SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7994, 4 December 1905, Page 3

SPORTING.

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AUCKLAND TROTTIXG f MEETING. [nt nn association.] Accilixd, Norembcr 2. fte Trotting Club's Spring Meeting CMUaeaeed at Epsom to-day. BcautiMtrettliet pfertiled. The attendance vsi fair. The amount pnt through the totoHsator (in lOi tickets) was £2068. Scrolls:— Trial Trot Handicap, li miles.— Tataramaikn, It sees, 1; Minus, 15 see.-, ■3. Oliver scratched. Time, 4min 11 8-6 sees. Dividends, 17s and 17s. Suburb™ Trot Handicap, two miltp. —Weirj Willie, 38 sec*, 1. Harold AbdalUh, 16 sees, 2; The Autocrat. iU fee, 3. Time, smia li 1-i sees, Dividends, £1 15s and 17s. Pony Handicap, #1 furlongs.—Girton Girl, 9.5, 1; Solitary, B'3, 2 ; Hurihuri, 7.7,3. Time, 1 min 23 sees. Diridcnds, £1 3s and 14s. Mangero Trot Handicap; 1J miles.— ©eneral Election, 19 sees, 1; Geory, 21 see, 2; Empress, 16 sees, 3. Time, - 4mm I sees. Dividends, £2 4s nn<l tl 3s. Ladies' Bracelet Handicap Trot, li miles.—Minus, 27 sees, 1; Mucqufirrii • Ss sees, 2; Olive, 15 sees, 3. Time. 4 min, 17J sees. OiviJends, 18: i ond tA l is. Electric Trot Handicap, one nils Farewell 11., 15 sees, 1; Kiteomtea, icr., 2; Ma'«iuirrie, IS see., 3. Time, 3 min 394 sec.'. Dividend?, t- Ss "-ud 14s. Tramway Handicap, fire furlongs.— Girton Girl, 'J.7, 1; .Solit.irj, 7.11, 3; Mataora, 7.l'J, 3. Time, 1 min 5$ seer. / Onohunga Trot Handicap, li miles.— Harold Abdullah, 12 sees, 1; aitekauri, 6 lees, 2; Typewriter, 8 aces, 3. Time, 3 min 5V 2-5 sec<. Dividends, £1 7s and 13s. t RANDOM NOTBS. Jlnltifid mdeanienda for bis two aeeond* at Eliersli* by tieating a strong field la the Flying Handicap at Feilding on Wednesday. Tlk hamlfgom ton oI Multiform had a strong focal following, and backcra were - greatly elated at Uw price of tfeedi- ' vidaod. . , Ruatique race* most consistently. Tha black gehiiDg| was Juat bcatea by a neck by Multifid in the Flying Handioap. F. Davis bad tbe mount on Multi•d at Feildiiig. rHerolam and Full Cry again flniahijd. Ihe tlio. 'tU'twl divL ifcon In their engagements at 'l'abapuntL Full Q-y, was freli backed by local pootera fur tbe Spring Handicap on tbe avcund day. Conductor, winner of tho Cambria Handicap at '.Takapuaa. ia a balf brother to , Savour}-, by Cyrenian, of Ifelodia. The colt was aold Hur 550 guineas as a jmrling. Conia reported to iio the most WfTonumng cf the Auckland two-year-I old idivisioa. ' have been in circulation tbat the Mahaki mare Armistice, had not been show ng satisfactory form ia her track work. After hvr dual success at FeikHng there does aot appear to fcavd'been muck truth ia the riHnoura. Sol secured both jumping events at the Takapuna meeting. 'Tbe Soult , gelding has now a record of si» successive wins over obstacles. •'Whalebone" writes that ouu of tha meat phenomenal runs seen on a course for sonw tiiuo waa that put by Sol in <ke Maiden Ilunlle VBace. Aftar they had gone about I f niila ht seamed kopelessly out of it, bat layiag down to his work ia great sty la *e Cut down the leaden ia a couple o( furlongs, and going on won easily. A short time ago Bel waa ia tha market, and could have tocoa parekaaed at a very small Agure; but after his recant displays tt is doubtful il Ave times the _-*nx>un.t he waa offered tcr would ■ecurs bta> noWi la course of conversation Mr G. G. Stead informed a Southern writer that Sungod was nearly as good a colt aa Noctuiform, as gupgod was Improvlag svery roentti." W/m Btead had hopea of him turning By Ufl iVia !■ tbe St. Andrew's Handicap a£ Takapuna Geordie has tacnrred a Wb peaalty; for thu AucLand Cup whicb bringv his impost up to 7st 81b, Opotiki, a gU-year-oltl daughter oj Bt. Crispin, waa installed favourite for tho First l'ony Handicap at TaJLspuna. She lost several lengths at tbe barrier and never appeared dangwrousi -i The doulrfe event tote at Takapuna returned backors ot tha winning doukJp, and Miliie a diridend or £l7 ss. The invcstuienti show a ' l_ of £3930 compared with W last year's Oxtur*.

At the above ftxtura Bwin>mer fell at the last fence in ]the llakino StceplechaM when closely associates! with Sol, tfiua spoiling what, promIwxl to bo an sieiting)liui»h.

Landlock must bo considered an Unlucky horae. H» was made a -warm favourite for the Cautley Handicap on Tfturaday. When the barrier flew op he got tangled in the tapes and look no part in the raco. An Auckland paper says that I.ovelink's preserved in the Cheltenham Handicap last Saturday was due to M lc fact that his owners, Messrs WilBuuson and Currie, were laid the PRnn of £2t)o to nothing by a sport who held tho only tickvt in the double machine on the combination

Gcordic and Lovrlink. Quarryman's full brother, Kings Guest, won a race at the South Canterbury meeting last week. Golden; Vein and Stronghold ran [unsuccessfully at Feikiing this week. HJbc former was in great form thitf Egie lost season, Apjmn-ntlv hi- i» not fjuitc wound up jit. The Chokel/im- representative* for the A.U.C. Summer nuvting will 1« Quarrjman, Kierriomuir, (!av Ppark, Claachattan and To-Morrow. ' Lee Enfield, by Jfuaketry—Melusini, i* dhow ng better fcrm and may pick up a wo during the summer mooting*. Aurafus was nude a warm favjurito for the Manchester Handicap on Thursday Ho got « bad pasragv, getting a couple of bad l/ump:i «ud was Mhtcn half a mile from houxv

The Waitara IlHcing Club's annual mooting will Ixj held at Sentry Hill 08* t Thursday. Nominations close tc-day fur the "llonawatu Christmas mo-ting. Three accidents ocrurri-<i during th- Takapuim Jockey Club's Spring meeting on Thursday. The most s>*rfoua wa« during the running of the Stoeplechnw, in which the horse The f«U at the last Jump. Throwing tbu rider. \V Wilson, h<-av-.ll*, Wilson's left' collarbone was

fndly broken. Jn the Hurdle Race lssy Clare camo to grief, ami W OeebK wfao had the mount, rooeir-