WELLINGTON PONY AND GALLOWAY RACING CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 8

WELLINGTON PONY AND GALLOWAY RACING CLUB.

Miramar ,or at least the new racecourse, presents a scene of activity between 5.301 and 8 o'clock in the morning.. Yesterday morning a number of ponies were at work on the new track in preparation for Saturday's mooting. Everything is now.said to be in good order, and a good attendance is anticipated. During tho last few daja a nuirtber of ponies' have arrived from the country, districts, and are now housed in tho Club's new boxes adjoining. tile racecourse.. .Lady Mason "was the first pony to appear yesterdays-morning, and negotiated four, furlongs 'attractively' in ■55sec.' The Auckland pony Inspiration,-who is now owned in Brooklyn, Was" sent over, tho same distance, and completed • tho jour-; ney, in. 54 l-ssec., but pulled ,up laine, apparently having struck herself/ It.-is hoped that her new owner will not thus early be deprived of her services. Napoleon and Dan O'Connell were only allotted'light'tasks, but both look- fit.. Kau Kau irtipresscd the critics as a fine, free mover, but is very green. Others out included Lady Vogel, Cornstalk, Nellie, Rosena, Insanity, Cleveland,' Ruby, Bumper, etc. The secretary.'of .the Club advises us 'that a ferry steamer will leave' the ferry wharf - for Miramar^; (a .• few' minutes' walk from the course) at 1.20 p.m. on Saturday,- arriving in -time ;for. the first .race; aiid • returning aftor the last race, - while a special service of trams will-run from Court-' enay Placo" from 11.30 onwards.

SALE OF BLOOD. STOCK. There is no very decided" evidence that investors-in good- blood stock.'.are .keen on buying- at; present. - Out', of' five well-bred animals offered for. sale at auction; by Messrs'. Wm.' H; Turnbull and iCompany,' at Mr. Andrews's "stable,' Thorndon.; Quay,;: yesterday, afternoon, only; two were sold, and in _ both instances the purchasers- secured-unmistak-able bargains. ' The nice black filly A.L. (Lancaster—MSmaku)' was 'bought'-by Mr.. Edward Reilly for 47 guineas, ;and.. the chestnut-. gelding, Clanbiir'n (Clanrainaldr-Lady Sockburn), was knocked down to Mr. A. H. Tripo for .20 guineas. .The three-year-old brown filly, Alfalfa (Grafton —EbrbWai), did not reach the reserve.' .She.' will-.be- held-for private sale until February 27, wheii, if not sold, she .will be shipped to Sydney. The black gelding, Wainui.-o-mata, and the black horso, Cyrus (Cyrenian^—Silk), were passed in. They are'open now for private sale.