SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1918, Page 8

SPORTING.

: RACING FIXTURES. thvf' • I - C - Jmj Ashburton B.C. Autumn !irii ai ' lborou -" h B.C. Autumn r 7"', -°~ Wan S al "" JX'. Winter. June I, .J—Auckland E.C. Winter. MANAWATU TROTTING MEETING. Telegraph.- Press Association. Palmers Last Might. The annua meethg of the Manawatu Ironing Uiib was held in tine weather, the going being good and the attendance very large. The totalisaior handled , .•eMK for the same last year. Hesults: MAIDEX HANDICAP.-, Reindcvr 1. 4 Wild Las s 2, 7 Rejoice 3. ScratchedTaikortw Won easily. Time, ;Smi;i. 47 STEWARDS', HA\'DTC'AP\—; ]>,■<,„j Spring 1. fi Hal Junior 2, Jessie Dillon 2. Scratched: Sirnie ami Tile Weaver. Won very easily. Time, 3min. 3:) sec. MAYAWATI* TP.OTTTXG CLUB HAXDICAP.—4 Miss Havoc 1. 1 Dillon Direct 2, .! Sally Tirass I!. Scratched: u-jracy. Time, 4min. 52scc. AWAPUNI HANDICAP.—I Succory i, •2 Chocolate Soldier 2, 3 Othello' 3.' •Scratched: Tariki, lied Dillon, Cliff, and :liey>-ood. Won easily by thrse lengths. Time, ,'jniin. 50 l-osec. LADIES' RTiACTiI.ET.—3 Inora 1. 1 r.auT somescet i t H Tofav t Bnaiehi»l: Reindeer, Hauritia, Lvlock, Klnm Junior. V\ on easily by several .Time, 3mi'n. 44 4-osec.

PRESIDENT'S HANDICAP.—,I Proud Spring 1, 2 Miss Havoc 2, ■! Hedgcwook ■Scratched: Legacy and Lueile. Time. 2min. 56 2-ssec. PALMERSTON NORTH HANDICAP. —2 Succory 1, 3 Loch Lomond 2. 8 Plunder 3. Scratched: Ban.try Girl, Xp« I);i----ton, Neil Gow, Grevwood, Red lioll Won by half a length. Time, smiii. 3 l-.jaee. FAREWELL HANDICAP—2 Molly Chimes 1, 4 Trooper Dillon 2, 10 Wild Daisy S. Scratched: Little Her-tor, Dandy Jack. St. Leo, Galvanita. Won very easily. Time, 2mhi. £2 2-3scc. TURF TOPICS. (P>y "Moturoa.") T-Tawkes' Bay Cup on Friday. Form Up is coming on fast now. Gang Aw.'i' docs not do his best with the colors up.

Wondef if G. D. Greenwood will ever for.wt A l,)ie reception he got at Awapuni? Desert Gold won her third Gold Cup from end to end, and the cheers could have been heard at Foxton. White Blaze would have been in a place in the Autumn Handicap but for being humped below the distance. Paul Moore ran two sterling races this week, but Lord Ainslie may turn the tables on her at Hastings, Astor nearly naid half a century in the Telcsraph Handicap, but the crowd went for him on the second day.

The number of motors at Awaputn was probably a record for any course, and what fun they hnd petting away after the last race on Wednesday! Palmerston pill-builders must have done a rushing business in throat lozenges this week. Everyone went hoarse, but was it cheering or hooting that strained their larynxs? Sir Eisher is in form again, so the Bar Vons will have no trouble in select- • ing a favorite for the biff winter" hurdle races which are coming alonff. Turangapito and Staccato were on their worst behaviour at the start of tlie Telesraph Handicap on Wednesday. Staccato threw her rider, and took no part, in the race, while Turangapito swerved round as the tapes lifted, and was left a street. Einmark het'an slowly in the Manawat.u Sires' Produce Stakes, and after making up a lot of ground stumbled ai the turn. Under the circs, he did well to win on the post. Favorite Iliex let hackers down badly in the Woodlev Hack Handicap. Aftebeing badly left, he drifted back and lsack, until he was quite 100 yards in the rear at the finish.' The stewards came 'down on the Wanganui crowd like a ton of bricks.

On the strength of a areat trial Nobleman was backed for a liig sum of money 011 Wednesday, but whatever chance he had was spoiled by his jockey carrying the tapes for several furlongs. Luck mav change at Wanganui, hoys. Winning Tost made no race of the Maidens at Awapuni.'but they were had lot. rind there was nothing remarkable—outside the smallness of the dividend—ahout the whole affair. According to a Wanganui paper P.oy Seed performed a remarkable circus trick

in (lie Gold Cup, riding both Hcnolans ana Impediment in tlie one race! Mi', (ireemvooA's "statement" to a Wellington reporter re Biplane's withdrawal from il.o Cold Cup i s cnlv a repetition of Uie fni.sera.bic o.vousc offered to the Manawatn Olnli on Wednesday, and coming from experienced racing men hlce Greenwood and .Mason it only invites ridicule. It is patent' to the merest tyro that Mason, at least, should have known a fortnight aw whether or not the eolt would have been ready to run onfy ten furlom's at Awaprnsi. The scene' at Awapuni on Wednesday beggared description, but it is nothing to what Avould have happened had Biplane been started on the second day. As a matter of fact. Biplane was brought, to the conr?c on Thnrsdar, and plated, but his party did not like' the look of things, and made a "break'' for home!

Lstland s defeat -oil Thursday did not occasion much surprise, and tukin" a linn through Ricearton running- Biplane hat; only to start to win. Hyineslra, who is no match for Biplane over six furlongs, dashed off first, and never looked like getting beaten. A similar victory was that of Torfreda in the Nursery Handicap oil Thursday. By her showing each start she is a Temarkably brilliant filly over five furlongs, and .13. Gray got more out of her than her previous pilots. . It is stated that Form Up only cost Alec. Hall £350, at which figure he seems to be a very cheap horse! Meneians ran a great race in the Gold Cup, but it was a heart-breaking task to chase Desert Gold. An Auckland scribe states that Paddington Green has already been backed for the New Zealand Cup. Next! Desert Gold's 40 starts have resulted as follows: 34 firsts, S seconds, 4 thirdk There are no "also starteds," needless to say. The stakes won hy Gay Lad at Washd.vke go to the Patriotic Fund, while : Battle lives winnings ( ,-€140) were handI«1 over to ihe Salvation Army, Now beat the big drum, and run down raein"!