stakes at B&ndwick. Over a mile course the Ne v Zealander will keep 'Stralian horse, iu a perspiration. • • « Elevation and Mouutaiu King also figure amongst the nominations for the Cumberland Stakes, two miles, and the I AJ.C. l'late, three miles, „t i] )( . s , m ,. meeting, so there is every chance oi I the pair meeting over distances which I should linally -i-itle tlie ipiction a, to | Which is the better three year-old. I

The defeat of Husbandman in tile Mananatu Stakes came as a big surprise to most followers of ''the game," and although the Treadmill eolt ran a ■olid race, the brilliancy which chara - teriaed his victories of a few month-, was entirely absent from Wednesday's race. Golden Slipper, who did m»t come up from Christcliureh, wa* th\i only scratching, and Husbandman was the popular fancy, Klysiuin and Aborigine being next in favour. From a good fttart Aborigine took up the runniug in his smartest style, and led Vasa an l Elysium to tbe straight. Vasu waquickly doui with, and the \.iluhur-i filly made a great e !fort to catch Aborigine in the run home, but the son of ilernwee was going great guns ami won easily by a couple of lengths. Husbandman was the same distance l.chfu.l Eiyaiuni, and Sister Anne was fourth. ■ * » •

The Champion Hack lUce was a gool thing for the Hon. ■}. D. Ormond's liirk enhead filly Woodhey, who headed Truganini after a couple of furlongs ha I been traversed, afld was never afterwards troubled. Waipaku improved upon her long list of seconds by appropriating the Longbum Handicap, of nine furlongs, in slashing style. After going three furlongs the Conqueror mare went oat on ber own and came into th" straight with a substantial lead. This was just where everybody expected her to collapse, nut she finished up her task very strongly, running in an eas;winner by four lengths from Tangimoana, who just headed King hilly in the last bit. The time recorded, lmin. 531 •Mecs. must lie New Zealand retard time. Waipaku is to be *oid by auction in Palmerston to day, and taking into consideration her reeent- victory should "touch" a high figure.

{Said an excited'lrishman to hi- restive steed, whieh after a busy ten minutes bucking and plunging had succeeded in getting its foot caught in the stirrup, *Och! Shufe if ye're going to get up iti toime for roe to get down!''

At Feilding last week the aged gel 1* ing Peruvian, by Gipsy Kilig—Aljkum, fell while being schooled over hurdleand broke his neck. 11. Futieher. who rode him, got off with a severe shaking. Peruvian wa* a filt rate jumper and hAd beeu a long time at ihe game, haying won his first race at Marton i.i He won the Hack Steeplerha-■ at Rangitikei the -ame month, and the following .January won the HacK Hurdles at Koxton. After winning :i numtar of hurdle-races the (Jipsy King gelding was spelled for a long time, but upon lieing put into work again raced up to his be»t form and won many races. Last reason he won four times out of six starts.

A few weeks ago the Port Adelaide Club tried an innovation which acted welly and is likely to be further experimented with, "ft is the idea of the Hon. John Lewis, M.uC, that a white tope should be stretched across the track behind the horses at tlie barriei, to assist the starter in getting them away. As soon as the starter takes his place at the post two men, with the outstretched tape (3 or 4 inches deep), slowly approach the barrier, until they are almost on the heels of the horses. The tendency on the part of fractious candidate* on breaking away from th; Topes is immediately they see the white line to bock into position again.

The favourite " dope " for racehorses In America is strychnine, and for the convenience of trainers it is put up in tablet form, one or two tablets administered to the prad before starting in m race. A trainer's small boy overheard his father telling the head lad to give Go Fast two tablets before the Flying Handicap, "became he was a rogue." The youngster seemed impressed, and approaching his progenitor inquired, "Was Moses a rogue, dad. /J " How the deuce do 1 know, ?onny Whatever put that idea into your queried the puzzled mentor. "Well,' said the kid, "the Sunday School teacher told us tlie Lord gave Moses two tablets, and I thought p'raps Moses wa like old Go Fasti"

A well-known Taranaki owner wagiving his jockey a bit of advice. "Make every post a winning one, sonny, and keep the ueddy doing his best. You'll simplv 'fly' in if >"«u only take Time by the fetlock" and the starting-beil langl

In New Zealand, of course, says the Times, proprietary racing clulis arc against the laws of the racing conference, but as there seems to be a -ort of impression prevailing that a proprietary racing club is a fetish" to be avoided and condemned at an}- cost, it might be as well to remark that in England, which in after all the home ot lacing, proprietary clubs are the ord-r rather than the reverse—for in-tan--.-, the Eiiifli-h Derby. 1 -iipi tbe greatest rare i.. «... wo.id i- nm on ,!„• I'p-om D..W11- raeee.iiu-e. til' - pr"i"'it\ of the Kpsoiii lirand Stand Company. Limited, or Mr. J. Dorling. and a very line property it is. Then, again, the Eclipse Stakes of tlO.'XKt. which possibly gave us the most stirring raw the world ha- ever seen lietween Ard Patxick, Sivptre. and Roc-k Sand, is run at Sandouu Park, the property of the Sandown Park Racecourse Company. Ltd. Many other instances there ar\ such as Hurst Park. Manchester, liivmingham. l«i»erp«ol. Lincoln. Alexandra l> a rk and Newbury—all great ami renowned racecourse"—which are .-'dcly and absolutely the property of liniitel liability companies. Vet these clubs give us the best racing in the world. The writer holds no brief for proprietaryracing dub-, but merely points out tha» proprietary racing clubs can still In- r--fpectabl,. and above -uspition. T» the casual ob-erver it would almost seem

that, a proprietary ruin;: ehih would !»• even more direful of what happened ..n its eoiirse than would tile mutual i ~i<.' flub, for tli*' oltieiaU of tli.- foriier In . imich to l»sp in tlie shape of rapital .hi I dividends if anything p*- wr,<n«. wlihvm tlt** niring '"lull (as New /> .1 -;i ■!'] knows iti has not one iota to 10-e. I f)" pn-ition \Vrlll'll -. rni to lieell iiii-' ■ presented.