SPORTING.

Shannon News, 16 November 1923, Page 2

SPORTING.

Nigger Minstrel, the full-brotlu v to Desert Gold, is one of the younj * still holding a place in the A -ekland Racing Club's 'Welcome Stakes. Musketoon, which prevailed in the principal race .:;'(■ the Gisbornc voting, is an English-bred four-yetu old colt bv Steadfast from Musk. Ball'ymena has been lame sine/- hi:; return from Sydney. It is the •;' '- that the trouble is due-to a fall o" the Wellington wharf. He,.-however, is lienrlv all right, again. ■ Mr. F. W. Marks, probably th< 'l'l- - clerk of the scales in New Ze: ' 'd. recently resigned his position vrit'i the T-'fej'puna .Te.-key Club. At a me" 1 I '. r -- of the committee the resignation ■

accepted with regret, and the f-",er-ance brought about a reeognitie • a substantial character from the '-''ib. A well-known Sydney writer i; _ °" ; the opinion that Maid of the ? r: st, which won the Caulfield Stakes s' ' llf> recent V.A.T.C. meeting, will pro! My follow in the footsteps of Desert and .win n.anv wcigkt-for-age r-"cs. Both arc by All Black, which avs' -inported to New Zealand by Mr, 1' -1. Watt. Maid of the Mist is in the Melbourne Cup, but will probably f-re-go that engagement in view of wel^ht-

for-age races. A remarkable point in connection with Mr. August Belmont's proposition for an American-British-French threecornered match is that Mr. Belmont himself bred not only Tracery, the sire' of Papyrus, but. also Epine Blanche, the dam ..of the French crack, Epiimrd, so that if -the. march actually took place he would have more than it pawing interest in the champions of all three countries.