TURF TALK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12629, 17 October 1905, Page 8

TURF TALK.

(BY 'MULTIFORM.") Boxes have been engaged at Ellerslie for Multifid "and Grenade, both of which will compete at the A.R.C. Spring Meeting. Inglewood is being schooled over hurdles at Stratford, and shapes in a proficient manner. An exchange states that during the last couple of months the Auckland punters have given the bookmakers a very bad time, and it is confidently estimated that the amount taken out of the ring during the period mentioned is the largest for many years. R. Brough has leased boxes at New Plymouth and started training on his own account. So far, the only horse under his care is Claremont.

Punters were tumbling over each other to get on to Black Reynard in the Ngatihuia Handicap on the second day at Otaki, and big commissions were worked both in Wellington and Auckland. Tho good thing came off all right, and tho price paid—£2 Is. in a field of three—gave layers a bad jolt. Mr. Evett being too ill to adjust the A.R.C. handicaps, Mr. J. E. Hemys was communicated with, and the adjustments, which are voted as highly successful, were published up to time. F. Jones, who won the Metropolitan on Maniapoto, has remained in Australia in order' to ride that horse in his Melbourne engagement. Machine Gun is called upon to carry two stone more in the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap this year than when he wojj in 1903, and a stone more than he carried in third place last year. Mahutonga does not incur a penalty in the N.Z. Cup on account of his Napier Park Stakes win, as he is already weighted up to weight-for-age scale. Last year Vladimir won the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap with 9 st. up. Hi> curries 3 lbs. more this year.

The entries for a recent race at Goodwood formed a short story in themselves:—Bachelor's Fancy, Beguilement, Fleeting Love, Curtain Lecture, Divorce Court. Admiration, the dam of Pretty Polly, Adula, and Admirable Crichton, cost Major Eustace Loder 510 guineas as a yearling; and in three years her progeny have won over £36,000. When the last English mail to hand left England, Isinglass headed the winning stallions' list with £19,181, Gal-lir-ule being next with £14,479. Both horses are by Isonomy. The work of laying out. the training track and race track at the "Wellington Racing Club's..,new. .property at. jTifefttbam "is;- novr compfeted. ' i' Nightfall is "favourite for the New %za\and:'oui> at^Wl;- ; v : ' i 7 rOahtor who wolr'the JuvehiM Handicap at Hastings .last week,., also /the Nursery Handicap at Napier Park on Thursday, and Z immei'imiir }ii ■ :."Kr Soltaire), winner of the-Napier Stakes at tho SParfc. JnetfMng oJnGWedriesday v (together with Idealist and-Idaeus, are Hon. ■;D.; Grniond'i^v representatives^, in the >orvext? AjJ;G* Derby/; ;>;:;; ':■>.■ i:>\i<:j'~'- '