SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1915, Page 7

SPORTING.

TUKI-' Till'lTS. (I'.y "Motni-ua.") (lisbovne races ln-(iav. Cold Frail is just about duo. Mar.iaroa i.i anything but an cxp..-:S i'.iaw.lo should calcli :i heat ;it the ■■ (iislu.riio meeting. J Sandv Paul. id.-.?, is not ovcnveHitcd | iu the Wellington Steeple, j (iolden (ilow should shin:' amoiiL'st tili poor clus* 'chasers at. Cisbornc j Sir Kikix, tin- prince of mud larks, is i galloping splendidly at Upaki. I Royal Anus, has 11.1 in the Winter Hurdles a!. Trenthaiu, and is givim; (lie Mircat Xortiioni winner, Id ('ullnj' one I ]iimnd. j I'L-iycr is not mi;;::».-,| i„ (!„. Vi'b'.i r | Hurdles, bill is leniently treated in the j Wellington ; lecple with 1(1.4. Taniuaki reps, in the (irand National .Steeple are Sandy I'aul, Harbor laVlit. and 'i.'irohanga. Harbor Light, Htyrax. Koyal Arms, and Alaniaroa figure in the (irand National Hurdles. Bodonham is on the. up grade again, and just got outed by the "rull'v" Conziska at Napier. The San Fran gelding will be hot stuff at Cisborne. Some of tins races at Napier I'arlc were run in a dense fog, and the ivav tlie favorites were slaughtered made it look as if the mist had worked its way into the punters' brains also. • Kirkby still shows a lot of pace, and jumps well for a. new ehum at the big fenees. He was unlucky last week, and may run forward in h'aek company at Gisborne. Ngatiruamii is reported to be jumping the big fences well, and is regarded with favor for the (irand National. The Maniapoto gelding will race at Trenthaiu before attempting to pluck the Kicearton "plum." j After C'onzislcn, had won the Settlers' Handicap at (ircenmcadous there wasj si heap of argument over the dividend. I On the figures first shown, the "divvy" was thirty shillings more, and. those responsible for the mix-up had many bard things said about them.

There was some interesting trotting at Hamilton on Saturday, ('live (Clevc-l.'.i!d--[,egg\"s (lain) won the Waikato Cup by a length from the limit horse, Xirikiroa. The latter led from the start but McMastcrs -'soolcd on" Clive over the Inst piece, and he just got up in tune to land the stake. The introductory Handicap saw Congo squeeze, home by half a head from Krupiion. llolgian Queen won theClamlclaiids Handicap from scratch, putting in n great burst of speed in the straight. The public sorted out Whispering Willie as good goods for thHamilton Handicap, and he had the race won a long way from bom,-. Rotomamika scored in (he Waikato Handicap, but .loan of Are might have won if she had kept down. Nciptro scored in the Otahuhu Handicap, winning from end to end, and Flora McKinuov just lasted long enough to beat the scratch horse Prince Rufus, in the Farewell. The weather was showery and attendance fair. The smn of .cWtl was put through (he totalisator.