THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 3

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

••<•■- RAGING FIXTURES. *-' ■ 7 * 9 '~ Au «kland Racing November 7 9, 11, 14-Canterburv Jockey Club. • November 19-Waihi Sports Club AnnuDecember 3-Waitara R.C. Annual. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa"). New Zealand Cup Day.

Waihi weights are due to-day. ■ Dardanus and Reservoir were double ■ Winners at Gisborne. ■Praters.will be picking 'em at Riccarton, Ellershe, Waverley, and Carterton on Monday. In winning the Doncaster Cup last month Radium, with 10.1, ran the two miles and a furlong in 3min. 3ti2-osec. Splendid acceptances have been received for the Waverley meeting and there should be some good racing there on the King's Birthday. A special train wrll leave New Plymouth on Monday, at 7.25 a.m., Waitara at 7.5 a.m., lu.'iewood 8.15 a.m., for Waverley, returning at 4.50 p.ni., for New Plymouth and W attera. The Waverley meeting is always a most enjoyable one, and beiujt the only attraction to followers of •• the noblest sport on earth," as far as Tara-

nakr is concerned, should draw a bis; attendance. The tale is told of a local trainer who engaged an Irish immigrant to look afteT some of his neddies. The spalpeen was instructed to be up and have a horse ready for a trial at 5.30 a.m., bat at the appointed hour the trusted "mucker-out" was amongst the missing. The trainer, boiling over with righteous indignation, as they say in the religious papers, went round the lads' room and surprised his Hibernian assistant in bed. "What the adjective do you mean by not being out at halfpast five, you young blanker?" demanded the irate prad-mentor. " Well, sor," Teplied the shaking youngster, " I didn't come because I was fa-ast asleep, sor; an' I wouldn't 'ave been no use, sor, in that sta-ate, sor," and then the trouble commenced. Deeley, the crack Auckland horseman . is "out" again. The race which proved his downfall iwos the Waikanae Handicap on the second day of the Poverty _ Bay spring meeting. The race was a match between Tarina and Andrew Mack, Dfreley having the mount on the latter. Andrew Mack was first away, but Tarina quickly drew level, and after going a couple of furlongs had a slight advantage, which she maintained to the winning post, whining by three-quarters of a length. Andrew Mack did not appear to be pushed at any part of the day, and was apparently only out for an airing. On the first day Andrew ,Mack led the Flying Handicap runner) fsom start to finish, Stylish being second. Deeley has been riding well this ' season, his record being 18 wins, but his disqualification last season does not seem to have been a sufficiently strong warning, and it is hardly likely that he will sport silk at registered meetings for some time to come. Disqualification rides neck and neck .with the

strong-wristed brigade. It will be remembered that Nadine, who appeared at the local theatre some weeks ago mentioned " the top-weight" as the correct pea for the New Zealand Cup. The incident is called to mind by the fact that a mare named Nadine won a race at the Poverty Bay gathering. Will her prophecy prove correct? I doubt it very much. "> The St. Paul gelding Dardanus, who * has not done much since winning the Waihi Cup eighteen months ago, won the Hack Flat and Makaraka Handicaps at Gisborne last week. J. Buchanan rode him in both races.

Deeley and Buchanan each -rode four ■winners at Poverty Bay, Jones and Kohson piloting a iraee each,' and D. Cameron, Lindsay, Whittaker, and Murray also saluted the judge once. The Spring Handicap, V/i miles, at Poverty Bay, provided a fine race between Douche and Auldearn. The latter led for half the distance, when Douche joined issue and a neck-and-neck tussle ensued. Along the back, around the bend, and up the straight the pair faced dead level. Buchanan on Douche made a great effort in the last twenty yards, the top-weight responding gamely, and won by a bare head. Clanchattan, who was recently purchased by an Australian sporti-maii, was a starter in the Jfoonce Valley Cup. Going along the back of .the course some bumping took place, OrziPs daughter falling, and Clanchattan fell over her, breaking his back. Clanchattan .was a ti-year-old horse by Clanranald from Teredina, and his poor record in Xew Zealand was only notable for his in-and-out performances.

The Maorilander Soultline started a very warm favourite for the Phoenix Handicap, 7 furlongs, run at Moonee Valley o n the 24th ult. Miss Bobby and Soultline cracked on a terrific pace, but at the end of five furlongs got that tired feeling, and anything could have beaten them over the last "quarter." ' The splendid track-work of Glenuilin at Riecarton sets one thinking. Some loud-mouthed persons class him as a rogue, hut after his efforts at Wanganui and at Tjenthaip 1 do not hold with the idea at all. .To-day's race may serve to quieten a crowd of the Lochiel sons detractors. The other New Plymouth candidate, Uh|ando, may be depended upon to be running on at the finish. but lie is a little fellow and the weight way (top him, A wonderful gallop was put up by Hooltan on the course proper at Caulfield before the Melbourne Cup meeting. He ran a mile and a half in 2.37%, beating by a second the previous revord ior the course, 2.38y 4 , made by Solution, jlooltan started off rather slowly, taking 1.19'/ 3 for the first six furlongs, and l&'/t for the iirjt seven furlongs, but Iffter that full steam was put on. Mooltan was no doubt lightly shod, but it was a great gailop all the same. His subsequent running at the V,R.C. meeting showed him up as a rare stayer. Finishing second to Peru ia the Melbourne Rakes on Saturday he came out a»4 carried 0,1:3 into fourth place in the Cup. The cable tells us he was galloped in the latter race, so it is probable that he would have showed to even greater advantage had he not been

interfered with. Chatting recently with one of thoie broad-minded, non-bigoted clergymen who are not yet, thank goodness, as extinct as the emu in Tasmania (says "Galtee More "J, he remarked that in some quarters there was a great deal of noise and very little wool—like the shearing of a refractory he-goat—aneiit the evils of gambling and drink, which were, after all, only evils when indulged in to excess, and even then no worse, if as bad, as evils that were all too prevalent throughout the Commonwealth of Australia, anil which were not so often denounced from pulpit and platform as their notorious prevalence demanded they should be. The cable messages a few weeks ago made reference to a contest between Sir Hiram Maxim ami tin- Earl of Rosslyn at the roulette table. The Earl of

Rosslyn has spent years devising a , "system" by means of which lie clai•«- . ed to be able <.o break the bank at any | time provided that he had sufficient time' and sufficient capital. He admits that the chances are in favour of the bank in the casinos at Monte Carlo and , elsewhere, but he believes, or at any rate he believed two months ago, that the advantage could be neutralised bv the application to the game of brains raided bv experience. Sir Hiram loop

on gambling from the; cold mathematical point of view, and lie hold the vi<sw that the "board" at Monte Carlo is si arranged that no matter where tne | money, is placed the bank makes its percentage and that this percentage 19 » fixed quantity, "quite irrespective 01 what system is played or whether io system is .played." The contest between the two men was arranged as a result of a newspaper controversy, and they started with £IO,OOO worth of paper money each. The result was just what the man of science had expected. I/>rd Ro«slvji is bound to lose," he said m speaking of the matter. -J think ..is system is certainly a very ingenious one. and if he were playing in earnest

at Monte Carlo he would get more fir.i . for his money than many other gentlemen with systems. T do not gamble ' personally. Tt is simply to me a n,n tcr of mathematics. ■ Many people who talk about rouMte do not know wha • t means. For instance, one mm, I k - has what he think- 1- an irfallib' -system.' Why. the run that he wnn s ;rco,ndonlv occur, bv the law of P r 4 .; X.itv,once-in2.HT.4 R M4SI,,,, n% 0 would have to wait more than -»><■!'. for a chance! There are -nine p»--Mlitins which bv "eometnciil prngiessi .1 bilities w nit 11 »> 7 oii3.fli* only come once ~1 .». times. And then iliev talk ol"• ■"' M systems!" T/>r.l Itosslvn found -J "'bank" impregnable, ami 10-igmu ( contest.