SPORTING NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 7

SPORTING NEWS

(Ey "Also Started.") There will be a lot of racing; next week. Otaki Spring Meeting take.-, place on Monday and Tuc-day, Wanganui on Thursday and Friday. Avondale on Wednesday and Saturday, and Gcra'duie on Thursday and Friday.

Excellent acceptances have been re. I ceived lor the Otaki fixture. With Wanganui on Thursday it is inrirobI able that the field:; on thu.second day will be so large. Xat Williams, the Chiroville trainer, will be represented at Otaki by Borsil, who has been showing inmroved for hi on the tracks of late. Judging by the fields that ,hav< started at Marton and Dannevirke meetings, there is an unusually larg.-, number of horses in work this -onson. 1 Biddy, who last season was trained by H. Fletcher at Tauiiercnik.au, h now an inmate of O. Pritchard's stable. She will"-make her reappoaranco in the Maiden Plate at Otaki. Ball}' Shannon ivaa not taken across to Otaki. The Merriwe© golding will probably not race until the Masterton meeting. Some veiy smart sprinters .ire engaged in the Stewards' Hack Handicap at Otaki. Semaphore, who won a race at Tan herenikau hist Easter, is said to lit going exceptionally veil. The Signalman mare is expected to race we!! at Otaki. Brown Owl and Bon Reve will represent South Island stables in the Wanganui Guineas. The latter is si'id to bo very forward, and likely to tin: prominent. Bon Revo will bo riddc: by W. Young. , Nomination for all events (e.vecpt tho Trial Stakes) at the Master ton Racing Club's .Spring Meeting dose with tho secretary on Friday, '27' A inst. Sid Rcid, the well known rider, .was' a visitor to Masterton yesterday. Reid, who has spent a good deal <.f time in the South Island, will be 1:1 the pigskin at Otaki and Wanganui- ;