SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 154, 8 October 1910, Page 2

SPORTING

RACING FIXTURES. NEW ZEALAND. October 12, 13.—Otaki Maori R.C. October 12, 13.—Dunedin J.C. November 5, 7, 9, 12.—Canterbury J.C. November 5, 9, 12. —Auckland R.C AUSTRALIA. October 1, 3, 5, and B—Australian J.C. October 8, 12, and 15 —Victoria Amateur Turf Club. October 29, November 1, 3, and s—Victoria Racing Club. COMING EVENTS. October B.—Caulfield Guineas. October 15—Caulfield Cup. October 29.—Victoria Racing Club's TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa"). The Otaki race meeting takes place on Wednesday and Thursday next. Not a single Taranaki horse is engaged in the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap. Tribulation promises to be another Provocation. He can fly!

On Wanganui form it is hard to see what chance John can have in the big events at the C.J.C. Metropolitan meeting. Entries for the Auckland Cup include Waitapu, Golden Loop, Sir Prize and Uhlando. Tribulation was the only actual first favorite to score .at Hastings on Wednesday. The hurdle race won by Woollomooloo at Randwick was worth 300 sovs., plus a sweepstake. Truly a race worth winning. For running second in the Craven Plate Master Soult gets 500 sovs., which is nearly as good as winning a race in this country. St. Petersburg, the two-year-old son of Kilcheran and Neva, was sent out favorite for the Hastings Stakes, but got in the tapes and finished just outside a place. Bob Barlow is keeping Golden Loop busy on the Wanganui tracks at present. The chestnut will be given a flutter at Otaki next week. At Hastings on Wednesday the hack hurdle race was run in faster time than the big hurdles. The marvellous trial put up by Bliss at Hastings last week, and duly reported in these columns, turned up trumps, for the daughter of Stepniak scored twice on Wednesday and returned her followers a good price each time. J It is pleasing to record a victory forj our old friend, Mr. Dan O'Brien. On' Wednesday last his 2-year-old Ally, Respect, by Multiform out of Heriot, won the Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick from: ten others. The winner is a half-sister to the unfortunate Het Volt, trained by I Bob Barlow.

Whatakura, with Billy Young in the saddle, went out least fancied of a field of four in the Pakowhai Hurdles at Hastings and duly landed the mustard. It is not often that Young's mount in a hurdle race pays such a remunerative dividend.

The King Edward Handicap was a runaway victory for Bliss, who led all the way and won pulling up by ten lengths. The time recorded, lmiin 53sec|, must be just about a record for a ninefurlong race in these parts. The Australasian record is he] 1 by Perko, who put up 1'.5"2 1 /4 at Eandwick two years ago. Had Bliss been asked to do her best a new record might have been made. On her running at Wanganui last week it is hard to see how punters could have missed Falsetto in the Maiden at Hastings. Once again the daughter of Birkenhead was slow to find her feet, but she gradually made up her ground in fine style and in the straight ran into the lead and stopped there.

\Prom all accounts Master Soult must have run a fine race in the Craven Plate on Wednesday. His opponents included the pick of 'Stralian weight-for-age champions, and in finishing close up in second place the New Zealander "did us proud." Behind him finished Maltine, Prince Foote, Lord Nolan, Comedy King and other w.e'll-known horses. The Waikanae stallion, Achilles, was credited with a classic winner on Wednesday, when Pierene came home first in the Hastings Stakes. 'Miscount (Birkenhead—Miss Never) appeared to have the race won, when Pierene came with a

rush on the outside and scored by a long n.ck. The winner carries the of Mr. G. D. Greenwood, and was piloU.l by Hector Gray. Pierene was brought up to Wanganui with Danube and attracted a good deal of attention on the tracks last week. Died recently in Queensland, the veteran horse-breeder and sportsman Jerry Allman. He believed in everything Irish and named his neddies accordingly." Some of his best winners were:—Dan O'Conndl, Dillon, Parnell, Kate Kearney, Kitty o'Shcan, ftaltee More and Barney o'Hea. His stud farm was called the Curragh. How. how d'ye know we're Oirish Every time a prad across the Taxman pays a big dividend on the totalisator for running second 'iStralian papers vote it a fin? advertisement for the machine. But that argument has its drawback. When big dividends are returned the capital is only distributed amongst a few and the vast majority of punters are left out in the cold. When the favorite in a large field goes out payina;, say, £4, and gets beaten, coming home in second place, it is a glorious thing to bustle round to the totalisator and "get your money back." That is the time the machine gets its best advertisement. I've tried it and I know!