SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1922, Page 3

SPORTING.

.HAMES ACCEPTANCES. Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Feb. 21. Following are the Ttiames acceptances: — HURDLES.—Thrace 12.8, Tenacious 10.8, Shell Shock 10.5, Stirrup Cup 9.11, Keystone 9.10, Peppin 9.9, Tlnokaha 9.6, Roller 9.0, Arrowfleld 9.0, Silver Pine 9.0, Scottish Knight 9.0, Swastika 9.0, Ripeka 9.0. TRIAL HANDICAP—Wanigan 8.2, .Tolly Gay 8.0, Ben Nevis 7.13, Teranga 7.10, Aman's Queen 7.9, .. Master Rohan 7.8, Delysian 7.7, King Neva 7.7, Sussex 7.7, Pagoda 7.7, Arawaroa 7.6, Peter Ross 7.6, Betty Souit 7.6, Gold Star 7.6, Milesian 7.6, Tinatoa 7.6, General Rose 7.5, Euphoria 7.5, Irene Bruce 7.5, Miss Masterful 7.5, Lady Claureen 7.5, Kilmardy 7.5, Disappointment 7.5, Fairmount 7.5, Bonny Doreen 7.5, Rosullus 7.5. BOROUGH HANDICAP.—GoIden Bubble 9.10, Shortland 7.3, Ohinewalrua 7.3, Prince Charleroi 7.2, Caballero 7.2, Golden Abbey 6.13, Connemara 6.13, Fife and Drum 6.13, Lady Glissas 6.11, Winning Lass 6.7, Oak Abbey 6.7, War Guard 6.7, Miss Hester 6.7. GOLDFIELDS CUP.—Boomerday 8.5, Raceful 8.4, Stork 7.0, Some Fashion 6.12, Nighttime G.lO, Blue Cross 6.9, Prince Carl 6.7, Brodick 6.7, Clonmel 6.7. HACK HANDICAP.—Loch Abbey 8.12, Gamboola 8.6, Waikaretu %3, Miss Leslie 8.2. Narrow Neck 8.2, Peter Maxwell 8.0, Polini 7.8, Machree 7.8, Waiatapai 7.7, Tuipa 7.6, Miss Lucullus 7.6, Lady Hill 7.6, Lucy French 7.3, Euphoria 7.0. .APPRENTICES’ HANDICAP.—Tama-a-roa 9.5, Arran 8.0, Bute Sound 7.9, Ohinewalrua 7.6, Stammer 7.2, Princess Charming 7.0, Connemara 6.10, Fife and Drum 6.10, Oak Abbey 6.10, Machree 6.7. STEEPLES.—Thrace 11.13, Tenacious 10.5, Capsal 10.3, Koura 9.5, Kautahoe 9.5> Tekapara 9.0, Toddy 9.0, Boko 9.0, Flagstaff 9.0, Tul 9.0, Dick 9.0. HAURAKI PLAINS HANDICAP.—Infante 7.10, Forest Gold 7.10, Namutere 7.8, Murnbte 7.7, Bang 7.6, Some Fashion 7.4, Goldplane 7.4, Bute Sound 7.2, Hipo 6.12, Penona 6.12, Salvaless 6.12, Mlmiwhangata 6.10, Scrap o’ Paper 6.9, Dactylis 6.9, Tresor 6.8. TARANAKI JOCKEY CLUB. DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING. A meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club district committee was held last night. Present: Messrs. L. A. Nolan (chairman), G. Fraser, O. W. Sole, A. Alexander, H. Gray, A. E. Washer, J. McLeod and B. H. Chaney. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. S. Pitt. D. J. Malone and A. Good. It was decided to hold an informal discussion amongst delegates to the district committee at the conclusion of the next district committee meeting, on matters relating to the management of race meetings in the district, and on other matters affecting the 'racing The Egmont Racing Club’s programme for their meeting on May 10 and 11 was approved. The list of fines, etc., in connection with recent meetings in Taranaki was approved. T. S. Lloyd’s conditional jockey’s license was extended for three months from the sth instant, and a jockey's license was granted to T. S. O'Brien.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa”.) The Wanganui racing carnival, which cbmprlses two days’ trotting and two days’ gallops, opens to-day, when the Wanganui Trotting Club will open its annual meeting at Wanganui East. Exceptionally dry weather has been experienced lately, and the trotting track is likely to be fast, but very dusty. Good fields will contest the majority of events, and horses that are likely to carry a good deal of money in their engagements are: First Carbine, Jack McKinney, Master Bingana, Logan's Gift, Aranul, Loch Lomond, Harry Audubon and Waitepopo. The trotting meeting concludes on Friday. The acceptances received on Monday evening for Thursday’s gallops at Wanganui are very good, seventeen remaining in the Cup, nine in the Flying, seven in the Hurdles, and good fields in all the minor events. As the majority of the acceptors are already on the scene of action, some good racing will be witnessed there on Thursday and Saturday. Six horses—Vespucci, Affectation, Boomerday, Esperance, Lovematch and Illumination—have dropped out of the Wanganui Cup, but the seventeen left include most of the fancied division, notably Amythas, Marqueteur, Rouen, Rude, the Kemball pair, Egotism, Foo Chow, Landslide, Sycorax and Egmont Park. It is a great field, and should be a great race. The nine paid up for in the Flying Include The Hawk, Sliver Link, Tamatete and half a dozen likely lightweights. The Hawk’s acceptance occasioned some surprise, and the appearance of the record-breaker fills the race with additional interest. The principal defections were Blackmail, Absurdum, Affectation, Cold Steel and Amber Tips. Gloaming Is jumping out of his skin at present, and Is mostly exercised on the lead. One recent morning, after traversing five furlongs in Imln 1 4-ssec, he took charge of the lad on top and galloped about three miles. He might have gone further but for H. Telford mounting Vespucci and racing alongside and pulling him up. However, the champion appears to be none the worse for his exertions. Egotism has been doing nicely on the tracks at Wanganui, and now that Vespucci has been allowed to drop out of the Cup the Greenwood elect will be very nearly favorite. Amythas appears sore, and the firm going is not In his favor. At the time of writing the sky Is overcast, and a few good showers would do a heap of good. Mark Time looks bright and well, and though weighted up to his best form, is sure to beat more than beat him at Wanganui. Good reports come from Awapuni of Manlahera's condition, and his connections will get a short price If the big fellow wins one of those hurdle races at Wanganui. A Wanganui scribe reports that the Fordedtrained Tamatete has been troubled with boils lately. The Hawk, in the charge of Luke Wilson, reached Wanganui on Monday evening. About fifty per cent, of the horses racing at Wanganui this week hall from Taranaki stables. With ordinary luck Taranaki should get a big helping of the fine stakes offered at Webbtown this week. The successful Muraahl will take on open company at Wanganui to-morrow. It will be interesting to see how the Campfire horse shapes with only 7.3 In the saddle. Winkle’s Wheel, a Juvenile candidate, shows a lot of pace on the tracks. Lively tire and Valerie are pleasing their trainer by their dally tasks. Opunake entries are due on Friday,.February 24, at 5 p.m. The programme Is a good one, and appears in our advertising columns. Truthful’s weight In the Wanganui Cup is 7.12, and not 9.11 as published yesterday. W. F. Mantle took Silver Link, Daniloff and Hallgan to Wanganui yesterday to fulfil engagements there. Income also was taken down by P. Johnson.

The results or two "straight six" races at Flemington on New Year’s Day, says a Sydney scribe, revived discussion as to whether horses racing on the outside have the pull over those that get the inside running, where the ground is rendered compnratlvely firm by persistent wear, tear and repair. There is no reasonable doupt that the Flemington straight, from the place where It merges into the circular course, Is sounder going on the socalled "outside” (which is really "Inside,” seeing that it is nearer to the judge’s box) than on the far side. Again and again it has happened in the Newmarket Handicap, the Standish and other flutters, that something has come with a rattle close under the judge s box as though it had been waiting for the disadvantaged tollers to wear themselves out. As often as not twd out of three, or even all three, of the placed horses In a big field for a V.R.C. sprint race have been in the “outside” division at tte barrier: and though the (result of a Newmarket may not be as dependent, on the draw as the result of a Doncaster or Epsom Handicap at Randwick, every well-informed punter prays that his fancy may draw a marble among the teens or twenties. The condition of the ground has something t<X do with the success of “outaldo” wapstiten, Mp*ej*Uy la *eft<

weather. Let the ground-keepers tend the course never sq carefully, they can’t alter the fact that the more worn side of the track is continually being filled in and flattened out, whereas the side nearest the judge’s box gets a better chance to harden naturally. The going on the. extreme Inside is tte least sound, because never a raoi is run round the turn in which something is u«»t hugging the rails, but the horses nearest the rails are at least more favorably placed for keeping a straight course than those in the middle, who are at full liberty to bear out, or bear in, as the spirit moves them. Here, perhaps, is the explanation of so many winners of six-furlong events at Flemingtoni having drawn a high number from the lucky bag. They got a double advantage. The going was a trifle more firm on the outside, so called, and the rails kept them straight If they had a natural disposition to swerve to their right. In the rarer ease of a nag being disposed to hung in tte high-numbered marble Is no use to It.

In referring to the ill-success of His Majesty’s colors on the turf of late years, an English writer remarked:—"What is wanted at Sandringham is a good shooting day and a new stud of maxes.” A drastic remedy certainly, but something is apparently wanted is the comment of a well-known authority on the use of the gun as a remedy.

Canada, in looking aroiuid for a national sport, has jumped at horse-racing. During the past season (says tne New York Herald) there was an increase of 40 per cent. In gate receipts at Canadian tracks, as well as m ia«re«*« M pw MWa».