SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 172, 29 October 1910, Page 7

SPORTING

ENGLISH RACING. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. Loudon, October z«. In the Dewhurst Piate, King William and Chryseis ran a dead heat, with Atmah third. VVootton rode King William, anu Maher Chryseis. FLEMINGTON TRAINING NOTES. Flemington, October 28. Maltine did half a mile in 52sec, Flavian the same, Trafalgar three furlongs in 28sec, Lady Lucy a mile iii lniin' 52sec, Morilla five furlongs ii. lmin Bsec.

RACING FIXTURES. Oct. 29—Masterton R.C. Spring. Nov. 5, 7, 0 and 12—Canterbury J.C. Metropolitan. Nov. 5, 9 and 12—Auckland R.C. Spring. Nov. <J—Waverley-Waitotara R. C. Annual. Nov. 9—Taratahi-Carterton R.C. Annual. COMING EVENTS. NEW ZEALAND. Nov. s—New Zealand Cup. AUSTRALIA. Oct. 29—V.R.C. Derby. Nov. I—Melbourne Cup. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") V.R.C. Derby. The New Zealand Cup will be run next Saturday. The Porirua team for Riccarton were to have been shipped south last night. The pony, Maika, is still racing with bad luck, and could only scramble into third place in the Remuera Handicap at Epsom on Wednesday. I Down south there has been a solid I run on Martist for the New Zealano. I Cup. The bay son of Martian promises i to turn out a crack three-year-old. Forty horses have stood their grouna for next Tuesday's Melbourne Cup, and included in the number are the New Zealanders, Artillerie, Kerlie, Lady Lucy and Idyll. New Zealanders at the Caulfield meeting went for a recovery on Chauvelin in the concluding event "Skipper" Ryan had the mount, but the black horse cut up very badly, and finished in the ruck. A Palmerston scribe gets off the following: A well-known local trainer was caught putting in a late but well-sus-tained run on a bike on a footpath a couple of days ago. Result, 10s and costs! Dannevirke nominations are as numerous as ever, and include:—Clemora, Te Puia, Lethean, Tiptoe, Highden, St. Lumsden, Cyrene, Mallet and Bow Bells. Taranaki horses generally win a few races at Dannevirke, and those with Jong memories will recollect that Te Puia, Cyrene, Golden Loop and Stayboy won races there last year. Of the New Zealanders engaged in the Melbourne Cup, Lady Lucy has come in for most support throughout the Dominion. On the strength of her brilliant gallops during the last ten days she has made it clear that she is now fit and well, and such being the case, a force to be reckoned with. A Manawatu writer estimates that Palmerston sports have secured between £14,000 and £15,000 about the little mare. May tliev win out. The Masterton Racing Cub's spring meeting will be concluded to-day. the principal events being the President's Handicap (one mile) and the Stewards' Handicap (six furlongs). Last season the first-named race was productive of a slashing finish, Sir Frisco and Iranui running a dead heat for first money, and Moloch being only a head away third. Iranui carried 8.5 on that occasion. There's nothing like showing respect 'for old age! At a Westralian Hunt Club meeting recently an eighteen-year-old neddy, Revella, ridden by a man nearly sixty years of age, went out "at your own price," and. to the surprise of most people, the "old-timers" romped home with daylight between them and the rest of the field. Some men—and some horses, too —are never settled until thev are held down firmly by six feet of Mother Earth. The Victorian Racing Club's spring meeting will commence at Flemington to-day. The trump card is the Derby, for which a record field promises to go to the post. The Maribyrnong Plate will keep the two-year-olds busy, and older horses will contest the well-en-dowed' Melbourne Stakes and the Hotham Handicap (iy 2 miles). The latter events are expected to shed sonic light on the Melbourne Cup problem, ns all the cracks are engaged. In the Hotham Handicap, Aborigine 0.5 , Lady Lucv 8.5, Kerlie 7.13, and Idyll 0.7, are engaged, and in the w.f.a. Melbourne Stakes we drop across the names of 'Kerlie and Artillerie. But for a general run of bad luck, New Zealand would have been more fully represented at Flemington this year, and it remains] for Lady Lucy and Artillerie to run up to their best form to stretch the champions' necks to-day. North-East. St. Bill and Egotist left Wan garni i on Tuesday for Ellerslie. Mr. Alec Hall has his charges in good nick, and thev will probably catch a race oi two before thev return home. Jockey I W. Price will ride them in their northern engagements. In carrying the steadier of list 71b to the front in the First Hurdles at Oisborne, Continuance put up an attractive performance. The mile and threequarters was thrown behind in 3.15 3-5, and as he won a.H the way and finished pulling mi the performance stamps him as a really good hurdle horse. Paisano has been one of the most consistent stake earners running in the Dominion. Br careful pacing lie mr.nagcd to win n large number of flat races at the smaller meetings last season, and finished up by winning over th ? sticks at Trentham and at Riccarton. On Thursday he was hack again chasing "■small game." and just got homo in the Spring Handicap at the Poverty Bay meeting. Paisano is alwavs out to win —a rave thins in these days—and his j success is all the more pleasing on that | account. I At last Wellington ha= made a mov<. in the matter of forming a National Sporting League. It is not before its time—rather, years after it—for the kill-sports have been getting in good work (from their narrow point of view) for some considerable time, and the sporting community will have to shake Ihiugs up with whip and spur to make up the Inst ground. The Wellington , branch of the League is backed up by a large number of broad-minded individuals of standing in political and business circles, and their aims, as set forth in i the local papers, to secure the liberty 1 which Britons boast so much about. 'Branches of the League will shortly he I established in other centres, and when [ the time comes Taranaki will not be found wanting, but will "gird its loins" , 'and prepare, gladly, for the fray.