SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1922, Page 3

SPORTING.

TROTTING. THE AUCKLAND MEETING, : CONCLUDING DAY’S RESULTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Trotting Club’s autumn meeting concluded to-day in fine weather, there being a large attendance. The totalisator to-day handled £46,213* the figures for the meeting being £91,097 10s, an increase of £5877 on last year's meeting. Results: — BARN HANDICAP.—Rose Bingen (Adams) 1, Hula Girl 2, Fairbairn and Bon Bon dead heat 3. Also started: Salesman, Impetuosity, Golden Downs, Fiat, Aliseline, Allen the Great, Native Boy, Never Fear, Jenny Wallace, Bellson, Audex, Fete Peter, Grattan Wilkes, Sandy Patch, Timbell, Pine Child. Peter Kae, Logan, Peter Dean, Guava, Lord Roberts, Aerial Bingen, Wirihana. Won by two lengths, the third horse a length and a half further back. Time, 3mln. 49sec. MANUKAU HANDICAP.—LengIen (Lee) t, Glenoc 2, Anselm 3. Also started: Johnny Golddust, Young Disappear, Manna, Guinea, Ivy Audubon, Directive, Bellova, Golden Wave, Nita Cole, Princesi Drift, Heather Girl, Louvima, Peter Scott, Gold Sound, Camille, Goldflake, Pani,' Hypo, March On. Won by three-quarters of a length, a length and a half separating the next two. Time, 3min. 35 4-ssec. PRINCE OF WALES HANDICAP.—Nitft Bell (A. Julian) 1, Comedy Chief 2, Gold Girl 3. Also started: William the First, Wild Briar, Woodvale, Grand Voyage, Man o' War. Comedy Chief took command three furlongs from home and led to within a few strides of the post, when Nita Bell shot up and won by a neck. Gold Girl was a head away third, and then a neck further back came Man o’ War. Time, 4min. 33 3-ssec.

AUTUMN HANDICAP.—Harry Audubon (Price) 1, Stormy Voyage 2, Lena Patch 3. Also started: Roi Alto, Rua Pere, My Junior, Succory, Hint, Wild Lad. Won by a length, the third horse half a length further back. Time, 4min. 50 2-ssec. ADAMS MEMORIAL HANDICAP.—BaIIin (P. Shaw) 1, Progress 2, Brendo 3. Also started: Reliance, Queen Chimes, Ruanui, Goldman, Grey Peter, March On, General Advance, Min(t Boy, Prince Poole, Master Councillor, Ben Wallace, Warlock, Harold Junior, Medway. Won by three-quarters of a length, two lengths separating second and third. Time, 3min. 29 2-ssec. LIVERPOOL HANDICAP.—Pitaroa (H. Klnnimont) 1, Miss Rolfe 2, Sanddrift 3. Also started: Red Star, Sal Pointer, Tiny Locanda, Wakanui, Promenade, Salamander, Rothcliffe, Nelson Derby, Huon Grattan, Mintson, William the First, Prize Pearl, Grand Voyage, Moneymaker. Won by half a length, the third horse a. length and a half further back. Time, 2min. 52sec. MEMBERS’ HANDICAP.—Hint (A. Julian) 1, Wild Lad 2, Tradesman 3. Also started: Miss Huon Junior, Roi Alto, Marble Hall, Bluewood, Succory, Rostrevor, Speculator, King Capitalist. Won by a neck, two lengths separating second and third. Time, 4min. 49 l-ssec. FAREWELL HANDICAP. Inclement (Timms) 1, General Advance 2, Van Cap 3. Also started: Silvery Moon, Illumination, Peter Scott, Reliance, Piletta, Albert Patct, Queen Chimes, Van Coronado, Great Britain, Lena Patch, Enid, Prince Pool, Hedgewood, Temple, Teawa, Profiteer, Breadalbane, Jay’s Bell, All Bell, Moneymaker. Won by three lengths, a length and a half separating second and third. Time, 2min. 19 4-ssec. MANAWATU SCRATCHINGS. Palmerston N., April 5, Epitaph and Moorland have been scratched for all engagements at the Manawatu Macing Club’s meeting. TURF TOPICS. (By “Moturoa.") Races at Awapuni to-day. Waanate Plains acceptances to-morrow. Maniahera is due any time now. Lady. Nassau was backed and beaten at Trentham. H. Wiggins will ride Detroit in Iris Palmerston engagements. Mistress Biddy, an Auckland pony, won at Roseberry (N.S.W.) recently. In Palmerston yesterday the dogs were barking Chimera and Volo. Solfanello has been backed for £25,000 in the Doncaster Handicap, the commission being worked simultaneously in Melbourne and Sydney. Heavy showers fell at Awapuni the night before last and all day yesterday, and the going is likely to be holding, and all against the top-weights.

Whizz Bang ran. two good races on the flat at Bulls, and has gone on the rlgl:t way since. The Husbandman gelding may be “cheeky” in one of those hurdle races at Awapuni. Volo likes the sting out of the ground, and so do Paoanui and the veteran Detroit. The latter is one of the best handicapped horses on the coast; generally in a place, 'but still ou the minimum. He will carry my “dollar” this afternoon. Mr. J. B. Galsford took Mattock and the two-year-old Dodo to Palmerston yesterday. Mattock is being got ready for winter jumping events, and the filly is a trifle backward in condition. By All Red, out of By By, she is nicely bred, and she is a better ’looking filly than her half-sister, Celmisia. In addition to Epitaph, Mr. A. B. Williams has a smart two-year-old in Rapine, by Martian—Pineta, which won the Plunkct Nursery Handicap at Trentham, and paid nearly a score. Rapine is engaged in the Great Northern Champagne Stakes. The Woodtey Hack Handicap at Awapuni will keep punters busy. The twenty-five acceptors include good ones in Danger Zone and Red Hind, but on a wet track Atapo and Bonpcto might keep the top-weights busy. An Auckland paper reports that Silver Peak and Roseday were scratched for all Auckland engagements at 10 a.m. on Saturday last. The pair will therefore race at Riccarton this Easter in preference to Ellerslie. Still Sea was badly knocked about when he fell at Trentham, and according to a Wellington paper it will be a long time before he is fit to race again. Kick Off has been withdrawn from tte Awapuni Gold Cup, and was railed through to Auckland at the conclusion of the Wellington meeting. This leaves the race at the mercy of Amythas. The latter is to be spelled at Foxton after completing his Awapuni engagements. Mountain Lion, Vlyella, and Warpath have been scratched for all engagements at theManawatu meeting. W. Mantle has reached Palmerston with Silver Link and Danilof; H. Cutts with Angelo and Red Hind; and F. D. Jones with Amythas and Mustard Pot. A big crowd of racehorses, mares and yearlings left by the Ulimaroa for Sydney on Friday. Molyneaux, -Chant Royal, Tigrinia, and Poet went over in charge of J. M. Cameron. and the mares and foals sent over to the Sydney sa)es were the property of Messrs. J. G. Dunean, J. F. Reid, T. H. Lowry, and W. G. Stead. F. Tilley’s team for Awapuni and Auckland will comprise Tamatete, Enthusiasm and Klnsem. All three are very well. larly Tamatete, and it Is unsafe to hate the latter running against one. Owing to an Otago country racing club allowing its meeting to lapse, the Duned n Jockey Club has applied for tte permit to run a. special race, meeting at Wingalul M»rll 22 for the benefit of disabled soldiers. This Is certainly a very laudable object, but while the Government continues its graO-a. taxation policy race meetings are hardly profitable. However, the club will demand payment for admission from all—stewards.included—and it special efforts for funds raising are made in other directions there, may be something to hand to the lads who deserve support. If anybody does. Still they come. Record entnea at Al ondale. Fields of 68. 56, 54. and 4« In flat races: S 3 and 32 in hurdle races; and <-4 and 31 In steeplechases. Horses. brads, mokes and noddles from nil parts. <*»«”"■ der the handicapper and starlet wear worried looks, and rhe judge has resigned.) Soon the club will have to limit entries. r °’ m “ doors" «*»»;

first served; get in early to avoid the crush. Taranaki horses figure largelj’ amongst tfi,e Avondale entries. Rational, Silver Link, Stork, Awake, Voluble, Still Sea, Hipo and Mistian are engaged in oi>en events; Complex, Simonides, Paddington Green, Mangawai, Active, Te Toa and Fibre In jumping races; and our old friend, Depredation, in the Welters. Amongst the high class performers engaged at Avondale are: Tamatete, Insurrection, Gasbag, Absurduni, Uncle Ned, Rational, Silver Link, Radiant Light, Kinsem, Royal Box, Untie Alex, etc. Coroglen, Foeman, Explorer, and old Waimai are notable entrants ,in tte steeplechases, while new-chums in the small stick events include Simonides, and Starland. Chimera should be suited by the heavy going at Awapuni, and Triboulet reads as well as any of the light-weights engaged in the open sprints. Tamiatete’s mission at Awapuni is the Manawatu Stakes, run on Saturday. Last year The Hawk won the race in Imin. 13sec., having to make fast time to beat Silver Link and Absurduni, both of which were better fancied on tte machine. The history of the Awapuni Gold Cup shows that three-year-olds Jiavc only been successful twice, the winners of this age being Desert Gold and Amythas. Chortle was five years old when lie won first race of its kind. Then Desert Gold performed the bat trick. Sasanof won in 1919, and again in 1921. Amythas landed the prize in 1920, and appears to have a good chance of repeating the feat to-day. Sasanof's 2min. 4 3-ssec. Is a record for the race.

My friend who scoffed at the “prices” offered by southern Bar Vons on the Wellington double would be interested to peruse n chart which came under'the writer’s notice yesterday morning. In it are quotations for the Feilding Cup and Mangaone Handicap, weights for both races nbt being due until Friday. Some mysterious philanthropist of-* fers therein (or thereon) the munificent odds of 33 to 1 about three horses in the Cup coupled with three in the sprint. A similar number in each race stand at. 40’s; and six Cup candidates coupled with five Mangaone Handicap nominations at 66’s. The best “price” on the card is 150’s, and the pair concerned—well, yo\i could race tnem yourself, with one boot off. Get-rich-quick Wallingford is not dead—or he has heaps or Imitators. The new application forms for licenses are now being circulated, and they afford another example of the Sunday-school methods of running racing, as adopted by the Racing Conference, evidently on tho recommendation of the stipendiary stewards and the racecourse detectives. As most sportsmen are aware, next season the licensing of trainers, jockeys and apprentices is to be done by a special licensing committee, consisting of the president of the Conference and one person elected bj’ each district committee. How this method can have any advantages over the past licensing by district committees themselves, is not evdent, but it is certainly a step in the direction of complete control by Conference, swayed (if not actually directed) by the opinions of “stipe” and detective. Naturally members of district committees have taken umbrage at the prominent part paid stewards and paid detectives are taking in racing affairs, and it is only a question of time when the whole wretched business will be revolted against. Perusal of the official application forms shows that the Conference has gone further than tte Rules of Racing (as per N.Z. Turf Register 1920-1921) allow, and all three forms contain the following:— “Have you ever been convicted of any offence against the Civil Law? If so, give particulars.’’ Now this is a nice sort of hurdle to face applicants with I Even if the Conference, or its licensing committee, has the powers to dig into a man’s past, what right, have they to penalise an applicant for an offence for which he has been convicted and dealt with by the civil authorities? Surely, when he has paid the penalty of his offence, that is t'e end of it! As “Moturoa” said before, tlie men who control racing in the Dominion are bent on keeping a man down, and never giving him a chance to hold his head up again in decent company. Is it fair? I leave It to you.