SPORTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 4 July 1911, Page 6

SPORTING.

(By "Ganger.")

TURF NOTES.

The Victorian Grand National Hurdles, run, on Saturday last, was won by Arquehuss, with Sparkle second and Obi third. I Satisfactory acceptance® have been j received for the Wellington Racing Club's winter meeting. Several horses 'broke down rather , : badly at the Napier Park meeting i last week. | Mallet has been scratched for all ) engagements at the Wellington meet- j ing. S. Reid will ride Perceler in his engagements at Trentham. The Gisborne meeting opens on ( Thursday next. | During the progress of the Hawke s i Bay meeting, a number of the rising j two-year-olds in the district were . spurted down the .straight, one or two heing well forward. According to a Southern writer, Leolanter had run second on fourteen occasions previous to winning at Hastings last week. > The Auckland-owned gelding Hoanga appears in -the list of the three steeplechases at the C.J.C. National Meeting, and also in the Sydenham Hurdles, but does not appear in the National Hurdle Race. It transpires that H. Gray only had one winning ride at the Hawke's Bay meeting, which makes him level with Whittaker for the jockey premiership. It was the cross-country horseman, R. Gray, that rode Bliss in her engagements at Hastings, one of which, she won.' In addition to , being nominated for the Grand National Steeplechase, Lie Beau has heen nominated tnr i'so Lincoln Steeplechase, at the C..T C. National meeting. A Ou-istohurch telegram states that Eldorado has been scratched for all engagements at the Grand I National meeting.