THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 207, 22 August 1908, Page 4

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

"5 - ' 'RACING FIXTURES. £ - »£&ugu»t 27.—Wairarapa Hunt Qlub An--9»~,. unal. . : August 15—GJ.C. Grand Rational Meet's", ing. i't— Steeplechase Club t . Annua 1 . > September i and 3.—Marton J. C. Annu-, ijgepteniber 2 and 3—Marton J.C. Hack £>_, ifeeting. X. Spring. |feseptember 16 and 17—Aahburton Coun§b ty R.C. Spring. pjeptember 19, 23, 28—Avondale Jockey if*-ciub. fflggptember M, fR-Geraldine Racing §K Oub. jjijSeptenrber 24 ftiui 26—Wanganui Joek°.y if* Club. SgOetober 7 and B—Hawke's Bay Jockey m' -£lub. GMJctober H and 15—Napier Park Racing Je* cinb. K October o—Waitara Racing Club. I&etobtt 11 and 15-JBunedin Jockey »•>• Club. »•» (Sub. fKQetober 29 •Bid > 30-ff"OTerty Bay Turf If Oub. g&Oetober 29-and 30—Masterton Racing ET Clab. November 7, 0, and 11—Auckland Racing Club November 7, 9, 11, and 14—Canterbury Jockey Oub. * - November 9—'Waveriey-Waitotara Racr ! », ing Club. November 28, December 2—Takapuna ►* T Jockey CtubrNovember 30, December I—Feilding ; Jockey (Sob. ,'Pecember 26 and 30, January.Land 2 t , Auckland Racing Club. '. DATES OF COMING EVENTS. |i New Zealand. |» v September 19—Avondale Stakes, ps-fieptember 19—Avondale Cup. i|\Beptera.ber 23—Avondale Guineas, ggfieptember 24—Wanganui Guineas. g| October B—flawke's Bay Guineas. SlNovember 7—Nev^Zealand Cup. ||L Australia. M- October 3— AJJO. Derby. IRjOctober s—Metropolitan Stakes. IpOctober 10—Caulfield Guineas. Eg October 17—Caulfield Cup. EfeOctober 31—V.KX3. Derby. iSlftwember 3—Melbourne Cup.

i-~. ~ • TURF TOPICS. £T<' %<* (By "Moturoa"). | v Racing matters are now very quiet. p:_The next meeting on the list is that Sf'ftf the Marton Jockey Club, which opens Wednesday week. B ..'The bid fossil who wrote, "Tis better S~tb> l' avc tr ' a( l and lost, than never to iMiiwe tried at all," knew mighty little' t 'aiout punting on horse races. 3" * * * * .. How tan a man be in a sweet mood p. when he has lost his good " sugar " on iS,J» bad horse! This probably accounts K'for the many glum.faces seea about National meeting. r'j Four first favourites—Top Rose, Storg"jnont, Audax, and Vasa—saluted the t Judge on the concluding day of the Canterbury meeting, !?*" * • * * if, The consistent Motoa was again the grpublic fancy in the August Handicap lEon- Saturday, but although making up ftev* Jot of ground at the finish, the fava:'bnrite v could do no better than finish Hfourth to Wailethe, Simplex, and LandRVern. ■ -

p. Racing is in a nourishing state in the ' Hawke's Bay district. The Napier' Park <_ Racing Club stooped £I2BO over last t year's transactions. What followers of j ''the g.me" lost during the same peri- ;: od wouid take all the figures in the /offiee ti express.

?-«- . . . . s " Since their disqualifications were rer"- u moved, jockeys Cnas. Jenkins and Ben. |t;l>eeley nave not wasted much time in their names amongst the winsgkiiing few. Jenkins scored on Vasa at &the National gathering, and Deeley jgjpiloted Leonator to victory at the' Fleet gf meeting.

!When pot up to auction in Christchurch, Mnltifid was passed in at 600 guineas, but, it is reported that the Mnltifoim horse was afterwards sold Tor 700 guineas. Altogether the prad was a very had bargain for the genial ?Jimmy" Hawkins. 'Weights for the New Zealand Cup are being eagerly looked forward to, andUhlando, Zimmerman, and Perle DXJrNue already being backed—the Gammon Act notwithstanding! • » » • What s wonderful beginner is Lupulite! First" off-the mark in each of his three races at Riecarton, the Lupin gelding made .great" haste across the landscape for four or five, furlongs, but the longer distances found him out. His second to Prim in the Selwyn Handicap on Saturday was a particularly fine effort under the steadier of list. 51b., the six fm-lqngs taking lmia. 16sec. What a fiieT Lupulite must be up to five Furlongs! The North Taranaki Hunt Club meetk- t ing, to be held on the" Taranaki J.C. §P* racecourse on September 10th, promises st*' to be a great success. It is almost |L certain that a good number of outsiders grfwill be competing, and local huntsmen jf ,* are looking to their laurels. It is ruthat Arthur Cliff was up on the £, course the other morning taking note 2j - of the exaet place to "make his run" fL when up on Ki*a on the eventful day. »?/ A little Curragb (Kildare) jockey, S" having a dispute with a Butch-built f* trainer of aldennanic proportions, who % " claimed to have a great insight into § , racing affairs, the little man shouted, <A ."By gavvers, av ye had as much forest- sight as ye've got hind sight ye'd knot* & a damsight, I'm thinkin'." It was the (V~ growth of his hindsight, and foresight, that drove (Justanee out of the y,'- racing -addle, and then he ran a hotel ?." -with hunting staWes at Oakham, and "-" by the aid of a prudent wife he did &*i" fairly well. He was almost as good If tcr hounds as " in the colours," and t a famous chase called the " Waterloo an" it was said, "the foremost horselan rode alone," and that horseman ras Custance. During the last half of lie nineteenth century Custance knew ajriy all its best jockeys. He had riden against many and beaten some, but e placed George Fordham as king of tem all; John Osborne probably cani« est, with Tom Cannon well up, and: ien Giimshaw, Snowden, Aldcroft, and halloner. In a race won by Ard Patick th -re were forty runners, all with ood rilers up, but it would be impossible t» find good riders for a field of 1 liall th it number to-day. And it is the same with us. In Carbine's Cup there Bsf were thirty-nine runners—Ramage on B» the winneT, Egan on Highborn (second), §&■"■ *nd Toby Moran on Correze (third),- and ffc. -all the .est had real tradesmen up. But X- doobt if we could find first-class ridfor a Cup field of twenty runners fcS.to-«lay. We are growing, but in some p-thinga it is like the calf's tail-down-wards. » >■'■ t , > *

; *% ffke fchah of Persia is a great patron fJ- jrf horai--racinft but some of hia aport-«-Jng~Bubieot» would be better pleased if af he hawked bis patronage further afield. f£ still, he ig a very fair man, as Shahs £ *o, and Hkeß to see a fair-run race. gfe' But if he has a horse running, and it is |r!-6eateu *"7 another manVs horse, the (iL *Bhab, it is alleged; confiscates that jg*fe>r»e and All the money that was on EZ'bim. The Other fellow can enter a proPgffant, of course, but he may not be prel&sW to give evidence; all his time may ipJjFiake'i op searching round the gaol W-BKf&t&B to see where his head has got Sife, Another good notion of the Shah's §3a*t9 round up all the bookmakers just gßWore each race is started, and ioek gilliem up securely in an iron cage until race to oyer. Then they have to £• MS" out through the iron bars, the Shah ■?Saving first cut in whether he wins or f -whether his horse wins or loses. HU because the Shah never loses. ;fme» the Shah will honour a nan by saying: "Sir RootipooI will nviteh my horse Whirlwind it the best in your stables, but ;t the verv best, for mine is very We will make the stakes 100 K a-side (about €IBHJ. If the so honoured has been tliere before m his own horse, and is very raretow afteragood struggle. Should foolish enough to win, heis'comj.o swop horses and give the to the Shall to boot as well, so small "wonder to learn that iris Jfajestic Majesty is " passionately ■ fractal

Maniapoto is performing light ta9ks at present, and, writes "Observer," appears likely to stand another preparation.

Merric Zealand is now throwing off the symptoms of soreness which prevented him from competing at the Grand National meeting.

Maharunui's displays at Kiccarton were of a very disappointing nature. The" black son of Sylvia Park has been primed up to racing trim for some time past, una is evidently a triile stale and wants a rest.

A few queerly-naincd horses running last week:—Dreamy Daniel, Beer Puller, Monkey Puzzle, Stray Fox, Biddy Curran, and Rouseabout. Truly racehorse nomenclature is getting into a tight fix! .

Mahutonga, winner of the Auckland Cup of 1904 and many other good races, is now on the active list at Randwick (Aust.), and if the old fellow stands a preparation he will next figure as a hurdler, Mahutonga was greatly fancied in the Melbourne Cun of 1905, but •broke down badly shortly before the race and has done nothing since.

The Birkenhead gelding, Audax, created a favourable impression when he donkey-licked his opponents in the Hunter's Hurdles on the opening day of the Canterbury meeting, and the impression was amply confirmed on Saturday when the Hon. J. D. Ormond's huntei cantered in ahead of Kiatere, Le Beau, and a strong field in the Lincoln Steeplechase. Punters would have nothing but Audax, and he was soon taken to the front, jumping in splendid style. The race was his at any stage, and, hopping over the last hurdle with a good lead, he won in a common canter from a very tired crowd of leppers. The squire of Karajnu was nursing a. champion unawares, and had he been entered for the Grand National Steeplechase with the minimum the son of Birkenhead ■would probably have placed his name on the scroll of fame in one hit!

The following reference to the licensing of bookmakers appears in the annual report of the Thames (N.Z.) Jockey Club: "It is with feelings of regret that the committee view the retrograde step taken by Parliament last session, by including in the Gaming Act a provision compelling racing clubs to »llow bookmakers to ply their calling on the various racecourses in the Dominion. The clubs, from experience, found that the presence of bookmakers on racecourses #ere pernicious, and had decided to exclude them, and did so; but by a combination of the 'fraternity' with the ' unco guid,' who desire the abolition of the Totalisator, an unholy allience was formed, which, with united efforts, secured the passing of a measure which all straight patrons of the course deplore. However, it is confidently expected that with the experience that will be gained, the provision will be repealed during the next session of Parliament, and the business of" the management of racecourses left untrammelled in-*he hands of those who know how they should be managed in«the best interests of the public."

The International Horse Show, at Olympia, London, last month, appears to"have been a great spectacle in every way. /The ring and surroundings were lavishly decorated with palms, flowers, turfed banks, and festooned foliage, one paper remarking that the setting was more appropriate to a performance at the Royal Opera than a horse-show. The directors were of opinien that the decorations would appeal to the public, and they-were right. As showing what a big affair it jWas, I may mention that 45,000 in organisation, the prize-money was £IO,OOO, and the entries totalled, 2»«0. Insurances were I heavv, the building beiig covered against fire "for £120,000; the horses stalled within Olympia for £200,000; for visitors against accident, £10,000; for grooms against accident, £10,000; aivl for minor risks £7,500. The jumping, as at any other show, was the item that took public fancy most, and for the second year in-sue«lssion the Australianbred gelding. AH Fours won the high, jump, clearing 7ft., which, however, was 4in. less than last year. He also pulled off the wall jump at Oft. Cin. Mr. A. Lowenstein, of Brussels, gave £SOO for him last year, and has now reason to be well s'atislied with his investment. A number of Belgian, French, and Italian officers rode in the competitions, and the latter won four of the first five prizes in the jumping event confined to officers, the representatives of the British Army being badly beaten. There was a tremendous demand for seats throughout, and before the commencement of the show eighty private boxes were 6old at prices ranging from 50 M> 80gs. each.