RACING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 53, 11 June 1910, Page 3

RACING.

RACING FIXTURES. June 15, I(j—liawke's Bay Jockey Club. June 22, 23—Naipier Park .Racing Cluib. July 7, B—Gisborne R.C. July IU, 20, 23—Wellington Racing Club. DATES OF COMING EVENTS. New Zealand. June 16 —Hawlce's Bay Hurdle Race. June 22—Na.pier Cup. July 10—Wellington R.C. Winter Hurdle Race. July 20—Wellington Steeplechase. Australia. July 2—V.R.C. Grand National Ilurdl Race. July 9—V.R.C. Grand National Steeple chase. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Prophet spelt profit on Wednesday. Lethean performed badly at Ellerslie. Nautiform is in work again at Riccarton. New Zealand Cup .nominations this morning. They put in on Overtime in the Farewell Handicap on Wednesday and threw out heavily.

The Oxton boom has set in. Another champion hurdler—from Hawke's Bay, of course—is prophesied. The Hawke's Bay winter meeting takes.{place on Wednesday and Thursday next. Acceptances fell due last night. Bayardo, who recorded his twelfth consecutive victory last month, has won nineteen times out of twenty-one starts. The greatest disappointment at Ellerslie was Nyland. The Finland gelding was right off color, probably owing to a cold contracted last week.

Of the Hawke's Bay leppers, Jack Pot was showing signs of soreness during the week, and El Dorado has a cold. The H.B. Steeple will most likely only draw a small field.

It is not generally known that Red McGregor, winner of the Great Northern Steeplechase, is a full brother to Capitol, who won the event last year.

Old Paritutu ran moderately well at Ellerslie and may win a race w*en the company is not too select. The old horse has always been ibadly placed. Kiatere, Bullworth and Wooloomooloo are likely starters at the Hawke's Bay meeting, and J. Cameron's stable should supply more than one winner at the gathering! •Alfter failing to win a race for three long years, Grand Slam came to light and wion the concluding event at the Dumedin meeting last week. It Avaa about time. >

St. Toney contracted influenza at Ellerslie and in consequence did not sport eilk at the meeting. The veteran Cavaliero ought to be pensioned off. 'He has been racing since the days of Nor'-West and Voltigeur 11. Mr. J. Buckley, with £250 against his name, topped the list of winning owners at Dunedin. Sir Geo. Clifford did uoi win a sou.

Auckland scribes blame "Tartar" Julian for making too much use of Audax in the last mile of the Great Northern Steeple. Had the Hawke's Bay horse been steadied instead of cracking on the pace, it is reckoned he would have just about won. Waitapu jumps very safely, and with a little more schooling he will probably develop into a faster fencer. That Grand National Hurdle Race may come his way later on.

Aorangi has been sold to go to Hawke's Bay. Mr. E. J. Watt is said to have purchased the "Highden" hurdler.

Loch Fyne and Red McGregor fought out a stirring finish in the_ Winter Steeple on AVednesday, the top-weight just getting there by under a length. Clemora is reported to have burst a iblood-vessel after returning from the Otaki meeting. Sydney papers report that the ex-New ■Zealau.l 'chaser Tilson is going we 'l a * Randwick. He will be piloted by W. Murtagh in forthcoming engagements. Trainer J. Hatha way put in an appearance at Hastings on Thursday with Leolanter, Marathon and the hurdler Rosegrove. The trio arc in a forward condition.

Emrus is 'reported bo be jumping better than ever at Rieearton and will be a hard nut to crack about National time.

Master iSoult was right out on his own at Ellerslie. The son of Soult came in for a great reception on returning to scale after winning the York Welter with 12.st lib In the saddle. It was a great feat. Bridge is at present enjoying a spell preparatory to toeing taken up for a solid preparation for long distance events at the Canterbury J.C. Metropolitan meeting ia November. The toig brown Possible gelding was looking line and lusty when produced at Wanganui la»t month.

Talking of kings, Maori King and Xing Billy left for Sydney yesterday. The former is to be raced on the other tide, and King Billy goes to Mr. E. J. ■Watt's stud farm in Queensland. Le Beau must be accounted the champion unlucky 'chaser. Bad luck follows him everywhere. The Leolantis gelding was in -the act of repeating his last year's victory in the Winter Steeple on Wednesday when the last fence beat him badly and he came a cropper. The St. Paul's are making a name for tfieir great little sire. St. Lumsden scored at Otaki, and the little Aueklander was represented at Ellerslie by two winners over hurdles, Prophet and Master Paul, wlhile another of his progeny, Waiari, filled the role of runner-up in the Farewell Handicap. His stock is steadily improving every year. "They call it jumping! A northern psn-pueiher writes that Wimmera hit ev«ry fence hard and knocked one down in the Great Northern Hurdle Race. A Jockey wants to have a heart like Hint and a well bird-limed square in his "pa»ts" to stick to prads like Wimmera. The Hawke's Bay imi'-e jumned welt enouc'n at Wanganui. •■' here the fences were very simple, but y.-. "mlily the stiffer h""dles and left-handed '.mining did not pv.it him at Ellerslie. He is reported to have knocked his legs about up noi-tn, and that no doubt account* for his withdrawal from Hawke's Bay engagement*,

The V.A.T.C is said to have ibeen victimised by the abandonment of the "May races owing to the death of the Kiic The order not to race was only given When the programme was about to r-oni-mence. By that time there -was quite a crowd on the ground, and there were some very unscrupulous people in that crowd. Woniien who icame in on 'a member's ticket put that ticekt out of eipht, *nd claimed a return of the admission money they had never paid!. M*le members of the "battling" fraternity worked things in some other way. That they did work their point there can be no doubt, for the club was a big loser.

, The Australian Turf has lost another staunch supporter iby the death of that well-known sportsman Charlie McDonnell, who, at the -ripe age of 75 years, "weighed in" for his last race at Taree on the night of the 20th (says "Bondi" |in the Refereej. Mr. McDonnell will be best remembered as the man who gave our punters the worst shock of their lives by winning l the Melbourne Oup ot 1881 with the despised Zulu, which, with James Gough in a blue jacket and white ca.]>, came away from a field of 24 and won by three-parts of a length from Tnvhaii on The Czar, and to the great surprise and dismay of Tom Ivory's stable, Paddy Piggott could get that slashing son of Vattendon —Sweetmeat only a fair third. I can well remember the' great excitement caused here wiien the news came that Tom Lamond had given the Ring the greatest surprise he fond ever dealt out to it by rushing tnis 50 to 1 chance in as a winner. As a mattor of fact any price could have been had about Zulu, who was written down as a rank outsider. But McDonnell's colt was a well-bred one, being by Barbarian from Maiden's Bush, and "as he had only 4st 101b in the saddle and such a good jockey as Jim Gough -was steering "him, the clever people should have seen him coming. That the win was no fluke was shown by the time. Smin 32 1 / 3 scc. The stewards of the Jockey Club (says a London paper of April 13th),yesterday suspended Frank Wootton. the famous young jockey, for two months for foul Tiding. His next professional appearance in the saddle will be at Ascot on June 14. A complaint was imde about Wootton's riding in the Wilts Selling Plate at Newbury last week, when he won on St. Elroy. The local authorities upheld the objection, the race was awarded to Flower Saint, which D. Mailer rode, and Wootton was suspended for the day. Although Wootton is only in his seventeenth year, he earns an income which many statesmen would envy. Last season his fees amounted to£4ooo, after all his expenses had been paid, and they would have been more tout for the fact that he rode many horses which were trained by his father, to whom he was apprenticed, and for these mounts he received no payment. Wootton finished the season last year at the top of the list of winning jockeys with a total of 165 successful races. He rode his first winner at Johannesburg when he was not quite ten years old; He was only thirteen wlvn he .'v'san riding in England, and he rode sixteen winners in that season.