SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 317, 16 January 1908, Page 3

SPORTING.

TL'RF TOPICS.

(By "Moturoa"). A press wire states that at a net, ing of the Auckland Racing Club cv .1 mittee last night a profit of t4i:S(i IBs ■ld was shown as having been mih on the recent summer meeting. Armlet's name was omitted from die, list of acceptances wired through for the Nursery Handicap at Wellington. The filly n iet to carry top-weight, 9st 61b. In to-day's issue the Welington I'onv and Galloway Racing Club advertise the programme /or their opening melting on Saturday, February 22nd. Six races figure on the card, the principal : event being the Miramar Cup, of 40 •ova., and the racing is confined to ponies measuring 14.3 or under. There are any number of good ponies in tho colony, and since the Auckland Racing Club struck out races for the liliputiiim they have become quite a drug on tho market. The course is situatcj .it Miramar, four and a-half milcj fr .111 Wellington, and on the site of the old trotting course. The first race stirta ■t 2 p.m., and the meeting will! no doubt attract a large gathering of sports J Bookmaker* will lay the field, and tl« secretarial duties fall on the shoulders of Mr P. V. Bigwood.