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A start will be made with the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's Spring Meeting to-day, when the principal item of interest will be the Hastings Stakes, a race confined to two-year-olds. The Hawke's Bay Guineas will come on for decision to-morrow. A special train will leave Christchurch* at 10.35 a.m. to-morrow for the convenience of those desirous of attending the Ohoka and Eyreton Jockey Club's Meeting.

A large contingent of Riccarfcontrained horses are booked to leave this week u> fulfil engagements at the Dunedin Jockey Club s Spring Meeting. The well-known northern horseman, J. Sceats, has been retained to ride California in the New Zealand Cup. Latest reports credit the son. of San Fran with being quite ebund and galloping well. The Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting will be continued to-day, when the oluef items of interest will be the weight-for-age Craven Plate and Grantham Stakes. Maranui, Golden Slipper, and Provocation claim engagements in the former event, the distance of which, a mile and a quarter, should be to their liking. ■

Leeside, who raced for many seasons in Canterbury, won a small hurdle race in Victoria recently.

Two New Zealandens in St. Felix and Burton are among the most recent withdrawals from the Melbourne Cup. No bookmakers have applied and paid the fees as required by the Ohoka and Eyreton Jockey Club, for its meeting to-morrow.

The. latest files from Capetown showthat the New Zealand-bred Uniform, full-brother to Multiform, headed the list of winning sires in South Africa for the season just ended. The success of sires bred in the Dominion was emphasised by the fact that progeny of Uniform, Altair, and Senngapatam (late Screw Gun) each won a Tace at the August meeting of the Johannesburg Turf Club. AH three horses. Uniform, Altair, and Seringapatam, were at one time the property of the late Mr Geo. G. Stead. <