SPORTING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 5

SPORTING.

RACING AND TROTTING NOTES. (BY "liOokee-ON.") Gaylad arrived at Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon, and went into M. Hobbs's stable to be prepared lor the Autumn Meetings. The imported horse, who has done a light season at th>> stud, is looking well. T. H. Gillett leaves for the West Coast to-morrow.. Biplane is being kept to trotting, and cantering in the. middle. He is* a very keen worker, and id showing muscle already. The Cerise and Blue—Kejoct gelding in P. McGrath's stable has been named Sea. Blue. Nominations for the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Summer Meeting c.lose at 8 pan. to-morrow. After an interval of six weeks, racing will be resumed in tho Dominion to-day. Of the five fixtures set down, three are in tho North Island—the Auckland Racing Club's . Summer Meeting, tho Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting, and the Taranaki Jockey Club's Christmas Meeting. _ The South Island fixtures are tho Dunedin Jockey Club's Summer the Kaikoura Racing Club's Annual Meeting, the latter a non-totalisator gathering. At the Newmarket sales, at 'the beginning of tho present'month, the late Viscount Falmouth's stud • realised 49,070 guineas. Officious was sold for 3700 guineas, and The Stickler, a half-brother to King Off a, for 8200 guineas. At a meeting of the committee of _ the Dannevirke Racing Club, hold on Friday, a programme was approved for tho Autumn Meeting, involving £1310 in stakes, as compared with £980 for the corresponding Meeting last year. \lt was decided to name the principal race of the Mooting, an open handicap of 300 sovs, the Hartgill Memorial. Punka and Winter CherTy have been scratched for ait engagemets at the Southland Mooting next week. ' (By "Searchlight.'') Acceptances for the Canterbury Park Trotting Club's Summer Meeting close at noon to-morrow. B. Jarden has secured a further lease of Author Dillon. „ . t Woodroof, the dam of Nihilist and-Social-iat, foaled a filly to Marvin. Wilkes last i week. Unfortunately for her owner, sho died a few days after the foal wae born. | The well-known Auckland trotting enthusiast, T./W.-Price, has taken over the Hororata Hotel, the license of which was for-• merly held by the late T. "W • Price, jun. The Ashburton Trotting Club will hold , its Summer Meeting to-day. The fields are large, and some interesting racing should..] be witnessed. The principal event on the card, the Ashburton Trotting. Cup, has drawn eleven acceptors, including the lour-year-old gelding Albert Cling, who to start favourite. F. Holmes holds a stron 2 hand with Admiral Wood and Tnx Pointer, while J. Bryce has a useful pair » Lord Roanchild and Tamarisk engaged. , Several speedy pacers stand their ground in tne Boxin" Day Handioap, amongst them being Admiral rfal, lrv f /Albert Cling, Evelyn, and Tamarisk. A special train m loiivo for Ashburton at 9.20 a.m., and return at | 5.10 p.m. _