SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 31 August 1908, Page 2

SPORTING.

A USTR ALI AX RACIN G. Received 30, 8.1 [l,lll. * Sydney, Lust Niylit. Frederick won the Moorlteld Flying Handicap, beating Will Maiiton by a hi'iul.

TURF TORI'S. (li.V "Moturoa.") It is considered likely that Gold Crest will visit Australia this spring. Charles] Jenkins will accompany the Hying chest-1 nut. Elysium, the two-year-old colt by ■Soult—-Dreamland, is sitid to be very smart, and will sport silk at Avondale. ■Sceptre's lirst foal ran disappointingly ill the Fulborne Stakes at Newmarket last month. Being by a :iO,OOO-guinea sire from a £25,0110 mare, she was expected to do great things; but how many of the high-priced 'tins turn out wasters!

Auckland papers repeatedly report that the Tauriki case is still being inquired into. The latest is that "the whole matter will be probed to the bottom." The inquiry lias been on the boards for a long while now, and tiie promised sensational developments are still in the background. Tauriki is reported to be under offer to Mr. A. Rhodes, and the protracted inquiry leads one to the opinion that either the matter will take a deal of "probing to the bottom" or hasn't a bottom at all.

Quity; a number of local horses will be seen out at Marton on Wednesday ami Thursday. Bob Barlow takes down Supplement and Kura; P. Eva, Glenulliii and Sylvan Park; J. O'Driscoll, Bagatelle and Recreation"; and "Jervy" George will be represented by Kawinia, Ney, Waihuka, and Durability. Canterbury sportsmen arc very sweet on Bonny Glen for the New Zealand Cup. He' is said to be going great guns at present; but November is a long way oil', and the unsoundness which troubled him-last season may reappear when solid preparation for the big two-mile event is entered upon. J. Hay, who was at one time with P. O'Meara at Tc Mahaiiga station, has been appointed private trainer to Mr. (!. F. Moore. With Dusky Morn, Catapult, Guiding Step, Koran, Carissima, a full brother to Sammy, n pair of three-year-olds by Chasseur and Nestor respectively, and a full brother to Sammy in the stable Hay has a fine lot to look after. ' Jlr. S. Messena left Longbum for Wellington on Thursday, taking with him Motoa, who has been sold to a Sydney sportsman for £IOOO. The horse will he shipped to Sydney immediately. The following weights fiaVe been declared by Mr. Morse for the Horowhenua Cup:—All Bed 0.0, Sir Frisco 8.0, Loiret 7.18, Maharanui, Llanwern, and Comedian 7.7, San Fernando 7.1), Saga 7..j, Mussel 7.3, Rendrock 7.2, Silken Rem G. 13.

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