SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 16909, 5 December 1918, Page 3

SPORTING

REDUCING RECORDS. Of 16 published records in Australia and Now Zealand -at. tho end of last season only five remained. Tho record lists in these lands now read : Four furlongs: Surveyor, 45? sec. Four and a-haJf furlongs: Woorak, Five furlongs: Machine Gun, 58seo. Ftive and a-haJf f i-rlongs : Poitrina, lmin 6-isec. Six furlongs: KUboyne, lmin 10?ec. Seven faurlonga: Jolly Beggar, lmin 251ae0. Ono mile: Desert Gold, lmin 37§secOne mile and a furlong: Gloaming, lmin 52sec Ono lrdlo and a distance: De. la Rey, lmin 54isec. One mile and a-quanter: Cetigne, 2rnin 4£seo On© milo and three furlongs: Carlito, 2mln 18-jSOC. One mile and a-half: Poitrel, 2min olsec. Ono milo and five furlongs: Cha-nte-merle (imp.), 2min 45sec. Ono roilo and three-quarters: Scoutmaster, 3n;in. Two miles: Wat-step, 3min 24see. Two miles and a-quarter : Harriet G'.'ihnin (imp.), 3ir.in 53.jsee. Threo miles: Trafalgar, smin 22|sec. Client was withdrawn front the Auckland Gup and Acre- from tho Railway Handicap on Saturday morning. Finmark, like 'Estlariil. "has lieen purchased by Mr Wade, of Sydney. The former's absence from the Auckland Derby is to be regret-tod, as his meeting with Gloaming, to whom ho was runner-up in tho A.J.C. Derby. would have been looked forward, to with interest. It has been definitely decided that there will be no raein-jr at Taikapuna before January 29. which means that tho club's spring meeting, which w r a« originally fixed for Sa.tr.rdav last, will nob l>e held.