SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 4 November 1914, Page 7

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Tin; Auckland EC. Spring meeting opcils to-day at Eilerslie, and will be concluded 011 Saturday. Tim acceptances for first day's events are very numerous, and include a number of Taranaki horses, notably Ratana, Advancer, Grattan, Fisher, Ineuru, Patronale, King Chira, and liercolu. The principal events are: —The City Handicap, one mile and a quarter; Great Northern Guineas, one mile; and Onehunga Steeplechase, three miles.

The programme opens with the Maiden Hurdle. Race, one mile and a half. The field includes the much-improved Tragedy King and King Try, both of whom are'going well on the tracks. The Great) Northern Guineas, worth a' cool "thou." this year, lias only attracted five horses. Mullingar will start an odds 011 order, and, on Avondale form, it is hard to pick nuvinin)? to trouble him. Tlh> \\ «•!:•<•&«• Stakes, ft v.; fnrlosa;?,

lias drawn a do7.cn youugslcrs. including tii" malic Ivuj,-'* ConvVr. Gold Lac (winner of the Avonda'.e Stakes). Analogue (i.ite Yvoriev the K-iutl. and Lady Paula (late Lady of U.u>'iiis). On Saturday muniing Gold. l.ae. Kings Courier, and Ulissiiudo reaid.'ered the most iJ'-i 1 - performance-'. and -if he get; away with then: Kind's Courier in:.',;,' run out the journey in smart (hue. I>rrenin heads the list iti the 0:» huuga Sti epiechas". am! lilt u«m* a hie; loi;<l. 'K.iuroa (10_!1) beat Moil'.- Hawke and Sportsman over a round. of the big lcnees <m •Saiiirday mcrniHjr, and jumped well, li'tffy .'ll-1 GoUniriie ; fencing well, ami file. latter looks wcil in with 0.0. t'o!bs»rn-.' a;!«l Keurva way Iw «nl;nstui

vriUl most support. Tiilrty-tw./ rciifiii;: i'l the llobson 11::::an. fnrlnnV*. so tiism should he some -•(•ra'.-ibliiii,; for places wlem the l.spr.'j go li]). j.'isber, i.a.dy Eijfiva, and Suiilta"... can all travel fa.4, hut the issue lowV.:; very open.

Tlie ciiief handicap event, the City I'audi-uo. l>.:v; filled faU'ly we! 1 ,, fourteen

making the fiaal payment. .lack Delaval lias a. gi'(si load—S.i?—hut he is a wea.'-dert'-ii pony, and can never be safely written out. Royal Irish j s in the boon; up JTur'.h, and is ge.iloping in iii:e style. : 'ii Saturday he easily heat Allegation 1 Soldier on::e round .at Klk'rslic in 2u:in. 4-ac. Allegation finished strongly, uiit Soldier's di-play was very disappointing Ratanr.' r-'sds as well as an;/ of thn light-weights, and hi- may bo tin: one to (rouble Ito>al Irish most. The best race of the day siiouhl bo the Flying Handicap, in which sprinters like Ele'-lrakolT. BJuevtsne, Goldlire, Ineuru, Prince Sceii!;, and Patronale will measure strides. I'lttrmsa;;: (alone) sprinted live furlongs on Saturday at K.Uerslie, in 1

mil". 5 3-ji<-c.', and was under a pull at the finish. lie is in good nick, and should n:n wrll at tiio meeting. King Chira has a Kiee handy weight, but the class may !>e above Mm. Bluestone and Eleetrakoff should give Patronale a good race.

The Shorts Tlmitlicap. flvo furlongs, is vott'd —down the line—aa an exorcise mntrr for Grattan. This n»g Ims liecji breaking (no, watches at Waverley, and Wanganni running showed what a n:arl:e<l improvement Hurt. Gardner hag vi.rknl in him. Toreador can go fast, hilt his respiratory organs'sire riot ton jmoil. :>.]«! most danger threatens from the threc-year-ol'l division. Of these, Oeienda and Chime can go fast, -but the latter reads host at the weights Grattan and Chime will carry a heap of inonev. By the Rarawa on Friday night t'iic following horses went North:—Eatana,

King Chira, and Advancer, in charge of P. Johnson; Grattan and Fisher, ,\l. Gardner; Ineuru, If. Eva; and Bercola, J. h'rvcr.

Sinapis is giving her trainer a lot of anxiety, her forelegs being tlie seat of the trouble, it is doubtful whether -she will see the post on Saturday. The Cup favourite, Expect, was lame after galloping on Saturday, but 'his party make light of it, blaming the horse's shoes, and they say ho will b« all there when the saddlecloths are dealt out at lticcarton.

Warstcp is a great track performer', and on Saturday registered a great gallop at liiccarton. She finished strongly at the end of a mile and a half in '2min. 3Ssec., and was not the least bit distressed, .She is coming into favor for the race, and may be one of the favorites ou the (lav.