SPORTING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18219, 1 November 1924, Page 12

SPORTING.

Nominations for the Gore T.C.'s 1925 Southland Juvenile Stakes cjosc to-day.

Acceptances for the Metropolitan T.C.'s .Spring Meeting and a final payment of 10 sovs for the New Zealand Trotting Cup arc due on Tuesday at noon.

dominations for the Forbury Park T.C.'s .Spring Meeting close on Tuesday at 5 p.m. For the two days the club will distribute 0100 sovs in stakes. The principal race each day is worth 700 sovs. and no race on the programme is worth less than -00 sovs. Acceptances for the Upper Clutha Racing Club's Annual Meetiug are due to-dav.

Acceptances for the minor evpntson the first, day of tho Canterbury Jockey (Club's Metropolitan Meeting are due ot S p.m. on Monday, and at the same time final payments are due for the New Zealand". Cup, Stewards' Handicap. Welcome Stakes, New Zealand Derby, and Xew Zealand Oaks.

Inferno was scratched for- the Stewards' Handicap at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. Subjection was withdrawn yesterday from all engagements at the Canterbury .Jockey Cluli '3 Metropolitan Meeting.

Mr H. M. Reeves' mare Esper.uicc, by Martian—Mary of Argyle, foaled a dead foal this season to Kilbroncy. The marc* suffered greatly, and it is unlikely that she will breed ■Another of the same studmast.er's recent purchases, April Folly, by AbsurdPrincess Martian, has foaled a colt to Paladin, and visits Taper Money. Mr J. Richardson, who was disqualified by the Gore Racing Club on Wednesday. intends appealing to the Dunedin District, Committee.

The withdrawal of Inferno from the Stewards' Handicap will bring F. Tillcy's other siring Tukia itito prominence for the big sprint at Kiccarton. Jlcr effort when she finished second to Eeremoana at Trentham last Monday suggests a return to her best form.

The attention of visitors to the Canterbury Jockey Club's Metropolitan Meeting is directed to the advertisement appearing in another column. The charges for the meeting are as follows: —Admission to course Is, outside enclosure -s, to inside enclosure, gentlemen 10s, ladies ss. Motor cars, including driver V entrance, each entry 2s '6d, which charge will be made on all motors, whether owned by members or others. Special motor tickets (obtainable at office) for the whole meeting, 12s 6d. Char-a-bancs will not be allowed inside tlio course • until after the fourth race, but must discharge passengers at the Racecourse , Hotel entrance.

At Trentham on Tuesday night a social evening was held to bid goodbye to Mr aJid Mrs C. Pritchard, who are leaving Wellington for Nelson. Mr T. F. Quinlivan presided ov.er a 'representative attendance, whieli included most of the trainers at' Trentham. When presenting Mr and Mrs Pritchard with a wallet- of notes the chairman expressed the universal regret of the residents that they were losing old friends. Mr Pritchard had been in the racing game for about thirty years, but now he was about to try his fortune in another sphere. Hp was sure ho and Mrs Pritchard carried with them the good wishes of all present. Tho brood-mare Formless, stinted to •Night. Raid, and Lava,, Purple Iris, Enare, a!nd a yearling colt by Paper Money—Formless arc adveitiscd for sale ill this issue.

Plack, .the winner of Me Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket onTThursda y had started four times previously this season. In her first outing she ran third in the Brandon Handicap .at the Newmarket Craven; Meeting. This race was run over nine furlongs, and Plack earned 9.6. The two that finished in front of her being iirig o' Doon, Bst 31b, and MacCarthy Moro, Bst '9lb. She followed this up by-winning the One Thousand Guineas, beating Mumtaz Mahal and Straitlaee,' but in the Oaks Stakes Straitlaee was successful "with. Lord - Bosebery's filly in second place. Afc : Ascot in. June Plack ran unplaced in. tho Gold Cup.

..Twelve .Pointer; thov"winncr of .the Cambridgeshire Stakes, has been a good performer this season, as /up, to the, end of August he h a d started seven tinics, -won three races, -finished second once, third once, and .twice unplaced. The races he won were the Boss Memorial Stakes at'Asfiot, the Oadby Breeders' Plato at Leicester, and the Atlantic Plato at Liverpool The following penalities have been declared for the New Zealand . Metropolitan Trotting Club's Meeting:— Spring Handicap, Audominion, 36yds; St. Albans Handicap, Olive Huon 12yds and Bell Harold. 24yds; Eiccarton Handicap, Away 12yds; . Victoria 'Handicap, Pinevalo 24yds and' Bell Harold 24yds. < Tor undue Use of the whip on Jolly Chimes in the Mataura, Handicap at tho Gore E.C.'s Spring Meeting, I\ J. Perriam waa fined £2O.-

. Mr' Jv H. Tomkins, -well-known in trotting circles, has been appointed starter for the flat and: light • harness events at the Methvcn B.C.'s Annual Meeting. *■ ■.^