SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1919, Page 8

SPORTING.

! TAUMARUNUI RACE& > Taumarunui, Feb. 9. The Taumarunui races were unfortun- , ate as regards the weather. Rain fell . all day. There was a fair attendance, , and the totalisator handled £7918 10s as against £11,1122 10s the previous year. ( Results:— ■ . MAIDEN HANDICAP.—2 Whitehall < (Warner) 1, 5 Erinagh 2, 1 Lady Alwyn 3. Also started: 3 Fotearau, 4 Turpinite, 5 Moutoa Tiki, 6 Granada, 7 Whitford ' Belle, 8 Spark, 8 Miss Maxwell, 9 Kuranui, 10 Meta Ara. Won by 2J lengths, H lengths separating second and third. Time, lmin. 18sec. MATAPUNA HANDICAP.—3 Cambridge (O'Shea) 1, 1 Caballero 2, 2 Blue and Black 3. Also started: 4 Soult Rosa. Won by two lengths, with six lengths : between second and third, Time, lmin. 3 3-ssec. TAUMARUNUI CUP.—I Glenopal 1, ; 3 Debutante 2, 2 Winning Shot 3. Won \ by half a length, the same distance be- < tween second and third. Time, 2min. 15 3-osec. 1 OWHANGO HANDICAP.—3 Monopola 1, 1 Mountain Gold 2, 4 Turpinite 3. Also started: 2 Chilblain, 5 Spark. Won by two lengths, with one length between : second and third. Time, lmin. 34 l-ssec. TARINGAMUTU HANDICAP 1 ■ Ohinewairua 1, 2 Cambridge 2, 3 Erinagh 3. Also started: 4 Moutoa Tiki, 5 Whitford Belle, 6 Miss Maxwell. Won by a length and a half, with three lengths between second and third. Time, lmin. ssee. WELTER HANDICAP—2 Mill o' Gowrie 1, 1 Hyllus 2. These were the only starters. Won all the way by two lengths. Time, lmin. 47sec. MATIERE HACK HANDICAP.—2 Monopole 1, 4 Mountain Gold 2, 1 Whitehall 3. Also started: Potaerau, 5 Lady Olwyn, 6 Master Amans, 7 Mataara. Won by two lengths, with three-quarters of a length between second and third. Time, lmin. 34sec. MANUNUI FLYING HANDICAP.—I Mill o' Gowrie 1, 3 Winning Shot 2, 2 Corregidor 3. These were the only starters. Won by a length, the same distance between second and third, Time, lmin. 19sec. Received Feb. 11, 10.45 p.m. Sydney, Feb. 11. Kemball's team of racehorses, including Hymestra and Snub, have been discharged from the Makura well. T.J.C. MEETING. A mooting of the T.J-C. Committee was helu last night, when there were present: Messrs L. A. Lolan (chairman}, W. C. Weston, J. McLeod, 0. W Sole, G. Eraser, A. Alexander, Newton King, and E. J. Blundell. Apologies were received from Messrs Hursthouse and Chaney. Mr }■ R. L. Stanford was appointed judge for the Club's two meetings nex» season. Two members were elected. It was resolved to send Mr Jas. Hawkins a letter of sympathy in his illness and express a wish for his recovery. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.'T Egmont races tu-uay and to-morrow. Lauuevirke entries wose at 6 p.m. tonight. utter shaped badly each day at Takapuna. Dusky Eve is well treated in tie Eg.niont CupThe Dunelin J.C. autumn meeting takes place on Thursday and Saturday. There is an impression abroad that Inah will piok up one of the sprints at [Hawera. , i Metallum ran two good races last Week, and tlw mare looks ''shot's eye" Bext start Trainer H Hiekey has Diavolo and Kohinahina doing steady work on the beach at Gisborne. Just when the touts were preparing to count Adjutant out the son of Martian made good by annexing the Midsummer Handicap iShiela and Sea Lord ''came back" at gisborne, and the latter paid a good fiice for a four horse race. ■Hyginas is reported to be pretty well now, but the tracks may be a bit too I hard for the Waverley horse at present. Army Service and Applaud have the ! best credentials of the horses engaged in the amateur riders' events at Hawera ' It is not often that stablemates are raced right out, but this happened at JJiccarton the other day when Sir Geo. Clifford's Acquittal and Steepholm fj'Ac.lit out a great finish in the Lyttelton Plate, only a neck separating the j pair at the finish. J If anything beats Philomela in the Waipapa Hack Handicap to-day it may ! be Rajput, who is said to be in great 1 form at present- | "Tohunga" of the New Zealand Times considers that Gloaming lias no claim to the title "champion." Gioaming has proved himself the best of his age in Australasia, and no other horse has won three Derbies and a Champion Plate in one season. ' The two Welters at Hawera will tak«s some picking, but the public may not be far"--rong if they stick to Hushman anrt Acthe- r FTic former usually runs Ms hi st race on the Hawera course. j ' Dingle looked very well last week, but j his form was disappointing. He is not i the champion some people imagined. j Sir Gen. Clifford won two races at the \ recent Canterbury meeting, and no less than four horses of his breeding were Successful.

Henry (?;ty is always finishing on well | fo his races,'and with 7.2 he looks like a i >ossibility in the Wangnnui Clip. Is he lestined to 'follow in the footsteps of IJMarvlo and Kilmarnock? Bewi Poto is highly fionoi'cd in being placed on the same mark as Menelaus in th» AVanganni Cup, and even Client should hold the black horse safe at a lifi'crenee of -(lbs. Wansranni ton to reckon thai if the [rack is soft on Thursday week Pennon m\\ keer all the cracks very busy in the Flyinrr Kf-ck tliere Dn a hard <4Mvor Link would be hard tn atoi-ch with «.flThe liar Vom received a hnrd Mow an the region of (lie hin nnckpt. last week when T.oval Arch paid n limit divi--1 fiend Some rhouchtless individual wirI erl r> 11 over the country as a moral! 1 Winning Shot ran two good races in the mud at Tanmaninni on Sntnrrtav. hut had had luck to bump such good I pr»s as Olrmornl and Mill O'Cowrie. 1 Desert fold's l.n for the 'lVanaki Sf-A'ci i» likely tn stand as n time rej cord fur the race for many a long (lav, jft wm a uxdat ealloD, and supAka vol-

umcs for the excellence of the going here last week. ! There seems every prospect -.of Desert Gold and Gloaming mept!dsg once, if not twice, *t Haswera, and the mare's penalty of '311)9 ■aliouM make it an even closer race than last week's- Those who -won >on Desert Cold here are likely to put some of their winnings on the champion again this week. Some Boy, who race 9 in Oney Cox's colors, was running on nicely in the TJrenui Hack Race on Thursday, and the Guianforte gelding should pay his way Inter onCrown Pearl and Torfreda have been withdrawn from all engagements at the Wangamii meeting.