GENERAL ITEMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 2, 28 April 1896, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Maori Oat races that were to be held to morrow at Oraahu have been posponed until next Wednesday, the sth May, the Steward's giving way in prefernee to the Bruimer lielief Sports. The heavy mill of yesterday thoroughly saturated the training tracks, and no work work was allowed on the course this morning. The nominations for the various events at the Napier Park meeting are eminently satisfactory, and Mr Danvers will have some work in bringing the numerous competitors together. Lorelei has broken down. Kulnine is in training again at Riccarton. After all the croaking' that has been indulged in by odd writi-rs in the sporting'papersof England i says '• Umpire") it must have been a set-back to them to see Paris 111. carry off a rich handicap prize. .By winning a good handicap easily Faris showed that he had

not lost his galloping powers which * made him so famous in his native land. He is being raced in the interest of his owner, Mrs 11. C. White, and Lord William Beresford, who is managing his racing and training in England. Perhaps the Chester Cup or some other good race may be added to the Grandmaster gelding's list of victories ; but if he had failed altogether to reproduce his old form under JJritish skies there would have been

little cause for.surprise. It was rather late in his career to expect him to enter into another series of brilliant deeds, hut if he docs nothing more than ho has already done hi.s trip "will not he the failure some people predicted. After he is retired from the English turf Paris will return to New South Wale-, and end bis days in one of the best paddock* on the llavilah Estate. Such a rising crowd as C'oil, Tire, Newhaven, Resolute, Oyndus, Th& Oilicer, Gozoczar, and possibly Iluret, threaten to turn next season's classic events and handicaps into prize-riddle competitions.—Bulletin.