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Thravo was scratched for the Winter Cup at the Grand National Meeting at 9.15 a.m. yesterday. A large number of gertlemon connected with tho racfng world left for Wellington last ni__ht to attend the annual i&tcing and Trotting Conferences, to bo held in that city.

W. Retter, the jockey who was injured some time ago at Riccarton and now lies in the Hospital, was a little better yesterday, but was still unconscious;

The Johannesburg Wint-er Handicap of £1250 soys, nine furlongs, run on. June Ist. was won by J. B. Honman's Who's ■my Father, by Breadkmfe or Love Wisely, carrying 6st 21b, Sir Abe Bailey's Abelord Bst 12lb being second, and. H. P. Rudd's Adair third.

The . Yeovillo Welter Handicap, of 500 soys; run the same day, 7 was an-, nexed by Sir D. Harris's Comono, by Bachelor's Button, ■■ D. P: Simson's Happy Moments-rdhhing second, and C. E, .McKiddey's: King Henry being third/'"-.7 : 7yV'7 '':: : :' ■

yKhamsiiiy'who. it will be remembered, won the Raukawa Cup on the iirstdayof tho late Otaki R.C. Summer Meeting, and was injured on the second day of the meeting, was taken home " from Otaki to Trcntham last week. It is considered quite likely that the mare will not race again.

At a meeting of the stewards of the Masterton Racing Club last week, a letter was received from the Marlborough* Racing Club, stating that tho proposed dates for the Spring Meeting of eacbyclub clashed, and asking the Masterton Club, if possible, to alter its dates. The secretary was instructed to write to the Marlborough Club, informing them that it was impossible for the Masterton Club to make the desired alteration, and suggesting that the Marlborough Meeting be held a week or two earlier. It was explained that the reason why the Masterton Club could not alter their date was because they had to race before "Wellington, and the Napier Park Racing duo ■•tad altered their dates so as not to clash with Masterton.

P. Johnston has ridden the winner if the Wellington Steeplechase three times, but no other jockey has ridden more than ono winner of this race.

Nor'-West, Gobo, and Kiatere each havo two wins to their credit in the Wellington Steeplechase. Whikaraka, Southland's only Grand National Hurdles representative, and, probably, the province's first representative in the big race, is doing pleasing work on the Riverton tracks. He-' will be taken to Riccarton to finish off his preparation at the end of this month, and will be ridden in his race by the apprentice "Waddell. With a view to being ready for the next wet season that happens along, the management of the Southland Racing Club are putting in noarly twenty miles of r.ew drains in its racecourse property. The subsoil lends itself particularly to the drain-plough, and it is intended to plough round and round the two grass and plough tracks at intervals of about every eight feet.-