SPORTING.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1918, Page 4

SPORTING.

" ; " : " r FIXTURES. : , October 17, Racing Club, October 19—Auckland Trotting Glut). October 24, 25—Poverty Bay ; Turr ' Club. October 26, 28 —Wellington Racing Club. October 28 —Waverley-Waßotara Racing Club. Nov. 2, 6 —Avondale Racing Club. Nov. 9 —Auckland Racing Club. Nov. 30—Takapuna Jockey Club. Dec. 26, 27—Manawatu Racing Club. Dec. 26, 28, Jan. I—Auckland Racing Club. Dec, 27, 30, Jan. 2—Auckland Trotting Club. Jan. 29, Feb. I—Takapuna Jockey Club. NOTES. ' (By “Equitas.”) Bagdad has been scratched for the New Zealand Cup. Desert Gold, Estlahd, and Finmark are still in the Melbourne Cup, although Kilhope and Killowen have been withdrawn. Miss De Val is to be retired to the stud. Her first mate will be Hymettus. Gloaming has has been awarded 8.13 in the Stewards’ Handicap, which is 141 b above weight for age. Estland’s win in Australia on Saturday was the first since he won at Wanganui in February last. Gloaming, Finmark, Kilmoon, and Almoner are engaged in the Great Northern Derby. Cetigne is now second on the lisT of winning horses in Australasia, his win in the Craven Plate increasing his earnings to £22,700. A three-year-old has not won the Stewards’ Handicap for five "years. Warstep was the last of that age to win the race. There are 12 3-year-olds engaged this year. The only previous winner of the Stewards’ Handicap engaged this yesfr is Croesus, who won three years ago, A Christchurch writer' spates that Mr, J, B. Reid has decided, owing to continued ill-health, to dispose of his Elderslie stud early next year. This news will be received with regret throughout New Zealand, for the disposal of the stud will be a distinct loss to the breeding industry in the Dominion. Writing of the’ favourite for the Caulfield Cup a Victorian writer says:

Walking about quietly. King Off* appears an ordinary typo, of horse, exoejrt for klv length, «xteuded he represents the BnglisH thoroughbred. King O-ta nT a smooth galloper, and when averaging 13* to the furlong with shoes on in his track work moves as if the effort does not cost him undue exertion. No horse of recent years has impressed those who attend the Flemington tracks more favourably than does the Caulfiet® Cup favourite.