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M^^ Kma J or • fcho KCTr Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's August Moctrog cloeo on Wednesday next Northern,, who won tho Hack and Hunters St«eplochaso on the first day ? i?' ' V . ellin Kton Racing Club's Winter Meeting, was placed on offer, prior to tho meeting, at 100 suflJeas. JSames have been claimed for tho two Amerccan-bred horses in ■ Southland Iho colt by Mexican from Maxino t r. - been nam( *l Mohawk, and the Cosarion— Susie Bush filly ' will rii as Eager Eyes. t T -k° £f sfc of tho 'proseny of the Hon. J. D. Ormond's Enjrli&h-brod sire Hγmottu* have raced this season, us two-year-olds, and six of them from, daughters cf Birkonhoads. have won £21 to in stakes. It Ls reported that Grey King niav bo taken across to Sydney alter tho Grand National Meeting, and that if tho Gis-borno-owned fencer journeys over tho water A. J. McFlynn will ride him in his engagements on the other side. 'Tho Wellington Eyeing Club's Winter Meeting will bo brought to a conclusion at Trentham to-day. Tho chief events on tbo card aro'thf- July Steeplechase and the Final Hurdlos. in each of which several Grand National candidates are engaged. The caretaker of tho Metropolitan trotting track is taking advantage of the fino weather to hare tho track harrowed well. If the weather keep's fine for & iow days the lovelier will bo put on it and then tho going should bo second to none in New Zealand. j Admiral Soult's weight in tho Grand j Hurdles is lOst olb, not 10st ! Sib, as appeared yesterday morning, j Cloudy Dawn, who was handicapped at J 9«t 131b for tae same event-, should not have appeared in i&© list, as he was not nominated. The New South Wales sport£maji. Mr Francis Foy, who left Sydney recently, en route to Paris, intends eelliri£» his jftnd farm in France and sending his brood mares to Australia. Th*y include the well-known performers Playaway, Lord Ullin's Danght-er. and Charmed Life, dam of The Christian Brother. The mares are all stinted to ; Prestige, srro of Sardanaple, tho best of thin aea-son's threo-year-oids ia France. Gipsy Belle, vno was racing at Trentham on Wednesday, was foaled in 1905. ■ and muM be, about tbo oldest, mare in cj-mmisiion in tho DotniinoD. It i-?

rather unusual io tnid such a well-bred mare kept in training up to her age. Sho belongs to tho successful llermaid i family, and waj got by Stopniak from I Belle'Clair. by St. Clair from l>lollo, I h.v Tradueer. St. Clair was got by Musket from Pnkhra. Bert Rao. rider of Captain Jack m I tlio Wellington .<tet>plechase, is a son of tho well-known Auckland owner- ■ trainer, who was years ago jussociatvd with such prominent cross=-comitry P* 1 * - formers as Levanter and Orangeman (■.v-'iys a Wellington A few sfsison's Kick younjr Rao uiot with a railway accidotii while crossing from one hor.-v-box t<-> ar.othor. an -J had u> havo a foot asnpdtjiiotl. Ho informed ■the writer that Captain Jael; was such a great jumper and safe conveyance that one eo:ild rsdo liiui barf-bocktid. Tr.iin*'r*i <Io not often complain of s.iakos being too larp;<>, but mic-U was the casrt in connrxion with the TooUhhhool Hunll.x>at Canlueld (writes divi»*">. ft) IHI2 this event w;ls worm £•2-30, end in 11)13 the suiko was £3-jO. Oi!o would nxn.Kt commit too to be , praised for raising iho sum ihis year to £'30iV Frair-ers. however., would prefer to run li>:' :s i'tivt prize of JJ3iX), t::o i'oo tor a losini; inontit is then only L'o. where:). 1 ! a jockey is o.ntitl^, , xo '_l(t ii the stake excetHJs £30Q. The winner on Saturday received t:V".O. s.» ih.-it tlv> extra .t'.jb meantdonblin«.r tiif •,«>'■• fur a mounc. while. , the winnii , jiX'key n">ceivod £lo more fhan tinder the lower scheduic — £?5. <»;' f_'U. is nsjMisivo,, Kv.d tisoio anomalii's press •je.ivily on those who have to pay. The b'/irne" jies not wiih tho of an individual clnb. b«t with tb»> trainers 01 tho Rules of Itaciuu. A petition .signed by ,1 nuinbor of horsfv-ownore was received by tho Jlaciii£ Conference on Thursday, askinp foi relief for the mother of a jockey named Macintosh, who w;w kilk-d in a race at Blenheim. Tho president (Sir Gcori" Clifford) explained that the owner of, tho horso had not paid his accident foe. and "wttvs not entitled to relief. {In was roallv tho person who should give relief, which, through his negligence, was cut out of tho proper fund. Mrs Macintosh had taken legal actior [against the owner, but jmlp.inent had gono to the defendant. One had, of course, pcreat sympathy with ono whwas unable to ;jet <:ompcnsation. through the of the owner but tho petition raised a dangerous nrecedont, and it rof?ted with tho Cov.fcrenco to consider what to do with it. Aftor a brief di'Knission, tho petition was referred (vrith a recommendation to favourable consideration) to a corn mitteo consisting: of Messrs F,. W. Alison, ITuro Frie<llundcr, and P. MilIrr.