SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1917, Page 8

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. Nov. 3, 7—Avondalo J.C. Spring. Nov. 5, 7, 10-Cantcrbury J.C. Metropolitan. Nov. 0, 8, 9—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. N T ov. 10—Auckland H.C. Spring. Nov. 21—Ashurst R.C. Annual. Nov. 24—Takapuna J.C. Spring. AUSTRALIAN TURF. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, Nov. 2. Biplane (lit! 1 1-1 miles in 2niin 131-scc; Bronzetti covered nine furlongs in lmin. 57sec.; Pah King, on the grass ran a record nine furlongs in lmin. SoJsee.; Lanius covered 1 1-4 miles in 2min. 13J sec; Marulfn ran eleven furlongs in 2min. SSJsec; Wallace Isinglass put up a record lor the mile on the sand in lmin. 441 sec. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturot.") Avondalo to-day. New Zealand Cup on Monday Ashhurst handicaps on Tuesday. Disdainful has broken down badly Toatere and Glenroy should run well at Avondale.

Client and sixteen others remain in the New Zealand Cup.

Egypt, Bjonieborg. Blackall, Trial?, Tliaddeiis, Orleans. Nottata, and Rose Pink dropped out on Thursday night.

Lingerie is one of the fancied candidates for the Stewards' Handicap, but the Electric Plate (four furlongs), to be run on Wednesday, may be nearer her mark.

Very few Taranaki horses have been entered at Aslilmrst, !>nt E. George has Golden Grafton engaged in the Cup and Madam Ristori in the Flying. Though rather lengthy. File and Drum, the name bestowed on the filly by Heather .Mixture—Amusement is not a bad attempt at nomenclature. Alleged the other day that an appellant ashed the Military Board for an extension of time "so that he might follow up the remaining chapters of the Iron Claw." So far nobody has asked for an extension to witness the New Zealand Cup race. iSnub, Teka, and Faraoa have been galloping as well as any of the Cup horses at Ricearton. Client is a bad traek horse, but he looks as fit as anything on the spot. (Jang Awa' and Rude are a pair of horses that should be heard of before the Canterbury meeting closes. The latter is an exceptionally brilliant filly, and can run a good mile. With the exception of Egypt, nothing of importance has dropped out of the New Zealand Cup. Chortle, Vagabond, and Chuckle have pleased traek watchers since their arrival in Auckland, and Vagabond will be heavily supported in whatever races Mr. K. Williams elects to start him.

A big slice of the stakes to be won at the Canterbury meeting will be distributed in four consecutive events on Monday—N T .Z. Cup, of 2000 sovs.; Welcome Stakes, of 1000 sovs.. N.Z. Derby, of 1500 sovs.: and Stewards' Handicap, of 1500 sovs., which makes £(1000 in all.

Snub has gone near winning several big Cups for Mr. C. G. Dalgety, and it would be a cruel quip of Fortune if the Martian gelding were to land this year's ,V.Z. Cup for his new owner. The Defence authorities state that the minimum height for soldiers is sft. 2in, How some of the balloted (and accepted) joeksters touched the bar at that height beats me. They must have suffered severely from growing pains since "Moturoa"'last looked down on them. if Croesus, Form Up, Nystad, Gaziquc, Lady Black, Miss De Val, Elocution, and Lingerie all go to the post for the Stewards' Handicap on Monday, the sports can cultivate a. headache thinking out the result. The Lingerie crowd "reckon" ?—but so do heaps of others., It is a race worth picking. At the Inangahua trotting meeting tho other day the favorite won five times, was twice second, and only once unplaced. Yet some people say that picking winners at the trots is ''hard."