SPORTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3133, 9 March 1909, Page 5

SPORTING.

RACING. NAPIE.t PARK WE:GHT3. By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, March 8. In connection with the Napier Park weights in the Esk and Rsdclyffe Handicaps, the weights on Waiarilli, by San Fran, should read 6.13 and 8.0, respectively. He was handicapped as Waiorili, by Waiuku. who was not entered.

Whilst competing in the Wanganui j Stakes at the Wanganui J.C. meet- j ing on Saturday the Addington— Muriwai gelding Apa put his hind fetlock out, the injury necessitating his destruction. Apa commenced his racing career by in the Maiden Hack Flat P •:* at the Manawatu meeting at t], Jhristmas races in 1905, states a Northern writer. At Rangitikei the following week he won the Carnarvon Hank, and on the following day he appropriated the Telegraph Hack race. A couple of weeks later he was taken to Wellington and at Trentham won the Tongariro Hack race beating the best fisld he had yet met. In the following Seotember at MUrtononthe second day he won tne Handicap, beating a fair field, but nothing out of the ordinary. Apa was an unlucky horse almost from the outset of his career, and his best performances by far were those in which he did not gain a winning bracket. He was most unfortunate in his Cup essays, and had he won all those in which he finished second in he would have gone down in equine history as one of the most successful horses ever bred in New Zealand. To mention same of his performances in Cup events ne was second to Bourrasque in the Manawatu Cup of 1906, second to RiF.emaid in the Aahhurst Cup, the same year, second to Marguerite in the Ratigitikei Jubilee Cup of 1907, second in the Wellington Cup of 1907. won by Achilles, second to Achilles in the Wellington Racing Club Handicap at th.2 same meeting, and second in the Metropolitan Handicap, at the C.J.C. meeting in November, 1907. Apa's first Cup was at Rangitikei in January last, when he defeated a stable companion, Nova, by a couple of lengths. His loss will be a severe one to Mr F. "Preston," who, under ordinary circumstances, could have looked for several good races yet from Apa, who was only six years old and perfectly sound. BROKEN RIVER TROUBLE. THIRTY MEN LEAVE WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 8. About thirty of the men employed on the Broken River railway works left, work to-day, refusing to accept the new system of payment of Is 3d per truck instead of 9s per day. It is understood that others wil also abandon their work. 1 .