SPORTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 August 1927, Page 6

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. September 2, 3—Marton J.C. September 3—A.J.C. Warwick Farm. September 8, 10—Wanganui J.C. September 9—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Cliib. September 10—Otago Hunt Club. September 14—Dannevirke R.C. ‘September 15—Dannevirke Hunt Club. September 24—Ashburton County R.C. September 24, 26—Napier Park R.C. September 24, 26—Avondale J.C. September 29, 30—Geraldine R.C. October I—Hawke’s1 —Hawke’s Bay J.C.

EGMONT-WANG ANUI HUNT. (by TELEGRAPH— press association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 29. The following weights were omitted from the Lgmont-Vv anganui Hunt: — Hunters’ Hordes.—Great Day 10.5. Maiden Handicap.—Blimp a.2. WELLINGTON RACING CLUB. WELLINGTON, Aug. 29. The Wellington Racing annual report shows a profit of £175 for the season. The sum of £38,610 was paid in stakes and £41,533 in taxation. The total revenue from the totalisator was £51,893. The freehold assets of the dub stand at £141,600, against which are mortgage and debentures of £75,000.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. (By “Maecenas.”) Asleep (Sarto— Lady Napper), formerly owned, trained and raced in Taranaki, won the Jumpers’ Flat at the MenangJe (N.S.W.) meeting held last week.

Considering we are well on in spring, racehorses in most parts of the Dominion are more backward than usual, due to the abnormal amount of rain being experienced. Nadarino and Indian Sage, recently trained at Trentham for Mr. Vivian lliddiford, were sold last week to the West Australian, sportsman Mr. J. O’Hara. They will he sent across next week. The new course at Marton will he very soft for Friday’s racing. In the past Taranaki owners have been good patrons of the Alar ton Jockey Club’s spring fixture, and judging from the number of horses from our province engaged there this week the average will be well maintained. A well-known northern trainer was anxious to secure the sex-vices of B. Morris for the season, hut so far a big retaining fee has not tempted Morris. (Star God, the full brother to Star Stranger, is due to make his first public appearance at the Marton meeting. Trainer Jefferd expects him to prove .better than hack class, as he has engaged Star God in the New Zealand Cup. The spring meeting of the Marton Jockey Club, which virtually opens the 1927-28 flat racing season, is 6et down for Friday and Saturday next. The Marton Jockey Club have spent between forty and fifty thousand pounds on the remodelling of their course and are to be complimented on their enterprise, but in these days of falling revenue the club is faced with a big burden. Always - very unsound, Monaghan again proved by winning on Saturday what a useful gelding he is. He is now a stablemate of Yoma, and the pair should do well in this season’s engagements. The English-bred Drawbridge, who was raced unsuccessfully in this Dominion, is doing well since being sent to Australia. ‘ Last Saturday he beat quite a good held in the chief handicap at Kosehill, yet in New Zealand he could not beat a lot of second rate hacks.

Kiosk, who in the past has shown much brilliancy, is forward in condition and may do well in spring engagements. The northerner Scat, who has shown good form at times in the Auckland province, has been brought down for the Wanganui meeting. If able to show . his best form, Scat will run prominently in his engagements. The English horse Grand Knight is pleasing his trainer in hits tasks on the Wanganui track, and it is hoped and expected that Grand Knight will prove hard to beat in the Eclipse Stakes next week.

The three-year-old Paleta is doing well at Wanganui, but at present has very little hair on his body. The disease has been diagnosed as the aftereffects of poison, which it is thought Paleta contracted in Australia last autumn.

Taking a line through the good race which Lady Acre ran at the Pakuranga Hunt Club meeting recently, and seeing how easily Just John beat her at the Taranaki Hunt Club’s meeting last Saturday, it is obvious that Just John did not show anything like his true form up till the time he fell in the Hunters’ Hurdles at the Pakuranga meeting.

The forward running and good form under big weights of Banjuke and Gilgai last Saturday makes one wonder why such a useful and legitimate pair of hunters should be barred by the conditions from competing in the richly endowed Pakuranga Hunt Club Cup. Banjuke and Gilgai have won races (other than hunters’) of more than £IOO, and this disqualified them from the Pakuranga Hunt Club Cup.

Word received recently from Australia states that M. McCarten _ will ride Aorangi in the Epsom Handicap. Aorangi is trained by P. Keith, formerly well-known in Hawera, and is greatly fancied in some quarters.