NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9841, 15 February 1896, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Marino will not be a starter at Dunedin. Pine rode four winners at the Tapanui Meeting. Osculator, now in Sydney, has been blistered.

It is intended to take Fabulist to Sydney in the autumn.

Neither Prime Warden nor Lady Zetland go to Dunedin. Mr Prosser, owner of The Miser, recently purchased First Result. Word is to hand that Derringer has been safely landed in England. Fabulist will fulfil his engagement at the Taranaki Club's Meeting. Mr S. Hordern has named his Carbine— Novelette colt, Welbeck. From Wanganui it is reported that Irish Twist ia agaiu quite sound. Five of the seven remaining in the D. J.C. Champagne Stakes are fillies. The two-yeiv-old Sabretache 'b training on satisfactorily at Randwiok. Jenkins rode"three winners at Woodville ; White and F. Kingan two each. Master Moore, by Le Loup-—Marjory Moore, died last week at Invercargill. Double winners at Woodville — King's Bowman, First Result, and Pyrites. A tot_lisator permit for the Reef ton J.C.s proposed meeting has been refused. Mahaki, whose name appears in the forfeit list, was nominated last week at Manawatu. A -tarting machine for the use of trainers is to be erected on the Hastings course.

The annual gathering of the Tologa Bay Jockey Club takes place on March 16th. The Wanganui Jockey Club is, it is said, going to donate £50 to the local hospital. The Johannesburg Jockey Club intend to offer a £5,000 stake at its Easter meeting. The Taieri Club came out with a credit balance of £40 on the year's transactions. There is a,likelihood of Wakawatea bning sent aoroas to New Zealand again to race. C. G. WOodley's suspension has been removed, and his trainer's license re-granted him.

Bloodshot has incurred a 71b penalty for the Hawke's Bay Stakes, and will now carry Bst 131b.

The general entries for the Dunedin Autumn Meeting number 184 as against 196 last year. The jockey's license granted to Alfred Petersen has been cancelled by the Hawke's Bay J.C. The weights for the Hawke's Bay Cup and Railway Stakes will not be declared tiu the 23rd inst.

Booties is at present doing duty as a lady's hack, but shortly goes into work for winter meetings. Alcestis reads out of place among the entries for the weight-for-age Railway Plate at Dunedin.

Guardian, a son of Mitrailleuse by Mentor, won the Welter Handicap at Sandown Park on January 21st. The Greymouth Jockey Club has passed the Kumara programme, in which stakes of £350 are provided. The jumpers Ladybird and Othello and the pony "Valencia are to be sent across to Sydney from Auckland. A two-year-old by Enfilade named Embrasure won the Maiden Plate at Maribyrong, on January 25th. Mrs. M. Baker, owner of Somnus, hat removed his stud to Wanganui, having taken a lease of Flemington Lodge. A match £50 aside, was arranged at the Woodville races, between Kauri Gum and Slumber. It has not yet eventuated. Hova is said to be doing little or no work just now, and rumour has it that he is likely to be bought for India within the next few days. The Tapanui Racing Club officials were particularly vigilant in refusing admission to layers of totalisator odds at the club's recent meeting. J. H. Chambers, the jockey, has been cautioned by the Hawke's Bay J.C. that they will cancel his license should he further misconduct himself.

Mr A. R. Macfarlane, the handicapper for the Wairarapa Racing Club, has been asked to retire from tbe position, but shows a reluctance in doing so. It is surely * " fairy tale " which says that in a maiden hack race in the Tauranga district, in which seven competed, there were thirty-two spills and no one hurt. The London Sportsman informs its readers that the Musket Stakes at the Auckland Racing Club's Second Spring Meeting was won by " A. K. Mills,** instead of Armilla. It is estimated that the "totalisator odds'" layers (there were between twenty and thirty of them} handled something like £6000 during" the Wellington R.C. _ Cup meeting. The Victorian Legislative Assembly passed an amendment in the Post Office Bill enabling the authorities to stop the delivery of letters addressed to sweep promoters outside the colony. The date of the Akaroa County R.CMeeting has been altered from the 12th to the 10th March, consequent on the Christchurch Ram Fair being fixed for the first mentioned date.

Mannlicher is not enraged in the next Challenge Stakes, but his engagement in the Fifth Stake has been continued. The colt, who is at present running out, will be shortly.taken up again. Mr Sydney James, secretary of the Dunedin J.C., announces that money will be received, as usual, from those at a distance for investment on the totalisator at the club's Autumn Meeting next -week. The programme for the Dunedin Jockey Club's Anniversary Meeting is the same in every particular as that of lost year. The snm of £375 represents the stake offering-. "I would like to see Liberator come over this sid« lor the V.R.C. and V.A.T.C.

Grand National winter meetings," says "Warrior" in the Melbourne Sportsman in referring to the Betrayer gelding's win at Wellington. Mr John Mills, Waikuku, wants names for his three-vcar-old filly by Son-of-a-Gun— Helena by Poriri, and the two-year-old brother to the same. Had not St. Helena and Napoleon been already in use the titles would have fitted.

For running what he styled an equalizator, in reality a small totalisator, at the Opua (Taranaki) races J. Maxwell was fined ±24. For running a bird-on-the-wing at the Pihama racecourse on New Year's Day another defendant was fined a like sum.

The Hawke's Bay J.C.s committee have resolved that they have no power to interfere in the Tally-ho case. It will be remembered that Tally-ho was disqualified by the Napier Park Club, and the owner of the horse appealed to the Metropolitan body. A Maori owner at Pungarehu refused to pay hi 3 jockey because his nomination lagged in the rear and did not win, " all the same when the white man ride ; the mare never win." A complaint to the stewards by the jockey did not help matters, the Maori remaining obdurate in his resolve not to pay the rider.

The full programme for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting appears in the Calendar this week. The Champagne Stakes is now a fixed stake of SOOsovs, otherwise the programme is the same as that of last season. The amply endowed prizes should, and there is hardly a doubt will, attract competitors from all parts of New Zealand.

The Warrington yearlings will be disposed of next week. Half-a-dozen yearlings from Elderslie will also be offered in Dunedin next week. One of these is" a full brother to Firefly. Then there is a gelding by the New Zealand Cup winner Wolverine from Sortie ; a filly by Artillery from Titania, and three Medallion fillies, one being from that good performer Huguenot.