SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 97, 19 September 1914, Page 7

SPORTING.

EACDfa JUTURBS. September 19—Avondale J.C. Spring. I Septwnber J4, 26—Wanganui J.C. Spring Oetober 3-Napiex Park B.C. Spring. October 8, W—Dunedin J.C. Spring. October I«—Hawke's Bay J.C. Spring. October 24, 26—Wellington R.C. Sprin<\

TURF TOPICS. Concluding day at Avondale. Wanganui rates on Thursday and Saturday. -Merry Eoe ikj reported to have gone wrong. Ifullingar will have a lot of friends in the Avondale Guineas. Master Lupin's brace of failures on Wednesday cost his party a tidy sum. Imarose has been withdrawn from the New Zealand Cup. Royal Irißh Bhould carry most money in the Plumpton Handicap to-day. The two "dry" bets on Wednesday were Admiral Soult and Crown Pearl.

Bercola has been entered for jumping events at the Australian J.C. spring meeting.

Clifford's First Flight, who won in a walk at Ashburton, is in the boom for the Wanganui Guineas. Worloy the Nut started in the Avondale Stakes, but the fast pace set by Gold Lac cracked him up. Soultane missed badly on Wednesday, but most wise guys are praying to be "in" when they back him. Yankee Doodle has been running very consistently lately, and most of us wonder how we came to miss him at Avondale.

The Avondale Stakes winner, Gold Lae —not Gold Laee, as telegraphed) just strolled home. He is a bay colt by Marble Arch—Merry Nif, and carries Mr. J. H. Walter's "grey and dark blue" jacket.

Royal Arms shaped disappointingly in the Islington Welter, and compared with Soldier he appears ot hive all the worst of the argument in the Nihotapu Welter this afternoon.

Lady of Lourdes is a name that may offend some people, and it is a wonder thoße on top allowed it to pass. However, sbe filled the role of runner-up to Gold Lac in the Stakes, and most punters will sink their religious principles and back her again to-day. If Ruffy is in anything like the form he was the day he led Glenmore home in the Autumn Steeplechase at Ellcrslie he may take some beating in the Mt. Albert Steeple at Avondale. The Chief and Golborne will also command a good following. King Soult, who won the Avondale Cup on Wednesday, clipped over a second off Prince Merriwee's record for the race. It was about -the King's turn, as the Register vows he hasn't won a race since December, 1910.

Honorable mention is hereby awarded to those responsible for the following racehorse nomenclature:—Battle Eve, by Martian—To-morrow; Chilblain, by Bun-V&n-Miaa Folly; Nocturnal, by All Biack—La, Notte; Innocence, by Downshire—Purity; and Snub ,by Martian-A Disdain.

Admiral Soult will be meeting Pip, who ran him to a length on Wednesday, on Dibs worse terms to-day, and may be hard to beat again. Tragedy King jumps fairly well and is very well treated with 9.4.

If Palmeraton reports are correct, Portraiture may be left out of calculations for spring handicaps. He is supposed to have ricked his shoulder at Marton, and will require a couple of months' spell at the very least. The Awapuni trainer, J, T. Jamieson, has shifted to Wanganui, and F. Flyim ib riding the hurdlers of the team there. Grattan is now a member of "Murt." Gardner's ("table at Waverley.

. - .o looking very well at present and is a likely runner at Wanganui on Thursday.

As Merry Roe already had more than weight-for-age in the New Zealand Cup the cannot be mulcted Kith any penalties for that event.

Columbus, or as the Dannb v ' r kc "correct card" calls him, "Colombia," lias How run four seconds on end. ne is a ufeful Bort, but not up to New Zeala.nd Cup form. Talking of the official "card" at Dannevirke, reminds mo that somebody in those parts must be very rusty in bis spelling. Things like Platifus and Colombus may be blamed on to the com p., but will a well-known Hawera trainer ever forgive them for calling him "P. Coffee" 1

Rencontre, who topped the list of winning two-year-olds la9t season, is reported to be in fine nick to pluck all the weight-for-age plums again this year. Something of a horse! Sardanaplc, the French crack three-year-old, has won the enormous sum of £39,000 in stakes alone.

The imported stallion Downshire. who was represented by a winner at Ashbmton last week, has gone the way of all flesh. Bred in England in 1904, he was imported to New Zealand for Mr. J. U. Reid. At the latter's dispersal sale in 1912 he was sold to an Australian breeder for 600gns., and a stud career which promised to be highly successful was cut short last week, when he was found in a tad way cast in his box, and had to be destroyed. There are several of his progeny racing in tha south, and they all show promise. Wanganui acceptances are due on Monday evening. 6ir Daniel, by Multiftd—Manutuke, half-brother to l*ink 'Un, died recently of lockjaw on the farm of his breeder, Mr. J. Robson. Mr. T. Cameron will start the fields at Waverlcy next month. Owing to being engaged as clerk of scales at Trentham Mr. 11. Skipwith has had to resign from his position with the Waverley Club. Descendants of the defunct Soult were not numerous on the Australian turf last season, hut all the same they managed to capture £8122 in stakes at various meetings held in the Commonweam. The sum added to the £13,438, which Soult's progeny captured in New Zealand, gives a total of £21,558, and rawt, the grand total of the earnings of his etotkto £151,122. Mr. W. Reid, one of the leading sportsmen of Victoria, holds pronounced views »a many subjects connected with racing, and in enumerating the same he does Kot leave room for any doubt as to his attitude. The stipendiary stewards' system finds Mr. Reid hostile, and in a recent communication be penned the following:—"Whatever it may be elsewhere, no appreciable good is noticeable '. »n this side. More owners, trainers and jockeys have had their reputations more "ov lets besmirched by abortive enquiries than formerly, but practicaly this is all that has been accomplished. No one can enter the portals of our closed-door €ourt of enquiry and emerge-as stainless an he went in, however innocent he may be. Naturally, it is a one-sided court. To one set of racing men it is like water on ft duck's back; they like it, thrive on it, and come again for more. To another, and the best, it is little | port of social death, whatever the nlti- | mato verdict might bo. Every etipenOJarT nmgistnto should hold opcm I court* :. :.A-i^L:.\:.■>'■