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E. Scoullar has just received an addition to his team, a black colt, rising two years, by V'arco—Volodia. Luke Wilson lias been engaged to ride First Consul iv his Wellington engagements, and "will be on Mummer in the C.J.C. Winter Cup. Warstcp is being hacked about the roads, preparatory to going into commission once more. She is looking well, and is in great heart to begin work. H. Thomson has decided not to take Martial to Rangiora to-day, as he cousiders the gelding requires a_ good deal more schooling before he will be ready to race over the battensAtheldana has been showing much improvement in her galloping lately, and if she goes on in the way she is doing, will be a very useful filly during the coming season. Stardancer, who ran a dead heat witlr Bon Revo in the Stewards' Handicap nearly two years ago, has retired from the track, and become a member of her owner's solect little stud. •The full brother to Mowbray, in Mr G. D. Greenwood's team, has grown into a commanding three-year-old. He has been doing a lot of very solid work for some time, and is doing well on it. Tho prize money offered for trotting, jumping, and other horse events.at the Brisbane Show next month %mounts to £1500 out of the total of £55u0 provided for tho whole exhibition, which will be open for six days. • The V.R.C. Grand National Meeting will be brought to a conclusion to-day. Chief interest will be centred in the Steeplechase, the'field, for which includes two previous winners in Leah Klcschna and Guncap. G. Price, the Highden trainer, returned to Wellington from Sydney on Wednesday, and went on to Palmerston North the same day. He will havo Garance racing at Treutham next week. A London paper mentions that Happy Slave, who ran Sceptre to a head for the Duke of York Stakes in 1903. ; and won two Transvaal Handicaps and a Goldfields, is now pulling about a trolley at Newtown Market. The old horse looks quite fit and well cared for. Onuka and Memo Valet were associated in a snrint over four furlongs yesterday. Merrio Valet was too good for the hunter, hut it was a fair gallop for that class of horse. Both oi these jumpers are running at Rangiora today. " _ ' J. Hennah informed a Wellington writer tho other day that he had made a present of Captain Jingle, the Grand National Steeplechase winner, to "Charlie Brown, well-known to New Zealand visitors to _ Sydney as the. caretaker «*f th© Randwick racecourse. Mr William Brown has lost the brood mare Otterdcn (imp.), who died a day or two ago at the Segenhoo Stud (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph"). Otterden was by Sheen from Spring Morn, by Springfield from Sunshine, by Thorroanby from Sunbeam, by Chanticloo.r. and was bought hy Mr Brown at the dispersal sale of tlie late Mr G. 0. Stead's stud in 1908. , She was the dam of Boniform, Sungod, Martian, True Form, and others. It is mulei-tood that Ottorden broke her neck. At Trentham last winter, hurdle 3 similar to those in use nt Ellerslie were adopted. Tlie innovation met with _ a good deal of opposition, and a petition was presented, asking for the old kind of obstacle to he reverted to. At tho Wellington E.C.s Winter Meeting next week it has been decided that the hurdles with ieet will be done "away with, and the old kind of obstacles again used. The following,, from a London exchange, suggests that the day is not far distant when an aeroplane will be portion of the equipment of any jockey (professional or amateur), whose services are in particular demand: — "Baron yon Blixen Finecke, after winning a race at Gothenburg on Sunday, _lay 17th, left at 1.45 p.m. on a monoplane for Klampenborg racecourse, near Copenhagen, a distance of about 170 miles, and there had three mounts, a winner, a second, and one unplaced." The North Canterbury and Oxford Jockey Club's Sport-- Sleeting, which > will be held at Rangiora to-day, promises to be a-very interesting; gathering. The fields in most of the events are really good, and thr-ugh the Meeting may lack some of the excitement of a totalisator gathering, it should prove ■ a thoroughly enjoyable sporting fixture. For the convenience of Christchurch Pfoplo a special train will leave the i city for Rangiora at 10.5 a.m., and the first race will start at 12.30 p.m.

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