Sporting Notes

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 21 May 1887, Page 2

Sporting Notes

: A-c: -AAA*- 1 :? :'' 5-t A AX •AT T WANGANUI BIRTHDAY MEETING. - ! -- ;> „-,-■ — — .A A, - . .„t* *.* '♦. : f (By " Kanej^^iujbue^Kor_id>~ I Of the 15 nomiiia'ted for the. Wan-^ ganui Handicap Steeplechase ~ but S'? have accepted, the von contents being -dWl^gk* Ojaftta,: I*ahgaroo, .Blue Bell, and Tprppdu*;h the -yery cream of -the lot: -'Thia does A übt * say •uiiiolr.'fbr. ithd-jabflifcy^iDifi^thtt.:.!. GlubV6<handieappe , r.>'--C)f those dh*ft vai f Orient and Victor ioM ; the^thlßr_bvbn ,;? ' quite safe as long' a-'ihe^K *6a3P Sieep "^ their feet, but there are tlie ut-ual 'falls to be taken into" consideration. Should either ,of the two or bothy come. ; tp grief;' tftenilef6£tti£;^^ |aM T, The Jilt will have a'ni^say in tnere- * suit. Howevery|,BWf^irs.|ig-|C can judge \ taTt present, neither Orient or Victor :wift^uri,bia-;jumpingrrace in »a* ,& v canter. Of the 1 9 nominated _or th» ;i "Flying but 8 have accepted, another proof of Mr Evett's failure to satisfy [owners that their horses have been 'propsirly handicapped. • 01. the., 8 f .acceptors I like -The .Shah, . Ru^pehn* d,> auddCharmer bestj -though I havetin. .» idea Mermaid, if she is -ht^and; weH- A. ridden, 'may flop up and boil the pot over. For the Winter Oats Handicap of the score nominated but half have accepted.' Of these- 1 like Charmer, ■Ruapehu, and x Tongariro > best, - with * ; Ooth as tho most likely outsider to* upset the pot. Should The Shah not start for the Flying, I will expect him to run into a forward place in the 'Winter OatSdrHandicap; despite his handicap, as he is a good weightbarrier in such .company, . but .not gppd enough to put* up a 71t> penalty and win the double. J3f. the. six Maide§s % -.- I.shouid select Wideawake as the most "" likely, to win. Next tp tim, 7%. "llks '. Waitangi and dDiiskj as named. : A: ':' i| . . ■-■ '"■■■'■"■ '■'■*■' '•-■ ! -- L " f\