LATE SPORTING
The D.J.C. races are fixed for Saturday of this week and Monday ami Wednesday i of next week The course is in good order, and if the j present fine weather continues it should be splendid going. The races are admittedly hard to pick. Messrs Gordon and Curry aro to be the : stipendiary stewards on duty. A special train is to leave for Christchurch on the night of the third day. i On each day of ttie races the, south exj press will stop at Wingatui, both going and coming. THE WRONG HORSE. A CURIOUS MISTAKE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 28 In reference to tho objection which has been raised' in racing circles to the Hypatia filly, Mr Woolton states that at I tho auction sales ho thought ho had ' bought No. 12 on the catalogue, a, black ! Jester—Hvpatia fillv, but b© really bought I No. 13, a'black Jester—Palm Branch filly. 1 Ho entered his purchase as a Hypatia filly for several races, and ran her in that 1 name at Epsom before winning at Gat- | wick. That night the purchaser of the real ITvpatia filly telephoned him that she had been shipped abroad. Ho immediately reported the facts to tho racing I authorities.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18288, 30 May 1923, Page 8
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211LATE SPORTING Evening Star, Issue 18288, 30 May 1923, Page 8
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