TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 149, 23 June 1906, Page 7

TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

(By Ttlesraph.—Own CoricspoDflent.) j CUUISTCIIinciI. Friday. The Icw-ai sporting world Iμ dull to Uie of ditch wuter. Hardly 1110'tkhig is doing at lliecurtou nuil eUvwbvrp, ••'"'l l>!ie hardly iw liears radug mentioned. The extraordinary season becomOH even mure peculiar us it advances. Tiiroaglmat the present week we have beeu treated to mild nor'-west weatliiT, with ooctuuonul summerlike ueat. On Thursday nljjlit, for instance, the thermomotur never /.-ll below I 150, the warm winds :m<l tJie abspm-p of | frost 'Uav* , bad tlieir (.'flix.-f. at Itiicart.on. I ■Hid Vhv traoks an> in luiusually good order | for luldwintor: in fart, i ucver saw su.ii I ; pood soiug at tlio present Urn.': k>! thr year !as they vow pruvUi-. When Hewitt leaves for England npst unmmer hp will bo sncvoedeij at Valillilirst liy J. MoCoomb, whu will act an Mr Stead's horseman. Sli- George Clifford's horses. Golden Vein. | Canuie Chiel. uiid nve for pale | privately. Any one or iiie three should mako h nseful sialllon. I l?F-nr flora Dunpdin thnt IMpi 1 ? dningwell, and that Wk etablu coin;ianiou, Pntrovna, is enjoying a we!! carripd rest. and will nut v/oric until October. Wr!hr,!; lihs mot with koioi- fur tho Grnixl National Iluidlo lt:ice. ! Tho North ("anrerimry Jni-k.p.v Huh has | finiftijcd thq season with a <Teilit balance of ' Iv a letter to Mr Stpad, Mnjur Edwards j ivpnrted thilt Nnptntfonti Tr;iH doillK win]. :.nci that ho hopnd u> iavo luck with Kirn. If Xmiiiforni ran in the Asvot f'up on Monvlay ho finished nnplarnl. htit in view of the i'act l':at iie wtmlii be t'JP horses nl a very K?;"it di.s."ldvantn?" In ihe matter «f wp|ght-for-ase, it is quite likely tliat he did not ptart