WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 4

WORLD OF SPORT.

IXU FIXTURES. RaSf, SJ. v-Uliurhl I'ohangiim H.C. Au WfSiuiA I .»iot Kl. Annual. £v?!ta 1 -»' i - »»»>** ltaJ ,C - iSUU " UI ' I >t .' . i. kauVa UC Annual. * -\ a i ..I ' HangitiV.il KC. Summer. ' \» I .■! ' Mr.itlur.l lit. Annual. .... I .u. i \\.urarapaK.t. Sunina-r " Jan. 1 ' ,Tiv -Meturoa'". •Moturo,"' W U.h« Wkw sports tfc .\woulinwnts of tke fwtive season and *- better Inr' in tlw Kew Year. ••* • ' .

' Elevation was b » <ll J r b» B, P e<l mt * start of the Palnieratoa Stakes t» Bat - urday, and seemed completely oiit of tht naming until Sid. Reid broaght luui x «tong with a great burst ami be got up I*' ia time to win by half a head. , . • t Sir Frievo, f who ran a second to EleTation at Awapuni, is a good cut of a '-, co»t,*and should pay his way later on. - -He ha* had the bad luck to suffer head ' defeats at the hands of a pair of good *uus, Dawn and Elevation, up to the present. # Papatawa, winner of the Highden Hick Hurdle* at the Maaawatu meeti_Ja*. b not non-eligible for the trial at Askhurst to-day.

S? - ' Talk about the racous voice of the L bookie—why. Paddy Flannigan's lovely t" tenor was sweeter than the band at the D, local meeting. R" The Palmerston Stake* introduced on Z* BaWfday Uiabolo, a two-year-old black 5h.~ eolt by Stepniak—Tortulla, owned by »' Mr i. Monk, and trained by J. l'rosscr at 'f*. Porirua. The colt hay *, good style of |l gaUoping, but ii rather green yet. w . • *

B-- The going was hard and fast at Awa- ''- ami om Saturday, and favorable to fast ff woe being, put up, saya the NX I Time*. £ several of the event, the 9t. Ume recorded by the official timekeeper 'i ' wre» lower than that of private watchjf holder*. The time for the Summer 11am- ™ 4 dicapper wan officially lmin «sec, al- * though it looked faster. Private watthI"' holder* gave lmin 41 1 ssec for the jourp- a«y. The Stakea, according to the dub's !H oßeial, took lmin U 3-s»ec. la fact t Beration ran the distanoa in slightly I ftater time. The official time for the If • Awapuai Handicap was lmin lasec, and W that of private watch-holder* lmin 14 Kr t^tee.

S ' Splendid Idea scored a comfortable |- via ia the Awapuni Handicap last Sat r nrtay. Running into the lead half a f Mfl« from home Alec WUson'fi little v m „„ „„, never afterward troubled. f, lord Ronlt cut down Ballarat in the h straight, but could make no imprewion C' «■ Bpleudi.l Idea. Dusky Morn, who f *"«*t rather a had passage, was fourth, I. • • *

The three-rear-ohl Merriwai ally Tru--naini nnUbed gamely in the Maiden i-ffrek Rare at Palmerston. Crncinella all over the winner at the di«>taßce. but Truganini fongh* ont every '. inch of the last hundred yards, and won km splendid race by a bare length.

? The bookmakers were kept busy at :. Awapuni on Saturday last, and if the Latrenuow life keeps up they will seri- - oasly consider taking on shorthand.

" The Palmerston sportsman who gave ■' a i*Tl pr..e i«r JJuuvaM aller tut reihl-r-uig ttatiug was not long m picking up a f:r*re witu ihe Captain rteuo gewliag. won the Hack Welter in tuuy\Ouaag lasnion aad may be heard of J l*ier on.

B;:' Uunjetl cost Mi Stead 100 guineas as Hg£ yeaning, and won 3UW) guineas in Bj|«»fce money. Jly selling the hone for Hjwtt guineas the Canteruury sportsman Bfeti ttysed on a good, all-round inve»tK| Jnst before the last mail left England H|ie; progeny of Carbine w«re doing well. Bat Newcastle, Ulasis won the Stewards' BJ&Wrentice Plate, and Yellow Peril, who Hfpfce (-'Usis), is owned by Lord Derby, HKnfet •Riccessiu! in the Gatwick stake., BijF'MO wits handicap, run over a mile and. HftUfcalf. Vellow l'eril, who carried Itet HStfe won cully, whilst the favorite, Lacould oalv finish third. Carbine's Bfljfip' winner'was the three-year-oH flEifonbuTtl, who accounted for the Kepton at Binningham. Wellington Bating Uub received nominations lor the summer HSfctbg, there being a total of «*>, be- '" excess 01 last year's figures. Wellington Cup filled up witu 37 and tor the Summer liandicap been engaged. Ine latter to a record lor any eveat in the if the .Sew Zealand Cup be cxStead has selected the following lor his recent English purchases: colt by' I'arporlcy Maybud, bay hlly by Collar—Miss L'haf Dove; oay filly by Oriuc—llcy

lACEHOESE MJiIESCLATIKE. (By "llotmrea.") Ht •ball we name the horse; Tlii« jos baa puzzled many an owner in : gone by, and as tlie year, creep M ail the good old names, .ire Ed u)> the task become* inure and > difficult. The florae's uauie to a ttttent reflects upon the owner's ■tar, and if u neddy runs under a leogaoitten, its boes quietly aci the unenviable reputation of M a kink" or.beiug a bit wrong iu y.l Year after year abominable a tteep Into the" Tnrf Kegisttr Jt because eUipid persons don't care. §idoee it mattert There's nothing ■line," they say. They ju.t scratch Wds and say, -«» hj! call it any- ■ .yoiTiike," and then we open up ace-tards and hare-our intelligence ti bv reading such idiotic names losker, Batdy, Beer-tax. Booby. p t Bump, The Snesser, Tlie Ijmit. Option. Petticoat, Pram. Redshank. Jron lack. Sipylus, Water o' .Milk. What sort of brains, if any at all, be persons, whose imagination got igber than those awful epithets.: Mat consider the emptiness of the ,:wbo lalieiled a prad Nothing! ■awing of racehorses should lie # etudy, and where feasible a (ilerV name should give a hint a» l]Mreding. This is where the dittiMgoie* in. It is not sufficient te jb the name* of tie sire and dam K tin- compound on to the year Eg was dona with the colt by Ad-E*Forget-81-VBot. He was *inply Gffcnor, which signifies nothing HttgriMria' tie practice of namjHf jilr,. a Creek declension lie (d i... for instance, a wall-known ti l;.y owner, who should have i bett-r. ran bis stock off as E»n, tons. Kona. Eone. etc It won'.' [testing to know how many ptople larked Eos or Kone when they It they were following Eoua or EsJrypi<gTapbieal errors are freb such crises, and it is time the HPoJiicrenec took a kand in the KThcn again, the foolish habit of Ejfials as a name, as A.8.N., Rj.C.,. i etc. (Surely the way of K'fc hard enough already withHjka to worry ahont whether a Wff£. or A.X.8., or N'.A.B. ForHriiic days of long names have ■kiaTC no rThere-slie-goes-with-mgf"'«t "Billy-witli-a-bah-tail" Hpi* anv lnnger. Brevity finds ■Ewe find Ka. Rn. Sol. Tip. Tui. Eippellalion like a swearword, Iff* Register these days. Bt«f owners ha- -pnug up Bngancc is simply marvellous. to lbe nmnlier who think h a racehorse and their K»-. rhampion. (rriainty. Mo T)efy. Celerity. Rapid. IIB^'nntleil'ul. \i.tory. Sanguine. EM.Magnificent. Vhtorioiis. fMnry B)i. The bitter is a three-year-Kb* Kit Ik'ured iu cither the HTar <:. X. Derbiw. wl.i.b -eem-RL-hc might !»• -iid t" have ■Fvneiilion. r.ow.r down ;!,■ MLnrni- across th.. „.■-•. and Htfeetv who l;.lell.er. IVovn-ni-.i-;rr«i-. IVI-..1. 'f'recpinc ■'■' lie. WiMr> Mst Again. .f. II"enough to frighten H& And last of all we ».ino drink-. Iv.la Xip. Heir* Bli and Tangl-foot which awfully ,lry tjii- weait's rerv nearly teu ■p-B%nt!