SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 20 October 1922, Page 2

SPORTING.

— ~—♦ NOTES AND COMMENTS. j (By Maecenas:) i i Bonnie Winkie showed excellent form at Wmgatui, and his connections are now lamenting that they withdrew tli6 ' son of Winkie from the New Zealand A good judge .informed the I writer tnat he will prove to be the best • handicap horse in the Dominion this season. ■■', Volo is doing plenty of road work ' !up north, but will not be called on to j race for some time yet. | The name of Maroueteur as an ac- ... ceptor for the Waverley Gup was omitted from many leading papers. Matatua and Prince Martian were acceptors and ran in the principal race on tne; second (day at Masterton. How Ido the.se omissions occur? I In her winning effort at the Master-s-ton meeting Merry Day showed very j attractive form, and I expect the daughj ter of merry Moment to keep Penitent {busy in the ltimutaka Handicap at < Irentnam. ' ! The Waverley Racing Club received a great response from owners for their annual gathering, and should the amb '".be favoured with good weather they will have an excellent meeting. A few notes thereon will appear to-morrow. . The imported mare Glentruin is particularly good, and may win good races ' 8 season. She is engaged in the Shorts Handicap at Trentham tomorrow, and her supporters should get an excellent run. t ■_? Gasbag and King's Trumpeter, Jetterd holds a strong hand in the Wellington Handicap to-morrow (Saturday), and followers of Mr. A. B. Williams' stable may have no cause for complaint. The October Handicap at the Wellington meeting contains the names of thirty-two "hacks." Many of them will do well in "open" races later on, but in to-morrow's race that promising filly Gazeworthy should have a large following. Pentagruel, who won the two-year-old race at Opaki, is the most commanding | looking offspring of Panmure racing, and one can expect him to do well when matured. Although Royal Box is at a very short price for the ~New Zealand Cup, it would not surprise some persons who profess to know to find Scion a runner and well fancied by his trainer for the big southern handicap. In the early spring Prosperity was jj brought north with the idea "of winning ■

the Wanganui or. Avondale Guineas (or both). As he failed badly when opposed by a second-class lot at • Dunedin it \ certainly looks as if he was over-rated or has failed.to make age improvement. I Sportsmen in this district will be in-1 terested in the Wellington and Waver-i ley Racing Clubs' meetings. The former opens on Saturday and concludes on Monday, while the annual gathering at Waverley is set down for Monday. Some time ago, acting on instructions from the committee of the West Australian Turf Club, the stipendiary stewards repeatedly ordered riders to lengthen, their stirrup leathers. Strange to relate, this. - power has now been revoked,.: .aihd* jockeys can -'.-'again ride in what length they preiar. j Of North Island trained horses en- 1 gaged in the New Zealand Cup none is doing a more thorough preparation than Insurrection, and on each successive occasion that Kilbroney's son is saddled up in public he looks better, and if "Jack" Lowe takes the brown gelding south he will put up a creditable performance.