TOPICS OF THE TURF

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 171, 21 August 1929, Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TURF

(By "The Squire.")

JOTTINGS DA¥ BY DAY.

Tliere seem/s to be 110 dearth of hack steeplecliasers around about just at present, as 17 have been bandieapped I'or the Dannevirke Hack Steeplechase, one of the events to* be decided attlie Spring" meeting of ' the Dannevirke Baeing Club. it caiuiot be the stake money tliat has attracted them, as tbe winner of the event receives but £70. * * * The Napier Park Racing Club is in the field with the progranime for their Spring fixture, which will take filace on October 5. The menu is well balanced, all sorts and conditions of gee-gees being catered for, with the stake mouey to be distributed of the sanie value as last season, when good fields were seen out in action in the various events. * * * llunning on Mr Frank Orniond's property is a good stamp of a two-year-old, in the filly by Arausio from Parearu, tho latter being by Demosthenes — Mangaoroa, by San Fran — .Uaude. Sbe goes back on the i'emale side to Musket and St. Leger, lacts which iliustrate tbe possession of strains of dominant, speedy blood. Jf she does not t-urn out well her lineage cannot be blamed. The two-year-old half-sister by Gasgag to Gold Box and Record Mixture will race under the appellatio'n of Gasconade. 5f: * * Not many people liave any idea of the expenditure that takes plac-e in connoction with tbe rimning of au up-to-date racecourse. Some enlightenment on tbe subject was recently vouchsafed in regard to tbe operations of the .Victorian Racing Club for ihe past twelve montlis, as during tbat time, maintenance at Flemington (Vie.) amounted to £17,560. A sum of £18,-1-14 was disbursed on race meetings, and £6,386 paid away in galaries. * * Naturaliy tbe revenue received totted up to big figures, £142, 31S being received for admittances. registrations, catering and raeebooks, while members' subscviptions and entrance fees brougbt in £21,155. * He * " Siugleton is being prepared for his Spring engagements by H. Goscomb, Mr D. J. Barry's private trainer at Gisborne. It is intended that be will tnake his first appearance for the season at tbe Spring fixture of the Avondale Racing Club. Mr Barrv has also got under the tuition of Goscomb a tvio of two-year-olds, who have heen favourably commented upon bv those who have witnessed them sprinting. S; S; -'ti Birbeck. Perle de Leon. ahd Alaric arrived vesterday at their respective ouarters at Dannevirke, Takapau and Hastings from Riccarton, via Wellington. ' ...... * - * » * Amongst the winners at the Victoria Pony Meeting at the end of last month in Australia, was Tea' Rose, a three-yc-ar-old filly by Tea Tray — Roseland, bred at Blenheim by Mr J. J. Corry, hei success being recorded in connection with the Second Division of the Trial Stakes, 4J fuvlongs. # * * . The New. Zealander,' who _ liad not raced in ' the land of her hirth; was made a hot pot. . She carried ont the good opinions formed of her powers, as she covered the distancfe -in oSISecs, ei-ossing the deciding mark by a two lengths advantage with 17 competitors bc-hind her. * * * Tea Rose is a full-sister to Rosenur, Rcsebov. and Rosebush, and half-blood-cd relative to that oue-time solid mare Pink Rose. * * * A't the same meeting a,couple of other New Zealand equines secured second l>erths, Quivotie finishing _ in second herth to Pradigal, in tlie First Division of the Flying Handicap, while in the Second Division of the event, The Furrier Was easily silenced hv Goodstock for the winner's share. Both were at long prices. * * * Quixotio (Ahsurd — Los Yeagas) was bred at the Flaxmere Stud, Hastings, by Mr W. G. Stead. Tbe Furrier (Absurd — Pelt) first saw the light' at tlie Flaxmere Stud, Hastings," liaving been bred by Mr J. D. Ormond. * * * A well-known l\lelbourne man, who in his time was a top-holer as a jockey, cricketer and foothaller, was recently going over the good old times with his associates, and although, as he stated, iie had some queer experiences at all three hranches of sport, the most daring occured in connection with a horse that he rode at a suburban meeting in Australia. "My mount was 'dead' hiit I had backed a 'trier 'who eventuallv ran second to my mount, which I could not stop ^at the finish. A? T rame hack to weigh in I was t-aekled by the owner of the second Iiorse. who. abused me for putting it over him. "As I had lost my money as well as he had. I said, 'Lodge a nrotest, and have me up for foul ridhig.' The owner did so' and upon examination hv the; stewards" T admitted that T might liave crossed the other horse in the straight. and I was disqualified. C'ertainly a Iosing riding fee had'to he acceptecl by me, but what T won in bets was a tidy hundle. Besides I made a new friend in the owner of tlie. seond horse, as he was not .wise to tlie fnat that I had my money on his represcntative." Reflectively he added that that sort of thing would not conie off nowadays, £ibut when I was young I took chances that at the present time tlie memory of them would keep me awake at nights." ~ * * . A Mr G. Powell, the Australian racing man who o-wns Slosstrooper, winner of the Australian Hurdles Race, must be accorded the pedestal for Jiberality in tlie matter of his fairness to jockevs, as out- of the 1600 sovs he received as the win of Mosstrooper, he distributed 600 sovs in ldding fees to four jockeys. * * * Murrell, who had heen associated with the gelding's prior performances this year, was disqualified prior. to the race, and Mr Powell informed him that if Mosstrooper was successful he wouid he paid the winning fee of £150; ❖ ' * . -i A. Fullarton was .then engaged; but he released the owner in consequence of his not being able to pilot Mosstrooper in any race but tlie Hurdles. E. iYebster, who- was then engaged, took ill and was not ayailable. Both of these borsemen were also'" pufc on a winning mount. At tlie finish/ H. , Thompson was put on the gelding and' earned his fee of £150 by: s^eering him to victory. ' tjt * :1s • " Mosstrooper has proved a _ great stake earner for Mr Powell -this season, as he has secured £3800. -