SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 36, 5 August 1911, Page 7

SPORTING

RACING I'IXTL'K- - , August S, 10, 12—Canterbury J.C. Grand National. J . COMING EVENTS. j New Zealand. Aug. B—Grand National Steeplechase. Aug. B—Winter Cup. Aug. 10—Grand National Hurdle Race. AuctralM. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Good luck this racing season. The Canterbury G.N. meeting opens on Tuesday. Olisuno luts been put into training at Flemington. Continuance promises to start a warm order in the G.N. Hurdle Race.

It is reported that Merrie Zealand will not sport silk in the Winter Cup. The Hawke's Bay .I.C. made a profit of about £7OO last season. Los Angeles, Genius and Bonetta. were to have left for Sydney last night. From Hawke's Bay we hear that Espartera l)eat Appin in a rousing trial before leaving for Riecarton.

Antarctic is "hot-stuff" for the National Steeple. Sure that's a bet/ting parad-ox. Lady Medallist, is going well at Bandwick, and at latest advices was quoted favorite for the Epsom Handicap.

It is stated that a well-known owner was (bought out of the National Hurdlo Race at a fair price. And yet some say thfi .bookmaker is extinct. Trainer .1; Prosser's team for Riecarton comprises Lovell, Kopek, Salopin, Ribstone Pippin, llawick, Dearest, and Turna—a moderate lot!

Mr. Albert Rhodes' brown colt by Field Battery—Ladv Fisher has been entered for the A.J.C. Derby of 1912.

The Australian Hurdle Race comes up for decision to-day. Arquebuse is a slightly better favorite than tile topweight, Obi. Truganini ran second in the Flying at Broken Hill the other day. Mr. Middleton Melrose's cast-off was giving a.way a lot of weight to the winner, Tiercel.

Law down in the list of winning owners last season were: Messrs. J. Smith £(i4(>, H. Eva £405 and A. Rhodes £125. May they do better this year. Amongst the liorees in training at Victoria Park (Sydney) arc: Ilet Volt, Wild West,! Home Rule (by Wairiki), and the pony Irritation (Soult —Vexation).

The FieMj Battery filly, Confection, got into a hole and knocked herself about a few days ago. She was going well on the Wanganui tracks prior to this mishap, but will now Tic spelled for a month or so.

There is something in names after all! A hot favorite, who finished a long way behind the field in a race over Sydney way t'other day, was- named Full Back. The crowd who "did a parcel" on him were the fool-backers.

Nyfand is ,most fancied for the Winter Cup. The Highden. horae >vill carry 101b more than he bore to victory in lastyear's Cup, and he has not done anything very startling in the interim. ' .Tockey A; Olliver will he above Nylaiki; and his record of three consecutive victories, on Penates, North-East, and Nylnnd, is unique. Whether he will increase the victorious sequence will be known on Tuesday.

Who .says the old-timers have done their dash? Following on Frank Lind's return to the ranks of riders ovfcr bij? country we hear that Jack Delaney is thinking of applying for a license. 1 He was a great rider a few years ago, and perhaps, like Simon Mynott, he can •'come back. - '

'Hie following par appeared in the South Oliina Weekly a few months ago:

"Pie'tiri, who 'was hist year's best two-vcar-old, and therefore considered the Derby f.ivorito for l'.Ul, has, According to mail papers, pot a touch of the wind." Not much to blow about, is it?

Re fast times in England. Marajax won the Manchester Cup, ]'/ s miles, in 2min 27 2-ssec, and Swynford led the field- home in another twelve furlong race in 2min .10 4-."isw. In Australasia we measure our course a couple of feet out from the rails, but in the Old Country they measure the distance right out in the-middle of the coium". Over anything lm-t a .sbraight-nway a horse that leads throughout 'might cut off a big lump in every mile over there, and that makes compari-on impossible. Apparently an "English" mile i* like « New Zealand "pint" of beer in its shortness. Tn referring to the victory of the fifteen-year-old Yasmak in the Hiwke's Bay Steeplechase, a writer .in The Arrow states that when Game won tlu! V.R.C. f!rand National .Steeple in 188G, carrying list 10lb, and Ruby won the same event under )2#t 71b, -both horses had seen eleven summers. The next year flame won the Caulfiehl Grand National Steeple with 12st 1211) up. These are only two of many instances of 'chasers, like wine and other good things, improving with age.

The Trial Plate at Wellington is a favorite race for the Hon. ,T. D. Ormond's

"new chums." Since 1(104 he has scored with Mobility, Wirril, Drcadless, Morceambe, and Ain.sdale. The Stake nnd Wallasey finished •second, and -Ennuis, another bearer of the cerise jacket, was unplaced during the period above-men-tioned.

A Southern piper reports that the champion colt of Stead Bros/ team is Bon Reve (Boniform —Dreamer). The youngster was easily the best tried at Yaldhurst, and, with a fly, was credited with scampering over a measured furlong in 11 l-ssec. Unfortunately P.on Rev© went wrong last month and could not accompany the other members of the coin-hunting expedition to 'Stralia. He will be a hard nut for the two-vear-olds to crack in New Zealand in a couple of months time.

L'«viatb;in Bill Ryan is at present seriously ill. but is stated to have passed the danger mark.

Aftw paying the first aw|)taiu*o the til© Melbourne flip:—Los Angeles. Lady following Xo,\v Zealand horses remain in Lucy, Broadsword, Bridge, Yice-Admiral, M«rtyr«, Midnight Sim. and Xoibel. Tile following 'have made the final payment for Hie Australian Hurdle Race, rii,ll over about three and a halt' miles, at Flemington this afternoon: -Obi 11.5, Arequebuse 11.ii. Tuvermavson -10.7, Minato 10..). Battery lft.3. SW.™ O.IH, Yarraibar D.l.'i bribery !)..>, Unfus 0.0, Black Native !1.0, Stem Anchor 9.0, Wonderlea !).0, Flash .lack !1.0, and Ilunter.ston 0.0. Since his arrival at Riccarton Antarctic has, both on the (hut and over the big fences, done everything asked of him i in great style. His admirers argue that he is a fitter horse than 'when lie raced at Ellerslie, and meeting Oorazon (his former victor) on better terms in ths National Steeplechase, the pair should put up a soul-stirring contest on Tuesday next. No,',v that the bookmaker is absolutely wiped out in New Zealand (vide police reports), it is about time that Parliament sanctioned the publication of dividends. If 'betting is restricted to racecourses, as they allege. 110 harm can be done 'by letting mere outsiders know tile prices pi id by winners. Like ping pong, stamp-collecting, etc.. it would afford amusement for those not fortunate enough to see the horses running. I Royal Sonlt and a pony were shipped to Sydney in Monday in charge of Sam

Lindsay. Royal Soult was reported to be in capital fettle and should not be long in working Ms way towards the top of the handicaps- on the other side. <Dho exodus of ponies continues briskly up north, and the good prizes offered by Sydney clubs threaten to clear the Dominion of the better-class lilliputiains. Kremlin was in a bad way when taken back to Auckland after racing at Trentham, and the old iellow has not put in ail appearance at KUerslie since.

From the south we hear that Sir Frisco, Merrie Zealand, Dreadless, and: My Lawyer .will not start in the Winter Cup. A good field still remains in, and the chances of the Highden horses, NyImkl and Boanerges, and Gold Thread, Dearest and Effort seem- to be most highly assessed.

The New Zealand. hoTse Sunburnt claim. 1 ; 1 aw engagement at Rosehill t«-(Jay. The (horse lias been showing good form on the Randwick tracks recently, and is evidently in good'form", From Palmerston-North comes word of the death of the well-known stallion St. Clements. He was bred by the late Mr. W. Percival in 1888, and was got by St. Legcr from Satanella, by Hippocampus—Slander, by Traduc'er. Satanella liad a very numerous 'progeny, and among tliose claiming full relationship with St. Clements were St. Paul, St. Ursula, St. Peter* and St. Olga, who all knew how to gallop. St. Clements' specialty was sprintingi' and in his day lie had no superior. Weights did not appear to trouble him. I; vivid recollection of seeing him pferform at the A.li.C. meeting of 1894 (says a Wellington sporting scribe). He won the Shorts Handicap under ost' ! Blb/ afid three races later, in tilie Flying' Handicap, fairly romped home with'.flstilOlb in the saddle. On the conqluding day of the 'meeting in the Publicans' Hamfioap he 'was loaded up to lOst 71b, but it failed to stop him, although he was giving to two very smart sprinters in Red Lancer and Rex, the latter of whoiwt'wifce won the Easter Handicap. St.-Clements was a horse of very line conformation. With somewhat limited opportunities he got some speedy gallopers, notably St. Toney, St. jßill and Gladiole, atid theßC in the seasbn just closed were able to put St. fetfth'ilfccfe' '<Jh the list of winriin® 'striili r W/i»°-W.ittl :;; a "f'dtaT 'of £4®47 10s 'i" l '" : m notJ-xiß' *'£' ' id hv:.-In .