SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 171, 18 January 1912, Page 7

SPORTING

TURF TOPICS.

(By "Moturoa.") The Wellington meeting opens on Sat' urday.

Old Corazon has been put into work again at Hastings. t Bridge shaped badly at Randwick last month, and appears to have lost all form.

Gold Circle has been scratched for all engagements at the* Wellington meeting. 1 Black Northern, who is engaged at Hawera next month, won the First Hurdles at Whangarei last week. The New Zealand-,bred horse, William, by Conqueror, is now racing in South' Australia, • '

Soultoria, who won the Takapuna Cup last year, is alleged to be favorite for the event again this month. The excellent form shown .by My Lawyer at Oamaru, where he won a double, suggests that the black horse, < has again touched top form. ' Another case 'of curing a roarer by ' operation is that of Expansion, who was at one time given up as a hopeless pro-' *' position, but now runs his races out in good style an<l promises to win a lew races before the' end of the season. Eiya is reported to be galloping well and is a certain starter at Foxton next Saturday. |

Th e last five starts, over junjps, of Mr. Foreman's horse Silva have resulted in two firsts, two seconds, and a third ■ The high-priced mare Perle D'Or' broke a leg last week, hut Efforts have been made to save l her for stud purposes. "Lucky" Greenwood must have had a day. off whten, he paid 2000gns ■2es at the St6ad dispersal

| Birkline has been galloping in great | style at Awapuni. One morning last , week he .broke the watches 'by cutting °ut a mile and a quarter in 2min 12sec, and in view -of his Wellington Cup engagement the Birkenhead geldirif's doings on the tracks at Trentham this week will be watched with interest. Monday night's meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Sporting i League was a great success. The attendance was very large, and the League secretary, Mr. A;'A. Paape, received: a warm welcome when he rose' to explain the objects of the League. He instanced the good work already done of the the preservation f the Basm Reserve" in Wellington for athletic purposes, the retention of the rowing club, sheds on Wellington fore- ™ f e^'\ a , S proof that tho 'League tion ou * tohe !P a "BP ort s witjiout exception. He denied that the League owed T that it waa th ® wo r kl "g of the tote to tta? ni 6r horse-racing and trotthe°'ra/^riCT 6r + Tr® eted representing the racing, trotting, amateur i athletic bowhng footballcricket, tennis, coursing boxing, acclimatisation, shooting fishing, hunting; polo aW golf clubs of Palmerston, so tfce kill-sports may no w iiT T° n he yarn about the Sportmng °. ut t0 dsT PhTOoS ? S pe comes :to New S 1 ' 1 !,, 1 \ a \ e no doubt that locaT sports will not be behind in the rush to- preserve all true sport-sport for the numbers warranted.