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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 7

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Oct. 21, ; 22—Waikato Racing Club. Oct. 22, 24—North. .Canterbury Racing Club. . Oct. 24—Waikato Hunt Club. Oct. 2-I—AVaipawa Racing Club. Oct. 24—Wavcrley Raping. Club. Oct. 24, 26—Gore Racing Club, Oct. 27, 29—Poverty Bay Turf Club. Oct.; 29—Banks Peninsula Racing ' Club.. , ■ " . . Oct." 29—JMastertoh Racing.. Club. Nov/s;*'7, 9. 12—Canterbufy Jockey Club. PENMAN SOLD. (United- Proas Assn.—Copyright.) , SYDNEY, Oct. 19. Penman lias beph sold privately to a patron of Whitworth’s stable. The price is not stated.—U.P.A. MELBOURNE NOTES. MERRY MINT MAY START AT MOONEE VALLEY. MELBOURNE, Oct. 19. Manfred’s dam,’ O’tford, foaled) a colt to The Night Patrol. T. Earthing lias arrived and rides Quantart in the. Cantal Stakes. W.' Cook ' - lias arrived and rides Pigeon Pie. J. Daniels, with 13 wins, and W. Duncan,' with 12 wins, head the joc_ key’s list. Merry Mint is ,a likely runner at Moonee Valiev 1 in. the Cox Plate on Saturday.—U.P.A.

i • NOTES AND' NEWS. If York Abbey goes to the post in the mile and a-half hurdle race at the Waikato meeting, his backers should bo prepared to take a short price, says a Wellington, writer, lie vas cried ridden behind at- Eller,slio on Monday in a two mile race, but it allowed to stride 'along in front at fe Rapa, with 16.0 on his back lie should set the Held a merry dance. Titiokoa has been entered for the Members’ Memorial Handicap at the Waikato Hunt meeting. Tins event is run over a mile arid a-quarter, and nli tho racing the Quin Abbey horse aas had he should be quite capable of seeing out the journey, lor lie has previously won up to eight furlongs. Limerick credited Mr. H. A. anight with £6002 as a result of his efforts at the A.4.C. Spring meeting, tlio amount being made up as follows: —’First Spring Stakes, £l6lO. oreeder £125; Second Metropolitan £1200; First Craven Plate, £2187, .oreeder £160; Second . Rundwick Plato, £SOO. It is'computed, that Ills total winnings since lie opened his career as a two-year-old are £26,060. Mr. E. Riddiford lias disposed of tho Kilbroncv gelding Mandarine to Mr. H. Marshall, of Upper Hutt, and he lias joined ' Polonaise under the .-are of H. Benge. There are still a few-grandsons or Carbine left on the. Australian turf. One of the number, Mailman (by -Jeorge Frederick.) won the October Steeplechase at Flemingtou on October 1. Childsplay, who won. the’ McLean Stakes at Dunedin is a full sister to Sudden Storm (who also scored) and .s owned by Sir George Clifford. This .was her first appearance but she mobs to possess plenty, or pace, ibi‘ ■>ln won easily in record time .for be oourM?. SGliildsplay comet Ij'ojn a very speedy family, for she is, from del ter Skelter by Antagonist from Fleet-loot b\ Onnranald from Safeguard. The first of Thespian's stock aifc •acing this seasou and one of them. Miss ; Thespian, who was saddled up or the McLean Stakes at the Dunelin meeting ran third. She is iron iea Elf. by.* Sea Urn. Dehiy.el. from. St.. Evelyn. Sea Elf was the dam or Men mil (the' best two-year-old of his rear in the Dominion), and Waterwings, - who is the dam of Agrion and' Mr AY. Scholium’s, filly White Wings. On breeding Miss Thespian should be more than useful, and her first effort should be encouraging to her owner. Air. J. M. Samson, of .Dunedin, who paid 170gns, for her at auction at Treutham last January. Nukumai got galloped on during lire run ning of the-: principal. handieap .it Otaki, and was unable to race the second day. • Judging by liis-'recent work, itmust be tho intention c-f Abisognc’s party to try him over a distance For the number of minor places without winning a' race this horse mustbe deemed one of the ' unluckiest about. The ordering of the .scratching by the stewards at Auckland of Taitaiata after that gelding had doneliis preliminary has • raised ad slight controversy among sports Mis to the power of the A.R.C. to do this. : Certainly, under the rules, no shell power appears! But, as this horse was very lame, it was only right and proper that jie should be prevented ‘ from starting, although it is only a few years back that the H.B.j.C. stewards refused permission for a horse to be withdrawn that broke down in' the •preliminary. ■ Mr. J. Benson, who was at Auckland told this writer that Taitaiata had no chance of safely getting over the lences. ’ A- AVellington exchange says that, acting on further veterinary advice, it lias been decided not to go on with the throat operation on the two-year-old Shot Silk, for the time being at least. . . .. The Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne “Herald” reports.that the ox-New Zealander, George Aiming, has decided'to retire from the saddle after this season.'Young*has. not had much, success recently, but it is understood that he lias no cause to regret settling in Australia. Nippy is iii at tho minimum in the Waikato Cup and’in the Wellington Handicap. . Nippy, looking just a trilie burly, was prominent all the way in the King Edward Memorial at Ellerslio on ' Monday, finishing up a good fifth behind Star Stranger and Mask.. "As the race should lie of much benefit to him, it is reasonable , to presume ho will be hard to beat very soon. Battle Maid, who created a mild surprise by winuiug tlie Nursery Handicap at AVingatui was having her first run in .public. She has not had much notice at' the hands of pressmen, and : so went out well down in . the . betting, only to win from start to.finish, and pay a. dividend that wanted not much of running into double figures. She is owned by Mr. AV. Baird, a Dunedin sportsman, and was got by imported Nassau froin Light: Action, a nui' c whoso ninio does hot appear in the Stud Book.