SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1921, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. '{By "Motproa/'j) l Tku Wellington Baring (Club’s winter :raeetlliqg opens on .Wednesday. Pure Laziness 3ias been withdrawn from the 1 Winter Cup. Admiral *Codrington is ®ne «of the jprimu fancies for the Parliamentary Handicap. Tfarritiya. -continues io jump well, but the 1 handicappers at® taking yood -care of her. Amythas Ss throwing off fhe muscle soreness which •characterised ibis work When put In commission ire centiy_ Preddie Jones’ pair. Mustard Pot and Mouton Ivanovo, will strip as fit as anything racing at Trantham tibiis week.

Paper Money {Greenback— Epping Bose), 1 Bit. J. B. field's yeeently Supported stall lon, ran third in the Epsom Derby, won by •Grand, Farade.

"Tom’’ Price, a brother to George, Charite and •’Bill” Price, died in ■Wellington last week. The fun oral took place in Palmerston.;

A Manawntu scribe states that after Parisian Diamond's poor showing at Najpier Park bo further efforts will be made to convert tim into a hurdler.

Arthur ©Hirer, who has now got down t« Sst 'iTb, was Tiding 5n good style at Marlon ' last week, and be should not want far mounts at Trentham and JUecarion. Exceptionally big acceptances were jreeeivefl for th® three flat races at Trantham rti-tncr-tow, twenty being paid up for in the Parliamentary Handicap, In the Stewards’ JSandioup, and 3D En the Te Aro Handicap. Lupcrino made a splendid recovery from fiis recant accident, and tins been engaged at. Trentham, South Canterbury, and Riccarton. After a race -or two the Aucklander should bo dantjpycua in any -company. Admyra 3s repotted to ibe galloping well at Wanganui, but Mr. Len. Paid’s other horse, Empyrean, has not been doing too well lately. The pair will probably sport aiJk at the Marton spring meeting. A taking ehefUnut filly produced at the Ranp’.tikci Hunt meeting was Pam, a two-year-old daughter of Panmure and Cormorant. 8t» finished just outside the placed division in the Trial Hack Race, in which horses -of all agqs carried SsL Pam will win races next season. It is not. often that two geldings, father and son, figure on the same race card, but this was the case at Marton last week, Temalre, winner of the Hunters’ Hurdles, being nired by Yankee Jack {since geldedl, who was a runner in the Trial Plate late? in the afternoon.

From the hunters* class to the Grand National is a big jump, but this is the leap Pavilion is asked to make. Though hardly in the same street as Pavilion. Papatere, Kafotir and Tigerland comprise a tr’a cf hunters that would shine in a much higher class. Horses claiming double engagements at Trantham to-morrow are:—Strategy, Admiral, Codringion, Mort Aris,. and 'Luperino. The hotting suggests that -Strategy will most likely start in the Parliamentary Handicap. Paddington Green and Polthogue have been - entered for the Grand National Steeples; Simon, Alteration and Hailow for the Grand National Hurdles;*and Kareao, Income, Mort Avis, Halcyon and Volo for the Winter Cup. Weights arc due on Monday next. This season Hallowmas served over forty mares, all of which have proved ift foal. They Include five of Air. Percy Johnsen's own mares, namely Movement, lona (dam of Te Toa), Miss Penelope, and two untried mares by Red Rain.

Mountain God, uto won the Victorian Grand National Steeplechase in the hands of the New Zealand jockey*Sian. Reid on Saturday, was always a hot favorite for the race, and in winning easily with 11.5 in record time for the race, he was responsible for a fine performance. Reid is a fine horseman, and New Zealanders will be pleased at bls success in such an important ’cross country event. Merwin's rising two-year-old sister will race as Zareba. She is being trained at Taubercnikau by P. Hazelirian, and is said to show considerable promise.

if Childo Harold and Nelson Derby meet ever two miles at the Otahubti meeting in November, some spirited wagering- will be enacted, though on paper the former appears to be the better of tho pair, especially Over a distance. However, northerners are proverbially loyal to their own, so that backers of Childe Harold should have, no difficulty 2D "getting set.”

Sir Fisher Is not. the hopeless wreck that some scribes say, and has done a little schooling over big fences at Awannn! recently. Although showing signs of soreness, bls chanra of racing at the winter meetings is not altogether hopeless. Demos has not been on tho tracks much of late, though he put in an appearance on Saturday rooming.

Hyinestra has been responsible for a lot of in-and-out gallops lately, and though tie onetime champion looks very fit, there, seems no room for doubt that ho has grown cunning. Tho weight adjusters are taking all manner of risks with him, and he may bob up again very shortly—if caught in a galloping imood. Some. Kid showed up again at the Brackenfleld Hunt Club meeting, running f close second to Macduff in the final event, and though of no consequence In Itself, it reminded me of an incident that happened at the Wellington autumn meeting of 1919—Sasanof’s Thompson Handicap year. A pal of mine and ( were at Trentham that day, and my friend was a trifle elated. His wife had that morning presented him with his first born, a bonny, bouncing girl; and if the font of baptism never wet her head I can quite assure you that we wet her head that day. Yankee Jack had won the hurdles, and Afterglow had jus* upset a warvn order in Star Lady in the St. Leger, and my pal looked to the Plunket Nursery for a tip. "Shall I back Some Kid?" he asked, "or Red Pepper?” “Well,” he said, "that kid was the reddest thing I have seen outside a flsnmonger's window”—he meant a crayfish—"and I am in a quandary, if I was never in one .before. "Back both,” I advised, and I was a bit with him on th* Investments. As they scampered up the straight it was uncertain which would win, for Red Pepper and Some Kid were out on their own', and ultimately passed the post in that ordtr, a. neck separating them. Both returned good dividends, and my friend won sufficient to pay al-‘ fees in connection with his twelve-hour-old youngster’s advent. Which was as R should be I

That day's racing was fraught with incident, for Gloaming recorded his only unplaced performance, rearing up and falling at tho start of the Challenge Stakes; Amythas was beaten into fourth place in the two-year-old handicap; end Spanner’s heart was broken by Sa&'.nof beating him home in the Thompson In 1.3 S for the mile. Gloaming was not started again at the meeting, Mr. G. D. Greenwood relying on Afterglow to win the Trentham Gold Cup, which he didn’t, being beaten by half a length by Sasanof. Amythas retrieved his reputation by winning the Pacfilc Handicap very comfortably on the second day, carrying 9.2 over six furlongs in 1.12, but Spanner never did any good afterwards.