WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 179, 30 August 1929, Page 13

WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

(Compiled by "The Squire.")

NOTES ON HORSES, COURSES AND OWNERS DOMINION AND ELSEWHERE

Queensland Tnrf Club found itself confrouted with an excess of applications for bookmakers' licenses this season, and, though it increased the nuinber which is to operate, there will be a "waiting list" for some time. It has licensed 110 men, of whom 52 will be privilcged to field in the paddock enclosure, 44 in tho leger and 14 in tlie flat. A GREAT RECORD. Apart from turning out the greatest number of winners on metropolitan courses in New South Wales, George Priee, the ex-New Zealand trainer, also headed tlie stakes list. The courses iiicuded in the statistics are Itandwick, Warwick Farm, Rosehill, Moorefield, Canterbury, and HaWkesbury. He stripped 22 outright winners aiid three dGad-heaters for first, with £16,181 prize money, against 17-'- wins in 192728 for £14,676. CUT IT DOWN. Though the A.R.C. Has cuttailed the stake money for tlie appi'oaching season's racing at Ellerslie, the Auckland Cup is not affected, and the leading race of the Summer programme remains at £3000. A GOOD RESULT* The Melboiirne sportsman, Mr hl> Green, was the leading owner in Australia last season, horses carrymg his colours ' winning prize money to the amoimt of £27,385. Of this sum, over £17,000 was the earnings of the three-year-old Strephon. SOLID WORK. D. Moroney is giving Vertigern, Talisker and other members of his team some solid work at Wanganui. Talisker is Hitting out very freely, and

from appeifrances he should not be lora* in getting back to fonn. Vertigern is also moving along nicely, and some stak© money should cdiu© liis way : early in the season. WON THE NEXT * Tho gelding Quick Deal, whose fall when contes'tnig a hurdle race at Moonee Valley on July 3 caused the death of Hugh Cairns, won the next event in which he contested, the Wilgah Steeplechasers' Flat Handicap, m which he was ridden by R. N. Harris. A DEDUCTION. In England there is to be a six per cent. reduction on moneys staked with the totalisator, plus any Government tax that may be enforced. HAD A WIN. Murthong, the five-year-old fullbrother to Manfred, managed to win the Crimea Trial Handicap (nine furlongs) at Caulfield on the 3rd inst. % HOTWEED. Hotweed, tliis year's winner 6f the Gl-and Prix de Paris, was ridden by the Englisb iockey, Michael Beary, The 'value of the stakes to the winner was coffiputed at abput £8700. g— — — — — ———■Ma