DISTRICT JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 24

DISTRICT JOTTINGS.

Mr G. H. Scales, one of the stewards of the Wellington Racing Club has had the misfortune to lose, through its dam treading on it, a fine filly foal by Petroleum out of his mare Duchess, who has taken the first prize as best brood mare for weight carrying hacks four years running at the Wellington A. and P. Show. Mr James Macara, of Masterton, has one of the finest two-year-olds in the province. It is a roan filly named Princes* Agness by Master Agness —Princess Royal. She * as brought on the course at Opaki on Tuesday to get her accustomed to a crowd, and I had an opportunity of inspecting her. She is nearly sixteen hands high already, and is as well developed as many a four-year-old. Although so precocious she does not look overgrown or leggy, and she has quality written all over her. She is just being broken in, and if she does riot turn out a galloper looks go for nothing. Angler has returned from Masterton and is not expected to run at the Wairarapa meeting on Monday and Tuesday next. Mr F. Martin's Retina will fulfil her engagements at Rangitikei and will then remain in Wellington for the Wellington Summer Meeting. DEATH OF CYNI3CA. The sporting section of the community will hear with great regret that Mr G. Hunter's well-known mare Cynisca, who has won the Wellington Cud for the last three years in succession, died on Wednesday from lock-jaw.