SPORTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 5 December 1910, Page 5

SPORTING.

♦'* ';-•*";•-,'.' TURF NOTES. (By "Zetland.") glMidnight Sun, the two-year-old full brother to Nautiform and Nightfall, is entered for the Maiden Plate to be run at Woodville on Wednesday. Pushful, a good winner over hurdles, but who t has been on the retired list for some time, is now in work again, under the charge of the Hawke's Bay trainer, R. Gooseman. Elevator, by Elevation Greenbird, owned by Mr Frank Armstrong, has been put into work at Hastings, and will probably be the first of Elevation's stock to sport the colours. D. Chapman, at Tauherenikau, has in work a two-year-old by Boris —Waitoti, This is a useful looking juvenile, and may be raced at the Wairarapa Kacmg Club's meeting. Ihe accepances for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap arc somewhat disappointing, for out of 58 and 61 nominations, fields of thirteen and fifteen are left in. Of the thirteen acceptors for the Cup, three—Vaisano, Proohet and Dunborve, are better known as hurdlers, while so far Manapouri and Goldfinder have yet to prove tbeir ability to gallop two miles. Diabolo. Kopu, Advocate and Bridge are holding tbeir positions as favourites, while »tfor the Railway Handicap, public opinion inclines towards Salute, Turbine, Gipsy Belle and St. Toney. Some fine performers remain \in the Royal Stakes, and the contest' between such horses as Provocation, Danube, Peirene, Sunburnt, Culprit, King Soult, Bootle, Miss Winsome, Dearest, andj Kakama would be well worth witnessing. H. Fletcher, at Tauherenikau, has a team of four in work, and they are looking exceptionally well just now. Longner is in nice racing condition, and appears to be perfectly sound. He is to be raced again on the flat this season., Mataari is doing satisfactory work on the tracks, and it is quite on the cards that he may win a race before long now that he is well down in the weights. The San Fran mare, Splash, is looking very well, considering that she had an attack of influenza recently, and Dogfish, by Knight Errant—Sunfish, seems to have improved since running at the Taratahi meeting.