RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9113, 12 June 1908, Page 6

RACING.

TUIIF NOTES. (By "Zetland") Although the weights for the Now i Zealand Cup are not due until Sep- j temlier, great interest will bo taken ( in the meantime in the chances of the numerous candidates. The entry of 77 has only been exceeded once previously, but of course the very haiiiufnctory number of nominations: may now be followed by more than iwerago acceptance. Taking the agea of the candidates? aa at time of running, there are fourteen threc-yetu'H-olcl, fourteen four-years-old, nineteen five-years-old, twenty-three six-years-old, and seven aged. Anions the tliree-yeara-old thcro are only three that have shown really good form this season, so it will not tie easy to pick a likely winner from those of that age. The best performers among the four-years-old are Count Witte, Bobrikolf, Prim, King Post, Signor, and Sir Frisco, and of this lot Kignor has the best pretentions to staying a distance. The moat likely of the live-years-olil include Mahutu, Stratagem, Tangimoana, Field Gun, Mallet, Uenuku, Lapland, Zimmerman, Grand Slum, iinu Uari. j sima. On this season's form mo.-t of them aro worthy,.wf reepuct. Noteworthy among the sixyea rs-o id ara Uhlando, Ct-osfs Battery, Traca, iiiil Jul li t, idoi j .. till I, M nil, ii i '> (;l ' ; and the beat of the aged division may be Bourrnsque, Maluiranui, and St Joe. Letherin and Valimu will be competitors at the Hawke's Bay meeting, to bo held on 17th and 18th inat. Both have been doing satisfactory work. T. C. White, who for some years had a training establishment at Tauhorenikau, but has lately been a resident of Blenheim, may return to the Wairarapa before next season. Waipu, winner of the Century Hurdles at Wanganui, and the Great Northern Hurdles, was taken over to Sydney on Monday. He will compete -in the National Hurdloa in Australia, and being a fine stayer should run prominently. Count Witte, Nobel and Ring Dove, entered for the New Zealand Cup, are owned by the estate of the late G. G. Stead.