SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 8 June 1910, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") The Great Northern meeting will be concluded at Kllersdie to-day. Locally trained horses had a bad run at Levin. The old Hater-jump beat that good fencer Kiatere in the U.N. Steeple. Gipsy Belle ran two close seconds at the Otaki meeting. The much-fbaeked Wimmera-Audax double had 'bad luek last week. The heavy going took all the steam out of Audax on Saturday. RiHe Range, who took rank as a hurdle race winner at Dunedin, made his debut over the sticks at Uamaru a few weeks ago. Waitapu returned supporters a fair, price when he cake-walked the Jumpers' Flat Race on Saturday. Congratulations i to Mr. J. O'Driscoll.

The wise men of the 'Xorth lost plenty of good money when Prophet turned turtle in the Remuera Hurdles. They are sure to 'be after it again to-day. The pencillers were refusing: Clemora money on Friday and it was "jigging" both days at Levin, but the Lcppertohtrained neddy is not in the same class with Woodhey, California and Co. Billy Jones, recently reinstated by the Wanganui J.G., signalised his return to the ranks of the flail wielders by ruling Mahuta to victory each day at Levin. The black gelding ran ikindly and scored in hollow fashion.

St. Lunisden is still dodging the punters. Mr. B. T. Bennett's gelding had fejv friends when the field lined up lor tlje Otaki Hack Handicap, but the son of St. Paul hopped out smartly aiid won all the way. A ticket on "The Saint" each start this season would make pleasaijt reading in one's Ibetting book. j During the last fortnight Wo6lloomos- - has contested four races, finisniiig second on three occasions. His effort fn the great Northern Hurdles bn'"Friday stamps him as a horse worth 'following over hurdles and on the Hat. ; ' ■ ' V Wimmera's record over sticks reads :•*- Three starts, three wins. 'Not so ba-d when you consider that Mr. E. .]. Watfts horse has already iplaced a Great Northern and a Century Hurdles to his'eredjlt. Plantation was rushed on Friday and let backers down heavily. The following day the New Plymouth .prad was 1 payhfc a satisfactory price, and he all but wofe. Amato got to him in the last with a cyclone rush, and-Plantation w»s devastated. So much for these "morals*:?' The Obligado mare TJz* wfls iiatffli! down to Dunedin last week, but had .tne misfortune to spring a• tendon,;.; and jn consequence did not sport silk v at. tie meeting. ..... t ,'?. ..... < Joekey Hector Gray &toer,sl vfrJjfi.'Wipner of the big flat race •Saturday at Ellerslie. Both r (Mastpr Soult and Wauehope only got>home fW

necks, and Gray's horsemanship in the Cornwall Handicap especially, ly admired. . ~• ■,. j ; j >U { ji Steeplechase Day at EHersjie... wag. pfe likely to (be \v*o were game enough to face .the'' eTemen|s and journey out to the fell in torrents, and a h°\y%&&'jw^'f;s l throughout the afternoon.'&oaj)fl'a>i\yap the only first- favorite'"to score, \s\}d" several very warm orders went away ffi the quagmire. The peneillers &ft'<|]a,wßt time of it, but returned home with sjftchels bursting and with joyous hearts.jj After Cavaliero and Kiatere had fall&h, Te Arai had run oft', and First Barrfi, Lovell, and Capitol had run themselves to a standstill, Audax 'breasted the ■h||l the last time many lengths ahead |f Red McGregor, and Loch Fyne wps battling gamely with Le Beau in ttfe rear. The favorite was so far that punters were just beginning $0 shake hands with themselves. Then B|u McGregor started out after the leaciij-. and had reduced the gap considerably when the hilltop was reached. The distressing gallop downhill at Ellerslie 'has broken up more than one,, good horfe, and that, combined with the heajff going, quickly had the Hawke's B{p' horse in trouble. Red McGregor reachkl him at the bottom and cleared 'right ouit. Then, to make the disaster worse, LochFyne jogged up in the last few strides and beat Audax's followers out of a dividend. Which was bad luck, considering that on a dry ground the favorite probacy have come in on his own. jj The Remuera Hurdles drew only'thijfe runners, Prophet being a better "favorae than Ben Jonson. Aorangi fell;' at me second fence, and Prophet ■ went W-tyc next. Both were remounted? %lit'" ; bM no chance of overtaking Ben w|o ran along in leisurely fashion &nd wp comfortably. It was* a wet/Ha'me, aftd dispiriting "race." r '• | ■Ngapuka ran a good horse dav, and was only beaten by ,i Tieckfln the Cornwall Handicap. The sanK* lvt|le Soult gelding won the York Welter lajst year with list up, and if the. goinggia good he will probably be amongst $lO runners this afternoon. ,'■ *i Winning jockeys at Levin were:—W. Young, A; Ollivcr, C. Jenkins, and F.ifD. Jones, two each; C. Price, F. Cress,),J. Griffiths, C. Emmerson, H. Carmont, ait".! F. Coleman, one apiece. | After being reported broken down, broken up, etc., etc., California came lit and ran a brace of fine races at the Otajki meeting. On the first day he smofhered Sir Tristram and a poor crowd; in the Cup. and on Saturday he was Unlucky to go under to Woodhoy. }lr. Lasor's horse was galloping over everything at the finish, but the" w'mnin-goost came just a trifle too soon. King Hippo was going well in the Maiden Steeple at Ellerslie when he fell at the top of the hill the last time round. He may be given a chance to retrieve 'his lost laurels" in the Tamnki Steeple, in which A, Julian will probably ride him. Hawke's Bay owners had a good innings at Leviii. Ormond won £2flo and Lawor £275. Mahuta's two victories brought Mr. H. McManaway £l5O. Mrs. M. Moore won £l2O, and R. W. Patterson £llO. Xew Zealand Cup nominations fell due last night, and "long-shot" punters will have something to exercise their brains on. Long distance races under-, pftcticallv '''sealed handicap'" conditions''take some picking. * '■•- -• >-j Seemingly the betting jockey,-is .giving the English Jockey Club for anxiety. The 'following'notice appeared in a recent issue of the Eniglish Racing Calendar:—"The stewards of the Jockey Club give notice that ljceto&ft are onlv granted to jockeys on condition that they are not owners or part owners of any racehorse. The stewards hjiviiig on previous occasions observed, j that ' many jockeys have been in the ha|R of betting on 'horse-racing and of., receiving presents in connection with races ,f!um persons other than the owners of : horses they ride in such races, give notice that such practices will not be tolerated, and that any jockey who may .be proved, to their satisfaction, to have any interest in any racehorse, or to have been engaged in any betting transaction, or otherwise to have disregarded this notice, will have his license at_ once •withdrawn. Any person knowingly actI ing in the capacity of part owner or trainer of any horse in which a jockey ' (possesses any interest, or making any

bet ;\vith, or on behalf of, any jockey, or otherwise aiding or abetting in any breach of the orders of the stewards, will be iwarned off Newmarket." Under the title, "Silence is Golden," Mat Merry tells the following tale:—A jockey who 'was well-known some thirty years ago gave his son some useful advice. The old man was just about to j pass in ,his marble and the youngster was about to take up his father's profession. "Don't you ever speak to no other jocks, my lad, when you're riding in a race," said the veteran knight 01 the pigskin; "and I'll tell ye for why. A good many years ago a 'oss as T was a-ridin' come away from the field a pullin' double. There warn't ne'er »••■ other in it 'eept the 'oss as Jim r.ates was a-ridin'. and just as we was a-get-tin' near 'ome I gets alongside. 'Go on, Jim, ,me lad,' says I, 'mine aint a-spin-nin'.' 'Ain't it, by . f says he; 'no more ain't my one.' With that he tumbles off his 'oss and leaves me t<> finish, whether I wanted to or not." It was a sad story! The validity of a by-law of the Australian Jockey Club was challenged in the Equity Court recently by Alfred Watcrhouse, formerly a bookmaker on the flat, at Randwick. He brougns a suit against Adrian Knox, as chairman of the club. It was stated that Vrmerhousp had applied to be registered for the eighth division, under the 18th bylaw, ■but the club had refused to register him without having any just cause, or assigning any reason therefor. He waited that the by-law be declared invalid and ultra vires, and that the club be restrained from preventing him from exercising his business as a bookmaker. Dr. Ewan Richard Eraser, acting-chair-man of the (Australian Jockov Cinb. stated that the plaintiff's application for registration was referred to a suncommititee, who made a report, and the application was subsequently refused. The Chief Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice Simpson) dismissed the suit with costs.

There is a common fallacy thait unless a man graduates in a training stable and climibs the' various rungs of the ! ladder in the orthodox way he cannot become a trainer of thoroughbreds. The j English trainer Coulthwaite has exploded the theory entirely. His "education" was only acquired through his own acu- i men, and an innate quickness to' grasp the precepts of training men applying them to racehorses. Many years ago ■he was an athlete of considerable re- , nown in Manchester. Mr. George, a i north country sportsman, gave him a • few jumpers to look after, and he won j a few races. With almost instant sue- , cess came an increased string, and bv ( decrees the ex-football pkyer developed ( into one of the most brilliantly successful trainers of steeplechasers in Eng- ] land, the Grand National, with Emeron ] ml Je ikin.stown respectively, being i some of his achievements. Couthwaite t is a man of fine physique, and has been ] n life-lon™ teetotaller and non-smoker. The career of W. E. Elsey, the Baumber : trainer, has been no less remarkable in n way. He commenced training without any practical knowledge, but in a few years had nearly 100 (horses under his charge.