SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 7

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. Apri, 6, B—Auckland8 —Auckland Racing Club. April 6, B—iWairarapa Racing Club. April B—Patea Racing Club. April 8, 9—Canterbury Jockey Club. April 8, 9—Feilding Jockey Club. April 17, 20—Wellington Racing Club. COMING EVENTS. April 6—A.RC. Easter H«:idicap. April B—Great Easter Handicap. April B—Feilding Cup. April 9—Great Autumn Handicap. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa "). A.R.C. Easter Handicap to-day. Patea races on Easter Monday. Canterbury and Feilding races on Monday and Tuesday. Lady Medallist is top-weight in the Doncaster Handicap, to be run to-day. Beeline passed through New Plymouth on Friday en route for Auckland. C. Jenkins will have the - mount on Boanerges in the Easter Handicap, and the horse is in great nick. Golden Loop and Master Sylvia have plenty of weight in their engagements at Tauherinikau to-day. Although loaded with 9.6, Undecided will have plenty of .backers, in the Feilding Cup on Monday. IW. Young will ride Culprit and Los Angelos, and E. Lowe Royal Scotch and Midnight Sun in the "double" at Ricearton next week. Gay Lawless ran well at Opaki, and is due to win a race at any moment. It is reported that H. Telford will pilot Dearest, and F. E. Jones Gipsy Belle in their Canterbury engagements. Silva has run some decent races this season, and it will be interesting to note how the Hawera horse shapes in open company at Feilding. The Australian Jockey Club's autumn meeting will open to-day. Amongst the hurdlers weighted are Continuance 11.10, Pakau 10.10, Seldom 10.4, and Hautapu 10.2. If that quartette started on this side of the Tasman the top-weight would cake.-walk it. 'lreland and Obsono are engaged in the High-weight Handicap, run over six furlongs, at the same meeting. Both horses can carve the distance out in smart time and should show up at the finish. Crown Pearl has been responsible for several good gallops recently, but has not shown Easter Handicap" form yet. Jockey O'Shea will ride the Taranaki horse to-day. Mr. Jervis George will probably raes Duro, a four-year-old chestnut gelding, by St. Clements from Durus, on the second day of the Auckland meeting. Duro is said to be one of the useful sort. On the strength of Wanganui running, Lady Volga will have supporters for the sprints at Feilding. The filly was reported to have cut. out six furlongs in 1.16 before racing at the Wanganui meeting. The Sydney Cup, two miles, will come up for decision on Monday. Gunboat is engaged with Bst., and Lady Medallist has 9st. The mare has never won beyond a mile and a-half in this country, and quite recently has been raced over much shorter distances. It is quite on the cards that she will win a race at the meeting, but it will most likely be in one of the minor weight-for-age events. Rahani ran nicely in the Hack Scurry at Masterton, and* her connections expect her to do better in the Trial Stakes at Tauherinikau. Khamsin wins occasionally, but appears to always be well treated. The Wellington horse is in good heart for the Wairarapa meeting. Prince Soult is on the tracks again;, but has not worked pelae-'™!--. ' V\:i' for the colt's recent illness what a moral the Great Northern Champagne Stakes would have been! Direotoire has found her class. The disappointing daughter of Wairiki man-' aged.to win the Winter Oats at Invercargill last week. Some fine sprinters will measure strides in the Mangaone Stakes at Feilding. With GLidiole, Labor Day and St. Toney at the head of the handicap the field wants nothing as regards quality. Royal .Scotch seems likely to start a very, warm favorite for the* C.J .C. Great Easter Handicap, and the long straight at Riccarton should suit him well. Those who saw the black horse galloping over the top of Ermengarde at the finish of the Jackson Stakes—which race was run in I.l3—cannot see anything, to beat him. " Now .that Los Angelas is back to form the Stead Brothers can look to getting the horse's purchase-mon«y back very soon. The Canterbury horse will be up against Bronze and Dearest in the. Great Autumn Handicap, but he carries weight well and may fee expected to put up a sterling battle. Handicapper Morse has a high opinion of Ngatiruanui, and when h> placed the hoTse at the head of the list for thei Nelson Handicap at Ellerslie it was quite certain that his Taranaki owner would not send him north. Jack Delaval is reported to be going well and should run prominently at Ellerslie. A Palmerston scribe states that Ermengarde and Bronze were looking bright and well before leaving Awapuni, and the Highden pair should shaKe things up at Riccarton next week. Autummus has been rat ling along in good style lately, and the meeting between Clifford's two-year-Hd and Ermengarde should be worth going a long way to see. Ohauvelin won the Ballarat Cup last month. The son of Soult was sent out a good favorite, and scored easily at the right end. I The hurdle races at Riccarton have drawn few entries, and of the four) horses weighted for the first day's race I two of the-m will run in one nomination —tfliat 'of M"r. St. J. Buckley. '' No doubt a fair number of Taranaki' sports will take a run down to Patea on Monday. The absence of the totalisator wilj take most of the "ginger" out of the gathering, but small sweepstakes will provide mild excitement for those who like to risk their money. After the recent spell of fine weather the course should be in good order. Zante, Red Coral and Nukuatu look the best of the poor lot engaged at the meeting.