THE TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2357, 25 November 1908, Page 3

THE TURF.

FEILDING ACCEPTANCES

(Press Association. 1

FEILDING, Nov. 24. Dnil was omitted from the acceptances in the Aorangi Hack Welter Handicap at the Feilcling meeting.

HAWKE’S BAY JOCKEY CLUB. A meeting of the Hawke’s Bay' Jockey Club Metropolitan Committee was held at Hastings. Authority was granted the Mohaka Racing Club, Takapau Racing Club, and Petane Racing Club to issue riding permits under Rule 12, Part XXIII., Rules of Racing.^ The application of the Napier Park and Gisborne Racing Club to post certain defaulters was agreed to. Programmes for race meetings were approved as follows:—Gisborne Racing Club, February 4tli and sth, stakes £930; Poverty Bay Turf Club, February 11th and 12th, stakes £1210; Tologa Bay Jockey Club, March 12th and 13th, stakes £635. Licenses were granted as follows: — Jockeys: C. Mitehel. J. Griffith, and R. C. Fenton. Trainer: Pae Hat-a. Gentlemen riders: Messrs G. McGlashan, Kina Hata. J. S. Wilson, AV. Cattanach, J. Tracey, E. AY. Robinson, C. Robinson, E. Mclvor, and J. S. Lopdell. B. Deeley (jockey) appealed against the disqualification imposed by tlie Poverty Bay Turf Club on October 20, 1908. Evidence was given by J. Struthevs, B. Deeley, and the Poverty Bay Turf Club, when it was resolved to allow the appeal and to decline to uphold the decision of the Poverty Bav Turf Club. W T ith regard to the disqualification by the Poverty Bay Turf Club ol J. Struthers (alleged owner) and the horse Andrew Mack, it was resolved that there was not sufficient evidence to endorse the disqualification. NOTES. * Artillerie will not be raced again until the Christmas meetings. The two-year-old Menscliikoff—Castorlace filly", purchased at the dispersal sale of the Longlands Stud last May, is now at work at Porirua, and should be seen racing during the summer months. This filly is now owned •by a gentleman in Palmerston North. Although All Red won over £7OO in stakes last season he was only placed first in three events, so that he started, off in the present season with every ounce of weight that he was entitled to. The. Stepniak hor s e is owned by a thorough sportsman, who likes to accept with his horse when he is well, and, in addition, All Red is in the hands -of a good trainer, usually lias the services of tho best jockeys available, and is a useful, honest performer. But for all that he was rushed up to the top of the handicaps rather too quickly by the weight adjusters. Continental exchanges say that L. H. Hewitt, the well-known- New Zealand jockey who- is now riding in England', has been engaged as first jockey for Prince Hohenlohe-Oehring-en in Germany and Austria-Hungary next season. B. Oarslake, the Victorian jockey, who has .been ruling in Austria, has been engaged to ride next season for the liewly-iormeu stable of Count Paul Esterhazy. AVlieu thoroughly well, all the stock of San Francisco, that have raced m this country (says an exchange) proved game finishers. Elevation was a regular bulldog in a finish, and Downfall, Sir Frisco, and Seal Rook all demonstrated their thorough gahieness at the enJ of a race. Lady San, who won a couple of two-year-old races at Flemington this month, is also credited with being >an. honest finisher, as she was well tested over the last half-furlong in her second race.

Mr. Arthur Way, secretary of the Marton Hieing Club, is moving in the direction' of obtaining permanent passes for jockeys and trainers, which ■would' admit the holders f-Q-uU regis-

tered meetings throughout the Dominion. The system seems worthy of consideration, for it would save a good deal of trouble to racing club secretaries, and would be. more convenient to trainers and jockeys, •but the .passes would have to :be issued on the express stipulation that npy attempt at transferring them ■would entail cancellation of license.

Pink ’Un- appears to have been rather unlucky in the Melbourne Stakes, in which he finished third, behind Peru rfind' Mooltan.- Tlie Strowian horse was about 50 yards behind the leaders at the abattoirs, but he put in a tremendous run, ancl finished third. F. AVilliams, the jockey, was told to hang on to Mooltan through the race, but Pink ’U,n was in a bad position from the start, and the newspapers credited AYilliams with riding a poor race. At the instigation of Mr. S. Nett-lefold, the ALR.C. stewards held an enquiry into the circumstances but decided that there was not sufficient evidenco forthcoming to warrant their taking any ■action. AVilliam’s explanation was that the horse stumbled shortly after the start of the race, and thus early was placed in a bad position in the strung-out field. Frank AVootton is riding with such phenomenal success in England that although ho was out of the saddle for a month, lie will not be far off the top of the list when the end of the season is reached. Next Saturday is practically the close of the English flat racing season. A writer in a Home paper has a good word for tlie young Australian boy. He says: —“AVootton is one of the finest firstclass light-weight jockeys wo have ever had in this country. He handles a horse with the discretion of a fullgrown man. He is the most .precocious- and the cleverest youngster I have even seen in the saddle. His remarkable success has not spoiled him in the least. Few jockeys can get so much out of a horse at the finish. He started, riding over here -before ho had reached his eleventh birthday, ■and was then a most remarkable horseman. Johnny Roiff, the American was quite a baby when lie made his name in this country, and was known as the ‘knicker-bocker jockey,’ but he was at least a( year older than AVootton when wo first made his acquaintance. AVootton lias already made many thousands of pounds. Ho recently had an offer from Mr. Veil Picard, the well-known French owner, who was prepared to retain him at a ■fee of £2OOO 'for tlie season.” This was, however, refused by young AVootton’s father, the well-known trainer, who has had a most successful season, and has lately spent a great deal of money on his training establishment at Epsom..