ALL-ROUND SPORT.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 29, 20 March 1906, Page 3

ALL-ROUND SPORT.

—o—facing Waipukurau weights due on Monday. Mr John Arthur, a Canadian horse-breeder, offers to bet £2OO to 4s that no one has ever seen a white foal. White horses, he declares, are a bluish color at birth, and become white afterwards. Mr Jorgensen’s The Voucher was paying over £lO for a win when she ran second in the Esk Handicap at Napier Park. The winner, The Pink-Un, belongs to Gisborne. She won three races at Gisborne last month,, and raced consistently at Daimevirke, being placed on both days. Waipawa races Polyanthus, Mystification, and Fancy work, winners at the Dannevirke meeting, were successful at the same gathering a year ago. The totalisator figures for Dannevirke meeting (£16,971) were a record for the Hawke’s Bay district. The withdrawal of a horse at the last moment at Dannevirke vyas caused by the horseman not being in a fit state to riue. After the Woodville meeting St. Albert was purchased by Mr Fred Douglas, and scored his first win inhis new owner’s colours at Napier Park. Cricket The Melbourne-Otago match was drawn in favor ot Otago A ladies’ match, Tasmania v Victoria, played in Melbourne, was won by the Victorians, who made 73 for the loss of four wickets. The visitors scored 49. Footbaii England beat Scotland by three tries to one in the international match. _____