SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 5

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTES PROM GASTERBURi: [Special to the Stap j CHRISTCHURCH, July 2L m Waia has returned fwan Wellingtoil with a swoUon leg, which has kept, him idle for a'few days. . Ouiragno, Cava'lry, and Swimmer, in charee of Demus Moraghan, arrived from Auckland on Thursday to fulfil their respective engagements at the Grand; National meeting. They are quartered -ait Dan HishT 3,11 K ‘ Tb4?y were accompanied by Riccarton people who attended Ibe WeW hngton meeting have returned very much impressed with Wirral. They think that the son of Birkenhead is likely to achieve Ingh honors. It is reported that Mr Stead bos soM Cruciform to a Victorian racing man, and that the son of Multiform is to join West's team at Caulfield. Sir George Clifford has sold Stronghold to a patron of W. Clarke’s stable—either Air Duncan Rutherford or Mr G. Palmer. For the Grand National double the following have mot with support:—Sol and Cavalry, Swimmer and Kremlin, Irish and Ability, Kaitere and Kremlin, Eurus and Lull, Kaitere and Florio, Haydn and Asteroid, Haydn and Romany King, Playfair and Ability, Rongoa and Pushful, Waiwera and Shrapnel, Kaitere and Hydrant, Slow Tom and Asteriod. Slow Tom and Hydrant, Kiatere and Shrapnel, Irish and Shrapnel, Kiatere and Asteroid, Kiatere and Kremlin, Sol and Asteroid, Sol*, and Shrapnel, Ecus and Shrapnel.—Maui, Ellerton, Rose Madder, Red Gauntlet, and Aimamento have all been backed for the. Winter Cup. K Pentagraph’s ” annual batch of racing statistics appear in the current number of the ‘ Weekly, Press.’ Multiform beads the list of winning sires, and is followed by Stepniak, Soult, Seaton Delaval, Clanranald, and Alerriwce, in the order named. The list of winning horses is beaded by Noctuiform, with Isolt, Boomerang, Ach'Ues, and Kirriemuir following. . Mr Stead leads the successful owners, with Sit George Clifford next, and Mr E. J. Watt, the Hon. J. D. Ormond, and J. Monk third, fourth and fifth respectively. The Waimate Peeing Club have a cash credit balance of £328. The Christchurch Hunt Club are holding their annual point-to-point steeplechase this afternoon. The weather during the past week las been rather more seasonable than for any previous week during the present winter-; in other words, it has been cold at times and wet at times. Sunday, Afonday, and Tuesday were bitterly cold, apd although the temperature rose, the next three days saw rain fall heavily. The tracks at Riccarton are consequently very heavy, and little work of importance has been dene since bit previous despatch. Cnits thinks it useless to attempt to get Signalllian ready in lime for the Grand National meeting. The son of ClanranaW has been withdrawn from the Winter Cup. The Green Island Bowling Club last night beat the St. Kilda Club at euchre by twenty-seven games to nineteen.