SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 25 April 1911, Page 5

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PRIZE MONEY AT RANDWICK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, April 24. The prize-money distributed at Randwick autumn meeting amounted ta £26,051, a record for Australia.' BLOOD STOCK SALES. , Received 24, 8.25 p.m. Sydney, April 24, At the blood stock sales, the stallio* Bright Steel was passed in at 1025gns, and Son of the Marsh at £BOO. On account of Price and Ncttleford, New Zest* land, Pink 'Un was sold for SOOgra; on. account of G. P. Donnelly, New Zealand, the marc Lady Cecile was sold at lOOgns and the mare Kilmorey at 135gns. Mr. Currie, of New Zealand, paid 375gns for the mare Roscommon. Received 24,11.25 p.m. Sydney, April 24. On account of G. P. Donnelly, New Zealand, the- mare Brisso was sold for 140 gns; the mare Chrysophase, 150 gns; Certon, 120 gns. On account of Hon. J. D. Ormond, of Napier, Birkenhead—« Maluri mare, CO gns. LADY MEDALLIST SOLD. Received 25, 12.30 a.m. Sydney, April 24. Noud, of Randwick, acting for a client, bought Lady Medallist for 1000 guineas. WELLINGTON ACCEPTANCES. . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The following are the Wellington Racing Club's acceptances for the first day of the autumn meeting:— , First Hurdle Handicap, one mile and three-quarters—Sunray 0.12, Torbelle 9.10, Bally Shannon 9.5, Whitestone and British Rifle 0.0. Waiwetu Handicap, seven furlongs— Irish Rifle 9.13, Sea Queen 9.3, Flineot < 9.2, St. Felix 8.13, Bracken 8.11, Toanga and Kilostere 8.9, Hilarian and Mira 8.0. Silverstream Handicap, seven furlongs —Floater 9.0, Brown Trout 8.11, Longwood 8.5, Canterbury 8.0, Laius and Deploy 7.12, Odessa, Moutoa Girl and Silver Bullet 7.7, Icel 7.2, Golden Age, Lady Volley, Foreshot, St. Brandon and Re- , tainer 7".b. Thompson Handicap, one mile—Equitas 9.2, Gold Lace and Full Rate 8.12, Boanerges and Iranui 8.9, Sharpshooter 8.5, Vice-Admiral 8.4, Gipsy Belle 7.12, Irish Rifle 7.10,' Dearest 7.9, Woodhey, Cheddar and My Lawyer 7.8, Wimmera and Genius 7.(1, Kauroa 7.3, Sea Queen 7.0, Gunboat 0,13, Mulga Bill, Vibration 6.10, Lady Moutoa 0.7. Plunket Nursery Handicap, five, furlongs—Bootle 9.0, Avarice and Royal Scotch 8.8, Aphaea 8.3, Terebenth 7!ll, Khamsin 7.7, St. Petersburg 0.13, Mazurka 0.9, Abercoad, Aloha and Mt. Victoria 0.7. Railway Handicap, six furlongs—Equitas and Obsono 9.10, Gold Lace 9.4, Effort and Tumut 8.10, Gipsy Belle 8.9, Sunburnt and Formless 8.8, Nyland 8.3, Formby 7.10, Sea Queen 7.0, Mon Ami 6.12, Thetis, Te Kahurangi and Zealand 6.7. Tinakori Handicap, six furlongs— Montiform 8.12, Allurement 8.6, Longstep 8.0, Master Sylvia 7.13, Deploy 7.11, Kina, Rongomai and Makara 7.8, Miss Murphy 7.7, Septimus 7.3, Turna 7.0, Royal Knight, St. Bees, Varna adn Egypt 0.7. FINAL PAYMENTS. Final payments for the North Island Challenge Stakes, 1911, seven furlongs— Penates, Orton, Masterpiece, Counterfeit, Madam Madcap. Flitaway, Bronze, Pierene, Mazurka, Danube, Gipsy Belle, roan colt by Cordon Rouge—St. Cyr mare, Peter Pan, Aphaea, St. Petersburg, Aloha, Sunburnt, Vice-Admiral, Bandeira and Culprit. New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, 1911, one mile and three-quarters—Bay colt by Eton—Cyrenienne, Nithsdale, Mira, Kilosteri, Danube, St. Bees, King Soult. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") The leading horsemen, A. Whittaker and H. Gray, rode only one winner apiece at the Easter meetings. Boanerges got a very bad passage in the Easter Handicap, and only got clear of the ruck at the distance. After a spell of bad luck, the Hon. J. D. Ormonde horses showed winning ' form at Ellerslie. Bootle (2), Woodhey and Miscount won races, and gathered in £IO4O in stakes. Just before Easter Koran was doing' well, but the hard tracks played up with him and soreness prevented the Waverley horse from racing at Feilding. It is time racing clubs awoke to the fact that the bookmakers are gone, and that adequate totalisators should be supplied for the convenience of patrons. At Riccarton and Ellerslie last week hundreds of pounds were shut out of the machine. Loch Fyne ran well in the Steeplechase at Ellerslie as long as his condition lasted, and, the old fellow's jumping was 'as good as ever. He should be "cherry ,ri,pc" when the steeplechase season opens shortly. Amongst the winning jockeys at Ellerslie pride of place goes to Charlie Brown, who won the Easter Handicap and (ireat Northern Oaks on Antoinette the St. George's Handicap on Northeast, and the Auckland Welter oh''Mister Wairiki. F. D. Jones, and Luke Wilson each rode and M. Ryan and H. Stockley were successiul twice. As usual, Soult headed the list of winning sires. Descendants of the defunct son of St. Simon won seven of the twen-ty-four events* of the meeting, both flat and stick events. Birkenhead was represented by Woodhey and Bootle, the latter a double winner. Wairiki, Leolantis and Gluten each claimed a double winner. Bearers of Clifford's "chequers" ran first five times and second four times at Riccarton, and the successes of Madam Madcap in the Croat Ea<ter and Counterfeit in the Challenge Stakes would plea™ the squire of Stonyhurst greatly.