SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13188, 7 August 1908, Page 9

SPORTING.

RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES. Wednesday. Cold, showery weather, with fitful bursts of sunshine, made mat ten very unpleasant fcr training operaticris this morning, and more than once drove the ordookcrs to shelter. A good numbed: of the fair ccx graced tiio prooeodings by their presence, but by no means was the crowd generally as largo as in p-net years. Cutts's team was the firsa to get uoing. and did u?ofu! hraif-pa.ee work. Contender and Xremuloua finished togethor over four furlongs in 52sec. Ability and The Libyan were sunt two circuits on tbo tan. sprinting home the last half-mile. Love Wisely ran five furlongs in luiin 7 l-oih sec. Prim lx>nt Cavatina over five furlongs. Canton and Ben. Fortunn covered a milo a.ud n quarter at three-quarter pace. Hilarity cut out a mile in Jmir. 51f.ee. R-fo Nob o went the eamo distance ait tbreequartor pace. Probable beat Heorthcii over »,, ini|o in. Jmir. 40t00.-tha former galloping in. iiocd style. Don Oriino wan tco good for Lapland- over a miWwhich he covered in lru.:n 52 2-oth sec. Va?a spurted over five furlongs in lmin 8 l-sth eoc. Maid of Aetokt took a socond less for the earne journey. Lin.<re>rer went a circuit at half pace. Ca' C«ukjc went twice round, tt gocd gallop. Crows Battery and Sea King wore associated together over four furlongs in 50 2-sth sec. Zetland ran t.ix furlongs in lmin 20sec. Lady Disdain galloped cis furlongs at thrcc-qur.rtw paeo. Le Beau beat Nadodor over a mile and a quarter. Golden. Cairn beat Lupiilito over six furlongs in lmin, 22 fee. Swimming Bolt diid a useful working ;*al!op. Ghoorka, looking- well, covered a •circuit at three-quarter pneo. Leoside ran seven in lmin STsec. Pierre and Loch Fyno wont twice round at half pace. Storm ran revon furlong*. Portland joined in the !«-t five furlongs, taking lniin IS'riec. BlythTnMid did a good workifrwr gallop. Mcorl:-?r. beat Shimmer over six furlongs. Harvest, S'cotty. Mn-hararui. and Sen Sim ran a mile in coruppry. llnTves't nciflKd a neck in front in Iniin 50-ec. Albury did twice rcurii at r.n w?y oar.tw. All Ecd brat Kurowska over pix furlongs in lmin 20ppc Chief Lochiel wa= in front' of Thyrsu* over nix furlon-.'?. run iv lmin 2kec. Tc«era ran a mile alone in lmin sS«oc. X latere covered tw.- cirruiis unuer half pnoe. Mctoa ww s-iven the dnily ta°k over four furlongs. Showman did half poco work. Slow Term got bis UMial ro.sy cantw. White Cockade, brought hem? by Silkweb, cut out five furin lmin .;.fcc—n good crllop. Trent covered th«> fnme dtf-tar.ee iv lmin Teec. Deer-layer (J. O'Conreil). Pilot (T. Caihill), Eur us 'W. O'ConneliX, and L:ch!vugi>.r (Mr J. f->':by> went twice rour.d the big ferae©'; Pilot 'r-riced faultier - )* thTcurbout. Kurus jumped better cs he warmed up. Doerslayer cnine to trrief nt t;:o sod wall, and wa« not remounted. Mrt .'rificcrt (Redmsr.d) jnmned the ccuntrv. but nrs a- hc-pr,'<v* exhibition. Scuthern Cro-"> (Better 1 . Aornn'-ri (11. Cairn*), nrd Whatalnira (J. O'Connell) jumped fix hurdle-" in cnmof.ny. Sr-'ithp-n Oro?« dwe"t vwy much <-.n lartdinz. Th" eUier two fenctd in good ft vie Wee M.eareejor (W. O'Conre'l> negotiated the hrrdles. fencing earefe'lv. Tho hunter Jennella arrived from the North by the Maori to-day.