RACING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 3

RACING.

RACING FIXTURES. . NEW ZEALAND. September 7 and B—Marton J.C. Hack. September 14 and 15—Rangitikei R.C. Kjpriag. AUSTRALIA. October 1, 3, 5, and B—Australian Derby. October 8, 12, and 15—Victoria Amateur Turf Club. October 29, November 1, 3, and s—Victoria Racing Club. ; COMING EVENTS. October I—Australian Derby. October I—Epsom handicap. October 3—Metro], jlitan Handicap. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Master Sylvia claims an engagement in the Maiden at Marton. It is on the cards that Te Arai will be shipped to Sydney shortly. j The,veteran 'chaser, Kiatere, is now being used as a lady's hack. j Roosevelt is a trifle on the big side and should foe much benefited, by a few races at the spring meetings. From the South comes news that Annamento is to given a chance over the small sticks. Races at Marton on Wednesday next. The New Zealand Cup should be easier to pick this morning. I, The Horowhenua meeting will be con- ! eluded to-day, when the principal events will be the Levin Handicap (five fur-' longs), and the Weraroa Handicap ' (seven furlongs). i' The jumping at the Hunt Club was ' very poor, but plenty of excitement and amusement was supplied to racegoers '•■ at the gathering. ■ (St. Bill did not accept for the Hack ' Hurdles at Marton, but will be given ' a run at the Wanganui meeting if the weights allow. j 1 Kaipara and Taupo scored in convinc-; ing fashion on Thursday, and Master } Sylvia and Star Lass were double win- ; ners at the meeting. ! { St. Lumsden is reported to be in : good nick to start the season, and should pick up a stake before long. | Trainer R. Johnson has now three horses in work at Lepperton, and all: Are going well. Clemora is well for-i ward and should repay watching. In the Baldwin v. Press libel action! heard at Palmerston on Wednesday, the defendant company paid £SO damages, and agreed to publish an apology. The tress paid dearly for an inadvertence in| posting Baldwin as a defaulter. |: 'Stralian brevs.:—Coiroboree has gone ; to the stud—Alawa is expected to do ; big things this season—Ripon and Obi ; (Grand National Hurdles winner) have ; been turned out for. a long spell—Graf- ; nax is recovering .from a jarred fetlock—the Melbourne Cup horse Duke| Foote has been troubled with round' bone ailment, but is on the mend—• Crucinella does not strike the 'Stralians as the cut of a stayer, but wait till she hops out iu the Metropolitan! | Merriwa is reported to-have an ugly 1 knee and it is doubtful whether he will; stand a New Zealand Cup preparation. |, The New Zealander, Fireglow, was;. awarded top weight, lOst 31b, in the ( Ascot Thousand, and was very prompt-, ly scratched. |i ' Jockey A. McConnon schooled Lon'gner at Tauherenikau last week, and the brown horse acquitted himself very well. The one-time speedy sprinter, Splendid Idea, has thro>vn a fine looking black filly to Advance. The know-alls down South are steadily backing Martist for the New Zea- • land Cup. It is hard to see what they . base their calculations on, as the so-r of Martian only ran once last season, and then finished a long way back—in the Russley Plate at Riccarton. ; . The gelding Play fair (Sarace^—Justice), who won a number of races in Maoriland and in the Old Dart for "Majah" Campbell, was recently de--stroyed. The Masterton trainer, W. Garrett, is stated to have the New Zealand Cup . caHdicUite Sir Solo going well. The sonj of Sir has furnished into a nice ( three'-ycr old, and is expected to payr ihis way liiis season. Jockey Ben Deeley has been engaged 1 to ride Sunburnt in the Epsom Handicap, and will leave for 'Stralia after', the Avondale meeting next month. |, The brood mares' Olivette and Prelude ( have dropped foals to Achilles, the first- ; named having her foal in July, which is bad luck for her owner. The youngster will have to give away a year to its rivals in consequence of being born too soon! Sportsmen will be pleased to ihear that the Waverley horseman, H. Brereton, is making a good recovery from the severe accident which befel him last Friday on the Waverley course, when Claremont blundered badly a hurdle and came a terrifiic "cropper." The New Zealand brood mare, Lady Fisher, the dam of Maniapoto, has been purchased by Mr. Sol. Green for his Shipley stud. At the last Randwick yearling sales a fine looking colt by Birkenhead from Lady Fisher changed hands at 700 guineas. Marton acceptances are as numerous as ever, and the races appear to be very open. Looking over last year's results it is interesting to note that Lady, Medallist started her winning career pl for'last season bv annexing the Shorts Handicap with-7.2 in the saddle, and paid a handsome price. Looking back at her ten wins, including the Wanganui Guineas, one can easily imagine what a moral she was for that sprint event at Marton. n ' , Even judges of the Supreme Court aeem to be well up in the ins-and-outs of racing. In the Shearsby v.* Press libel"action a witness remarked that Nyland had not won races they had expected him to win, and had won races they didn't expect. "Doesn't that depend on the jockey as much as anyone queried his Honor, and the court grinned it* largest size in gmu|. At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club on Wednesday evening Dr Wilson expressed the opinion that the number of accidents .which occurred in hurdle races were altogether disproportionate to the pleasure derived therefrom, and he went further and voiced this strange idea:—"The jockeys funked hurdle racing in the summer, as I was shown by the fact that every jockey, ■went and 'got dr-mk before going put. j Needless to say, Urs rash statement wao received with cries of "No! No! It is interesting to hear sportsmen expressing vitriolic opinions of Turf matters in the hope of remedying evils, | but moat sports have very little time ta bird» which foul their own neat in

this fashion. The condemnation of horse racing finds favour with the kill-jov section, who know nothing of its pleasures or its ups-and-downs, and rash statements like the above are only <*iving the wowser mob something °to scream about. No wonder the Manawatu Eacing Club is faced with decreasing' revenue, losing heavily hoth in regards to entrance fees from owners and totalisator turn-over as well. This scribe has seen a few hurdle races in the last twenty years, but he Cannot say that he recollects seeing one single rider going to scale under the influence of liquor. IThe New Zealand owned Maori King is.given cndit for a very satisfactory display when making his demit under silk in New South Wales on the 13th inst. "Martindale" says:—Gigandra won the Dundas Handicap, but if the race was run over again I should not have the slightest hesitation in plumping for the New Zealander, Maori King, who was giving away 211b to Mr. Mate ? s big colt, and had he not come too late might have accounted for him. As the time—lmin 14y 2 sec—is very fair, and as it is certain -that Eaynor has not yet got the brother of Aborigine woundup, it would appear as if for once the veteran trainer of Bungebah and other speedy ones, has been deceived as to his horse's condition, or that Maori King is better in public than in private.