TURF TOPICS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1919, Page 8

TURF TOPICS

(By '"'Moturoa.*

Tli3 Wellington summer meeting opens on Weunesdny next. Punka and Mascot arc nicely treated in the Wellington Cup.

No fault can bo found with Silver Link's weight in the Telegraph Handicap.

Mr. C. D. Greenwood paid 1200gs for Karo, which seems a tall price. Minor meetingr this week: —Whangnvei to-day and South Canterbury on Thursday Egmont entries close on Friday night. The programme appears in another column Royal Irish, Meltchikofl, and Windorali ought to clean up the menu at YVhangarei.

The Wellington ''mystery'' disqualification case comes before the Wellington District Committee this week.

The Southland summer meeting resulted in a profit of about £I4OO. and next year's Cup wii! be worth £ISOO in consequence.

Biplane is s'andinz up to his work well at Riccarton, and his meeting with Desert Gold is again talked of.

Sun Dance, who won the Midsummer Handicap at KUerslie, is the first of the Sunny Lake progeny to race, and she is a top-iioteher. Winning Shot, Golden Grafton, Madam Ristori, and Otter have been entered for tht Takapuna summer meeting, which opens on January 20.

''Paddy" Eva is a busy man these days, his team comprising Form Up, Cyrisian, Princess Charming, and Loyal jjrch, which are at present located at '£;ikapmm "Paddy" is still nursing a badly-bruised arm, the result of a horse trying Us new boots or. him, and but for a rug breaking the- force of the blow Eva wffuld hav:- been seriously injured. The evstwMk New Plymouth trainer contemplate. s r trip to Sydney very shortly. Rorke's Drift hit' started in 70 races, gnd his record reads:—l 7 firsts, 10 seconds, &nd 8 thirds, 'ihose who believe in hoi si 5 for courses will find their argument strengthened by the fact that the horse has picked up £2500 of his total- stake winnings ( £5200) on the Dmiedin Jockey Club's course

Exit Obi, one of the finest jumpers Australia has seen for some years. He won the V.R.C Grand National Hurdle Ra.ce in 1910, and again in 1913, carryin" x.l-7 In 1,(1 n '-' sccohd in the Australian Hurdle Race with 11.11 in the saddti . The recent four days' racing ji filerslie will enrich the coll'ers of the Government to the extent of £13,368 12s 7d. i The three days' trots will hoist x the (.total up to £'20,000, which is a ijice i?cw Year present to Bill Massey. According to an exchange the late Mr.i Hifcvka. lot whom G Millcn trained: lim-ses for severs! years, left the latter thc\ise ifi «• house, t,i*!>les, and 49 acres) of ground for life. Tlua fa> the proper wav to reco£*ii;e good service*. _ I The hurdler Sation will visit Quarantine this 1-ast year she started seven times [.or one Win. Rnvry Up is bfe&t liy.ck seen out on this coast for some years and lie will be well supported if saddled up for the Rnapelu; Handicap at Treutham, deglJ the eligibility of MadaJ '.Rhltrfi and Movement for hack event/ -f the Taranaki Christmas meetirf "Antfcthwies," in (he Referee, o ;,f /tot \.vhilc both mares had yn over slal;es t,l<!y '," U - Jnn ' / the A°cvc;ral:c value of 7f- es to tne wim. I' worUl £l2O t>>r. i ton won on. • -™ LI - S h-'i-mid in 1017'Ji ' two ''"TveU thit-.i,' UiG same total wit*' Mit Gazique was again, ■etson Cup, but is hi Jxakapuna awi-Will shake thio^- U P f tin's aionth. . ( frreyor pnd Witli the arrival M/,1 0 ', !o t head . Sun Dance on tlie scenej^ uif . t |,j g | so much of the DcmoAthens XI, *jgea.sun, x iHit three of F~ ~ '

Kipling, and Demoiselle, Jilled the places in tho (< re;ii Northern Guineas, while Hetaua scored in the Welcome Stakes, It is not at all certain that Client will start in tho Wellington Cup, in which Mr. Coyle maker, him out to bo a 61b better horse than Mascot. In the Auckland Racing Clu'b Handicap, run over the tame distance, Mr. McMatiemin assessed Mascot as lib better than the Fordell horse, which shows how handicappcrs differ on some points. Some rare old "battlers'" got amongst the winners at Greymonth the other day. Included in the number were Oxenhopc, Tyson, Melton, Divorce, and Lady Middleton.