SPORTING.
"WAXGAXUI TRAINING XOTES. (I'BESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGBASI.) WAXGANUI, May 18. It was an off morning on the track. Mr Highden'e team. Boanerges. Nyland, Celcano, and Aorengi arrived yesterday, and did useful work this morning. Ail arc in splendid fettle. Aoranjri especially so. Gold Bird arrived last night, and ia looking very fit. She was given a couple of rounds at half pice. " Paiserio. Continuous, and Research, separately did coed strong- work. St. Bill, Overtime, Apollinarii!, and Pearl Reef did fast strong work. A number of others, including John, who moved freely, were also exercised. XOTES. A pair of Hawke's Bay steeplecliasers in Audax and Jack Pot are both gotting through their schooling tasks with every credit. Acceptances for the North Otago Jockey Club's Winter Meeting close this evening. Manchester's schooling efforts over hurdles have not been of a satisfactory nature, and it is quite probably that he will be kept to flay racing. The Lethe* gelding Tilsou has been shipped to Sydney, and will be given a chance, to earn distinction over country at somo of tho Australian winter fixt tiros. Tho ex-New Zealander Pink Un, who fmures as toxt weighty in the Brisbane Two Thousand, -vvill not fulfil his engagement in that event. Post Town, a Perth Cup winner, has agaiu been put into training at Randwick. )Tew Zealand-bred horses were in form at the recent Mentone (Vie.) Meeting, when (Birkenhe.id — Martyrdom) and Lady Obie (Obligate— Cytherea) dead-heated for the Third Pi vision Handicap, and "Waihukii placed a second and third to liis credit. Aborigine is reported to l>o looking particularly well at* Itaiidwick, and it l.s quite on th-e cards that Mr Gordondlias Khatau will keep the New Zealander in Australia till after tho big Spring Me-etin^J-The well-known stallion Projectile, by Chester from Percussion, changed hands in Australia recently at 24gs. In 1894 he won the A.J.C. Metropolitan for Mr J. B. Clark, but he has not been a success at the stud. A Press Association telegram from "Wellington states that at a meeting held last night it was decided to form a Wellinsrton Trotting Club, to operate on the Mrraniar Racecourse. A committee to make arrangements for registering the club nnd applying for the nvmroval of the Minister of Internal Affairs. Colonel Hume •r/resided at tho meeting.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13737, 19 May 1910, Page 8
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