SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 July 1920, Page 4

SPORTING.

Luke lias almost recovered from his soreness, and-with Fisher and Wirokin'o will be taken to the Wellington meeting. The proposal for a match between the racehorses Amythas and Arrowsmith is. non likely to get any further than talk, says the “Lyttelton Times. - -Mr 11. W. Brown, the owner of Arrowsmith, has sound reason for wishing the match to take lilacc this month seeing that he is about to leave for a trip to .England. Neither horse, however, could be at his best so early, but from this point of view runythas would be in much the worse position, as h; has been enjoying a spell for a fe. weeks, whereas Arrowsmith, thoug not in active commission, is exercise daily and could be go ready luucl sooner than his rival. A match between this pair would be a great draw, and the pity is that there seems no chance of it taking place. T. Quinlivan has severed his connec tioti with Mrs Perry's stables, and has set up as a free lance at Hastings, where he hus Pente (the full sister.to l(ato), a rising two-year-old by Wor:,wa —La Nolte,.and a colt of tho same -i go by Woluwa —Float, under bis charge. It is the intention of ti e Hawke's Bay trainer to have a short [ holiday before starting in earnest ; again. ! All hope has not yet been abandoned in regard to the Boniform gelding. Eligible, again carrying silk, and, according to a Hawke's Bay writer, the bay gelding may figure as a contesta; tu a cross-country event before long. Eligible, who is rising eight years old, went amiss early in Lite spring of 1!H i and he has not, I fancy, contested t race in the interval. According to advices to hand It" Hawke's Bay. there seems to be prospect of !~sisauo! racing again who the spring meetings come round, and it js by no means unlikely that tae veteran will be given an opportunity 1,, vv iix further honours in the New Zealand Cup. llarry Hasher, the cheery Irish owner-trainer-rider, tells some good stories of experiences at the smalt jumping meetings in his native lane. Usslier was strolling about the paddock at one of these meetings, when a typical farmer type eaine up am' asked Usslier if he would ride a how in the next, ’chase, llarry consented, and was given the- explicit instruction that he must dig the spurs in hard, when he wanted to take off at a fence. On the way to the post Usshcr though: he might take a feeler at his mount ’a ability by putting him at a fence as an eye-opener. The horse, however, never roso a yard, and both canto a cropper. When they had sorted themselves out, the farmer rushed up and helped the famous amateur back into the saddle, pointedly asking whether Usslier had done what ho was told. As a matter of fact, he had not, but lie took jolly good care io do so con sistently in the race, and won easilyOn his return to the paddock ho thought -he would ask the owner why such-a facile lepper needed the spur’ when he took off. “Well, you see, the old chap is stone blind, and he only knows that he is wanted to jump by the signal you give him,’’ was _the naive answer, and no wonder Usslier collapsed! Hector Gray, who for mpuy years resided in New Plymouth, has forsaken the Taranaki capital and gone to reside at Remuern. It is stated that L. 11. Hewitt is about to leave New Zealand to settle in India or England. Brunswick is to join F. Higgott’s team at Otaki, but as he cannot get passage by boat he is to be walked from Gisborne to Napier and there entrain for Otaki. Sir James Carroll has a promising yearling filly by Kilbroney—Taringamutu, which will probably be seen with the colours up next season. The dam was well known in this district, where she ran many good races.