SPORTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17249, 17 August 1916, Page 9

SPORTING.

NEWS AND NOTES. Acceptances for the third day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting will .'close at noon '■.o-day. * ■ The favourites fared badly at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting yesterday. Not one vas, successful, though, one ran into ii-eond place. Owing to the. track being dead, the times registered in most of the events if the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting yesterday were slow. Bellt lower provided a notable exception, ind under the circumstances .her performance in cutting her handicap time down by five seconds made her stand out as a high-class trotter. There, was one accident at the' Met- ’ ronolita'n. Trotting,'CJnh’s.,meeting yesterday. ,When tlio field had. travelled about three furlongs in. the final event The Maid fell,, bringing down Beilis, hut no injuries were sustained by tho riders, beyond a shaking. .

Eligible,, Bee and Sasanoff figure among the acceptors for the. Caulfield Cup, while the same three, with the addition of Kilboy, have had their engagements continued in the Melbourne Cup. ' • 1

The Martian mare Bee gave Australians a taste of her quality this month, wheu she carried 9st 3lb in the Warwick Handicap and won in a canter by three lengths. . Silent Way, ridden by C. Emerson, carried Bst 121 b into third place in the Canterbury Park Cup, one mile and three furlongs, this.month. Two other New Zealand-bred horses, Toatorc* and Snapdragon, were unplaced !n the same event. The race was won l>v Challenge Crosse, whose owner, Mr H. J. Pick, was at one time \yollknown in Canterbury. The six-year-old gelding, Golden Rock, by Gold Reef—Edith Cureton, won the Mornington Welter Handicap it the Victoria Amateur Turf Club's neeting this, month. The winners at Canterbury Park, Sydney, on August 3 included the three-year-old .filly Miss . Varco, by Varco from the New Zealand-brocl mare Windgun, bv -Royal Artillery— Whirlwind. • * The crack Victorian steeplechaser, Builawarra, met with a mishap early this month, which prevented him from taking part in the Australian Steeplechase. While starting to spurt at Flcmington in tho morning, and when barely in his Btride, ho faltered, and his rider pulled him up. Bullawami was afterwards very lame, and appeared in great pain. Ho was subsequently treated by a veterinary surgeon, who stated that the gelding had knocked his, hip down, and that it would take him ten or eleven weeks to'got right. •