ENGLISH RACING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 7

ENGLISH RACING.

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Mrs Langtry's fonduess for Australian blood in her racing scabl3 received further justification at Miinchescer aat Sataday, when her three-ycar-Oid filly Aurina, ly Trenton's son, Auruoi IT., out of fouoeitina, won the Prince Edward Handicap of £1670, from fourteen other fair class horses. A report that Aurina, which had won three out of her four previous exig.'xs'iments, was lame, enabled her backers to get S to 1 about the filly—handsome b'das, seeing that ehe carried the featherweight or 6.5. She showed no signs of leg trouble In the rnce, and admirably handibd by tut yomiK Australian jorfcey, F. Wooton, won cleverly bj , -half a length -from Polymelia (4yrs,. S.J).

;Wooton is a very proDalalng featherweight jockey, who is likely to get-plenty of lnsunts in the future. He possesses a good neaa and good hands, and is in good hands, seeing that he lives, with his father, who Has taken some of Merick's etabling at Epsom, and has a few horses in training there. Aurina's victory was "an Australian affair." She was sired by an Australian horse, bred by an Australian (Sir D. Cooper) md ridden by an Australian jockey,. Au'ruira U. belongs to Mrs Langtry. Whilst Aurina was winning the mile and a quarter Prince Edward Handicap, tho produce of another Australian eire was winning the chief event at the Hurst Pars meeting, to wit the Victoria tlandl<:ap of £4SS, decided over six furlongs. Thin was Lord Coventry's Catapult, a wasp-waisted. three-year-old daughter of Carbine and Marguerite 11., which, starting at 3 to 1 in a lipid -of 10, won by a short head from Winnie X.., after a desperate race from the distance.

Catapult's victory raised Carbine's "winning sires' account" to £13.531 for the season, the result of 14 wins by seven of, lila progeny. "Old Jack" now stands third in the sires' list, to Ladas (234 wins for £TJ> 07S), and Persimmon (23 -wins for £13,852).