SPORTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17934, 30 October 1918, Page 10

SPORTING.

NEWS AND NOTES. Acceptances for the first day of the g'ew Zealand Metropplitan Trotting lub's spring meeting will close at noon to-day. / Final payments and acceptances for the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting are due at eight o'clock to-morrow night. Mangamahoe was scratched for the New Zealand Gap at 9 a.m. yesterday. Cynic and Killord were associated in a gallop over a mile and a quarter at Hiccarton yesterday, getting to the end ofthe. journey in 2mui llsec. Cynic had an advantage at thff finish of ft smart performance. .-teargerln* assisted hy *»• oomnanion over the last mile, covered a mile and a half in good style yesterday. She is coming on well in her preparation for the New Zealand Cup. Several southern horses have put in an- appearance at Riccarton, to fulfil engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting, among them being Rorke's Drift, Michaela, Linden and Kilboyne. Kilmoon, Surveyor and Flight Commander returned home yesterday, after competing on the first day of the Wellington Racing Club's meeting. Yesterday's steamer from Wellington brought the North Island horses Nystad, War,pJane, Ermine, Mazama, First Salute, Arch Salute, Croesus, Detroit and Dusky Eve, who are engaged at Riccarton next week. Sasanof finished last in the Champion Plate at Trentham on Monday. His disappointing display came as a shock to many of his New Zealand Cup admirers, and he will require to make great improvement before he can be seriously reckoned with as a likely winner of the two-mile race next Monday. As a result of his win at Trentham, Demos has incurred a 71b penalty for the, Stewards' Handicap, while Inah has Barked 101 b extra for her successes at Masterton and Trentham. A big crowd of horses is expected to arrive from the north by this morning's boat, with a view to racing at Riccarton next week, and there will be further reinforcement's each day this week. Training operations on the local! track have' not been so interesting as usual this year, and with the brief interval between the Trentham and Riccarton fixtures the doings- on the track willcontinue comparatively quiet until the opening of the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting on Monday. The following re-handicaps for events at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting have been made:— Spring penalised 6sec. Empire Handicap—Hannah M. penalised 2seo, Our Chum penalised Iseo. A Press Association message from Melbourne states that there were thirty-one acceptors for the Melbourne Cup, including Desert Gold, Estland, Arch Marella, Finmark. New Zealand,, and Risingham. The last-named is an unlikely starter.

THE IBEX CASE.

[Pbb Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 29. The Racing Conference appeal judges ,>eard the Ibex appeal case yesterday, ' vnd decided tliat the Rules of Racing jvould not permit the disqualification io\be removed.

ELLERSLIE NOTES.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 29. The weather was dull and threatening when work at Elierslie started this morning, but there was no rain before breakfast. After the interval there was j, heavy thunderstorm. The work generally was unimportant. All the tasks were registered on the grass except six furlongs by Meltonio and Tabasco on the sand in Imin 21sec. Colonel 6oult went round in lmin 59 l-ssec. Gazique, with a very light weight, went a fast seven furlongs in lmin 31sec, Pandembs did four in 55sec, Metchikofi and Bingham seven in lmin 37sec, Fabriquette once round in 2min 2sec, Finhope four in 54 4-osec. Platoon beat Koiwi over the same distance in 52 1-5 «ec, Sir Ralph and Bloomine together did 6ix in lmin 20 2-ssec After the interval, No Mistake, Princess Charming and Gwenneth, in that order, did four furlongs' from a stand in 54sec. Lochiel Arch beat Marble Star and Hyllus over six in lmin 20seo. A numv ber of others also exercised.

FLEMINGTON NOTES

By Tel«fT»ph—Press Aesoolatfon—Copyrlßhl V MELBOURNE, October 29. The weather was fine for training at Flemington, Finmark easily defeated Kennaquhair and Estland over ten furlongs) on the grass in 2min 12Jsec. Desert Gold ran seven furlongs in lhiin 29sec, Killowen six in lmin 18sec, Lingle twelve in 2min 45sec, King Offa ten in 2min 18Js6C. Outlook beat 3>aius over ten furlongs in 2min 15sec. At Caulfield, Arch, Marella and Cetigne did ten furlongs on the grass in 2min lOsec. Court Jester beat Now Zealand and Wayland Smith over eleven furlongs in 2min 27Jseo. Gadabout beat Oolbe'rt over ten furlongs in 2min l4iseo.