SPORTING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16211, 14 May 1918, Page 8

SPORTING.

RACING AND TROTTING

NOTES.

(Br "Looker-On.")

• Bomb will not be a competitor at the Marlborough Meeting, which is to bo held to-day and to-morrow.

Acceptances for the North Ota go J.C.'s forthcoming Meeting close on Thursday next.

C. Emerson goes into the CI camp early in June. J. Olsen, who has been passed fit, goes into camp on June loth.

Naupatii was lame when, he walked on to tho track yesterday morning, but ho worked it off while doing steady pacing on the plough.

Kimbolton was turned loose • with We 11 wood in the schooling ring yesterday, but he would not jump with an empty saddle, so Hagerty got on him, and, getting a lead from Wellwood, the Menschikoif gelding then shaped well for,a first attempt.

F. I>. Jones leaves for Wanganui on Wednesday evening, with Bore and Charley. Bore is to have his final school over the big fences in company with Paremata to-day.

Handicaps for tho Dunedin Winter Meeting will not appear until May 2lth, the day after the North Otago Mooting. ''

The Wanganui District Committee is holding ft special meeting to-day to consider W S. Young's appeal against tho disqualification of two years imposed on him by tho Manawatu Kacing Club, for his handling of Ibex at its Autumn Meeting.

(By "Searchlight.")

Nominations for the Canterbury Park Trotting Club's Winter Meeting :loso at 8 p.m. to-morrow.

The leading horsemen, A,_ Pringle and J. Bryce, were both engaged at Forbury Park on Saturday, but neither succeeded in increasing his winning total.

The Auckland owner-trainers, W. G. Abbott with Brown's <Nugget and Strategy, and A. Brown with Harold Junior, Quadroon, anrt Shanghai, who were competing at Forbury Park on Saturday, intend racing their horses at the Canterbury Park Club's Meeting on June'3rd, and also at Ashburton on Juno 13th.