SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 22 November 1911, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa"). E. Cutts was the most successful trainer at the C.J.C. Metropolitan meeting, no fewer than seven races being won by representatives of the Chokebore Lodge stable. R. J. Mason was next on the list with four wins, while S. Waddell, J. Price and J. Maher each trained two winners, and the following one each:—J. Munn, W. Gardiner, J. It. Prosser, R. Derrett, D. Moraglian, D. McDonald, R. Gooseman, T. F. Cioddard, W. Clarke, J. Franks, H. Thomson, F. Tilley, A. Neale, M. Hobbs, and J. McCardle. B. Deelev, with five wins, headed the list of winning jockeys at the C.J.C. Metropolitan meeting, C. Emerson coming next with four wins, while F. E. Jones occupied third place with three victories, and R. Young, L. Hegarty, A. Oliver, L. Wilson and C. Jenkins each won two races. The following rode one winner.-—Mr..C. McXaught, Jer. O'Connell, A. McMulhm, R. Berry, F. D. Jones, A. Whitaker, J. O'Brien, T. Prichard, W. Bell and L. Ti'aill. Recently in England a man narrowly escaped serious injury while pulling hairs from a horse's tail. It seems there are people who are collectors of hairs from the tails of famous horses, !■ lid that some meil earn a few shillings by furnishing collectors with specimens. It appears that there are many such collections. and one of them recently changed hands for twenty guineas. Such a price is above the average, but this collection contained sixty hairs, three from each of the tails of twenty winners of classic races, among them being Galopin, Ormonde. Flying Fox, Sceptre, Ard Patrick, Rock Sand, Pretty Polly, and Spearmint, the genuineness being vouched for by letters from the various owners and trainers. Such letters are usually demanded by sportsmen who make these strange collections, but there is, at least, one expert who professes to he able to recognise the hairs from any famous horse by sight or touch. He says that, apart from their color, they are recognisable by the variations in their strength, thickness and elasticity. As an instance of this, he mentions that a hair from Ard Patrick's tail was twice as thick as one from Pretty Polly's Ard Patrick having coarser hair than any other racehorse of the last twenty years.