SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 189, 14 September 1909, Page 3

SPORTING.

TUEF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Even the most capable of jockeys can • make mktaki's, ana u appears to have been fortunate for D. llaher that liU mount, Jiavariio, was inueh superior to the other three runners for the Sandaivn Park Eclipse Stakes. It, that race Bayardo was last into the straight, and it was only after repeated lailures

~ tT 0n the rails pulled the favorite out at the half-dis-tance and came round the horses ahead of him. A n English writer savs Bayardo was giving away four or five lengths f m the last hundred yards, and he did t it with case, though the task seemed 17 almost impossible. The scribe then con- , tmues It is not good business to blame ) J, 00 ,,-*' 3 - especially when they win, but ; If iilaher had not won to-day his poim- . lanty would not have saved him from , condemnation. The extraordinary thin- • I -® 0 ' ' nto an even worse tan»',« than he did on Bayardo last time, and persisted even longer than he did then in trying to get through on the inside. 1 cannot think that this was a matter of nursing BayarJo's fine speed, but I am bound to recall that some goo 1 judges formed that view of Bayardo s earlier victory. They, however, are interested in one or two other St. Leger horses, and so perhaps prejudiced. N«. if Haher wished to ride a waiting race, he would naturally have secured a clear course on the outside, so that he might have been sure of making his run when 1 jhe wished without interference. As it 1 was, he would have lost the race had 1 not Bayardo shown really terrific speed, ' and has fully regained his supreme sta- ' tus of last season. I Bayardo, who may now be said to ' have reinstated himself as the crack ' racehorse of the Old Country, having " raised his winning total to £31.13°, 1 curiosity will, no doubt, be evinced a- 1 to his prospects of getting to the top a of the list amongst great stake-earneri. ' The son of Bay Ranald has a number

of valuable three-year-old engagements, but even should he ,win the lot°7i,> will still be a long way from Isinglass, Donovan arid _ Flying Fox. Donovan holds the record as the greatest stake-earner at three years old of £38,608; but that did not comprise his full capture while carrying the colors of the Duke of Portland. The following little list will show the position regarding great winners on the English turf:— Isinglass ( ; by Isonomy) —At 2vi's. £5477; at 3yrs, £18,860; at 4yrs, £31,. 498; at syrs. £2520; total, £57,455. Donovan (by Galopin)—At 2yrs, £l(j,487.; at 3yrs, £38,066; total, £55,153. Flying Fox (by Orme)—At 2vk. £2681; at 3yrs, £37,415; total, £40.096.

Ayrshire (by Hampton)—At 2yr s £6565; at 3yrs, £8685; at 4vrs £2O- - total, £34,706. ' ' Persimmon (bv St. Simon)—At 2vrs, £2551; at 3yrs, £111,401): at 4yrs, £n . 665; total, £34,706. la Fletehe (by St. Simon)—At 2yrs, £3415; at 3yrs, £25.653; at 4yrs, £2085; at oyrs, £3550; total, £34,703. Orme (by OrmondeJ-At 2vre £lO,274; at 3vrs, £13,023; at 4yrs, .CII.total, £34,626.

Carbine's son Spearmint went to the stud amidst such a flourish of trumpet;, and he had so many eulogisms passea on him in the interval that it is only natural that great interest should be evinced in the appearance of his stocK. The first crop of foals sired in Ireland by Spearmint are stated to be of a highly promising chasacter, and the prediction is offered that the Carbine horse will be a stud success. A writer in th» Field, in referring to Spearmint, says: The pedigree of Spearmint contains no Galopi n blood, and none of Hampton or Ben Or, Stockwell and Newminster (the grandsire and sire of the horws just named) are to be found, and, in fact, Spearmint has three strains of Stockwell, one of Stockwell's halfbrother King Tom, five of Touehston", and three of while he has some, Blaekloek blood if the pedigree is taken right back. To have a n u .w strain or line of Eclipse in a Derby winner, even if it comes from Touchstone, is most satisfactory.

Advices to hand" from Sydney state that in addition to developing lameness, Don Hannibal contracted a very severe cold. To the iattvr cause may be attributed the scratching of Don Hannibil for ail engagements; and it would appear safe to conclude that under til? mo-t favorable e'reumstanees he will be on the invalid list for severil months.