BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 5

BITS OF TURF.

The name of the pony Locket appears among the entries for the Welter Handicap at the A. U.C. Autumn Meeting. Let us hope the Metropolitan Club does not set such an example to their smaller brethren as to drive the proverbial “ coach-and-four ” through the rules. Hilda’s victory in the Napier Park Cup on Wednesday shows that she is nob the over-rated mare many of us were thinking a short while ago. She had 9st 51b in the saddle. We will probably see the mare record an equally good performance in one of the events at our forthcoming Autumn Meeting. Chain Shot is in slow work again at Riccarton, but it is thought the best of him as a racer has already been seen. The names of the New Zealand-owned Tibokowaru and Escutcheon appear among the general entries for the A. J.C. Easter Meeting. Puschka has been entered for the Selling Race. Dispute, who performed so well at the Dunedin Anniversary Meeting, is a four-year-old son of Lothair and Mysie Happer. He was bred in Australia. Says the writer of Riccarton gossip in the “ New Zealand Referee “ It appears to me that during the last two or three years the brilliancy of the New Zealand-bred racer has done more to imbue Australians with the true caiibre of the Southern colony than legislation and commerce rolled into one. I also suspect that Nordenfeldt will be very little inferior to his defunct sire as a producer of quality in racehorses. Some of the Nordenfeldts now owned in Canterbury will certainly prove good racers, and like the Muskets they will race more brilliantly a 3 three than as two-year-olds.''