THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 4

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

RACIXC FIXTURES. November 19—Waihi Sports Club Annu aL November 28, December 2—Takapuna Jockey Cluij. '.'"vember 30, December I—Feilding Jockey Club. December 3—Waitara R.C. Annual. Oecember 26 and 30, January 1 and 2 Auckland Slicing Club. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa"). Tuinut has run out of hack company. Concluding day of Canterbury metropolitan meeting to day. Haeramai paid a big dividend in the first Hack Hurdles at Carterton, but not much of it caiue this way. The Parliamentary Stakes, of 300 sovs. per annum, comes up for decision on Tuesday next. Three starters should face . the barrier, and they are all ''triers." It will be a great race! Now that the congestion of November meetings is just about over, punters will have a chance to breathe freely again. Very few can count a profit over the J' Downfall" season. Urenadier finished a close third with 0.13 up, to St. Aidan and Prism in the Avon Welter vn Wednesday, and is just about well enough to win a race at any moment.

The Soult filly Salute and Aborigine's full-brother, Maori King fought out. a great finish in the Musket Stakes at Kllerslie on Monday, Salute winning by half a head. -

Under the heading "In the bag," the Bulletin gets off the following:—Punter (seeking information): "Are you afraid of anything in the field, Billy?" Jockey: "Only the stewards!"

Tui Cakobau was timed to run the Spring Handicap mile in lmin. 39 3-osec. on the King's Birthday. The man with the watcn must have been round having a -refresher when the tapes flew up. The disappointing Advantage, of which great things were expected—the Stewards' Handicap being amongst the ■possibilities mentioned, succeeded in winning the Ashley Handicap on Wednesday, running the six furlongs in 1.15 3-5. Rock Ferry (Birkenhead-Eon) is only a commoner. In the Taratahi Handicap the top weight Tumut gave the -well bred son of Birkenhead 241bs, several lengtlw start and a hollow beating at the finish. Tumut carried his !)st. 81b. like a racehorse. The Wallii Sports Club meeting takes place on Thursday next and is always a most enjoyable outing. This year's gathering promises to be up to" that of previous seasons and is sure to draw a crowd of local sporting folk. The first race starts at I p.m., and a varied

programme of flat races, hurdle and trotting events, finishes up at 4.30 p.m. A good day's sport is assured. tiolden Eagle was one of the unfortunates at the start for the Railway Handicap at Carterton, and did well to finish close up, third. On the second day she won the Telegraph Handicap after a good go with Waicola. The other runners appeared to be waiting for some future event and were not unduly hustled, which must be pleasing news to those who consider horse-racing a cruel sport. The Waverley meeting was a big sue cess both as regards attendance, racing and speculation. The sum of £0984 was put through the chaff-cutter as against £5035 last year, an increase or over £I3OO. Five bookies did a big turnover—at least, punters turned their money over to the Ikevs—and the meeting was a most enjoyable one. Indian Mutiny finished first in the Parkvale Hack Hurdles at Taratahi, but was " outed " on the grounds of interference with U'becoio, the latter being awarded the stakes. Jockey F. Raymond who piloted Indian Mutiny so erratically, was handed out a season's disqualification, which is a sweet thing to ponder over for eight months. Although most of the classic races in the calendar have been won by Sir Geo. Clifford's horses, Husbandman's win in the Canterbury Derby was the first recorded by a nearer of the blue and gold chequers in that event, and the popular chairman of the Racing Conference came in for a heap of congratulations after the race.

"Clifford's luck" is surely proverbial; i and at present it seems as* if his horses I cannot go wrong. Husbandman won the Hiccarton Welter on Saturday and the Derby on, Monday, Fasnakyle scoring m the Trwell Handicap on the same day. On the third day of the meeting Kilwinning up the Spring Xurserv Handicap, and Broadsword the Electric Plate. Klysinn nnd Provocation seemed to have lost their dash at Kiccarton. and would have to be at their best to have a chance with Xautuiform, Broadsword and Co. Nautuiform got up in time to win the Welcome Stakes, and his sreat run in the Juvenile Plato when In; failed to reach Armlet by half-a-hentf at once placed him amongst the topnotehers.

Bobrikofl' made amends for his defeat in the Stewards' Handicap by leading home a good field in the Jockey Clui> Handicap on Wednesday. The victory was generally anticipated, and there is no doubt that "Bobby" is one of the best jnilers in the colony. Lam*dorfT «■«!) tin- Waipawa County Handicap, the principal event at the Waipawa meeting on November Dtli. Yuetgaug and Separator made plav fo the straight, where Lanisdorff camo through and won » pretty race by liali-a-length from Voetgang. Hipporofla was a lu-ad away third, and Millonial, Separator, and the ancient Ballyncety also ran.

Sir Geo. Clifford's Kilwimiing, winner of the Nursery Handicap, is rather well named, living by Kileheran from Success. On two occasions followers of Clifford's horses were "pulled out of the (ire" by sheer luck. Applcgarth and Flitaway were well supported, but both failed, Kilwinning and Broadsword. with whom they ucre bracketed respectively, securing the dividends for Cliffords." Thev were discussing a fragment of tough turkey in the luncheon room at Waverley, and endeavouring to trace its pedigrw back to an iron bedstead or something. "By .love," said one sport, munching strenuously, '• r think they must have been chasing this fellow for years, and he has hist his fat in the hout.*' A:id another reckoned the bird in have been on the Old Age Pension list; while a third expressed the opinion that it had been trained for the Cup. but had gone lame or wasn't considered class enough, and had been relegated to the face-fowling department. Truly a bird is never too old to eat! Look up whatever natural history books you will, you will never -see a line about the commonest of all birds, the DEAD bird, but he is with us always. In the days befort the poor old fellows who drowse in the House of Parliament decreed that tipping was a sin we struck it sitting in every line of a sporting paper, and even now it hovers around on racecourses, in the street, and everywhere. The other day I wa* sitting in church when the parson said, " He ye like unto the saints of olden day*,'' and a cove with a face like a pound ot grilled >teak turned t<> inc and whispered, "There's a tip, mate: The .Saint for the four-furlong flutter at Waverley. Tt's a dead bird!*' The time will come when punters will go round with & fistful of poisoned wheat for these "dead birds!" "Boondi" in the Referee tells a touching tale of the English Turf. The jockey George Ede was lying at Croydon between life and death, the effects of a heAvv fall in a recent race. Rurly old' Ben Land, who trained for Lord Pouletf, loved poor George, but business was business with Ben, and he wanted to get a word with th<? shattered jockey. The trouble was this: Land had raced a horse a few days before the accident,

with George Edc riding for him, and he won, "but the mare tlint ran second then was causing Ben "inch uneasiness as regards how she would shape in si l»i«r race tlmt was to he run in a few days' time. The ohl trainer, full of emotion, approached the bedside of the manned jockey, and said, in a voico broken oy sobs: "Oh, TJeorge, pull yourself together for a little hit; Ivy ami pull your-elf together and tell nie this ; Di'l < you win easily on Rajah the other dav? Bid that blasted hay mare have a show with you at all? TTow the devil can wo put otir little bit on with any certainty, George, it you won't pull yourself together and give us the straight office. George faob'! ? D—n it all, 010 pal, did I you win easy or did the mare push you at all?* ? The jockey afterwards sivid he could see and hear the whole thins a* if it were in a dream, but he eniildirt concentrate hi* mind to make an. nn«wer that would Ml the old man if the dreaded mare was danger on? <>r not. Man mar want but little here below, but at times it'* dowed hard! to get it.