SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1921, Page 3

SPORTING.

I GREAT NORTHERN NOMINATIONS. • The following nominations have been received in connection with the Auckland Rac- , ing Club's winter meeting, which takes place at Ellerslie on June 3, 4 and 8 :-rGREAT NORTHERN HURDLE RACE-r-Thrace, Woody Glen, Guianform, First Line, Bed Diel, Paddington Green, Isingarch, Capsal, All Talk, Old Gold, Signature, Guerre-a-Mort, Kiriwinning, No Mistake, Rathlin, Oakleigh, Kauri King, Killard, Khattoum, Demagogue, Multive, Alteration, Explorer, Tenacious, Maniahera, Fisher, Pendoon, Multiplane, Luperino, Gladful, Lord Nagai, Mill o’ Gowrie, Sir Agnes, Jutland, Omahu, Ngata, Hylans, Oak Abbey, Powder King, Slowcoach. GREAT NORTHERN STEEPLECHASE.— Powder King, Ngakanui, Vigilo, Maniahera, Juan, Hylans, Ngata, Omahu, Battletide, Gladful, Old Mungindi, Master Strowan, Coalition, Thrace, First Call, Harbour Light, First Line, Waimai, Te Toa, Polthogue, Royal Scott, Manhattan. Paddington Green, Manawaponga, Slowcoach, Capsal, General Raven, Old Gold, Signature, Rathlin, Oakleigh, Coroglen, Khartoum, Multive, Sir Fisker, Monopole, Lady Sabretache, Tenacious, Peer Rosa, Fisher, Koura. Luperino, Leura. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.”) Marlborough races on Friday. Pacific Slope is galloping well at Trentham. Egmont accceptances close on Friday at 8 p.m. Royal Exchange is the latest to be schooled over hurdles.

Bonny Briar is going well at Awapuni, and should win a good race shortly. A Manawatu scribe reports that War Baby has been leased by Mr. J. J. Corry to' “Tommy” George. Mattock was sent up to Hawera yesterday to be schooled for winter steeplechase engagements. Trainer R. J. Mason is working a colt by Absurd—Our Lady, and a filly, full sister to Rational. Taranaki purchase at B. Shadbolt’s sale of trotting horses wereß m by Logan Pointer, 4yrs, G. Barry, Hawera; gr g by Hal Zolock—Twinkle Chimes, W. H. Bakins, Hawera. The Racing Commissioners are visiting Taranaki at present. No doubt when these gentlemen inspect our up-to-date courses and appointments they will recognise that Taranaki’s claim for a fair complement of permiits do not rest on population basis alone. Very poor acceptances have been received for Friday’s fcices at Blenheim, and it is not to be wondered at. Blenheim and Nelson has just got over a five days’ racing carnival, and what need there is for another two days' meeting so soon It is hard to fathom. Well might big, successful clubs like Taranaki and Egmont ask why Marlborough should be equally favored as regards totalisator permits, while (be Stratford Racing Club, with only one half the number of racing days, has an even greater grievance.

Record nominations have been received for the principal events at the Auckland winter meeting. Paddington Green and Alteration figure in the Great Northern Hurdles, while Ngakanui, Te Toa, Polthogue and Paddington Green have been nominated for the Great Northern Steeples. Prodigal, Alteration, Stork, Volo, Simonides and Seasprite are entered for the Cornwall Handicap, and Income and Sir Huon in the minor events. An exchange suggests that H. Gray’s mission to England is to ride Monarch in the Epsom Derby.

The following horses have double engagements in the Great Northerns-.—Thrace, First Line, Paddington Green, Capsal, Old Gold, Signature, Rathiin, Oakleigh, Khartoum, Multive, Tenacious, Maniahera, Fisher, Luperino, Gladful, Omahu, Ngata, Hylans, Powder King, and

It was just an hour before daylight on Monday morning last, and a quartette of sports (including a Maori) lay smothered in the raupo waiting for the of ducks. Whispered conversation whiled away the time, and various “stretchers” regarding horses and game were being told. At Iqst Henare lost patience, and said: “Rook here, you ferras; one time I riding the young horse, the werry fast horse, and by-and-by the ducks fly over my head. Py cripes I let go the rein pretty quick, and fire the two barrel at him. Then I grab the rein and find I got the handful of sand. The plurry horse, he the three mile away!” Some horse, eh ?

From Canterbury we hear that Arrowsimith has been blistered, and hopes are expressed that the imported horse will stand another preparation next season.

Says a Bulletin writer: —Some easy money was picked up at the recent Onkaparinga (S.A.) race meeting. At one of the new half-crown totes on the flat tlie gong was not heard, and the windows remained open all through the race—and after. When No. 5 was hoisted as winner, the glad tidings rapidly spread that tickets were obtainable still; and apparently it was only the fact of a claunorous crowd all wanting the same number that woke the vendors from their trance.

At a recent gaslight trotting meeting held in Perth a prad named Woodland Bells returned a dividend of over a century and a half on a ten shilling totalisator. The best the Bar Nodings offered was “tens,” which was a sort of body blow to opponents of the mechanical layer of odds. “Old soldiers never die. They simply atvaj’ 1” was a favorite ditty amongst our khaki-clad lads. Apparently the same axiom applies to racehorses, for an Auckland scribe reports that the veteran Harbour Light is being given “another opportunity to distinguish himself” between the flags 1 Wellshine, by Wolawa —Blacking, won a small race at Kensington (Aus.) on April 16.