SPORTING.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 11

SPORTING.

RACING AND TROTTING NOTES.

(DT "Lookku-ON-") Nominations for the Dunedin J.C. Wintc-. South Canterbury J.C. Autumn, auc North Dingo J.C. Winter Meetings closc U> day. Acceptanccsi for the Wellington R.C. An* tumu Meeting clos? to-day. Gay Lad was exercised on the lead yestcrdav ' The imported horse lias still a swollen near sido hind fetlock, the result of being gul.oped on in .tho Easter Handicap, but tko cuts arc not serious, and ho walks sound. M. Hobbs will only havo Punka racing at the Wellington meeting. Ho gms North with the Great Autumn winner on Monday evening. This fitly was given steady pacing yesterday. and is nono t.ho worso for her exertions earlier in tic week. y. Christmas will tako Some Kid to Trentham on Monday night. Glondowr is *lw engaged. but his owner has not decidcd as to the Olenapp gelding's next outing. Both gp'.dings wero worked yesterday, their tasks being steady pacing and trotting in tho middle respectively. G. Price with tho Highdcn team, and R.. J. Mason with Gleaming, left for Trcntliaru last, night. H. C'utts will leave for Wellington on Monday evening with tho Chokeboro team. After racing at Trentham they will go ou to Palmerston for tho Manawatu meeting. Nominations for tho Wanganui J.C. Winter Meeting will close at S o'clock this evening. G. Mathews has taken Sunart and Kilgonr homo to Eldcrslio. Tho pair will not race at cither tho Wellington or Manawatu meetings. 1"\ D. Jones intends racing two of his team at tho Wellington meeting. Bondage will be one, and tho other will bo selected from Charley and Post Haste. After racing at. Wellington Bondage will go on to her owner's station in Hawka's Bay, and will be turned out for twelve months. ll© will go North on Tuesday nest, end, returning to Kiccarton after the meeting, will tako rJoro and Kuripos back North to compete at, tie Hawera, Wanganui, and Auckland meetings. Boro and Post Haste aro to be placed on tho private ealo list. G. Jones took Surveyor with him when he returned to tho North Island. Art was given strong pace work yesterday. He looks oil tho better for his race last Monday. Bright Spot was Bold during the week by R. Emerson to a Southland sportsman, and has 'gone south with P. T. Hogan's team. Cerberus will not ruco at the Wellington meeting. The M<>nschikofl gelding went shin sore after the two raccs he hod on Monday and Tuesday, and liongley has deciacd t<j give, the sore shins a good blistering. Moorabbo was out being exercised on th« lead yesterday. She is a fractious mare, and it is hard to keep condition on her, but aha has not lightened up much after her two bard raccs. Fabisco, WEo has boon racing two lessons, has won four races of the va.uo of £Jl2 10s, besides being placed ou several occasions. An interesting story is related in regurd to tho naming of that highly capable littlo equine Undo Ned, tho winner o! the Easter Handicap and St. George's Handicap at the Auckland Racing Club's Easter Meeting. When tho son of Marble Arch and Miss Gladys stood up to face a cruel world in the spring of 1913 ho was of so. unprepossessing an appearance and looked such a weakling"that there wcro Borne doubts as *o his surviving. Mr "Ned" Shiriffs, tho caretaker at Avondale; played a part in the early lifo of tho Marblo Arch gelding; and that being so it was deemed appropriate that the gelding should carry tho title of Uncto Ned. At a meeting of the committee of tho • Dunediti Jockey ■ Club, held on Thursday, it, was decided to increase the stakes for the classic races a3 under:—McLean Stakes, from £300 fo £500; Dunedin Guineas, from £<00 to £500; and Champagne Stakes, from £350 to £600. (By "Seauchlicht.") i Acceptances for the New Brighton Trot" > ting Club's Autumn Meeting close on Mon- , day at noon. The grass track at New Brighton will be open ou Tuesday. i Littlo work of importance took place at New Brighton yesterday. Half to threcquarter work was done by Nelson Bingen, ■ Beta, Peter, Rita Rose, Lulu Child, Irvar, r King Lear, Gleaming,' Proud Elsie, The F "vvliip, Jessie Dillon, Bronwood, Leila Don- [ ver, and several maiden pacers and trotters« Koraki has bean scratched for all engag»- ' men to at the Kaikoura Meeting. r SYDNEY YEARLING SALES. ' (By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. ' (Australian and Cable Association.) ' (Received April 25th, 10.30 p.m.) v SYDNEY, April 23. At the yearling sales to-day oornpetition . improved. A Finland—Warscare colt, sold i on behalf of Mr T. H. TcaW HOOg# . A Syoe—Wisebird colt brought IOOOgs.