SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 1 August 1923, Page 3

SPORTING.

The sprinter, Royal Blood, was shipped to Australia last week. The leading jockey, M. MeCarten. will do some riding in 7..:.'if spring. The Te Kuiti Club’s share under tlie recent pooling system wus £909. The profit ou the 1922 meeting of the club was about £l9O- - value of the Wanganui Guineas hit' been reduced from 050 so vs. to 000 SO vs. anti 1._.. v ,„„ a »»vi SO V-s, to -100. [ Owing to their non-success in the j past, both steeplechases have been deleted from the spring meeting at Wan-j gauui. A jumper’s flat and a hack' handicap events have been substituted, i While the accident fee in New Zeu-i land was recently increased from 10s. tp £l. the Australian Jockey Club has reduced the contribution from horse owners from is. fid. .0 ss. Rhoboro. who won a double at the .South Canterbury Hunt meeting •# an aged chestnut gelding by Fannie Chief ' —Nolleen. He is a fine type of hunter being big and abb* to carry v--Fight, while lie stays welt. Rhoboro had uu previous experience on a racecourse, 'but had won three point-to-point st iM'pb-cliases. General Retainwithdrawal from tlie Grand National Steeplechase was ptobublv because his owner considers he would not see out. the three and nhalt miles journey. The opinion that he is better over a short journey is a]jo held by the httmlieopper. In the (baud National Genera! Retain was placed above Omaha, but over two mil." at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting the North Islander, who has won o face in the meantime, is receiving weight. The Beaufort Steeplechase, two and a-half miles, is the race that ihould suit Gfiiffir&j, ?*taiu bs«t,