SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 201, 3 December 1910, Page 7

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. Dec. 7, B—Woodville J.C. Spring 1 Dec. B—Waitara B.C. Annual Dec. 10, 17 —Christehnreih li.C'. Summer. Dec. 23, 20, 27—Manawatu R. C. Summer. Dec. 20, 27 —Taranaki Christmas Meeting Dec. 20, 29, and Jan. 2, 3 —Auckland R.C. Summer. Jan. 2, 3—Stratford R. C. Annual. COMING EVENTS. Dec. 26 —Auckland Cup TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") What price Clemora—your own price! Ulilando landed nothing at Feilding, and may now be counted out. Nyland is still in the paddock, and will not carry silk for a long time. Webbtown punters are now shirtless. They put their underclothing 1 on Egotist on Thursday. A word to owners. Stratford nominations close on Monday night See advertising columns for full programme. Tlhe victories of Golden Loop and Red Lupin brought much joy to Taranaki sports on Wednesday. Mulga. Bill ran well at Feilding, but the company was rather above him. He is sure to score soon. Gipsy Belle went out favorite for the Feilding Cup, but the rejuvenated Provocation simply walked in. On paper, Golden, Loop looked the greatest moral on Wednesday's card, and so it proved. The chestnut couldn'i go slow enough for them. The hurdler Sardonyx is enjoying plenty of swimming exercise at Wanganui, and owner Gordon has the big horse looking the picture of health. Showman appears to have lost liis jumping ability, and caine another cropper on the first day at Feilding. He was too sore to run on Thursday. Away from, the course, Equitas had few friends on Wednesday, but the following day punters could talk of nothing else for the York Stakes. The good thing struck something better in Full Rate, however, and her backers dropped part of their investments. First Mate paid the best price at tlhe Feilding meeting, and he scored rather easily. I believe B. Jvieholls got hini for hurdling, but be can travel fast on the flat and should win a good race at the Taranaki meetings a few weeks hence. Some people argue that Waikaraka would ihave beaten The Native had lie stood up on Thursday. He threw out half a mile from home when running prominently, and Billy Young described a lovely semi-circle, breaking a rib when he landed. "Mr. NaxelleW hurdler may be labelled' dangerous for a mile and a half hurdle event. Mr. H. Eva's team shaped ingloriously l at Feilding. Ulilando would not gallop a yard eadb day, and Miss 1 Advance appeared to get a bad passage in the Kiwitea Hurdles. Te Tikura, who was paying a large size in hat-fuls, was slow to find his feet at both starts, and he who hesitates has a good view of the finish—from the rear. Thanks to a don't-care-a-cuss sporting community, the kill-sports have scored all along the line in the latest Gammon Act. With the "Bar Vons" down and out, country clubs annihilated, and itote permits cut to rags, the weary Turf follower at last opens one sleepy eye and asks, "Whaffor?"

Hats off to Lady Menschikoff. She was one of the last away in the Flyang on Wednesday, and made up a heap'of ground in the straight. The Final Welter came her way after a splendid race, and report says that the hags of gold all went to Hawera. If my memory serves me right, it is just on twelve months since Mr. G. Olareburt led her in a winner at Stratford, and the mare (has raced consistently, but with ill-luck ever since. Now that she has broken the ice she should repay following. A horse that paid a surprising dividend was Jack Pin in the Maiden. Of course, everybody knew the Waverleytrained neddy could gallop faster tlhan you could clap your hands, but the crowd were allured by Allurement, who was reported to be as good as Polymorphous on the tracks, etc., and' Egotist, who was better than St.* Bill, etc. Oh, ye godsi! What wonderful gallops are left on the training grounds. Merry Lawn dodged correct-pea hunters at Feilding. On the first day tihe jgelding was sent out a scalding hot favorite, but threw lengths away at every hurdle, and eventually finished just outside a place. In the Rongotea Hurdles lie fenced better, and his pace enabled him to snatch the' prize, paying a good price for a small field of fiftlhraters. 'Twas eiver so!

The next excitement offered Tar ana ki ! puntera will be the Waifcara annual : meeting on Thursday next. Good fields are promised, and though many people 1 reckon they can pick winners after Takapuna and Feilding form has exposed : some of the champions, a first-class day's sport is certain, and a record crowd " should roll up at Sentry Hill next week. Apparently any old libel is good ' enough for the Press to fling at tttie grandest of all sports. The goody-goody papers tell us that a certain man in the Upper Huse barracked so loudly for metropolitan clubs because he won something like £32,000 on their courses in the last five years. The records show that tlhe Hon. J. D. Ormond—one of the best sportsmen the Dominion lias ' ever seen—is the only person who has \ won that amount. The kill-sport crowd 1 made a bad blunder when they attacked that gentleman. Hie insinuation is that Mr. Ormond stuck up for the big clubs because he drew £GOOO annually from their coffers. It is a well-known fact that the Hon. J. D. Ormond spends £ 10,000 a year on racing, and lie is such a good sport that he is "satisfied if the game doesn't cost him more tilian £SOOO per annum" —to quote a recent statement in the spouting press. These sums are nothing to a very wealthy man like the Karamu horse-owner, and nobody can truthfully say that he is in the game for what 'he can get out of it. The statement that he only runs races on Metropolitan courses is another falsehood. The records show that the "cerise i jacket" waa unfurled at Eangitikci, Napier Park, Feilding, Woodville, and other minor, places last season, and it is as plain as daylight that the kill-sport lies may be labelled with their own remark—"comment needless!" After (his forward running at Dann-e----virke, some surprise was expressed when Mendip was withdrawn from the St. Andrew's Handicap, particularly as Hector Gray was ready to ride him. The horse was there on the course, and the stewards of the Feilding Club thought that as Mendip was likely to get the stake in the Dannevirke Handicap, awarded to Vi, who weighed in short, he should put up a penalty for the Feikling race, and Mr. 'Spratt promptly scratched his horse. It seems a queer thing to call upon Mendip to carry a penalty for a race he hasn't won; but if tilie stakes under protest come to Mr. Spratt, the latter would be in Queer street again over the St. Andrew's Handicap, had his horse won at Feilding. However, Men.!:p made no race of the Manchester Handicap on Thursday, and that should serve to mollify Mr. Spratt's feelings in the matter. If there is no rule to deal with suah matters, the Conference should get busy as soon aa. possible.

The 'hard going found out Emblem. On the first day she was more tractable than usual at the barrier, and got away well, but they ihad not gone far before she began to slide away to the ruck. On the second day she down in the York Stakes, and wrts brought back to tfoe paddock. She will require a good spell now, and richly deserves it after the racing and travelling she has got through recently. Mortite wient mad just before lining up for the Aorangi Welter on Wednesday, and bolted a mile and a half with Billy Young. Mr. Matthew's colt finished last in the Welter, being completely "done up" after his mad careering round the course. Lethean attempted to win" the Kiwitea Welter from start to finish, but oame back to the geld at the home* turn, and finished a close third, c The Native put up a brace of attractive winning performances in thi3 hurdle events. When asked to gallop he simply left the opposition, and romped home. When betting operations commenced for the Cheltenham Hurdles, three or four horses, including the winner, opened at a good price, but when the money rolled in for The Native there was quickly one favorite, atld no other. Mr. Jas. Bull, jun., now races under the name of "Mr.T'iemi Puru," plain Bull being less classical than its Maori rendering.