RACING AND TROTTING

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1925, Page 6

RACING AND TROTTING

GLOAMING AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, June 30. Gl.i.-i ,n ing arrived aboard the Ulima--111:1 bi-dav in condition. GLOAMING’S SIRE DEAD. .MELBOURNE, June 30. The famous racing sire. Tim Welkin, Mountain Lion has been scratched IM the Grand National Hurdles. WELLINGTON. June 30. Tc-ikiy Serenade was scratched for ail engagements at Wellington. TROTTER DIES SUDDENLY. AUCKLAND, .lune 30. ’file champion three-year-old trotter, ivawhaki, brought from Christchurch a week ago, tor which the owner, Mr • ascy. ot Auckland. refused £lOOll, I his season, has died suddenly. racing notes. i'.dyplumms was galloping well prior to leaving Gisborne for 1 lie Napier inis meeting, but had aot quite got "'■er the sea trip when he ran at the la I lor place. He showed improvement at Hastings, and beat the well-backed - Nine of Spades. Frenchman and Apache, in charge of I'. McKay, have arrived at Treuthani, " Imre both horses are booked to assist . 3 the Wellington fixture. Te Kava and Lisogne, the two horses I purchased in Hie North Island recently l by J. B. Pearson. have arrived at Riciiirtoii, bid have not put in an appearance on the training tracks. it is practically certain that Count 1 'ax our will be raced in Australia during the spring, and T. H. Gillett will probably leave for Sydney in August with the Solferina gelding. Count Cavour was the biggest stake earner in the Dominion this season. He start'd in thirteen races, winning eight and being unplaced 71 the other li'Z, winning ■w<is,’i in prize-money. Dutch f’liurage is still showing signs /tif uiisoundness, and though she is gradually getting over the trouble, R. Alexander xvill leave her on the easy 'list until she is unite sound again. The Winkle gelding. Red Wink, I still under veterinary treatment. Il • s' ,wr! tin that his Australian trip will have to lie abandoned. Nukumai is in great i'axour in the North Island foi Ia 1 x"': a.ii’irdb-

races near at hand. Sow ■ of his admirers go the length of saying he will ", in t\\ o or t hive on end. This is a lug order, but a double al Treuthani wav not be beyond him, as a win on the first day will not give him a penalty for the riclier event on the third dav of the meeting. He is a great j'laiper, <a good stayer, and xet.» well. Eireblight will make her next appearance in the Wellington Steeplechase, and if the Hawke’s Bay nmre continues to improve, she is bound 1" be prtiminerd in that event. She had none the best of the luck at Hastings, mid when rising al the double in the timit < ire-nit, I'uwhero knocked her, and tic lost a good deal el ground.