THE TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2445, 9 March 1909, Page 2

THE TURF.

TWO BRILLIANT .SOULTS.. Comparisons will doubtless mow be drawn between that pair of brilliant doults, Solution and Soultline. So ar as their respective New Zealand jwnors who had the courage to nnlertake an Australian campaign are •oncerncd, there is none between the two as to their profitableness, inclusive if the price obtained ' when they 'hanged hands. As to which, was the •:ore brilliant, it would, ..no doubt, be ccurate to sum up in favor of Soultine over five, six, and seven,, furongs. but to award the palm’ to Solution at distances over seven and up to twelve. There might be some room : or argument as to how a seven-fur-ong issue would be. decided. There s Soultlino’s Caulfield Futurity Lakes performance, in which the son ff Soult and Castorline, with 9.8, was 'locked to run lmin 28sec, but against this record we have .Solution’s econd to Savoury in the Members’. 'Handicap at Riccarton on November L2tli, 1904. when a new Australasian coord of lmin 26 3-ssec was estab'■shed. But in that race Solution on- " v carried 6.10." It ivas on the same day that Machine Gun, with 11.5 on his back (L. H. Hewitt), established 'another new Australasian record of 58sec for five furlongs. Solution’s victories in Australia over distances exceeding a mile up to twelve, furlongs, however, show her in an even more attractive light at weight-for-age scale than Soultline; •'specially after the, latter’s defeat by Parsec in the All Aged Stakes at F’emington on Monday week last, when the former had 8.12 (31bs gelding allowance), and tlie latter 8.6. At Randwick. in the spring of 1906. Solution' won the Metropolitan Handicap, one mile and a half, bv a very big margin, in 2min 33)sec, with 4 2 up. Three weeks previously, at Tattoreall’s Club meeting, -also at Randwick, slie won the Rawson ’takes, nine furlongs (weight-for-age with penalties and allowances), in lmin 53soc, and under the same scale ■f weights the Craven Plate, one mile and a quarter, at the A.J.O. spring ■meeting. in which she fairly romped home on her own in 2min 9sec. A visit to Victoria followed, where she won the Caulfield Stages, nine furlongs,, and the Melbourne Stakes, one mile and a quarter, at Fleming-fc-»n, three weeks later, both being weight-for-age contests, in which Mr. Paterson, so as not to run any risk, had 9.1 carried. Them as a finale to this profitable campaign, Mr. Paterson sold Solution for the handsome figure of 4000 guineas and an additional 500 guineas cut of her next win, which anticipation. alas for her new owner, .was never realised. WINNING JOCKEYS. The annual contest for the season’s supremacy among New Zealand joclce”s is now .at an interesting stage, although the Trentliam light-weight. It. Hatch, who is not yet out of his apprenticeship. holds such a commanding lead at present as to appear almost sure of occupying the coveted position on top at the close of the P' riod. Tin to" date, the leading divi•:s in, with, the number of wins to tlieir credit, is as follows: R. Hatch 54 B. Deeley 36 A. Oliver 31 E. Lowe 29 C. Jenkins 5 28 J. Buchanan 27