SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 22 May 1922, Page 2

SPORTING.

Oalmn has been withdraw n from the steep.iv..asc "s at Ulaki, not being eligible to stall. Mr L. Penman is at present having built an additional number of looseboxes. and quartets for liis men. Gobi i’looiein was tile most, succcsslut oi lue i.evin nurses at the Meat Coast. It an gees well it is the intention oi Mr Yuille to niuke the teau itip agu.n at Cbristiuas tune. ."-ban Iseid, me .xew Zealand be r-e--oi.in, lode iici good whiners in i.'opeua uii.i l ais.ao ai Caullieid tit< out - lv. Held is li av iraiuitig Chrysostom, oi Guaiiieid. Tltetc seems to be a very moderate lot nominated in the steeplechase at Otaki, and Ngukauiii, who tan ,-eci t.d iii the W anganui Steeples yestei Tty, seems to have more than an e.wi cbance ii be stans on June J. A Sv-uiny wider expresses the ep'ittoti ilia; 1 igiibia will prove die best of the team take nto .Australia by 1. ,M. Cameinii. ihe Hawke's Bay trainer. orchid .Absurd—Giodioli; should account lot one ol the spoilt events at t itakt. The son ol Absurd shaped promisingly at Wanganui. Sir George Clifford lias sold the three-year-old liliy, Dame Siraigibi.tee to Mr 11. Cassidy, the Cauteruiiry owner. Kuto d'oreiuost-Cornet mate . lull bt other io fortify, the latter a wni'ier of several good handieaps a lew \ cat's bark, was offered lo u Levin trainer twelve months ago for .£75, but 'he offer was untied down. Since then Kato lias won three races and ran two seconds and two Hurds, and should rank as a top-notch steeplechaser ntxi season. The Wanganui first day lute investments tell in £.'27,220 as compared with £72.0111) on the cot responding uuy last year. Coalition, the winner ol two Grand National Steeplechases, stalled in the Wanganui Steeplechase mi Thursday and finished hiunh. He had a load oi 12.12 mi lbs back. \Y. D. ".Maggot" Young. well known in I.evin. imie Wlii/.z Bung to victory in the Kailuke Hurdles .it W.i ngantii. I'll,it good one. Mu | qneteii | . was jo-t pipped a head bv Priniemps in the big race at Wanganui on ’.lie hist day. Ahiku, h► riueriy owned in wen. bad a win at the Marlboroiiph meeti. g after a long list oi "ouis," and letuined a. hatful. Income ha-- won £2655 this season for firis and four seconds. It. Ilaieli lias given up training and is taking to the pigskin again. The hurdler Orane. who won at Levin and several other meetings the season before- last, I- now own-til by Mr Whiteman, "I Masterton. and is being stained by It. Hands. The buying of yearlings is lucky—or otherwise, body Glaneiv. the English sportsman, purchased three yearlings at -'ilOOgs. 11 ..'lOOgs and 1 ■l.bO'Jgs. They have won three races h.dwcen them, of the value of £ll7.