SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 69, 17 April 1909, Page 6

SPORTING

RACING FIXTURES. April 21 and 24—Wellington K.O. Autumn. April 28 and 29-Manawalu 11.0. Autumn. Hay 5 and o—Marlborough K.O. Autumn. May 5 and o—Hawke's Bay J.C. Autumn. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Mon Ami has won a race at last. Bookmakers do a roaring business. The lielario boom burst at Feilding. There will be racing at Trcntham on Wednesday and Saturday. R. Cameron has already piloted a dozen winners in Australia. Pink 'Un is amiss and will have to be spelled for a considerable time. Golden Cairn is now trained by D. J. Price at Melbourne.

Jimmy Buchanan will pilot T. 11. Lowry's team at Tronthain. Golden Eagle was steered by 11. Price in the Easter Handicap, but was never prominent, and finished a long way back. Golden Eagle will.now be given a long spell.. Grucinella is said to be waiting for the Thompson Handicap, but in racing everything does not come to those who wait. Jockey Hatch rode three winners at Taulierinikau and a like number at Riccarton. The champion has "hatched" upwards of 70 winners to date. Sir Prize (late Kilmarnock) was the last to finish hi the Autumn Handicap, won by All Red, on Tuesday. Ben Jonson and the Taraiiaki-bred Southern Cross were double hurdle-win-ners during the Easter racing carnival. Waipaku won the Feilding Cup just as easily as her half-brother, Waitapu (from Waipuna), scored in the Taranaki Cup. Mr. U. Barlow will probably stay in Auckland until after the Avondale meeting, where Hot Volk claims several engagements. Despite Clemora's indifferent display at Pa lea, lie was heavily backed at Feilding the following day, and, needless to say, lih party look out. Cieinora is hard to beat when on it.

Clonpett let her party in for a sorry time in the Kakaramea Stakes at Hawera. They thought they only had to put in to take out, but these short races are full of surprises, and a bad start settles everything. Aborigine practically led the Auckland Easter field, from start to finish, ■but Jenkins had his work cut out to land the. three-year-old a nose winner from the brilliant Master Soult.

The following were the principal winning owners at Feilding:—S. Mcsseua £OOO. Mr. Hikaka £230, R. A. Patterson £2OO, L. Pascal £175, and T. O'Neill £155. 11. Johnson won £7O as the result of Clemora's win on the second day. Winning jockeys at Feilding were:— W. Young (0). T. Carroll (3), F. Coleman, J. Morris, C. Price, 0. Scott, F. Lilid, E. Abbott, and T. l'ritchard one each.

There was a lot of money locally for Daisy Paul hi the Wangaimona Handicap at Taulierinikau last Saturday, but after leading until the last dozen yards the daughter of St. Paul compounded, and could only walk in, third.

Mr. J. Grigg's pair, Field Gun and Dabchick, finished iirst and second respectively in the Sockburn Handicap at. Ricearton on Monday, and were ridden by 'brothers, R. and L. 0. King. Cbas. Jenkins rode four winners at the recent Auckland meeting, bringing his total up to 30. Deeley, with three wills, has an aggregate of 55. but Hatch scores two to their one, and is lengths ahead of his opponents. When llet Yolk finished up at the Taranaki meeting it was generally considered that she would not be long in earning distinction. Her victory in the Onslow Stakes at Kllerslic on Tuesday was not unexpected, 'but her owner is said to have benefited little over the filly's success. The stakes were worth £95 to 'Mr. Barlow.

A maiden performer in the aged marc All's Well (llotchkiss—Miss Annie) was sent out favorite for the Mangere Handicap at Ellerslie on Monday, and put up a great race, going under by a neck to Miss Advance. There were thirteen runners, and All's Well should not be long in getting on the list of winners. There was a report spread about at the il'atea meeting on Monday that Ulilando hail won the Feilding Cup. It was surprising what a number of persons had "backed it as a moral." When they heard later that Ulilando had been beaten they would probably tell a different tale.

Montcalm, wild gathered in the Allujri'il Stakes nt Ramlwick, 'whs sited by Siege Gun. K. Cameron rode the wiiiuci\ mnl is credited with a line bit of horsemanship in landing Montcalm a hall-length winner from the Doneaster licru llynian. The time recorded, Imin :i7'/.scc. ciui-itiluU's a new 'Stralasian word for one wile, the previous host being 1.38. put up by Charles Stuart in August, I'.HW. ((olden Eagle returned from Ellcrslio on Wednesday morning. E. J. Watt's team came along by the same steamer. It is worthy of note that Moviarty, who raced unsuccessful in the six raee, was hurried across to Onelmnga, -with his plates still on, and Willi barely a good rub-down, to catch that afternoon's steamer, Such treatment is bound to tell its tale sooner or later, and'Moriarty did not bear a bright appearance when running at Hie A/R.C. meeting. Armlet's win in the Easter Handicap came as a surprise to most sporting people. On past form the speedy daughter of Jlcnschikoff was conceded a flier up to live furlongs, and the big sevenfurlong event was reckoned beyond Ids tether! But with Hatch on board. Annlet practically led from start to finish, and won easily by three lengths in the slashing lime of lmin 20 2-ijsec. Boniforin is well looked after in the Thompson Handicap with 0.10, but the brilliant son of Multiform will not be -a starter in Unit event, Messrs. Stead having decided to retire their unbeaten horse'to the stud. Coniform was alwavs troubled with tender feet, but gave a taste of his brilliancy by gathering in the Breeders' Plat* at Rnndwick, tile Great Northern Derby, and the. C..T.C. Autumn Handicap. William O'Connell, who died as the result of injuries received in the first hurdle race at Riecartou on Monday, was ;il years of age. and has been riding over the slicks for 13 years. "Billy" was the unlucky one of the family, and was always getting smashed up, but in his luckier moments lie managed to win a C'enturv Hurdles on Cavalry, a Great N'orthern on Ake Alee, a Wellington

Steeple oil Rongon. and tho most coveted event of nil—a Grand National Steeplechase on Euros, lie was a plucky, straight-going jockey, and his early demise is very much regretted.

A cablegram received yesterday states that young Frank Wooton rode three winners at Kcmpton Park on Monday and three at Newmarket on Thursday, making nineteen wins already this seaion. The success of little Wooton is nothing short of marvellous. Last season an unfortuntc month's disqualification cost him tho English premiership amongst knights of the pigskin, and oven then he finished a close second to the American jockey Mahcr. The exAustralian lad is now quite the idol of English racecourses, and beingl well known in the colonies his success is probably more generally wished for than that of any living jockey. Wooton, a mere lad of sixteen, has scored where Hewitt and crowds of others have failed badly. With, such a good start it is quite on the boards that Wooton will to]) the poll this season. On the subject of doping horses the trainer of Orby -(Dr. McCabe) recently wrote: "I tried eve»y drug that was recommended without "finding one that had improved niv speed or stamina as lan athlete. Well, as time went on, j dropped athletics and took to racing horses. On these, before the anti-ilop-ing rule was passed, 1 tried the drugs which (have since become famous as dopes. I won races with doped hors s and I lost; but I am quite sure th -t 1 never won because of the dope, and long before the rule was brought in I had discarded the practice as useless, and I should like to add that, as I am one of those who always believe in sticking to the r.ules when you join in tin game, 1 have never thought of using a dope in any shape or form since the passing of the rule. Yet, where there was no anli-doping rule. T should never use any drug except alcohol, and that only in eases of horses who ' funk' when thev see the colors."