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Nominations for the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's February Meeting close this evening. At an auction sale in Sydney Yesterday, Valido was passed in at 400gs. nnd Don Hani-ibal at llOgs. In tho programme issued for the Bendigo Jockey Club's Meeting in aid of the local sanatorium, tho following clause appears:—"No donation will bo accepted from the winner of any stake." "A very wise provision," comments an exchange. Tho friends of C. Emerson have received • word that, after hearing his appeal againet his recent disqualification, tho Australian Jockey Club has referred the matter back to the Canterbury Park Club, to be re-opened. The following racehorses returned from Wellington by tho Wahine vesterday:—Thrax, Tannhauser, Flower of the West, Antumnus, Glenfinuan, Bold Stroke, Briar Patch. Snapdragon, Veritas, Historiette. Rencontre, Counsel, Silver Shield. Pabrikoff, Mowbray Salzburg, Peg, Rinaldo, Honesty, Charmilla. According to a Sydney exchange, the racing on January 14th, the first day or the Coonabarabran Jockey Club'*s Meeting, must have been very 'interest,n S-, The first two races of tho day resulted in dead-heats, while in each of the other events heads only separated the placed horses. At the Kilmore Meeting (Vie.) on Janjiarv 14th. Tonga Bean, by MenEchikoff—Scarlet Runner, won the Trial Handicap, and Gaby, also by Mensohikoff, annexed toe Welter Plate. The former was bred by Mr Harvey Pattereon, Jate of Victoria, and now - prominent in. New Zealand racing circles as the owner of Fabrikoff, Silver Shield etc. ' W. Huxley, th© English horseman, at present in Australia with Frank and Stanley Wootton, was riding at the Warwick Farm Race Meeting this month, but was never near the leaders. Of the six Now Zealand horses that arrived in Melbourne recently, five have gone into F. H. Lewis's stable at Caulfield. The writer who gives the information does not mention tho names of the horses, but they would probably bo tho five taken over recently by Air J. R. Henry. • The South Australian Jockey Club Committee have adopted a new local rule similar to that in operation in New South.Wales and Victoria, viz.: "The stewards may take possession on a racecourse of any horse which has been entered for or run in any race, and detain such horse for the purpose of examination, identification, or observation, for euch period as they think proper, without being liable for any damages in coneequence of the exercise of such powers or otherwise." Another win has to be credited to the smart Now Zealand-bred filly Former, by Boniform—Cyro, who won tho Liverpool Mile at tho Warwick Farm Meeting on January 17th. The winner started at a fair price, defeated a good field, and won,by three lengths in the creditable time of lmin 42$ sec. On the same day another New Zealandbred Slly in Protection, by Gravitation —Safeguard, won tho Three-year-old Handicap, of 100 soys, six furlongs, in lmin 15sec. Protection is probably the filly known in. New Zealand as Parachute who was sold to go to Australia. Sho.is a half-sister to Stronghold, Fleetfoot, Broadsword, and Scottish Star, and was brod and owned by Sir Geo. Clifford. At the West Australian Tattersall'a Club Meeting, held on January 14th, the Third-Class Plate of. 70 soys, one mil-3,waswon by the New Zealand bred Ellis by Hotchkiss-r-Edith Cureton by Castor —Frailty by l Goldsbrough— Flora Molvor. Ellis was bred by the Wellington Park Stud Company in 1903, and consequently is ten years old. Ho is a very -well-bred one, for his grandam Frailty ie the dam of Trenton, Cuirassier, Cissy (dam of Daystar, Altair. San Remo, and Helen Faucit), and Siege Gun. Hotchkiss, his sire, was one of New Zealand's most successful stallions, rmd amongst those that have helped to mako the name of the New -Zealand Turf may be mentioned: —Screw Gun, Forma, Royal Artillery, Machine Gun, Uniform, and Multiform. A couple of Mr John Brown's stallions in Prince Foote and Simile last week engaged in a vicious light, which ended disastrously for the imported horse (says the Sydney "Referee"). Prince Foot© gave him an awful gruelling, and the injuries sustained by SimHo were' of such a nature that Mr Brown ordered his destruction. Simile was by St. Sin.on from Mimi (winner of the Oaks), by Barcaldine out of a daughter of Lord Lyon, and was foaled in 1897. He "was the sire of Sunlike. winner of the Carrington Stakes and runner-up to Broadsword in the Doncaster Hadicap Baw Bee, a Breeders' Plato and Summer Cup winner, was another of his progeny. Simile was one of the best pedigreed St. Simon horses that oven came to Australia, and was a full-brother to St. Maelon, who was sold tor lo.OOOgs, but as a racehorse he was a comparative failure. The eeven-year-old mare Lady Tux, who had a racing record of 2min Slisec, nnd privately had registered 2min 18sec. times which have never been equalled by a trotting pony in Australasia, was found dead by her owner, Mr S. Stephens, in a paddock near Tβmora (says the Sydney "Referee"). A week before she was turned into a good stubble paddock, having been served by Delevan Chimes. It was surmised that tho pony had been bitten by a enake on tho preceding day, and that caused death; but it was decided to make an examination. Lady Tux was insured for the small sum of £30. and three months »Eo Mr Stephens declined an offer of £150 for her. Lady Tux. who was by Tuxedo (imp.)— Alice, had competed at Sydney. Cootamundra (where she established her record), and various other places. Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs :—Early yesterday morning the fine weather experienced for the past five or six weeks threatened to break, nnd provide rain for the Forbury Park Trotting Club's Meeting, -which opens to-day, but the clouds lifted after discharging a lengthy light shower,, and last evening, though the eky was overcast, the prospects were- promising. The course is in tiptop condition. The soft place near the mile post that troubled the horses at the last Meeting has been dug out and made up solid and unless rain comes there should be some record raotna. The acceptances ea/silj- constitute a record. 'Hip Dunlin Cup should r>rovide a jireat race. Pearl Child, will b<? heavily backed. >< will Schr-o'cirl, and Innisfail is well-spoken of, whilst Adonis may have to be Teckoned with. Mr R. Geddes and his trainer. M. Edwards, and the trotting horses Denver Huon, Mahomet, and Lady Edna returned to Sydney after a successful three, months' trip in New Zealand. Mr Edwards went on to Melbourne, taking Edna, who is owned by a Victorian, with him. Mr Geddes was very pleased with his campaign among the sportsmen of New Zealand", and he has decided to return there after Easter. M. Edwards will also go back, and will settle down there once more (says an exchange). Denver Hnon will again be raced there. The son of Huon Junior is to compete in' the Sydney Thousand Trot, and then be shipped to Maoriland. The throe horses

won £1336 in prints, so that they cot a considerable portion of tho amonnt available. Denver Hndn's share was £900 odd, and he also established a newrecord for two miles. Mr Geddes received several offers in New Zealand for Denver Hnon, but he declined to sell his favourite. One breeder offered £1000 for one year's lease of the champion. Admirers of King Cole and Erameline expressed the opinion that Denve«- Hnon was the greatest trotting horse seen in New Zealand.