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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14760, 2 September 1913, Page 8

SPORTING.

+: . . NOTES. '. Acceptances for the Dannevirke Racing Club's Spring Meeting close this evening. Masterpiece has had to bo eased in his work, owing to one of his forelegs giving some trouble. However, he was doing steady pacing yesterday morning, 'and although his o near foreleg was bandaged, he was apparently moving quite soundly. The Chokebore Lodge stable will not have a representative at the Ashburton Ciub's iieeting next week. Scottish Star has been thrown out of work, and i.s to bo mated with Antagonist. . Nightwatch • seems to have almost recovered' from the soreness that affected .him some weeks ago. Hβ was on the course yesterday morning, and was given steady pacing. Peireno and a filly by Boniform.— Lady Wayward 11. are to be shipped .to Sydney on Thursday in order to be mated with one of the prominent-eires in New South Wales. At the annual meeting of the' Forbufy Park Trotting Oiub, -Mr 11. Rutherford was elected president in succession to Mr W. J. Gore, who has held office since 1906, but did not offer himself for re-election. The Wairarapa Racing Club has authorised its Programme Committee to allot a sum not exceeding £2250 as stakes for the, Summer Meeting. Big Blast has been fired, and will be placed on the retired list for a month o-: two. Her stable mate Undecided will be seen out at forthcoming Spriuy Meetings. • • Woolloomooloo, who went slightly amiss just prior to the Grand National Meeting , -, 'is once more in active work on the Hastings tracks. What Sir Robert Stout termed a novel application in his forty years' experience with courts and their workings was made by Mr W.. J. Treadwell at the Supreme Court at Wanganui yesterday, on hehalf of a juror who wished to be excused from service. He stated that the applicant was a horse-trainer, and that his charges had very important engagements to fulfil at the Marton "races this week, and that if he was debarred from attending to them in the last few days, all his past preparation might nol be of any avail. On the ground that applicant's absence from nis employmt ? e - . mi S lrt interfere detrimentally with hie business, the application was granted.