SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8129, 8 June 1906, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. TBr " Motdboa." 1 , Gamp Fire, who started favorite for the Maiden Hack race at Otaki, is a three-year-old colt by Carbine, imported from England by Mr £. J. Watt.

Ku Ku, the winner uf the Hack Scurry, is one of Mr H. J. Prosser's earn, and is by Gold Leaf, from Martaerite, and therefore a half-brother to Boomerang, Martello did not show very consist: ent form at the Otaki meeting. Probably the going was the cause. On the first day the colt started a strong favorite in a mile hack race, and could only get third place, the time for the race being 1.18, but on the second day Royal Artillery's brother had no difficulty. in winning the big event, run over the same distance, cutting it out in 1.44, and paying the good dividend of 4s.

Bill Perkins (Perkin Warbeckll.— Kathleen) went to the post for the Provincial Handicap on the second day of the Dunedin meeting, but was afterwards treated as a non-starter, as the horse was injured through colliding with a buggy when going to the course. The injuries li iye since proved fatal. The own-: considered he had am excellent chance of winning this event, as the horse had run a good second in the Birthday Handicap on the previous day. He had also beeD offered £l5O for the horse two days previously.

As announced yesterday, Mr D O'Brien has had the misfortune to lose bis brood mare Grafin. Tl)c mare was touud dead in P. Solway's paddock at Bell Block on Monday morning. The cause of death is as yet unknown. Grafin was bred by the Hon. D. S. Wallace in 1893, by Carbine, dam I Loyal Peeress, by Tho Peer—Loyal Devoir (imp.) by Trumpeter. The | mare was best known as the dam of Heroism and Grenade.