LATE SPORTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 8

LATE SPORTING.

| The Eastern Handicap winner, An--1 toinette, is an unlikely starter in the Avondale Cup. The daughter of boult iis "doing useful work, but is hardly ready yefc for a severe race. Santa E*6a is also ah unlikely starter. Mr. W. Montgomery informs "Whale, bone" that he does not intend taking Hoanga- to Sydney. Mr. Montgomery visited Te Aroha last week to have a look at Nelius, which was injured when h© felt in the Maiden Hurdle Race- at Ellerslio last spring. The son of Nestor has been turned out at Mr. .). M'Nicoi's farm for some time, but still shows pigns of his mishap, and Mr. Montgomery is not at all hopeful of getting another- rara out of him. By winning the Crofton Handicap on the second day of the Mart on meeting. Epsom Lass has incurred a. penalty of slb for the Avondale Cup, but even with this her weight is only 7.4, and the exAuckland mare has 'now come into some j favouritism for the Cup. j The members of the Mines Commission left Wellington for luvercargill last night. Mr- S. S. Mason, who has resided for the past eight yGirs at. Munakau, has sold his iM'operty to Mr .T. Bevaii, and at an., •ariy data.. .will renioY* to thje Hutt.