SPORTING NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10563, 20 February 1912, Page 6

SPORTING NOTES

(By "Also Started.") FIXTURES. i February 21 and 22.—Woodville j i trict <l.O. j February 21 and 22. —Dunedin J.C. { Feb. 29 and March 2.—"Wanganui, J.C. M'arch 6 and 7. —Dannevirke R.C. There will .bo racing at-Woodville and Dunedin to-morrow. With the exception of the Hurdles, there will be large fields competing at Wocdville. Sir Knox Bst 3lb is a firm, favourite Shannon will do battle for Masterton j stables at Woodville. • ] Sir -Knox Bst 51b ,is a firm favour) to; for the Woodville Oup, and having J the services of Deeley in the saddle, | may be expected to be prominent at I the finish. I Sir Solo and Bally Shannon have] not raced with a great amount of success this ' .season, and may find ■ the company opposed to them 'at Woodville too strong for them. Deeley will have the mount on 'Sir Solo.' j ' British Maid, Full Rate, Amber and White, Leapuki, Nedra and Sinapis are other Wairarapa horses booked for Woodville. Nedra, owned by Mr C. F. Vallance, has been performing well over the battens lately, and should run well in tho Hurdles at Woodville, as the company is not too .formidable. Aotea, Salopian, Hill Lass and Te Ivahurangi, all of which -are wellknown to race-goers, figure amongst the. competitors at the Masterton •_ Show. j A large number of prominent rae-) ing men are visiting the Masterton Show this week, some in the capacity of judges and others as exhibitors'. Odessa and Naumai, of C. Pritchard's team, are strongly fancied for the Dunedin Cup and Stewards' Handicap. Naumai is well treated, and should get- to the end of six furlongs with the-extra weight off his back. 'Undecided still retains his position as favourite for the Wanganui Cup. The favourite has not often in the past won this race, but has on several occasions run second. ' R. Knox, the veteran Opaki trainer, is exhibiting two 2-vear-old fillies at the Masterton Show, one heing by Sir Laddo-Roney, and the other by the imported Benxonian-Platypus.