SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1933, Page 11

SPORTING

AUCKLAND CLUB MEETING.

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AUCKLAND, August 15. Mr C. E. Major (ex. M.P.) speaking at the annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club, said the hospitality of the Club had always been extended in a greater measure to owners throughout Auckland province, than clubs did in the South Island. There seemed to have been a revolution in the Canterbury Jockey Club. He could quite imagine how the sanctity of that body was upset when the proposal to lower members’ subscriptions was carried. He did not think there was any reason to alter the subscription, as far as the Auckland Racing Club was concerned, but he thought the time had arrived when they should reduce the fees as far as the Auckland public was concerned. The Club had a reputation for giving good stakes, and he hoped that they would continue to increase them when possible. Mr Major suggested that the Club should do something to promote a King’s Cup Race. WINOOKA INDISPOSED. SEATTLE, August 15. The race between Winooka and Onrush has been postponed till August 26. The delay is caused through Winooka’s indisposition. - TROTTING. PRINCE LOGAN AT STUD. Attention is drawn to an advertisement on the front page of this issue, announcing that the standard-bred trotting sire, Prince Logan, will stand the season at Victoria Park, Greymouth, and at Hokitika, and surrounding districts, where sufficient inducement offers. Prince Logan is a son of the wonder sire, Logan Pointer, from a daughter of the great Rothschild, and is already the sire of very promising stock. Owing to an accident, Prince Logan could not be properly trained, but he did enough work to show that he possessed exceptional speed at the pacing gait. Prince Logan is by Pointer (by Star Pointer, out of Effie Logan). Star Pointer was got by Brown Hal out of Sweepstakes, and Effie Logan by Durfee out of Ripple. Prince Logan’s dam, Babbs, was a sister to Reno Rosa, by Rothschild out of Black Floss. Rothschild was by Childe Harold, from Beito Briggs, and Black Floss by Blackwood from Abdullah Floss. The fee asked is most reasonable, and the terms of payment are one-half down, and the balance on »January 1.