SPORTING.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 11, 28 May 1920, Page 7

SPORTING.

Two horses Diggers can write out are Kilboyns and Jobn Barleycorn. Burrangong is some horse, at least vvlien iie is ready and his owner is ready. Diggers have a bit with San Sebastian if he starts at Wingatui nest week. Jimmy ThistLeton is reported to have a good string of likely " rough ies" engaged at Wingatui. What price Eleus for the big h and ica p at Wingatui nest week'' Tlie Tommies are makin-g him hot ! Primu m tossed in the sponge after eoing a mile on Saturday. He tossed in a good few Southland quids also. "Jack" G'liver has assumed cominnnd of the local racing eiub, and in fut-ure the headquarters of tliis bcdy \v:ll be found in Don street. Eleus isn't quite cherry-iipe yet. Don't he disappointed Diggers. Bill Stone and : Alex Mclvor aren't fhiished with hira yet, and he will wiri a goi.d race yet. , There's a good tirne coSning lom, ar.d 'yer horse did his best !>' t-h days as Oamaru. It isn't the f.iT tim.e a Croseont fifm has taken the cream off yoar milk. Ths Birchwood Hounds are runuing well, and -Jack Kirkwood has alr.cr.dy gained ihe narne of ha\ ing the harJcEt ridlng huntsman we have . een in South- ; land for very rnany yenrs. "Rcfgs," as he is iiffecLonatcJy t-ermed by his frien-ds pufc a lot of his frier.ds wiso about Burrangong and Marchmg Oider's chanees at Oamaru hu.t lluu'.oay. One good punter at Oamaru, not in any way connecied with the stable reduced tne divider.d on Burrangong at Oamaru by having a cool hundred on luni in Ihe m.ichine eacli day. S.lverpsak is cnlowod wr.h the paro of the best Buick on ihe road. And Bd! Stone will always tell his uiends when Alex. D. Mclvor tlrnks slie can v.in. A pity for the garne a few moie owr.ers wei'e'nt like 3>ih whcn tlicy have tiie gcods. Oid Rorke's Drift is comin.g back to f.irin all right, and when he slrips at Wiri ratui next week he might. he worth an inves'unent, . Jock mr.de rio race of the mihi and aquarter at Timaru on Thursday last, and paid a siinilar uividend to th.e one tio hardcd out at Invercargill two nionths ago. Kilkeo was '.n frmit at Ihe en.d oi t-he nine iurlongs at Riccarton on Saturc;i,y. In some race whcre the eompany isn t so hot he wili Le in front again at the winn ing post, am.l that's where Ihe goiids count. "Put" Hogan had a mce trip to tlie Royal Meeting, but it inust have cost some of his . owners a fair pcrcentage oi their Timaru winniivs, an-d to the othors adde-d a bit more to their account. Davc Morton got a n;ce win with Kilowen, early. And what a mce price he paid! Wlien Coker diad charge of this good sport's neddies tliey gcneraly started at o id's on prices May Dick McDonald go on wirmii^j and paying gcods divs. lor Mr Morton. If Vv'ild Pil.rt im's t'orm at Oamaru was his best, Jack Grabani sbould use him to carry a b-utclier's baskct instead of his colours. But was it his best? Next week will tell ! Rorke's Drift has won more money on thc Wingatui traek than any other courae, an-d his run at Timaru on tlie second day shows all the scribes who wrote him oS as a back number don't know what ' Put and Fred P — . are up to, Billy Baird is one of the lucky stars of the turf in Southland. He bought back Palladio for a mere song after the Timaru mesting and next week had a £200 steeplechase fired at him. ,

Royal Star, was the one tip to go nap on at the Royal Meeting last Saturday, j and yet he was allowed to pay over a ; score on the machine. Next week there will.M.e racing at Wingatui on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, | and no more attractive programme has ever been put forward in the South Island ilian the Dunedin C'lub is holding out. j Billy Robinson rode a Fred Arch,er finish I on Bengeroop when he beat ihe red hot goods in Charleroi at Oamaru last Thursday. A couple of Wingatui louts had j a good wiri over "Puts" charge. ! Bill Stone was'nt racing in earnest at ! Oamaru. He only started Primum on , the second day, and in a race,. where the i oppocstion was too strong. He played up . badlv at tho barrier, got away badly, and I was never as near the learlers as he was to besng last all the way. When set Priroum's good ! "Watty" appears to have a liking for ccpc. di.'s neddy lias eaptured the Wyndham, Riverton, and Oamaru Oups, this year. iHs owner has been a good donor ; of tropliies for severn! races in Southland, \ j «and It is-only fitting that he shordd win j : this class of race. Uiifortmiately for ! , this g. od sport no trophies wero ut'.aehcd - to Ti se r, ccs. ; i ' ■ • 1 Sj Billy Baird has bought. bees Pal- j l.id'o: Well Bdi is lucky cnough for any- | th.iug to tViin up, and he might fluke a ! i-are at Dunedin, just to keep the poi boil- : mg you kimw. ; (.laicty has been the -downfali of quit* J a, lot of royal ty durirg the' past few }u:n- ! dred years. On Saturday, Gaiety was ! i cev-ainly the dowrii'all of our iitt'e Vri.nce. ! i i'or that. was the name of the back he rodfe ! } ro and scme of the fc-nccs at Riceiirtcn, j \ and of: whom he skppc-d when t-ho stop- • pcd f.u-ddeidy at ciie of the fences. 11. R. H. Prince of Diggers p.ushed his way into the totalisator at Riccarton on Saturday, but was always on the pay-in side 01 the show. Iie was loyal to the Blighty bred Arrowsmitb to the tane of , a livcr. i To naieh Alex Mclvor on a race course ! oue wouid think he had had a miliiary training somewhere. He is smart, methodical, and turns his horses out as if they wero going ori a king's parade. Ke knows the game from a right tuni to a eompli- ; cated extension movement, and what a master of camouflago he is ! ! The gi.eat meefcing between Arrowsmith • and Amythas was spoilcd by the fool trick the autocratic Canfcerbury Jockey Glub piaycd on the owners. It is sa-id that Gray, McElyiin, Deeley and Rc.&d pro- - rniscd not to t-ake advantage oi each othcr j nor li.R.H. ihe Prince of Wales, who the j committee had employed to pull t'r.e lever ' at the start. But the club did not ask the horses, and Right and Left bcing yourg and foolish streakod away on his ] own. Arrowsmith chascd and caught him and then the wily AlcFlynn on Amythas pushecl has harrier along and catehing -ihe Blighty horse just after making a big effort, beat him to the post. I think i Arrowsmith did not get a fair deal, but of course his owner being a good sport, and loyal into the bargain would'nt say a word. Tlie Prince of Wales, or "Prince of Diggers," or "Prince of Srniles," as his admircrs call him is a good sport and a good sort, hut he's a horribly bad starter. When he shot Right and Left out in the great mile race at Riccarton last Saturday, it lcoked as if he had made a pres,ent of thc valuable stake to the two-year-old's owner, but even with nearly a hundicd yards liandicap in additicn to the weight for age benefit he was getting, the older horses caught him and beat him before the post was reached. Every man to his trade, and there appears to be only one opinion regarding Edward as a prince. He's a topnotcher at- that job, and as the part isn't hard I .don't see why ho wants to try and beat Norman Noods, Harley, and Mclvor for their jobs.