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[BY GfcEXcSE.I ] WViff'nts for the War.jjnmii Ster-ple-cliaso and Ccntuty Hurdles are- duo today. Hatana, winner of tho llurdKs at A&hbwrien yesterday, formerly fscad m ■ tho Hswko's Bay awd Sisbonus districts, but- he only won a single raw- Afc' Napier. in tte- spring ho was sold to a West Coast buyer. ' Those wiio were present at the M-arl--8 borough meet,kg say that -some of tko Iwfsftiiijuisluj) seen there was of a very inferior order. In one of tH6 races oh the first day a horse was tanging over the rails. for fully a fniltiif; and there secured to bo a lot of umiccessny shuffling in several ruces. Tho we'd-knosvn light-weight jockeys, _ f, O'Halloran a»i 0. Carirkuit, rod© at Hastings on Thursday, and the same evening motored to Palnjerstoii North, where they caught the Slain Trunk express, whkh arrives in -WtiMingtoii. ill tho caily morning. Last owning at 5 1 p.m. jjaij" sailed- for Sydney, on |. route to Melbourne, where they mieiid 'j residing in future.. 13k)-fluctuations in tho valuo of a ■* racehorse are feXOQvp.li.fied iy tli.o a ; p~ pe-nde-d exce-rpt from tho ''Sportsman" j? (England): "Prince Christian, tlia winner of .the Prix Callisirate at A'.ticiiil, was purchased as a yearliiig at Peauriild by M. M. Calniami for 15,500.fr. After nuuii'iis at Baden-Baden, when a three-vear-old. M. Calman-ii sold him to M. H". do Mum in for -WOOfr., ami the latter ft\viv«.r disposed of tho sait of Priiieo William to 31. A- . VoU-I'ienTcti his present owner, for '28,GQ0fr. and a IO.OOOfr. ■eoiitiugeney. ' The New Zealand jockey, Job O'Cea* ■ nell, won the steeplechase at' Ifoenca ,4 Valley on April T< on the black gelding Westpori. Muroka was first past e, tho post, but'was'disqualified because ho could Set draw thb weight, ts Though that good Colt lieragoon is still a visitor at Tjandwick, and indulges in easy sxcreisß., lie is iK>t likely to' race again, as he goes' to tlio surf when this season opens. Mr. J. E. o ' llritri, fJoriurooft's o«rncr, intends taking a ' lengthy trip through America and - England, starting at tho -end of the yoar, and is desirous of tiaviftj? nothing ™ on his mind while absent. Bemgoott's ?s fee will bo SO guineas. ~ ' The London "I>aily News" is re-spons-ible for the following: "An iiinovatimi 0 is goiiif; .to bo made at- Hurst .Park s il by constructing two tiers -of the judge's tr- bos instead of one. Tho lower <nio is te. to bp.- far tks- jmlgo and il\o upper <nlo in for tho stewards- as is usual in Ko.i' to many and Austria, and _ which esporlb„ merit, it is imttcvsteod, is being; introduced at Hurst Park at the instaiicc 1 s of Prince Ivinskyami his trainer, Wil« 4;* liam Tlio idea hfirdiy seems 'o! correct. 'Hie deciding nf what horse las won a race must be left to tlw ~ .imlEiOi ancl i'reiii the j'.uhVs tTeeisior lc . thoro imist bo no appeal, and the idea of a stewards' bos oyer the judge's bos —r in order that some- bftlf-dOEeii steward: •'»' shall.bo <mablod to argive among; them l 9' .solves as to whether tlio jtidgo's dec.isloi e8 coincides with theif ?wit is iiuijistrmvs -• A novel experiment was tried at Piety ton on Thursday evening to get a irac |' tinus horse into tlws loa<Kng4>o.\-. T)« y,' horse Was Uaumakaka, and no iimouni ir o of waxing would induce him (.« ontel the box. After a king time a Wellington doctor, who was standing by, ioe-k----e s" inc on. waited up to tho horse, ant jb-j put- is- plus of tobacco into bis month this had tn-e effcct of tailing the horse-'!
attention off the host, and ho' Was ted mto it before ho knew what bad bap- t pene.d to him. I'orojjeal broke down on the ovo of tlio Marlborough Ctip. -She nil! be- ■ l»ut. by for some time, and as it is only a slight rick, tho Achilles fiia.ro should mak'o « good recovery. Bob Soult, by Sou.it— Gochot b, won the BosowOrth Welter, one wile, at the Gawfcr mooting o.ii April 25. Tho Auckland jumper ..Surplus, wfjo Met with injuries a short time ago, did not make- lmtc'li headway towards recovery, and ffas destroyed on 'J'hui'sday last. At the AJ-hnry R.C.'s . Cup Meeting on April 23 the Welter Handicap was Won liy Problematic. by Pflsitano—Problem, a hail-brother to Count Witt-e and Solution. ; When our last flies left. England tho crack jockey, D. Mnher, hud not recovered from ttn illness which had kid him low for some weeks, Malier was improving, and intended spending several months in the South of Franco, lie hoped to resuuio ratio riding this Bsasoii. .Ran para, formerly a roombor (if R. Keeper's toani at River hinds, Will in future bp • trained by his owjior at Awapnni. Tho Sensation gelding and a vero railed to Palmenton North yesterday. Sin® joining \V. M'Douftld's stables at Itic.cartou, Teviotdalo has been most consistent. lie is not _ raced much, hut when .bis trainer -fancies him ho aiivnys i'uns very prominently. At Ti- ; j maru last week ho scored in tho con- : eluding event on the sccond o-ird I)ut up a similar performance at Ash- ■ burton yesterday. , C. BiHorsen rods at Hastings m Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and Wont sonili last evonin£. He is relurmun: on Tuesday moi ning, and will bo ridiftg at Ilawera next week. Twelfth Night., a ttttich-diseusscd member of JJ.r, Harvey Patterson's team, scored an eipected wii) in tho : Juvenile Handicap at Ashburtcji yesterday. 1 Monologue was fancied by Ms owner o» both days at Blenheim, but after pulling very hard in the first part of the raco he stopped verv suddenly. Probably the chestnut gelding has had plenty of racing, aftd Would be all the better far a spell. Private advices 1 rocoivod in' Woiliiigton stato that the disqualification imposod on T. Wilson and T. by the Manawatu C'liib over the running of G'tas.sis tho locont mooting at_ Awapani., has been endorsed by tlio Wft-nga* nui .District Committee. The ag-! 1 . loved parties will now appeal to the Kafiins Conference. ]?'fiiicei>s Borrie, who Won tho On© Thousand Guineas iii jSngtosi this mouth, belongs to the Mo. {S) ianiily. Sho is a half-sister to the Derby win- ( ne-r Smistar, and also to White. Star,.' who is now located at the Shipley .Sltid in Victoria. Last season frinccss Dfltfris's form was owly modern to and she does not appear to have beirn generally regarded as likely to succeed in any. tif the classics., licr siro, Your Majesty (Persimmon —Yours), won the St. L'cjror ■' , as recently as ICOB, and fa> lias iiiado. a remarkably good s-tart- at tho stud by siring a classic _ winner so early, G lorvina and Torchlight, who filled tliiJ; places behind Princess Dorrie, .ire both ■bred iit the purple, jGJor-vin-a is an own sister to the luckless Craganaiit\ whilo . Torchlight is a member of the Paraffin branch of tho Xo. (1) family.
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