RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3179, 3 May 1909, Page 6

RACING.

TURF NOTES. (By "Zetland"). Provocation was taken through to Hastings from Palmerston on Thursday, and will compete in the Hawke's Bay Stakes,, of six and a half furlongs, on Thursday next. His weight, including penalties 181b, will be Bst 71b, and the Birkenhead colt will doubtless keep the opposition very i busy. I Wairarapa will be represented at the Marlborough meeting on Wednesday and Thursday by quite a number of the best horses now in training in this district. They include Diplomatic, Merrie Rose. Silken Rein, Mataari, Osiris, Gaelic, Sealer, Objlivion, Tumut, Lucretius, Sandix, | Aberration, Axite, Leahora, Merrie i Christmas, Matira and Overrate. j Several Wairarapa owners and sportsI men will attend the meeting, which j promises to be the most successful I held at Riverlands for some years.

Rose Herald, who !:as been spelled since Easter, is again among the track workers at Opaki. The Hawke's Bay Cup, to be run on Wednesday next, is expected tq_ be" a very fine race. The distance this year is one mile and a half, and among the acceptors are Downfall, Moral, Tangimoana, California, Master Soult and Sir Tristram. This lot are first-class Cup horses, and with some capable performers among the lighter-weighted division the event should be the great attraction of the meeting. The probable starters in the Hawke's Bay Stakes this week are Provocation, Maori King, Theodore, Elysian, Xylophone, Boanerges and Bliss. Of the nine acceptors for the Marlborough Cup five are from this district. The only Blenheim candidate, Lawn Rose, is well spoken of, while Daisy Paul, winner of the Longburn Handicap, at Manawatu, is nicely treated. Now that the Lower Valley Jockey Club has decided to hold its meeting on September 30th and October Ist, the racing in Wairarapa will commence a month sooner, than usual. This will mean that a larger number of horses will be kept in work during the winter months.