RACING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 3

RACING.

Acceptances for all events at the Te Kuiti meeting close on Wednesday next, and i£ a fair percentage of those nominated pay up the fields for the various events should be large. A decidedly useful lot of horses are engaged in the chief events and a good day's racing is anticipated. The local course is looking in very good order and should improve considerably before the meeting. All the buildings are practically finished and the work of fencing off the enclosures is now in hand. It has been decided that £1 tickets will be issued at the inside machines and 10s tickets at the outside. This should prove a satisfactory arrangement as the room provided for the totalisator business is somewhat restricted, and a rush for tickets at the last moment is likely to tax the resources of the building to the utmost.

Mr A. F. Howarth, hon. secretary to the club, who has been on a visit to Australia, is expected to return to Te Kuiti on Tuesday. He will be warmly welcomed on his return by all true sports.

By winning the Wellington Stakes on Monday last Ermengarde demonstrated the fact that she is a very high class filly. The t'rne was exceptionally fast and all the best performed two-year-olds of the season were behind the winner. Ermengarde is undoubtedly a fine stamp of filly, and all continuing to go well with her there is very good reason to keep her in a prominent place for classic events ahead.

The Takapuna Jockey Club opens its summer meeting to-day and concludes the meeting on Monday. The Wellington Cup, for which Midnight Sun was a pronounced favourite was won by Undecided, who beat the favourite comfortably in a fast run race. Undecided is evidently more than useful and stays better than many were inclined to believe.

The success of Dearest (Soult — Lady Hester) in the Telegraph Handicap at Trentham on Saturday, and her subsequent disqualification owing to her rider (B. Deeley) not weighing in at the correct weight, caused some thing like a sensation in the sporting world. According to Wellington advices Deeley weighed out at 7.6, or lib over the 7.5 awarded Dearest, and when asked if he wished to declare, todk advantage of the 21b allowance, and declined to do so. On returning to scale after finishing first, Deeley weighed 7.7 2oz, and there was no other option but to distance Dearest, and to award tne race to Nyland. It is said that many people did not know of the occurrence until after reaching Wellington from Trentham, and many tickets held on the third horse, Culprit, who was afterwards placed second, were thrown away. The unplaced performance for which Prince Soult was responsible undoubtedly constituted the surprise in connection with the Wellington Stakes The son of Soult was reported to have acquitted himself well in his training work at Trentham, and sanguine hopes were entertained that he would put up a strong fight in the struggle for supremacy. However, he was apparently never in a position to dispute matters with the leaders when it came to real busines?. It is hard to believe that the Prince Soult that ran at Trentham on Monday was the same colt that finished so brilliantly in the decision of the Royal Stakes at Ellersliu on the 2nd inst.