SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 130, 19 October 1912, Page 7

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. NEW ZEALAND. October 24, 25—Poverty Bay Turf Club. October 26, 26—Wellington Racing Club. October 28—Waverley-W&itotaxa Racing Club. November 2, 4, 6, 9—Canterbury Jockey Club. November 6, 9—Auckland Racing Club. AUSTRALIA. October 19—Victoria Amateur Turf Club. November 2, 5, 7, 9—Victoria Racing Club. DATES OF COMING EVENTS. NEW ZEALAND. October 28—Champion Plate. November 2—New Zealand Cup. November 4—New Zealand Derby. November 6—Great Northern Guineai. AUSTRALIA. October 19—Caulfield Cup. November 2—V.R.C. Derby. November s—Melbourne Cup. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.")

Caulfield Cup to-day. Races at Trentham this day week. Leapuki has ''made good" at last. The Poverty Bay spring meeting takes place on. Thursday and Friday. Undecided threatens to see a very short price for the New Zealand Cup. Duke Foote, the Metropolitan Handicap hero, enjovs the sobriquet of "The Duke."

The Allegory boom is no more, and you can name your own odds on the neddy for the N.Z. Cup. Masterpiece is galloping brilliantly at Riccarton, and promises to do big things next month.

The Native was booked to leave Sydney by last evening's steamer. A Hawera scribe states that upwards of seventy equines are in training or the local course.

Jockey C. Emmerson, fresh from a successful Sydney trip, takes up the lightweight riding for Mr. Jos. Prosser's stable this week. The man in the street reckons that if Brown Owl does not cake-walk the Stewards' Handicap it will not be for want of being pitchforked into the handicap. Bravo Trafalgar! Wallace's crack son registered his fourth consecutive Randwick Plate victory on Saturday last.

The smartest of the Chokebore two-1 year-olds is reported to be Briarpatch. Royal Scotch's breakdown comes at a very inopportune time. The horse's splendid form caused his party to punt heavily on his CaulfieM Cup chance, and the ex-New Zealander will never get into a mile and a half handicap so lightly again. The richly-endowed Caulfield Cup, of 4000, run over a mile and a half this afternoon, promises to provide a great race. Ladv Medallist tops the handicap with 9st. 31b, just 31b above w.f.a., and, she will have to be a great mare to > carry that load to victory. Eudorua would only require to run up to track form to have to be reckoned with. Should Royal Scotch be fit to start, he would take a lot of catching with 7st. 91b, but the split-hoof which troubled him at Riccarton last season is reported to have pulled him up again. The Victorian sportsman, Mr. S. P. Mackay, who { paid £2OOO for the horse, appears toj have all the worst of the deal. Auro-) fodina, Jolly Beggar, Captain White,) Sandbath and Uncle Sam are fancied in some quarters, but the race looks very open. The racing at Masterton on Thursday was an illuminated testimonial to the | prowess of winner-picking by the major-. ity of punters. Eight races offered sue- \ cess (or the other thing) to a record' crowd, and first favorites ran in winners six times, and second favorites did likewise twice. The money showered in for Undecided in the Cup. and that horse ran just 99 per cent, better than at Otaki, fairly 'lobbing" it out. Imagination experienced a change of luck, and ran off with a double, Exertion (from the same stable) paying a nice price for second birth in the opening flutter. Leapuki, in response (apparently) to this scribe's hint to "make good," landed the mustard from Blue Lake, who always runs well ?.t Opaki. First and second favorites. Fashion Plate aud the disap- ■ pointing Manitau. paid the dividends in the Bracelet: equally well-backed Black Lupin and Easy repeated the 'trick in the next race: and Covomandel—a hot or j er _ scored nicelv in the Stewards' Handicap. It was a day of joy for backers, and how few those days are!