SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

Mr D, Page’s Morning Star and tho Perkin Warbeck colt (imported) have been taken in hand for the coming meetings, and are in charge of Fred Carrington. After the spell the Star has had he should come out very pink. The youngster gives great promise of speed, and we hope their owner will reap the reward his pluck deserves. There is a rumor afloat that some arrangement will be come to by which the two race meetings, now the tapvi, will not clash one with the other. It is also said that for the future all rivalry will cease, and that Makaraka will have its races on the Queen’s Birthday and Wacreuga-a-hikaon the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. The celebrated Hungarian mare Kincsem has been suffering from a virulent form of glanders, and it is reported that her owner has been compelled to shoot her. “ Hippona ” says ; I am given to understand that at Napier Rubina’s owner (Mr M. H. Smith) offered to run his filly against Epicure for £5OO, the match to take place in a month’s time, but it met with no response. It will be remembered that the latter beat Rubina in the Nursery Handicap at the Napier Races, owing, it is said, to the daughter of Kingsborough being a bit off. THE MAKARAKA RACE-COURSE. TO THE SPORTING EDITOR, Sir,—l would willingly put down my re. quired guinea if I saw the good of it, in order to exercise my horse on the above course, but I fail to see why I should do so when the course is allowed to remain as at present. A man might just as well train on the highway as on the course, for the latter is equally as hard as the former. Something should be done to get the track in order, and that without delay.—l am, &c., An Intending Subscriber. [per united prhss association]. AUCKLAND, April 7The case George Rowland v. Mrs Smith, the widow of the late John Smith, racehorse owner, claim for £l,OOO damages for defamation, to have been heard at the present sessions of the Supreme Court, was settled by defendant paying £9O. Mrs Smith accused Rowland, her husband’s trainer of selling a race.