TOPICS OF THE TURF.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TURF.

(By "The Squire.")

JOTTINGS DAY BY DAY.

In ansiver to a reader of tliese notes. w bo asks if Alillais carried tlie correcc v.eiglit in the .Hawke's Eay Stakes at l-!asiings last woek, I liuve to infonn hun that lie did, as the iolloiving vvill snow. 5jc The event, wliitli was run for under weight-foi'-age with ixenalties for winners t-ince the 1st August, 1928, whieJi weie calciilated as under, winners ot any race or races of the eolleetive value of 41 H ) sovs. /31b; oi KJ sovs, 711>; 7oii sovs, lUlb: 1000 sovs, 141b. As Millais is a tnree-year-old he had, uiider the standard weights, to carry *.-t Slh, and as Jiis wiunings since the !>t of Angust, 1928, aniounted to Uold 10s he was niuleted in a seven I'.imnd penaltv, the addition of wliieii to his weight-Ior-age poundage brongiit ; his weight up tn 9st 11b, which he i r arriod in the Stakes last Friday at j Hastings.

This woek Kaihoro was railed to lier on ner-hroeder, 3\Jr J'. F. M'all's estate at Ha tunui, for the purpose of heing tieatcd to a well-earned let-up ii'om the arduous life.

The little fillv, there is not niueh ot fier. h as niade a good showing tliis season, as out of nine efforts she lias won upon four oeeasions. earning 47.5 covs in jirize money. Although she 1'Os won untler heavy poundage, the sale of weights m tlie near fnture uould not Muit her, as trom tlie 7th June up to and ineluding the 31st Angust, the minimum weight to he enrried lvill he not less tlian nine stone. Next Spring wil! no doubt see l.er again in pnrsuit of stoke money. ❖ ❖ * Afrs M. A. Porrv tliis week forwarded to 3Mrs Alan iMeDonald, of Palmerston Xorth, a two-yeai'-old son of Tca I rav and Piraeus, for tlie purpose of j lieing got readv for business. Tlie j youngster is a fuTI-brotlier to Wiwini, I and a Iialf-hlooded relative to Teri, i and Tvuhio. The Jatter includes in lii.s 1 tiiumphs a suecess m the Canterburv j •Jockey Club's Winter Cup. * * ❖ llie highest prieed yearling sold at j the reeent saies in Svdnev, the son of j ( aravel ancl Andesino, for lvhom jNIr ylurchinson gaye 2700 guineas, has heen ])laeod with fleorge Price, the I one-time well-known Dominion educator. * ^ * There will bo fairly brisk business toi followers of raeing during the coming week, as there will he five days upon whieh sjieeulation ean he made. 'Ihe seeond day of the Autumn gathering of the Waikato Jfacing Cluh takes plaee 011 Wondav. On Friday the Marlborough "Raeing Cluh opens their t wo days Autumn fixture, wliich will j he eontinned on the following afternoon. aiul upon 'tliat date there will nlso lie field the Winter ventures of the Marton Jockey Club and Oamaru Jockey Cluh. • * *

There will he raeing at Nelson tomorrow, when the seeond day of the annual gathering of the Nelson Jockey Cluh will take place. * * * * ^Tr Frank Ormond has selected the names of Henrv of Kavarre, and Pctrach, for the coming two-year-olds j),v Arausio, out of Matty and Waterlea respectively. * * * A yearling full brother to the Hasting trained and owned Goshawk (Magpie — Fadelma) was dispo.scd of last month in Sydnoy for 900 guineas. Ko doubt the sterling performaiices of Goshawk ivere responsible for the price paid lor tlie youngster, as last vcar a yearling full sister to the pair only brought 37o guineas.

P. P. G'ilpin, who trained Prettv Poll v a mongst other good liorses. who died recently in England, left an estate of the gross value of £.51, 01 8. Kot lnany trainers in Australia or Kew Zealand are worth that much, and Gilpin was not by anv means the nio.st wealthy trainer in England. ^ The Kew Zealand hred gelding Tuki, who conipeled at the Autumn meetjng of the A..T.C. at Randwick, fiiiishing third and fourth in his cssnys in the two steeplechases, is said to he yerv lame, and it wouhl appear as it it will he some time ere lie is ablc to he seen out contesting again. * * ^ Murthong, a four-year-old fullbrother to iManfred, registered his first win at Epsom (Vietorial meeting tliis month, when he succeeded in the first division of the Epsom Tria] AVeltor. As a yearling Afiirthong cost 2700 guineas. Like his illustrious hrotlier he is owned and raced hy 3Ir "Ec'ii" Chaffev.