SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 91, 7 October 1911, Page 7

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. Oct. 11-Napier Park Raci'*' Oct. 21. 23—Wellington R.'\ October 23—Wavefley-Waitotara Club. Nov. 1 and 4—Auckland ltaciirg Club. Nov. 4, <i, 8 and 11 J.C. DATES OF COMING EVENTS. Nov. I—Great Northern Guineas Nov. 4 —New Zealand Cup Dec. 26—Auckland Cup. Dec. 20—Oreat Northern Koal Stakes. TILE HARLOW CASK. AN APPEAL LODGED. Mt. E. P. Webster, secretary of the Ta.rana.ki Metropolitan Committee, received telegraphic advice yesterday from the secretary of the Racing Conference tliat the Kgniont Racing Club had appealed against the decision of the Metropolitan Committee in the Barlow east.

TURiF TOPICS.

(By '"Moturoa.")

Xapier races on Wednesday. Miscount is the coining '"crack" three' year-old.

Pleiades has plenty of foot and is well treated l at Waverley. That Bobrikoff has not lost his pace he proved on Wednesday, when he reeled off six furlongs in lniin 14sec with a welter weight aboard. Lady Medallist has "made good" in no uncertain fashion, and in winning the Craven Plate she registered her best perforin a nee to date. A good 1 number of Taranaki owners missed the Waverlcy nominations. It is a pity the country club did not advertise in, the recognised sporting papers of this province.

The Hawke's Bay spring meeting was a benefit for the Kanunil stable. No less than three hearers of the cerise jacket were first past the post, the winners ibeing Miscount, Outward and Glade. Ventura, winner of the Gimcrack Stakes, carried the blue and white of the Napier sportsman Mr. E. J. Watt, and cost, her present owner 420 guinea! a 9 a yearling. The filly is 'Stxalian-bred, and claims the imported English sire Traqunir and the New South Wales mare Sonoma, as her progenitors. She wu ridden by W, H. McLashkn, and on track form must have been well supported on Saturday last. Sandy Paul ran a good race in the Higgie Handicap at Wanganui, and may have to be reckoned with in 'the Waverley Cup, which is run over the same distance.

The Regel gelding Hoanga was sent across to Sydney on Monday, and with ordinary luck should pay his way across the Tasmnn.

Crown Pearl is reported to be little the worse for his mishap while' being' landed at the breakwater last week, and will be amongst the runners at Waveriev on Monday waek.

Miss Advance is now trained by R. Ellis at Riccarton. ' ! "

Th© only trouble with the hurdler Miteha'u is that he 'cannot gallop'" fast enough to keep himself warm. Petrovna has foaled a line-looking colt to 'Finland. ' : '■'■'■■'■

That disappointing failure, North' Head, who cost his Auckland owheVa big sum of meney, died recently up ftoflh. Turbine and the two-year-old Monoline were railed to Wellington on Tttesday-'td" take part in' the forthcoming meeting

at Trentham. A. promising career was'put' ah end i to when Scots Fusilier'broke' his fetlock; during the running of the IWA ! Hurdle* atjH"<tstmgs O'n 'Wednesday!' '•••■ : ' The"Y«ldhurst team struck bad luck' in (Sydney. Bandeira 'is Hntfcs. and ' the ; twp-y ear-olds Teviotda'lc ami 'Canute] which I 'were returned 'hdiHfe li4t"'weeß, 1 have'been In a bad wavfwith'ihfluertfci.' ■■■'■- late Mr. Theo. Bowling is ftfoSecr' tojhave left the 'chaser ! Ahfelrbtle'-oy' de«id"of gift - to a frieiid' shortly'before'' he died. '''■ ■"™ 1 ;; v-'-\

Glade must be a particularly sniart twi-year-'old, for the full-sister to Formhy galloped in a comiortable'winner in the''-Hastings'Stake's' ln-''4d 2-ss-cc' : In' a. straight run at Riccjivton the daughter \ of Birkenhead should'takeli'lbt'of catch- j ing next month. '"■'■ "" ■] The New Zealand Oup is'just a'ni'ont'liH off, | but practically no interest'-is'Being 1 taken in the big event. The! nominal favorites Goldfinder ■ and, Domino have.,! shown ,poor form in their receiit.cfforts, and the, top-weight and Gunboat ought to hold them safe at any, part of. it. Lady Lupin has a tine colt by the imported Canrpfire (by Carbine). lf T >the.' youngster takes after his ilaini lie should be able to travel fast. Lady Lupin was, only in work a few weeks when, P she ran second in the Maiden (one mile,) at\W»i-.. tara. Three weeks later she ran third in the Ladies' Purse at New Plymouthy and the next day won the Fitz r oy Hack Handicap in good time. In each of her races she lost considerable ground through fractiousness at the barrier, and that she could gallop as fast as a .man. could clap his hands she often proved, by rattling over four furlongs in 49sec., .and five furlongs in Imin 3scc on. the tracks. The youngster she has foaled certainly can lay claim to an aristocratic, pedigree, and his future on the turf will be watched with interest. The records of most lontj-distance races in New Zealand are freely sprinkled with the name of the great mare Dudeo and her progeny, and it -was only fitting that her owner, the veteran trainer E. Cutts, should have allowed her to eat the oats of idleness in the declining years of her life. She reached the age of 20 years last week, and her owner deemed it advis.ible to have her destroyed, so feeble was she. Her foals won many good races and included Epaulet, Djiu Djiu, Shrapnel Shell. Lorah. Montacule. and Safety Pin. her hist foal, who won a race at A.-hburton recentlv.

Croivtadt has been going along nicely nt Riccarton lately, but is under a suspicion of unsoundness. Mr. Fred Leslie has disposed of Wild West to a Sydney sportsman.

Every time a horse pays a big dividend we hear marvellous tales of how people got on to it, but this is said to be a true bill. A sport made up his mind j to back Ireland, the favorite for the Railway Hack Handicap on the second J d:iy tit Wanganui. (Soing up to the tote he had to undergo the usual jostling ■ —a particularly 'bad thing at Wanganui. where there are now guide-rails—and when close to the machine he dived for hiti race-card to see Ireland's number. No. 10 he rend, and eventually got a ticket on that number. Tiwari won, with Ireland second, and the punter lined up to the "second-dividend" window to draw bis paltry few bob. The pay clerk handed liack his ticket, and directed him to tile ''first-dividend" window. Explanations followed, and he I found that Tiwari was No. 10 in that

race. Jt appeared that Ireland wa? No. 10 in the Maiden Handicap the previous ilny, and the fortunate punter had, in the hustle, looked up the first day's card. Then rejakings were the order of the day, and he thanked his lucky stars that Ireland ran into second money and thus

put him wise to the fact that his little bit of paste-board was so valuable. For winning the Higgie Handicap IWnerifea will be required to pat, up a olbs penalty in the New Zealand Oup—that is if 'the Highden horse starts—a very remote thing indeed. Wellington weights present many problems. ElectrakoiT is not badly treated in the principal handicap, and should nin out ;i mile and a quarter very comfortably. Shuja is coming down in the weights anil may score soon. The class of backs engaged at the meeting promises to be tip- top.