THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 3

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

TURF TOPICS. • (By 'lfoturoa"). Races at Takapuna to-day. The Feilding meeting w kes place 0,1 Monday and Tuesday next There should be a big gathering of local sports at Waitara races „„ x fi,r.-| uay. ,

TW who go to the races to •■ pick ? n .1 g - n , erßlly "* **«W day. wfeUwg the pick-axe! Mtitll tU * a [^T nU at the Waihi **««« were 9 ettled in the good oldf* 9 ?* «'»}'• More than one reputed ■Jj, .which pomts to He"*,,* that «*ur«, B visit to the district has borne Tie (Wfeills, of buck-jumping f am .. •Wed u, New Plymouth during the **fk. Their collection of horses, ponies W t t°- ke f S .," r,ggle iike Hiticians. Wrt their buil is a fair bucker' Young Gilbert rode a splendid finish ?1w ??"' in thc Waihi »«d Hie black gelding is apparently fa -ood lorm to tackle hurdle races next molith Cood reports come to hand of a colt nla'r'r Wf Cua PP ie -Dauber "Z 'Th Del "r" 1 e - Vs st '< bI * »t Ingiewoud. Ihe colt lias not been hurried m his trammg, but is getting through wild work at present. b Oolden Eagle, Haeremai, and Timothy are all well forward ami should °dve a good account of themselves at i'Slil lug. v rclm

Clifford's team, Husbandman, Flitaway, and Broadsword are galloping «ell, and atter racing at Feildbg will he railed on to Auckland. The consistent Lyrist, who lias won six InmUe races this season, carries top weight in the Spring H„ rdle3) *Y°s thoroughly tuned up at present. Ihe T. J. C. have voted, their late iseereta™, ify. -Hussell Fleetwood, a bonus of £SO, and considering how hard he worked for the club in its st Jggl"g da>s he richly deserved the relvard Say What they wiU, 0 f horse-racing, one »way, m» sportsmen willing to ?ec?g! »«e the work of a good niin i n an b v himl' *'i When ° nce found t0 *"•*

The Kilties are due to disturb the calm and peace of the town on Thursthe effect of driving a crowd out of the Waitara meeting. Good acceptances have been received for the meeting and with favourable weather a good day's sport is assured. . H is seldom that a race which results iu a dcad-heat is divided between dethe same sire. Such a case happened recently in the Cold Country, when Summer and Nemours ran a deadheat for the August Handicap a t Gatwick, both the dead-heaters being the fourryear-old sons of Bushey Part Mr. D. Buick failed to win at BiccarUrn with Tangimoana, but he headed the first and second ballots of the Electoral Stakes at Palmerston. A few sports are" badly wanted in the House of Talk to put a bit of common-sense into gaming legislation, and Mr, Buick may be depended upon to stick up blithe poor punter and give him a chance to live, in a world of narrow-minded Kill-joy and nypocritical professions. "I bred Lord Nolan myself;" said Mr 1... A. Mayo to a friend after the Melbourne Cup, "just as I bred his brother Lord Cardigan, and I got word only yesterday that Lady Lybian had foaled a full brother, to this fellow. They tell me that the foal is the image of Lord Aolan. I am going to call him Lord Lucan. The other man concerned in the charge of the Light Brigade, you know; In three years' time you'll see Lord Luean win the Melbourne Cuo too."

The tale is told of an Inglewood trainer who invested £3 on one of his charges i n a race at a recent country meeting. . The priee was " threes," and when the neddy paddled home in front the elated horse-mentor hied himself round to the bookie and presented his pasteboard. Ikey ripped the ticket into a thousand pieces and dropped them iu a veritable sea of defaced pasteboards, and rapidly counted out twelve shillings. "What's this?" roared the astonished trainer, drawing himself up to his full six feet; ''what's your game, mate?" The .bookie put on a tired expression and said, "Now, look here my dear fellow, this is my busy day. Twelve hob was what was on the ticket, and that's what the book says too. For heaven's sake go 'way and don't annoy me." The Inglewood s|>ort is fairly good at " language," and proceeded to discolour the atmosphere in record time. •• Twelve blanky bob!" lie shouted. "Help! Murder! Stooards! I'erlice! D'ver mean ter say I only had THIIKK BLAXKY 808 on me 'orse?'' And then he Irad a stormy interview with the " stooards" who could g!ive him no satisfaction.

Returning to the bookie's " enclosure," which wasn't an enclosure at all, but an open fielil, he was just in time to see the Man of Olds sprinting in the direction of Klomlyke, and ■ being too tired,to follow, he turned to the ve-

maining "l«oks." He sorted out the biggest, and just, for pure love of a fight smote him four and a half Wows on the claret tap. The. "'half blow'' didn't quite get there, hut the outraged Ikey dropped his satchel (containing eleven and threepence and a couple of liain sandwiches) and began to take an inter est in the fight. It was a strenuous struggle while it lasted, and the locum tenens held his end bravely, the eom-

batants eventually being dragged apart and fold to keep their fight for a better quarrel Or a finer day or -something, and the incident terminated. The other bookie was last sighted about sixteen miles beyond Mokau. Panting and hot, with his eyes rimmed in black dust, J. li. Flynn, the rider of Lord Nolan in the Melbourne Cup, mounted the scale after the race, with a puny saddle over his arm. He carried no lead to make up the 6.9 which Lord Nolan had carried. Flynn, in fact, scaled 6.10, a pound overweight. As he weighed in a friend whispered, hoarsely: "Did that drop of brandy do you any good, Jack!" Flynn waited for his breath, and replied: "Bather; woh me the race, I reckon." As Mr. Holloway called "All right," and the jockey descended from the scales, he entered the inner room and sank into a chair, thoroughly exhausted. "Fm a bit weak on it," he explained. " I took off 131b. in the last three days to ride Lord Nolan. I've been wasting since Friday." "Hook the mud out of your eyes, Jack," advised his friend, and Jack started to scoop at his eyes with two tired hands. It was no use; he pulled off his cap, and succeeded better with that. "Yes," he went on, "I feel wasting across my back now that it's all over." "Here, have a chew at this,' 1 said the friend, and Flynn obediently opened his mouth while a stick of yellow lolly was thrust into it. After tha he munched as he talked.—" Mostyn," in the Adelaide Observer.

■ Newmarket (Eng.) has its tradesmen's ' race, with tradesmen as jockeys. The Town (Plate, an ancient fixture dating liack to the time of Charles 11., has to 1 be run on the second Thursday in October each year. Usually there is a I ' walk-over, but this year it was a real | sporting event, several entering. There i was a good crowd on the July course, j Four of the entrants faced the starter: . ' they were Charles Archer jun.'s I'roflVr, with Frank .Simpson <l2st.). manager of the electricitv works, as jockey; 11. Ij. Hewitt's Mystery, ridden by C. W. ■ Stephens <l2si.)} bah proprietor: V. Saxbv'.s Black Satin, C. Balls (12st.). fishmonger; and Richard Chaloners Wolfram, Dick Harris (12st. 41bs.) clerK. riding. Only Simpson wore orthodox costume. 'The favourite, Mystery, it»rted well, but Proffer caught hiinin ihe run in, -fudge Manning reporting that he had won by 200 yards, with Black Satin a bad third. The winner received «n ovation and CIS 8s in stake money. ■Each entrant contributed tX The dis-

tant wss tli.ee miles. "Milroy." of the Sydney Mail, writes About the Melbourne Cup of 1885: Trenton having opened his Australian account bv demonstrating his superiority in the Melbourne Stakes, his jockey, the late Alec Robertson, stood him for a tremendous win. investing no less than .tllOO on his Melbourne Cup chance which, with promised presents, would have turned in that ill-fated rider nearly £15.0(10 had he got home; bill tne unexpected happened again. Trenton was ' an exceptionally lazy horse, out of whom it was necessary to punch every ounce Passing the abattoirs, he was ma good position, with Robertson nigigl.ng at him but. unfortunately, he dropped hi, I whin. Turning for home, Trenton was within reach of the leaders, hut needed n tickler or two to wake him up. Having no whip Robertson was in despair. KeVer perhaps, has a better price been rXe/for a'jockey's whip. _ RobcHson offered a brother jockev ' £..00 to no 1 ing for vonr whip " a furlong and a ha. from home, but the other fellow want,d *»«-elt bis own beaten horse along with it. and refused to come to terms wit.i -the result that Trenton was defeated. •Sheet Anchor, Grace Darling and Trenton finished in a heap, short heads dividing tnem, ._