AUCKLAND TOPICS.
By Taiho*.
Feoruary 17.
Glancing over the list of the horses r» maining in the Nortl.ern Champagne Stakes and Great Northern O«k=, one fails lo locate what maj be teiined a " crack " in either race, to "that good field* may be expected in both when «,he ARC autumn meeting comes round In the Champagne Stakes several outside owners are represented and 1 of the local division I take the be s t to be Geneial Soult and Master Soult. Celtic, who -went off the scene in the spring owing to a severe attack of influenza, is again in training, but does not appear to have built up much since his three-year-old day«.
The Phoebus— Apollo gelding Delegate haf been schooled over the small sticks, an«t promises to take kfcidly to the illegitimate game. As far as conformation goes, Delegate is just the stamp for a jumper. The pony Inspiration has been sold to a Wellington" sportsman, and the daughter of Freedom was shipped to her new home - v day or two ago. That there is reason to oeheve that the sport of kincs is not quite as clean at thia end of the Dominion as might be wished, may be gathered from the fact that inquiries touching the running of horses are being heM by the Takapuna Jockey Club, Auckland Trotting Club. Whangarei Racing Club, and Ngaruawahia Racing Club
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 55
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231AUCKLAND TOPICS. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 55
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