RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8468, 19 June 1907, Page 6

RACING.

TURF NOTES. (By Zetland.) The Hawkc's Bay Jockey Club's Winter Meeting will open, to-day. at Hastings. Good average fields will contest all the events, and the racing is sure to be interesting in view of the Wellington and Grand National Meetings, which take place in July and August. Despite the recent wet weather, some good track work has been clone at Hastings lately, and it is quite on the cards that tho locallytrained horses will more than hold their own at the fixture. Wairarapa will be represented by Narcotic, Mo/loch, Hatley, Matakokiri, Variation, Dulcinea. Arahura, Hinupai, and Strathcona. The following may run prominently in their engagements:— Hack Hurdles.— Kaipetipeti and Fleka. Winter Hack.—Reservoir and Flower Girl. Ladies' Bracelet. Outer and Tigrisona. Hawke'a Bay Steeplechase.— Rangitoto and Nadador. Hawke's Bay Hurdles.--Black Reynard and Creusot. Scurry Hack.—Srathcona and Chicane. Heretnunga Handicap.—Narcotic and Intelligence. The Wellington Racing Club has received splendid entries for its Steeplechase Meeting, and it would appear that tho progressive move in the direction of holding a three days' fixture in the winter will be rewarded with success. A nomination.of thirty for the Parliamentary Handicap, thirty-three for the Winter Hurdles, twenty for the Wellington Steeplechase, thirty-eight for the Jumpers' Flat, thirty-one for the Thorndon Hack, and proportionate; numbers for other races is decidedly encouraging, and the meeting is sure to be looked forward to with pleasure by the racing public. The nominations include all the best performers in the colony, and it may confidently be expected that the meeting will_ be a record'one as a winter gathering in the;history of the colony. The Wairarapa horses nominated are Jolly Friar, Gawain, Platypus, Hinupai, Naphtha, Clem, Warlock, Matakokiri, Variation. Dulcinea, Royal Blue, Arahura, Narcotic,, Moloch, Mataari, Aberration, Hatley, La Torpedo, Sherlock Holmes, Sen Sim, Oakley, Lucrietius, Oblivion, Don Carlos, and Lady Lethe. If the majority are aeceptsd for it will form the largest contingent that has yet raced at a Wellington meeting in the winter time. M. McGrath's stable at Opaki is still fully occupied, there being no less than fourteen horses which are either in work or being wintered. For the time of the year they are all in excellent condition. The occupants of the boxes are Sherlock Holmes, Mahuta, Moloch, Hatley, Research, Sunbonnet, Riflemaid, Merriwee gelding, Aberration, San Fran gelding, Oakley,* Mocassin, The Workman—Seal gelding, and The Workman—Report gelding. Moloch and Hatley will be raced at Hastings this week, and about [half of the other team will be sent to the Wellington meeting next month.