SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 September 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

RACING- IN AUSTRALIA. J EXCITING GALLOP BY MARANUI. Received 10th, 0.40 p.m. Sydney, September 10. Mr D. O'Brien's Marauui, with a light weight up, created some exeitement by' the manner in which he ran a "mile in l-4:ii/,<«ii,. Th o f lrst hsilf mile wis covered in .W'/.sce. Ho narrowly cscan-c-rl injury through a mistake in taking the hurdle course. An obstacle was removed just in the nick of time. '

. A private letter received in New Plymouth from Mr. 1). O'Brien states Hut he lias entered Maranui for two races to be run „i, nth Septenil; ■■■-. All his horses are doing well in theii work _ .Subterranean (late Submarine), who lor some time occupied a box in M McGrath's stable, chang,d hands in Melbourne a few dnys ago, but is to stay under ]). Price's charge Penalties are attached (o the condition, „f the x,.w Zealand r , ]mt u is provided that no horse shall be penalised above w.-ight-for-age. The Australian .Jockey Hub is in the liappy position of having somcthin- like i'."ifl,Uoo in cash reserves.