RACING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 71, 2 July 1910, Page 7

RACING.

RACING FIXTURES. July 7, B—Cisborne R.C. July 16. 20, 23—Wellington Racing Club. DATES OF COMING EVENTS. New Zealand. July 16—Wellington R.C. Winter Hurdle Race. July 20—Wellington Steeplechase. Australia. July 2—V.R.C. Grand national Hurdle .Race. July 9—V.R.C. Grand National Steeple chase. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.'/) Nothing doing in the sporting line. Wellington acceptances are due oa Monday. j The Wanganui mare Stewardess is spelling. I •Races at 'Gisborne on Thursday and Friday next* j Punters With their heads screwed on right are saving a trifle for St. Lums-i den's first start. ' Down South they will have nothing but St. Aidan and Wet Day for the Winter Cup. j Trainer George Laing has Waxy looking bright and well, and the strangelynamed prad may be given a run at Trentham. ,

Reported from Auckland that the tidy sum of 1750 guineas failed to buy Master Soult recently. Whew! Riflemaid, who won a Manawatu Cup and many other good races in her day, succumbed to blood-poisoning a few days ago. Guessing again! The' White Mahatma, 1 in a state of alleged trance, told a Wellington audience the other night that fat-man Jeffries would slog the flash nigger out in the ninth round. Now, if Mahatma has ten bob to back lier opinion —■ ,

[The Grand Prix de Paris, run over a mile and seven furlongs, proved just a trifle far for the Derby winner Lemberg. No time was wasted oh the journey, as the time, 3min. Usee, shows beyonds a doubt. With only one important meeting ahead, the 1909-10 racing season is jutt about drawing to a close. With sixty wins to his'credit, H. Gray is well clear of A. Olliver (50), and the TaranaM horseman's position as leading jockey is unassailable. According to "Spearmint's" figures, the Aucklander, A. Whittaker, comes next with 42 wins, and T. Pritchard has an equal number of firsts, 27 of which have been gained on the flat and 15 over hurdles. Then come W. Ryan and C. Jenkins with 38 apiece. E. Hatch scored 29, and B. Deeley 24. Despite a siiort term amongst the lookers-on, Billy Young ran up to 33, with 22 firsts on the flat and 11 over the fences. It was well known that the crack jockey Danny Maher was offered his choice of Lemberg or Niel Gow for the Derby, and preferred the latter. Then it was arranged that F. Wooton was to ride Lemberg, but an unfortunate disqualification kept hiin out of the saddle, and the little Australian fellow had the mortification of seeing Dillon score a Derby win—a ,much coveted thing—on what should have been his mount. The danger of racing green' hurdlers was exemplified at Ashburton. Outlander has a; lot to learn about' the hurdling game, but his party sent him out to gain experience, or break his neck in the attempt, in the Longbeach Hurdles. He had too much pace for anything on the flat, but his jumping was of rhe ; wild and wonderful type. At the last ' fence put Jack Ashore over the rails and upset Rifle Range as well as himself. Outlander will most likely turn out a good horse over the small sticks, but at present he is a danger to • His jockey and everything else in the race. Locally-trained horses appear to be going on the right way. Sandy Paul is building up into a fine horse, and is sure to win- a few races soon. Golden ; Loop is doing nicely, and the hurdlers, Waitapu and Paritutu, are keeping up to the collar. 'Mr. O'Driscoll has worked wonders with the former, and he should be rewarded with a win before the Na-j

tional Meeting is over. It is related of Lord Glasgow that he always had great trouble in getting satisfactory names for his racehorses. Most of the names were selected by 'his friends, and only on one occasion did he try 'his own hand at the game. • The result was that three horses were regis-' tered under the queer names of "He-has-' a-name," "Give-him-a-name" and "He-isn't-worth-a-name." NoWj if you or I did that thev would say we were mad! Paisano Still holds his place as favor-■ ite for the Grand National Hurdle Race,' weights for which should appear next, Friday. ' The Victorian R.C. Grand National Steeplechase meeting opens to-day, when, the principal event will be the Grand National Hurdle Race, of 1250 sovs, run over three miles. The following are the final acceptors:—Vernier 12.2, Ataahua 11.7, Grenfell 11.5, Lord Desmond 10.12, The Reckoning 10.11, The Cothbrack 10.7, King's Rmisom 10.7, Zalski 10.3, The Gaul 9.13, Harvest 9.13, Volta 9.11, Yudnapinna 9.11, Roger's March 9.7, Obi

9.5. Of the above Ataahua and Maui are New Zealanders. [ The Grancl Prix d'e Paris, won by the ! French horse Nuas'e on the 20th ult.. is the richest prize in the world, and though it used to be run far earlier, it is now anmiallv decided on the last Sundav in June. Since its inauguration, in 1863, it has fallen on several occasions to an English owner, the last to be successful being Major Eustace Loder, whose Carbine colt, Spearmint, won in. 190(1. There was a laree number of English entries for' this year's race, including Lembpve. Whisk Broom. Tvessadv. Charles O'Mallev. Admiral Hawke, Sunn'inffldale. Moid of Corinth an-1 n colt bv The Australian >Star out of Metal Burke, belonging to Mr. Soencer Gollan. The French three-year-olds, none of which were considered good enough to send over for the -Derby, were generallv regarded as a weak! lot this season, and there seemed, therefore, a fair prospect of the stake asain being lifted bv an English-owned colt or filly. The winner started three times last season, and won ■at each attempt, his best performance beins his last, when he gave -M. E.. Blanc's smart colt Marsa a very bad hen tin® in" the jCriterium d'e Maisons-' Lafitte". of 1012-Sovs. Reinhart was seen' out four times last year, and after running, a third, a second, and unplaced behind Nimge in the event above-mention-ed, he wound up by capturing the Prix de Destrier from a moderate field at Maisons-Lafltte. r ... . \ .^