SPORTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 432, 24 June 1922, Page 2

SPORTING.

NOTTS. I BY Vt.AXEUit.] Pander lias gone into winter quarters, Diamond Nap is being hacked about bv F. Aifteld. C. Caddy lias .Bravato and Circulate in work Demos, Yankee Dan and Noble are daily attendants on the local tracks. Tito ’chaser- Coalition is reported to he doing all that is expected of him on the Trenlhnni tracks. Heard in , the tram-Jimmy: “Dtt.d, what is the race problem?” Had; “Picking winners, my soli." The well-unown Sowtlt Island lightweight jockey, F. Veight. sailed by the Rttaliine front Wellington for England yesterday. Orchid, which can traverse five furlongs in pretty slick lime, appears in the list of nominations for the Wellington meeting. As a result of Hepta falling in the Heretiuniga Handicap at the Hawke’s Bay meeting A. Oliver received a nasty shaking. Vagabond has not won a- race this season, bn! he lias gathered in £960 in place money, as a result of being throe times second and once third. Saima (Finland—Overall), who formerly carried the Higliilen colours in the Dominion, won the First Class Plate at the Belmont Park (W.A.)' meeting on the 10th nisi. It is computed that the Stale of Victoria will Ibis year reap revenue to the extentof £170,000 from the taxation imposed on boiling iickct--The veteran ’chaser Master St rowan, which L trained by “Nat” Williams at Ota Li. is reported to he standing up to lib work rn good style. Rangi Thompson. A. McDonald and L. Morris, with two wins each, were the most successful horsemen. at the Hawke’s Bay meeting. Mr J. Higgins, who recently resigned as stipendiary steward to cite Australian Jockey (Tttli. has accepted it similar position with the Royal Calcutta Turf Club. Mr G. 1) Greenwood has chosen the singularly appropriate name of “Lascelles" for tho two-year-old son of Martian and Alary of Argyll". Pitch, which won the Settlors’ Handicap at the recent Napier Park meeting,' is a threc-yoar-cld son of Merry Mont; nr and the Treadmill mare Shona Mat. E. Watson took Passenger and Passionless to the Napier Park meeting, but they failed to get amongst- the money. Passenger has been acquitting himself well over hurdles at Awapimi, jumping quickly and

cleanly. Passionless look's well, but needs ;i race or two. Roth the above-mentioned will be in tin limeljybt later on. Mr F. .Stowe, of Hastings, who Inis - been assistant; .caretaker on the' Hastings racecourse lor several years, was the successful applicant for tin position of caretakci of the Opaki racecourse. Mr Percy Johnston, the New Plymouth trainer, who iracturecl it leg some time ago while alighting from a t rain at Auckland, expects to return to his home in about a week’s (into. Jockeys arc said to ho treated most liberally by owners in India. Retainers of £2O per week are numbered as quite common, while the percentages for wins arc cash on a high settle. There are many sports in New Zealand who do not favour the present system of givit!" allowances to apprentice riders, and rite W c.-iratiatp 1.( ~ alter an exhaustive uial, have abolished it entirely. Mr McCabe, of Bandon, has been appointed caretaker of the Rangiiikoi Racing Club’s course at Bulls, As R. t |, e club’s intention to go in for more intensive farming Mr McCabe, until recently a farmer, should be well fitted, for the job. .Mr J. M. C. forsayth, an Australian-, sportsman, favours open air treatment for Ids horses, and with that object has bad special paddocks made at Rosoltill for the yearlings he has given R. C. Stanton to ptepare. ft is his intention that, unless unusual circumstances interfere, thev shall be out day. and night. Li the whiter they will be warmly rugged at nidii. How at t is being kept, going in view of engagements ahead. He was schooled sevet*d times last week, and fits di-piav on each occasion suggests that the full-brother to Master Sltowtm will turn out a useful hurdler. Peep o’ Day. also in the rare of .-Hex. Browne, was given his first lesson out the battens recently and shaped satisfactoiilv. Ibe other active members of Browne s team arc Mountain Signal and the Pammttv—Bettgaline fillv.