SPOTTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 8

SPOTTING.

THE Ai'M KALIAN TURF. tt} Cable—Pri.-? relation—lopyngn, Receivu; 1, 10 p.m. •Melbourne, duly 1. The Victorhi Amateur Tint' Club lms increased the .-takes for next season U, about £4S,IKM, including the llopetoun and Armadale Cups. the. Keiipse Stake.-.. Gwyn and Mona Nursery Handicaps, the prize" of each being increased to £IOOO. TURK TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") The Gisborne Racing Club's steeplechase meeting takes place to-day and to-morrow, and the presence of several tior-es with T.cntham and Kiee-artcii engagements invests the gathering with .same interest. The Gr.sborne Steeplechase has attracted eight horses, including Oiolborne, who showed winning form at the Great Northern meeting, and Sir Lethe and The Chief. .\\lln» .scored at Napier last week. The distance tm'av trouble Sir Lethe, and tlic better of the Auckland pair, Golborne and Napper Tandy, should give a good aecjount of him-elf. The Tramway Steeplechase will ojdy at)met a small'field, but if Meirie Lad and Golborne start they will carry a loi of money. The flat races have filled fairly veil. In .the Winter Oats Sir Daniel looics well Handicapped, and the same remark applies to Our King in the Flying Handicap. Kattpuni is given a chance to make amends for past disappointments in the Maiden, and Chortle Pi\d Ranfurly appear to be well treated in the. Hack Handicap. The Park Hurdles look like providing a good rac,e between Cloudy Dawn and I Grey King. If the matter is as good as they say he i= he should win at the meeting. The other day a gentleman wrote me for a list ot well-known horses that had graduated from the hunters' ranks, looking through the records it is hard tc lind a reall.v good winner over obstacles; who did not actually qualify as a hunter in the beginning. Coming to recent ones tln> following list is oii'y a trifle of wlat might easily 'be complied:—Antarctic, The Spaniard, Audax. Pilot, Gleiimore, Waterworks, Kauroa. Nedra, VAuck Northern, Ha.uterc. Janell-.i. Red McGregor, Hawick, Jiickiran, Riro Atti. flhte Mountain, Goli borne, Lovell, Ttciades, The Chief, etc.

One might g.i back to the days of Jloifoa and Kiaterc, but the above should suffice.

Grand National nomination'.- were published on Saturday, and those who indulge in "long shots" are at present

"picking 'em.' Taranaki stables are not. strongly represented in the chief eventw, Bercola. Exotic, Paritutu and Darby Paid being our only "reps" in the Grand National Steep:,eA-liase. ( hedd.ir, Darby Pant!. Royal Arms and Kurnalpi have been flattered with a Grand National Hurdles nomination, mil Crown Pearl, Royal Anns and Gerberga are engaged in the Winter Cup. The steeplechasers entered are the same old crowd, 'but some new ones' apppar in the hurdle race; notably Leonta, Cheddar and lioval Arms.

Fabrikoff is being kept going at Rie(•iirlon. and should be very tit when the A.-I.C. Derby cMnes up for decision. Ingenkender is getting through useful ta-,ks at Fileri'.ie and will probably sport silk a* the Wellington meeting. ' Carbine sited upwards of 111 -winners of 457 races. '

In tlin opinior. of the Ta.ranaki district clubs (Hie Stratford Racing Club «pon-or) disipalified jockeys should 'l'«vi> the rignt of legal assistance in n;>peal-, and notice, of motion is given a< fellows for the embodiment of ti new rule-—"That in all ca.-es ■who.™,, a jockey o r apprentice is Hiispcndcd or disqu.ilifi«d for living committed a 'breach of aiiv of iiie.-e rules the jockey or anprcnti••<■ -o P-i-p.-iidcd < r disqualified stall he entitled to cmr.lov legal assistaive to r,|)iK ir on his In-half, and to rrpi'o'scnt him upon the hc-iring of any suhsequent iippral (:;■ apreals thei'efrr.ni.''