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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 3

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RACING FIXTURES. August 26—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club. September 2—North Taranaki Hunt Club. September 9 —Marton J C. Spring September 14. 16—Wanganui J.C. Spring. HANDICAPS FOR NEW ZEALAND CUP. Christchurch, August 24. , The following handicaps have been, declared j by Mr. J. E. Henrys for the New Zealand Cup. ; of 25u0 sovs. two miles: Gasbag 9.3, Ves- s pucei &13. Royal Star 8.12, Marqueteur, Rouen j 8.11, Insurrection, Cupidon 8.10, Trespass, Foo Chow 8.9. Pluto. Bonnie W'nkie 8.8. Sunart 8.4. Income. Tame Fox. First Salute 8.3. { Scngbird. Royal Box 8.0, Roseday 7.11, Scion 7.10, Rapine 7.8, Admiral Codrington 7.7. Tenterfleld 7.6, Bonneter, Kilgour 7.5, Angelo, King’s Trumpeter 7.4, Whipping Boy 7.3. Tressayr 7.2, Verbosity, Festivity, Penitent 7.1. Corn Rigs, Bonnie Heather, Omahu, Toa Taua, Equitable, Prosperity 6.13. Almoner 6.A2, Rattle Knight 6.11, Linden, L’Amour. Muraahi 6.10, Prince Martian, Martini, Erie. Talpairu. Te Kuri. Urgency, Lady Nassau 6.8, Many Kittle, Bonnie Nurse, Refrigeration, Winkle’s Mission 6.7. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.”) Races at Hawera to-day. North Taranaki Hunt acceptances to-night. Marton acceptances are due on Wednesday next. RaTle should be kept in mind at the hunt gatherings. Big Push will strip as fit as anything engaged in the Hawera Flying. j Epitaph (8.2) is nicely placed in the Railway Handicap (six furlongs) at Marton. Old Moulu is <n work again at Wanganui, and figures, in the Hack Hurdles at Marton. Wanganui touts would give one the earache singing the praises of Homage and a half-sister to Civilform. This week’s ‘‘Referee r ’ contains the registration of. Rational in the names of H. B. Gibson and W. M Winks, the partnership ending July 31, 1925. Taranaki representatives in the New Zealand Cup are: Marqueteur 8.11, Income 8.3, Muraahi 8.10. Erie 6.8. Of the quartette rhe two first-named have best credentials to staying twn miles. Amongst the active brigade at Awapuni are Demo’. Yankee Dan. Noble, Passenger, Passionless. Mountain Signal. Nursing Sister, • Santiago. Sleeping Beauty, Santonio, and Peep ] v’ Day. The 'latter is said to he a good j Mr. T. H. Lowry's luck has been execrable • nf late, and still another loss was recorded in } hi- breeding establishment the other day when i dropned dead. Finland, by Bill of ! Portland—Fishwife, left many great’ winners I in New Zealand, notably Bobrikoff, Estland, i F'nmark. Bjorneborg. .Lingerie. Asterias, etd. ; The ex-Hnwera three-vear-olds. Uncle Alex ! and The Dunce, were shipped to' Sydney last i ! week, and both should do well there, or in ' Vndia later on. The Dunce has the Manawatu ; ; Stake® to his credit, and Uncle Alex also won rhrea -aces last season. The Fhag. by Panmure—Cormorant, who was taken over to Sydney by George Price, evi- ; dently has some pace. According to a Sydi ney paper the Ne< Zealander ran four fur- ! longs in SQ.i^aer’—tbe fastest gallop at Rand- | wick that morning. Rev Rood rode Loyal Irish and Molyneaux In their recent wins In New South Wales, and as both started at good "prices” the New Zealand division must have had a good win. Loyal Irish scored very easily, but Molyneaux only got up in time to win by a whisker. Hailed as a champion, the Queenslander Tolley late Wnitacre. who this month 1 won a ten furlong race in 2min. 7sec., and j subsenuenQv scored with 8.16 in the Queensland Metropolitan Handicap. running in a six length’’ winner in 2min. 3msec. —a State record. Tolley Scott, who is by Linacre— Walter, cost his own«r 7" guineas as a yearling. and has won £2500 In stakes. If breeding from winning strains counts for anything, Mr. G. Currie should hold a strong I hand in two-year-old events this season, his ! representatives being '‘Homage.” sister tn E'p ? - tnph (Absurd—Eulogy), and "Water Wings.” I sister to Mnrmln (Absurd—Sea Elf). • Hallowmas (imp.), by Mart.a<ron—Hallow- ; «en. might have mode a name for himself in , X°w Zealand if nut to racing when brought !to the Dominion. In ’StraTia he ran a close ! second to Piastre in the Melbourne Cun of i 1'912. and won the Squatters’ an d Waverley ■ Handicaps at Randwick. The writer was at • Rushy Park when Jack Hav brought him j across, and Hallowmas looked fit to go out and run- two .miles that day. However. Mr. G. F. Moore had had a "sickener” of racing, bad luck dogging h’s team, and the horse was nnt to the stud. Thoneh not a great sficeess, he left useful horses like Ma ioha. Isabel, Halevnn. Hallow, Hallowvonia, Halifax, and Hall’’’he postponement of the hunt meeting has kept a number of visitors "cooling their heels” In Hawera this week, and from all accounts + hey are not enamoured of the place, finding things a, trifle dull, to say the least, of it. Ore party struck a. hostelrv where the landlad” ordered "lights out” at 9 p.m.. while the "rnwd had to almost go on their bended Ipipcs tn ret a "snot” after fi P . m . "Well, well, well.” said one old snort, "this beats the Y.M.C.A. to a frazzle. Down our way they’ve n»ver heard of 6 o’clock dosing, and most of us onlv start to en’ov ourselves when the street H<rh*s go out!” And he went off muttering. "Well. well, well! What do you th : nk nf that?” i

Eight stone nine still stands as the record weight carried to ripfrvrv in the N°w Zealand Gi’n. and hardlv nn« nf the seven horses hanlook verv nttrnctive. Roval Star won last ’•car with 7 ini£. end this time has the steadier nf 5.12. However, he should heat those* above him. Gasbag and Vesnurrl, and over the distance annenrs quite capable of "•rintr a few nonnds to Ma’-nueteur. Rouen. and Curddpn. Tn hir hsndicnns in Australia and in Now Zealand Cupidon has raid th® nenaltv of his* A..T.C. Derby win. 'i-mneh b : s form since then has been poor, ’’’resnass has iieen well cared for with 8.9. and Ven Chow (on *he same mark! reads better: init nrnhnhlv "Pluto, with a nonnd less, would both safely. Ronnie Winkle, with 8.8. is anre to have beans of admirers in the south, and there is no doubt that he is likely to be I a ereat fonr-vear-nld Sunart has quite ! "nonrii. 8-1 hut.Tncnme. with 8.3. should have ° chance If he can get the full distance. Tame ■Pov may ho better suited a mile and a half, and First S?ahit« getting very ancientAmongst, tho middle weights in the New Zealand Cun Ranine (7.8) appears to be a likely stayer and othe-s that nufiv have to no reckoned w<+h are Kilgour (7.5), Angelo (7.4). and Penitent (7.1). Ahmoner. who finished Third last vear with 6.9. has 31bs. more, but as ho failed to win a race of any description during the past season, he is evidently nn the down grade. None of the light weights appear to have done anything to suggest that thev are Hkelv fn bp dangerous, and. at first glance, tho Hkelv candidates nonpar tn be Poval Star. Pluto, Bonnie Winkle, Tnonmn and Rapine. The Martian breed have shown up in a brilliant manner in recent New Zealand Guns, and the imported horse's representatives this time are Royal Star. Gunido-n. Ranine. Penitent, Linden. Prince Martinn. Martini. and Refrigeration. Amongst *thoso horses entered for the race which started last year are Roval Star. Almoner. Rnuer Sppart. Foo Chow. Penitent. Pluto, and Kilgour. There are eight thrc«r-vear-olds entered In this year’s New Zealand Cun. sixteen four-year-olds. thirteen five-year-olds, and sixteen six-year-olds and aged. During the last, ten years the race has onlv been won once bv a (lndigo, who dead-heated with Warstep). while four-year-olds have won form times, five-year-olds four times. and aged horses twice, while the average winning weight during that period is just under Sst. Special train arrangements have been made bv the North Taranaki Hunt Club to take horses back as far as Hawera bv the train leaving New Plymouth at 6.5 pm. Horses must be at the New Plymouth station not lajter than 5.30 p.m. Acceptances for the meeting close to-night.