SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 224, 10 February 1913, Page 7

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WANG AN T UI SClt ATCI [ I N(! S. (Per Press Association). YVangauui, Saturday. Los Angeles and Bon Ton have been scratched for all engagements at the Wanganui Jockey Club's meeting. WOODVILLE WEIGHTS. Woodville, Saturday. Following are the weights tor Uie first day of the Woodville Autumn, mceting: Hack Hurdles. —Kaunia 10.5, Full Rate 10.4. Kiya 10.4, Bracken 10.3, Sir Lethe 10.3, Aema 9.13, Princess Flo. 0.5, Gay Lawless 0,5, Park Tide 0.5, Buoyant 0.5, Bivinia 0.4. br. g. by The Ofl'ieer —Sou'wester mare 0.3, Te Awahan 0.3.. Royal Maid, 0.3. Overheard 0.3, Ngote 0.3, Rexer 0.3, Knutsford 0.0.

Whariti Hack. Expect 0.0, Black Lupin 5.0.. Overrate 8.5, Monologue 5.3, Alplieurt 7.13. Gerbera 7.12, Sir Daniel 7.7, Settler 7.7. Yladinov 7.0. Lady Nolan 7.5, Rongomai 0.13. Mediterranean 0.12. Lord Palmer fi.ll. liorsil 0.10, Top Note fi.o, Yankee Doodle 0.0. Miss Ziska O.S. Bayadere. 8.7. Reflect 0.8. Resonant (i.B. Elk Maid <>.7.

Woodville Handicap. Seatondale 0.0. Master Laddo 8.0, Maiiawakalia 8.0. Ladv Mnutoa 8.8, Mangaroa 8.1. Ariom 8.0. Bonnie Boy S.O. Pint iin-.i ion 7.11, Montreal 7.7, Rangitua 7.5, Longs'ep 7.5, Falsetto 7.1. Yhulinoy (1.7. County Hack. - - Black Lupin O.ti. Merton 0.0, Marimba 8.11. Alecto B.(i. Sura tura 8.0. Sylvia May 8.5. Eminent 8.4. Axis 7.0, Sir Saracen 7.0. Handsome Maid 7.0. No Idea 7.8. Sir Moutoa 7.7. Gen eral Madero 7.1. Lady Strowan 7.1, G.P, 0.13. Tnvicta 0.12.

President's Handicap. P.racken 0.5. Mount Victoria 8.13, Manitan 5.13,- Montreal 8.13. A seal on 8.12. British Afaitl S.ll. Lord Renown 8.0, TCauroa 8.8. Waipakn 8.8, "Ballv Shannon 8.0. Queen o' Soots 8.(1, Monologue 8.5.

Victoria Hack Handicap.—Wa.it.oto 0.8. Kurapotaii<*i 0.8. Strategist 0.8, Sii- Danid 0.8. Papamarama 0.8. Ttoval Patron 0.5, Settler 0.:"). Yladinoy 0.4. L'edloh 0.3 Hon noma i 8.1:1, Mediterranean 8.13, Be, gained 5.13, Whimper 8.12. Top Note 8.0. Taurauga 8.0. Lady Worry 8.0. Otama 8.8. Overheard 8.8, lluia (late Liberty) 8.8. Abcreoed 8.7.

Telephone Handicap. Sanguinary 0.0. Nanniai 8.8. Sinapis 8.8. Lord Possible 8.5, Mon Ami K.O. Vibration 7.12. Te 1 Kahauraimi 7.0, ll.oronia 7.8. YVaionni 7.4. War Queen 7.3. Tucuru (i.lfl. Merton'li.lO. Sylvia May (i.7.

: ■ TURI? TOPICS. Illy "Moturoa."). The Taranaki Cup corner up for decision on Wednesday, and' at present the "'pickers'' are indulging in a little brain ■exercise endeavouring to solve' the eternal problem.* As a follower of "form" this scribe cannot see far beyond Undecided. The bay trebling's comfortable. - victory in the Kgraont Cup has brought him right into the limelight, and his opponents have dropped back, more or less, into oblivion. Undecided '.Will'have an extra stone oil his back on Wednesday, but the Taranaki Cup minimum weight is "lbs above the corresponding event at TTawera. Labor Day was not favoured with the best of runs last week and "should run closer up than fourth on Wednesday. Sea Queen did not .tret away any too well in the Atkinson' Memorial Handicap on Thursday, but van up to. third place at the finish. Site-is a better mare over a mile and a quarter than over the longer distance. At Hawera she loked very well, and she may be worth remembering for the second day at New Plymouth. Dearest finished well over short courses last week, but she appears to have rather more than her desserts in the Taranaki Cup. Mendip and Manawakaha shaped poorly at TTawera. but; there was not much money for (hem there. The new element in the local' event includes ?>yron. Elec- : trakolT and Tiresome—a trio of fair horses. The Cup should be a good race and training operations should be keenly watched <|tirin<r the next few. day*. Noticeable at TTawera last week, the great, number of motor cars. Behind the grandstand the array of benzinewaggons represented many thousands of pounds. Taking the crowd 011 the lawn as a whole it was not such a fashionable or dressy lot as seen out at. New Plymouth. Our TTawera friends don't put,, on. as .much side as one would imagine. considering that even the railway trucks bound for that town are chalked -Tfaw." Seldom Fed. -a runner in ilie Maiden Scurry on Thursday, is hardly an elecrantlv named prad. Tt is to be hoped, for the horse's -ake, that he picks up a 1 Winter's Oats Handicap before the season closes. The fat. sombre-looking individual in the corner seat glared fiercely as ilie race crowd struggled in and filled no every vacant sit-npon. Tie turned back disgusicd to his )>a|)"r and read for a spell. Then he picked "Mntty" out as n nice. lame, respectablelooking kill-sport and remarked. ''The newspapers are simply full of horse-racing in Ihis province." "Yes." T replied, ''and the most shoekinsf ihing of nil is (hat (lie "killiov" uaiiers nro lb" very ones which publish—naked and unashamed—the TiATCTC results! "The stout person sighed heavily and went back to his reading.