TOPICS OF THE TURF

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 256, 1 December 1930, Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TURF

(By "The Squire.")

JOTTINGS DAY BY DAY.

Handicaps for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap, are due to make their appearance ou Wednesday. * * * Syivan Dell and Kaiti, two recent additions to the pupils of J . Hockley, at Waipukurau, are eoming along well in their traek exercises. * * Evidently it is intended to seo wliat Mountain Heatli can do as a hurdler, the gelding having been nominated for the obstaele events in eonnection with the Summer meeting of the Woodville Jockey Club. .* * * The winner of last season's Auckland Cup, Concentrate, will in all prohability be again competing in the raoe. After finisliing his racing at the New Zealand Cup meeting, the 'gelding showed signs of strain, but since his return to his quarters at Trentham has reeovered his former usual ruddy health, and everything going on satisfactorily with him in the interim, it can be assumed that lie will be tuned up to the highest pitch hy the time the two mile race at Ellerslie arrives. It will be a question of poundage as to his making the trip. O « * Tf the present intention is carried out, Autopay is destined to he one of the competitors in the Railway Handicap^ wliich will be run at Ellerslie on Boxing Dav. Bv winning the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap at Riccarton last month, Autopay has to he included in the list of promising tliree-year-olds of the season. Theije certainly is a dearth of them this term, for the proved ones are not hard to remember. • » • The Auckland-hred gelding. Papatu (Romeo-G' ambode) wlio for some eonsiderable time past has been owned and raced in Australia, has hroken down, and Arill not be seen in pursuit of stake money for many nioons to eome. * * * W. McConkey, who, in liis earlv days was an accomplislied exponent of the art of race riding, is now in cliarge of the team that was under the tuition of the late T. Daly. * * * Dissertation. the daughter of Demosthenes and Suratura, was mated with Arausio last season, lut so far I haye not been nble to ascertain if the union has been fruitful. Tn lier time Dissertation was a good winner, one of lier victories heing achieved in the Hawke s Bay Cup. * * * Hey lialf-brother. hy Arausio, SouchaD^ has proved that th© association of Suratura with Mr Ormond's sire is a good nick. * * * The tote turnover on the Cesarewitch was a record for a race in England, hemg £13,798, 10s. Ht Majeur, the winner, who is ownerl hy the AgaKhan, returned a dividend about half a point longer than the odds quoted hy the bookmakers. * * * The totalisator investments for the whole day amounted to £36,824, which constituted a record for England. Takmg the size of Elngland compared to New Zealand, and the population also lnto consideration it does not look as if the folk that frequeut racecourses in England are making much use of Ihe automatio betting as was expectecl by the Betting Board of Control. * * ■ Whcn it is considered' that the 11 days of the Auckland Racing Club last season were responsible for investments nmounting to £800,921 10s. it can ensily he observed that tote betting in England is hufc in its infancy, are regards handling money, taking'a line by New Zealand, * * * Tliere assuredly are no' bookmakers plying their business on the courses liere, or, rather, thev are not supposed to be, a supposition which lacks accuracy, while in England they pursue their calling Ibgally on the courses. * * * But even allowing for that, with the great numher of backers tliere are in England and the money held, the ^otalisator ought to be hetter supported if it is going to be tlm popular means of investment that it was supposcd would be the case wlien it was introdueed. * « * _ During the progress of the Woodville iMeeting this month, Mr W. H. Gaisford is sending up several of his team for sole . That promising two-year-old Esteem will not be included. * * * The veterau Victovian trainer had the pleasure of leadiug in the winner of the Bendigo (T'ic.) Cup last week. Tn addition to training tlie son of Boyal Alwayne and Tempered he also owns him. * * * Evidently the veavling saies in New Zealand are considered by Australian owjiers to be a good place to dispose of youn.gsfcers, as 16 Australian-bre 1 yearlings are to he sent across ihe deep for disposal at Trentham in January. * # i Valves and High vSpeed, vho hoth got on the winning list at Winton, are owned hy Mr A. S. Jones, of Timaru. Mr Jones is well ktiown in t'.o Bay, wliere he lias upon manv occa lious acted as deputy stipendiarv stewar 1 in eoimec.tion with the. nieetings of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club and ihe Waipukurau Jockey Club. O « * Psycho, a four-year-old son of Psychology and D'Oro, and therefore a full-bvother to Marion's Birthdfty and Gold Sand, and Tialf hrotlier to Ti loor field, Orofino and Ojoziuo. has heeu leased by Messrs D. IT. IMeLeod and C. H. Slater to Messrs E. E. and J. Pearson.