WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 37

WELLINGTON NOTES.

By Onlookbb.

. 'Wellington, November.a.

For stealing a toUHsator ticket at the Marlborough races George Hooper .got one month^ Hooper was given £1 to 'put on Brown Bread in the trot. Brown Bread won, but Hooper did nob -return with the money, and denied v all knowledge of the affair. ,

' Tommy 'Clark has had to enlarge his quarters at the Hutt, and has added another loose box and sleeping apartments for the boys. In his school are King Wai, Sylph, Saa Serpent, Royal Oak, and Choroid. The two latter are engaged at 'Taratahi.

A chest nut filly, well built and with plenty of bone, by Trickster from a .mare named Leap Year, is the -latest addition to J. Hunter's Hptt etriog, which also includes Crosßey's pair, Lady Agnes Mid Guardsman, both engaged at Ota'ki, where the latter, at any rate, if not both, should score* a win.

Mr Frank Moeller has exchanged The Shrew XNordeafeldt — Biancn) with the Hon. J. dD. Ormond for a monetary consideration and the pick of the Ka.ra.mu two-year-old fillies, Water* spout (by Dreadnought — Waterlily). Mr Ortnond haß mated the Shrew with .Robin* son Crusoe.

The Hutt trainers haying horses engaged *a* Ofcaki and Daneville, .owing to the. heapy state of the new sand track, asked permission from the Course Committee, to .use the outside .por« tion of the racing track proper, but were refused, the Couree Committee having already given instructions that no horses were .to. 'be allowed on the course proper 'till our -coming Spring' meeting. Seeing that visiting trainers are .allowed to work their charges on the outside 'of the couree proper previous to the race days abthe Hutt, it is hard to conceive why our local trainers .should be debarred from using tha , track -when so much needed. .Nomiuafciens for the eventsat the Wellington Spring meeting* on November 24 and 26, taken ill round, may be considered satisfactory. Thirty-one entries have ibeen received for the Hack Flying, .and '28 for the First >Hack Handicap. The entries for the principal events the Summer meeting show a slight falling off compared with last year, there being a decreaae of four for the -Cup, nine for the Racing Club Handicap, and one for tha Wellington Stakes. Mr Stead's champion colt Gold - Medallist "is among those entered for the latter event.

Mr Kore, a well-known Maori owner, had % day out at Blenheim last week, winning four events with Y«llow JRo»e,, Hillstone, *nd Tup*. Yellow Ruic is a full sitter to Royal Rose, by King Cole — Rosalind. ( Several locale-jockeys bearing good characters, who attended Maryborough races,' bitterly ,com< plain of the action of the club's officials tin ransacking the whole of their belongings on account of * pair of riding boots belonging to an official's son being lost, and therefore boys <ot good character who would not be»guilfcy of such a naeau and contemptible trick .as taking 'another rider's boots were treated »s 'though they were sneak thieves. Needless to say, tha boots were not found in -the •possession of any x of the Jockeys in question,; in fact, they were not found, at all.

Training operations at Palmorgton North course are in full swing in anticipation of the coining season. Alf. Bhear<tby has Cftlmarine, The Archer, Thrush, Sassaby, Alaniora, <a Waipiti , gelding, and The Onyx in hand.; Penman .has Rodara and Marionette ; Robs, Princess Cole ; Chitham, Bavaria .and Marvellous ; M'Gratb,,Spreydon, Robin Hood, and a Soranus filly and a gelding; C. Lyford, Sh«c« ' woodfj. Bl ' Catty, Opai and Spermaceti ,; S. Harris, Marima ; H. M .Catty, Manj&fcangaroa. „ 1