MY NOTE BOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 3

MY NOTE BOOK.

Weights for the. Thompson Handicap, one mile, run on the opening day of-the Wellington E.G. Autumn Meeting, on April 26, were issued this ■week. With an impost of 8.11. Tauhei has a promising appearance, and so has Sylvia Pask, on ufcie same mark. At 8.2 Uhlun it another entitled to respect, and further down the list Tortulla (7.10) strikes me as a likely one. Okoafi (7.8) also has a nice handicap weight. It will be .time .enough to further deal with the race after the acceptances appear on Friday next.

Explosion and Rosella will be taken to Wellington next week to fulfil engagements at the Autumn Meeting. Tie pair figure in a couple of rich stakes to be decided at the gathering, viz., the North Island Challenge Stakes and St. Leger. In the Thompson Handicap Explotion has 7.12 to carry.

The old Auckland 'chaser Mangere showed at Eandwick on Saturday last that'he still has a race left in him, and that he is not the confirmed baulker he was made out by the SydDf y critics. In the race itself he gave none of the opposition a chance, winnin."- by forty. lengths. Mangere is racing in the name of Mr P. Nolan, but it is an open secret that the genial Elkrslic trainer, Mr J. B. Williamson, ami Mr Walter" Paul are still interest-ed-in his ownership. ■

The Wellington Park stud came out well iit fhe race meetings'held during the Easter period, Multiform, Screw.CTn Taubei, Coronet, Battleaxe, Eton and' Sequin gaining fresh laurels fo» the celebrated breeding place. Castor and Hotcbkiss are likely to head the list of winning stallions in New Zea» -land this year, with Cuirasser. well ■op- . .

The Ellerslie trainer George Wright ha* a good number of yearlings under his care this season Since he back from his round trip he has hnd.a bay gelding by Seaton + Delaval —Miss Letty handled. The other juveniles in' the stable comprise a brown filly by St. Hippo -Stepfeldt, brown gelding _by fit Hippo—Jadestone, brown nlly by St' LeVer—Brown Alice, and chestSut filly by St. Leger-Hazel. These were all broken in and handled some time since, and they are doing well.

New Zealand and Victoria have beaten New South Wales badly this year jn the matter of high-priced yearlings. a single animal. .

The authorties of ,the Auckland Eating Club and Takapuna Jockey Club have received a communication fCrom sT George Clifford, Cha^an of the New Zealand facing Conference about the 7th pros. { .