"Truth" on Mr Benzon.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2988, 28 August 1888, Page 2

"Truth" on Mr Benzon.

Mr Beiizon is a melanbholy barlequin, arid'few men-Lave bought < ndi- , cule and contempt'at so high a prices,. Hisfiantip;faiitastioalities duriug/ffia; last year, and hiswasteful expenditure originatecliiaerely.jn,a-crazy desire to: if' he, be'. satisfied witu tlieigiio'minioussuceesses which; lie-haaaoliievediu this line; he" musHe/* very oasiiy~'pleasodf~His™ race-horses were advertised to be sold' at Newmarket, and tha probeedinga. were highly 'equivocal, 1 and wotted

himself ostentatiously, bid foiißatkhinn .' aj two-year-old out"" Myra, who had up to S,6od|fi guiips, by the anJ§ by- Marsh, who was'aoting'fbrLord" Dudley, an.d then Hazlemere,,a• half-', tether,-by' Galbpiu',' to' was bought in after the same.fashlotjjiL Tylieii Lord Boduey had bid 80fJP 'guineas for him. The prices' offered, were assuredly highenqugh for dark two-year-olds, however good-looking, . as they are too' backward to have

ibeen. tried, in., a. Satisfactory [TO.* j Barklikm CosVifiOOgs^'at'tbrd 1 Bosfe!' > bury's sale last July, : and; v H.aralmere,. was bought out of the. ,'Blankey. team, on the same dayfor'liopgs; *,!' b'aye '; repeatedly advised Mr Tattersall'tp.' take the practical and straightforward com-se of*lusisting Niponhis 'client's.'! fixing the reserve of each lot before it * is brought '.iiito.''tlie'riug.andthen' having the said-reservo announced by the auctioneer. This is the excellent planwliiohvMKChaplin introduced, n and it has workbd so well at his sales. I

that it ought to be made compulsory, and there would be then an end to such chaotic incohereucies as charac-

terised the sale, Carr'asco, for whont Mr Benzon was such a simpleton as..' to| give 7,000gs last summer,,.was unsold, the reserve being 500gs: arid ':} Guardiana, now turned roarer, fetcto» only 175 guineas, having cost' iIW. guineas at the sale of the stud of the

hie Baron Lucion ' flirsch; and' Grafton, who went on the same occa-

sion for l.lOOgs, was now sold to Lord Lurgan for 800gs, haying been beaten six times while the property of Mr Benzoh. ■•:.■'. :•:...■ <

" Pendragon" on Handicaps.

So fiti' from crushing giants but of all chance, they ought to be fostered, ami encouraged. Handicaps, or.weightfoMigo races which, no 'means . of. penalities and allowances resolvo themselves into handicaps, will provide the grr-atest.and most popular struggles of the .immediate- future; and lessees of courses cannot do hotter for themselves than when thoy do well for highest class horses, and thus attract that portion of tho public which is not professional, and which dearly likos to see a great horse run'. He would be a bokljj man who dared endeavour to ostiraatSP how many holiday-makers were drawn to Kcmpton Park on the 12lh by no oilier indncoiuent thdn that of seeing Minting give a. lot of weight, away to. horses of character,,, And he would hi) a.foolish matt who could not see that the'days of oven-weighted three-year-old races to which not onefarthing is added are slippiug away so rapidly that they will be gone presently like the snowa of last winter, unless somo mora than usually generous effort is made to them.; If the Jockeyt Olub., were an expert body and had the welfare of racing really at heart, now would be the time when it would revisewould really reconstruct—the handicap principle, Thero is no one in this world who can give you any reason that is really a reason why hau'dicaps . should begin at theirapossibiy low rate • at which to get a ridor worth having, of ssfc 71b. Mien at last, tired .6H being misruled by What isin effect foroign body, tho ownors of'horses 'trainers, and lessees of courses form themselves iuto an :Associa-., lion and make their ; own laws tho lowest weights for handicaps will he 7st 71b, and the highest list. And if a horse should arise who'could' keep on sweeping the board with .the top weight np-why then let him. But don't you believe, reader* that such a horse would arise-we may got a lesson over what looks like a certainty of this kind if Miuting rims in tho Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot, The effect of lowering the; limit wbilb raising tho weights would bo in every way healthy.. A few weeds which the turf would bo better without, would have to be turned ont.of training ji.sin.il who hut those who regard a oat 71b handicap winner as a bettor animal than a 10st second would rcgret;them ? In another and no less important direotiori, 1 the change would bo beneficial. Away would go the miserable little manikins who ride now simply because it is necessary to havo somobody to ride, at tho minor limit 'weight; and there would be such an augmentation of thijL first-class ranks from men who nowv have to turn their attention to other ' walks of life, that there would be no monopoly of talont, and such a vile thing as a jocdoy ring would then be impossible. The change would bo such an improvement and would do' so niiuli to remedy a host of evils from which the turf now suffers llwtv— Well, wo aro not likely to O'H 'yltjl'e racing remains'under tho Jppkoy PJub rules arid ■•regulations.' |! , On the Otago Central. Our Taieri contemporary has been interviewing some of the 'unemployed' on the Otago Central fiailway, and this is how one of them relates his experiences :—',.Yes, I've been working on the.Otago Central; one of tho 'unemployed.' employed at 4s 6d a day. Live.on it? No, we live on rabbits, How, did we catch %/ Easy enough! The country is so -'rough 'thioro the rabbits daren't run for fear of slipjf ping and tumbling into the Taieri.. You nover saw such rough country; There's not level ground enough for &; man to stand on to eat his dinner. I got ( used to hanging on with both. hands whilst at work, rather took a-; , td'it;' but I got tired of rabbit'.!' ! Boiled with onions in a kerosene tin, are rabbit,-and OMWlßfowl.twenty-onei '. times a week got to be too much of a good thing. . I tell you I got ashamedl to look a rabbet in tjie;faceV'aiKV;

:.., to.hide behind a louk-wlienev-ii' I hiiw ■• -'one-coming along: Central Omgo weather is as rough as the country, or roughen The .first day I was out it rained, like a waterspout, tlio wind split my toht. to smithereens, and I had to camp under a wheelbarrow. When it's.not blowing n golo or mining, it's freezing, and you can't havo a fire there, .Can't nlibrdit. Newcastle coals wist 10s n haj, nnd now; of,ns hud lUs;. would '.not havo spent it in that sort of fuel il we hud. For cooking? Oil, there's some scrubby little broom there, about two feet high, as thick.as ii pipo stem and a handful to the 'acre. You may say tho country's ready for settlement, nB fat nu meat's concerned, for miles round the Fine days parried the billy along oyer the tops of tussocks, and set fire to them, and ovorybody goes out on Sundays to hunt for scrub that *beon missed before. Certainly the ray -should bb niado to give the' . rabbits a chanco to travol into decent country."

Weddings.

A long suffering father of daughters lias written to an English paper to suggest a curtailment in the expenses of weddings. ..Not only does tho British father have to put his hands pretty tkeply into his pockets whon his daughters aro married, but before that consummation is reached he has to pay for bridesmaids' dresses; and if his daughters are pretty and Humorous that is an operation which has to be repeated at uncomfortably 'frequent intervals. The ingenuous''correspondent suggests that instead of bridesmaids there sho Id bo bridesmen, who should walk along tho nisle in the wake of tho bride, resplendent in vVflannels, blazers, and straw hats. The T' effect of such a procession would assuredly be very picturesque, for tho < Ukor is tho most striking of masculino gfniohls, and adds quite a touch of 'Eastern color to the river and|the tennis court. This gorgeous costume costs only a sovereign, whereas the cost of a bridesmaid's dress is an utterly unknown quantity until the bill comes in, which it invariably docs with punctuality and despatch, Thcro is a good deal of esprit in tho suggestion; but lam quite sure it will not be adopted, One wedding lends to another under the present system of a train of dainty bridesmaids; aiid tho marriage rato might decreaso considerably if admiring youth wero debarred the dolight of gazing upon a bevy of beauteous damsels in all their bridal finery. ■•. Tho correspondent shows a lamentable ignorance of feminine nature when lie suggests that a following of bridesmen might heighten a bride's charms.since tliero would then bo no fear of her young lady friends outshining her. Just as if any bride would admit, oven to herself, that such a thing was even j#tely possible I

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