SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 297, 8 May 1913, Page 7

SPORTING.

• ■■■r-qrv PJEP: TOPICS. " • " ' " •"•''■ .-°( By "jife'turoa.")'' - ■ should appear on V ,') .1...U1 ~. -i ",-,:-■■ i,le Vfi o.VSW.to.Le,a few t.AsliJijirtpn-i to.i(|a.y. ; ,; 1(1 u i ~-j ,- ,wcnt wuiss. a;t .Timaru, but ie.4£ou.ble ;fl isi not- considered serious. The Great Northern "wimijer ~]Jay tere in good nie.k ani should pay Jjia ay this winter. One o f who on a race at Timaru, is u'mere"chicken ; nine years. —,»- On Friday the Ilawke's Bay Metropolitn C6Wfflatitei: , en<iafff ( r^ ; '!ic<!i'on of le Woodville Racing Club in suspend,-ig-M'. Mebdliald for six months. 'horses "start-. 1 in-; nine faces'-at ! B!<ffiie'im; lift only ' wed «ae-'f!r'sb , 'hn"d two" s'ecojids. Styx nil Stcjinlfi-mt pr6iijika big> things''in. le ■'■ spring, shaped '.like; th'e'neddy that as beiWirfrf for' tlie boiffng-'down .works. L.' Wilsoi'i'is'Vepo'rtdd to be ifeidrnVig a- ! Wp"to : Japan this winir. Modest youth! An : ' Auckland paper states that Goldz'c li'ifs-'be'e'h- : turried/ouf for a lengthy lell. n Lucky, Ijeggil);'! ■■ Money in ! horses! ' 'The 514 yearlings )ld at the recent Sydney sales brought u aggregate, .pf f7s,<K>7, which runs .it .to an average of £l47—if my arithetic hasn't developed unsoundness. A dozen have been paid up for in the shburton'Cup,'one mile and a quarter, ikl. on Timaru form, Bulletin reads as ell as anything. Tt goes without sayig that the horse, like tlie red-page eekly of the same name, is always a arm favorite. An exchange reckons that a one-time ailing., jockey is making strenuous ef- , >rts. to form a jockey's union in the lominion. That will be something ew, though a jockeys' "ring" was not nknown in these parts a couple of jasons back. Peg and Pilgrim's Way will incut on ;vel terms in the (hove Farm Handiip at Ashlmrton, and the result will sttle a few arguments' as to the'to, pective ability of the two speedy sprint= rs. En passant, as the novelleteuilders say. it'is a strange thing to' ee Pilgrim's Way (by Pilgrim's Proress) at the head of a handicap and oor old John Bnnyan at the foot. Some fair horses figure in the Fairekl Welter, including Ladrone ami Online. The latter won quite a number . f races on the "Wet Coast" and from own there—judging by Glenfcra's reent showing—is not too. bad. Died at Onehunga the other day, that ood horse Wairiki, winner of the Ireat Northern Derby, Great Northern luinefts, and other big "plums." Waiiki iust missed landing a big pot for nicVlanders when Canteen bent him in he New Zealand Cup of 1903. Tie est vear'-he contested the Melbourne , iup but fell and fractured his shoulder. ' [e was saved lor the stud and brought •ack to NOT Zealand and although he