SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 12 June 1912, Page 7

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. j (By "Moturoa.") !. Te Roti has been sold to a patron of . Trainer G. Delaney, and will join Strategist and Co. at Feilding. Sydney papers show that Captain Bell has started twice on the other side, being well backed each time, but shaped badly. So far Reumac has not been given a run. The ex-New Plymouth trainer, H. Eva, has fallen on his feet."' His team iat Awapuni includes Gladiole, Monologue, Windage, Roselethe, Highden, Uhlando and a couple of promising two-year-olds. Antarctic has thrown off the soreness which prevented hira from being at his best at the Wanganui meeting, and is now a regular attendant on the Wanganui tracks. He was jumped on. Friday morning and went well, Advices from Napier state that Woolloomoo'loo is suffering from a bruised heel and will not be seen at his best for some considerable time. The veteran Merriwa is doing good schooling work at • the Park. Old Sol, who broke down in the Great I Northern Steeplechase, was making his \ seventh appearance in that race. He j won in IflOfi. j The indifferent form shown by Okaihau in the Grand Northern Steeplechase is accounted for by the fact that some evilly-disposed individual let the horse out of his stall and turned him into a paddock of long feed the night previous to the race. A northern scribe picks the Taranaki horse Zante to win a good steeplechase . this winter. I Despite marked attention by the club's handicapper, Black Northern will be amongst the runners at the Hawke's Bay meeting next week. Tagalie, winner of the Epsom Derby, is a grey mare by the successful Cyliene out of Tagale, a French-bred mare by Le Sancy. The progeny of Cyliene have won four of the last eight races for the Derby. Of the sixty horses nominated for the New Zealand Cup just over two-thirds are owned in the North. Island. Onlv two, Prjnce Soult and Domino, hail ! from Auckland, hut Taranaki is represented by Royal Arms, Labor Day, and Shuja. The Hon. J. D. Ormond has nominated six. all sons of Birkenhead, the Greenwood stable shelters four aspirants, and Mr. Highden, Sir Geo. Clifford and Stead Bros, have each entered three candidates. There is the usual "rubbish" engaged, but the presence of Vice-Admiral, Bronze, Undecided, Counterfeit, Taskmaster, Masterpiece, Miscount and Domino invests the face with great interest.