RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9166, 14 August 1908, Page 6

RACING.

NOMINATIONS. MARTON JOCKEY CLUB. Nominations for all events at the Marton Jockey Club's annual hack race meeting, which will be run on Wednesday and Thursday, September 2nd and 3rd next, will close with the Secretary (Mr Arthur Way, Marton) at 7.30 to-night. WAIRARAPA HUNT CLUB. Entries for all events to be run at the Wairarapa Hunt Club's steeplechase meeting, on Thursday, August 27th, will ciose with the Secretary (MrN. H.James;, Masterton, at 9 p.m. to-morrow. TURF NOTES. (By "Zetland.") The sale of thoroughbred horses on Wednesday last, on account of the executors of the late G. G. Stead, will rank in history as one of the most important ever held in Australasia. The seventy-two lots realised the handsome sum of 41,815 guineas, or an average of over 580 guineas throughout. Australian buyers were a most important factor at the sale, and but for their attendance, the total may not have exceeded 30,000 guinea. No less than fourteen lots realises ov-.r four figures each, and sportsmen throughout the colonies will watch with interest the careers of the high priced horses, and in the case of the brood mares will naturally expect their progeny to bom on the racing world for some years to come. That exceptionally high-class

filly, Golden Slipper, by Multiform —Aura, was secured by Mr 11. Chisholm, Sydney, and during this season will be asked to meet Australia's best in weight-for-age events. Other Australian buyers secured Multiform, Royal Artillery, Cruciform, Otterden, Isolt, Rattler, Idyll, Problem, San Peur, Saucer, Field Rose, Barley Bree, Zinagna, Royal Plumes a; <* if an Tan, and maj be said to have secured the cream of the highly-bred lot. While this is so, it is satisfactory to find that the majority of the horses are to be retained in the Dominion, buyers throughout the country being willing to bid high prices in order to obtain thoroughbreds of a class that are seldom brought under the auctioneer's | hammer to be sold without reserve. The sale plainly emphasised the fact that the "Sport of Kings" is in no way going back, otherwise owners would not be found ready to enter the bidding list and give «uch solid prices as were recorded this week. At the Grand National meeting, this week, quite a large number of Australian racing men—attracted by the sale of the late G. G. Stead's thoroughbred horses—are present. It is somewhat of a coincidence that the principal flat event, the Winter Cup, was won by Fenates, an Australian bred horse. The win would be highly pleasing to sportsmen from "the. other side," several of whom were astonished at the brilliant track work of the Ruenalf

Weights for the New Zealand Cup will aupear about September Ist. After the Grand National meeting interest in the big event will be increased, and news as to the training work of many of the candidates eagerly awaited. Merrie Zealand is reported to have gone sore, otherwise he would have been sent down to compete at the Grand National meeting.