SPORTING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3720, 13 October 1906, Page 3

SPORTING.

Racing at Otski. |By Early Bird.] The Otaki Racing Club evidently intended that there would be no cause for complaint when they appointed Messrs Hartgill judge, and Cameron starter at their late meeting. As usual both these gentlemen officiated with credit to themselves. The Maori is easily offended, and hence it was that the local printing office was ignored in the matter of printing the correct card. Rumour has it that the Otaki Mail has been talking too straight to some of those oneeyed sports down that way, and hence the printing account was transacted away from Otaki. Sounds rather tough, eh? Tilley and Prosser got the best cut out of the prize-money offered. The former’s charges won on four occasions out of as many starts, while Prosser’s horses were returned winners on three occasions. W.. Price rode five winners at the gathering, and Jenkins three. There were some great finishes the first day and Judge Hartgill was called upon to keep his best eye open. Perhaps the race between Pawa and Hydroscope was the closest and most exciting ever witnessed at Otaki. They raced almost locked together the whole distance, and at the finish Pawa only got there by the smallest of margins. Winners were easily picked the first day, with perhaps one exception, the Steward’s Hack. It is said that big commissions were worked on three different horses and that neither of the three got first or second. Lord Soult and Kai Errin left a lot of sorrowing sports thinking hard when they failed the second day. It is high time the latter was reserved for Orbua Bridge and Potoa meetings, as he may win there. After his good showing the first day, it is only natural that his connections should think hard of him when he let them down the second day. A dog at his best, he may win when least expected. The bookmakers would have done no good at balancing. On the first day every winner, bar one, was supported heavily away from the course. D’Nil soon struck form. He

ran almost last at Wanganui, and in the face of that fact, people went frantic to back him down to level money at Otaki, and he donkey-licked a fair field. Strange this racing game, isn’t it. Saga, the Maiden winner, is a good sort, and must go on winning when placed well. Take note of this, as this Soult horse won in a ridiculously easy canter. Rosegrove is another nag which shows extraordinary pace, while Sherlock Holmes showed a large amount of pace when he cut the six furlongs in a little over r. 15 the first-day. Tone Messena's Waipaku, registered a third the second day, and bids fair to catch the judge’s eye shortly. Furneaux showed no pace whatever in his only engagement. Mr A, Daing’s successful racing mare Lass-o’-Garrie, dropped a colt foal to Advance at Duncan’s Waikanae stud farm on labour Day. The youngster takes considerably after the dam being brown in colour. He has a white star on forehead, and as he bids fair to be muscular with plenty of bone, it should not be out of place to assume that the new arrival will turn out a smasher on the racing track. Mr Daing, who visited the mare and foal on Thursday, informs me that the mare had a bad ; time during the foaling and it is well she was in such capable hands as Stud Groom Harper’s, otherwise she may have been los:. Old Lass will be put to the Waikanae | stud farm imported horse Kilcheran this season. Kilcheran is credited with running six furlongs in 1.11 in his turf career, and as I,ass-o’- 1 Gowrie was much better than a I good,one, we may reasonably ex- 1 pect the offspring to sustain the reputations of both dam and sire.