SPORTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4869, 22 January 1903, Page 6

SPORTING.

WELLINGTON SUMMER MEETING. HUTT TRAINING NOTES. Fine weather was experienced at tho tracks yesterday morning. Cruciform was again an absentee, caused by getting cast iu her box on Tuesday night'.Uho mishap is only slight, aud it is Loped her owner will lot her contest the Zealaudia Pluto against Advance. .Most of the horses seen out were sprinted over a few furlongs. Advance, who appears to he as well as ever ho was, aud is going great gtais, bounded over seven lurlongs in Imin 32seo with apparent ease. Ho will bo particularly hard to beat in tho Cup. Achilles, who is also in splendid buckle, ran half a mile on tho tan in 49sec. General Symons and Canteen started out together to run a mile aud a quarter on the grass, but tho former refused logo more than half way, aud was pulled up. Canteen ran once round ia 2rain 2scc. Mcnura, who joined in at a mile, ran tho distance Imin 50sec. After cantering on the tan Siege. Gun broke away aud covered five furlongs in Imin osoc. Hately, who finished in front of Maus'erine, put up the same time. Aldinga heat. Tho Guesser over six furlongs on the tan in Imin 20sec. Catherine Gordon was in front of Romany Lass at tho end of five furlongs. King Log heat Dnndas over half a mile on tho tan 1 in 50soc. Hohoro and Westgnard registered similar performances. Ringnmn, who finished iu front of Ringlet, took 50 l-ssoc, Motor, on the tan, olsec, Gold who beat Calibre on the grass, 51sec, Pallas 51sec. Idea, who heat Auratus on Oho grass, 52soc, Torowai, who finished in front of Livonia and Dodoua, took tho same time ; Field Battery finished in front of Wind in 53sec, aud Elibank and Waircrc, who wont together took 53 l-ssec. Tlinetanra put in a round at her best pace, after beating Gold Seal over half a mile in 49soc. Aidc-do-Camp took Imin 20sec for threequarters on tho tan. Treadmill and Windwhistlo covered five furlongs in Imin ssec. Petrovna was in front of Ayrdalo and Pure Silver at the end of four furlongs. ' Shackle appeared to hold Eland safo over five furlongs on tho grass in Imin 7sec. Asteroid and Brilliantino took Imin 23scc for six furlongs. Achilles was yesterday withdrawn from +ho Zoalandia Plate, and will make his only appearance in tho Wellington Stakes to-day. Mr Monk expects tho Medallion colt to make a good show with King Log. Their respective weights aro, Achilles 9st 51b, King Log 7st 121 b. Advance will represent Mr Douglas Gordon in the Zoalandia Plato on Saturday. A most interesting contest is expected between the black horse and Cruciform. Tho weights they will .carry aro—Cruciform IGst lib, Advance 9st 31h. Stnrshoot was yesterday scratched for tho Wellington Stakes and Pallas for tho Telegraph Handicap. Sergius, the thrce-year-bld brothel to Ostiak, has been taken to tho Foxton meeting, where ho is engaged in a maiden hack race to-day, and tho Electric Hack Race to-morrow. The full text of the regulations framed by , tho ‘Wellington Racing mub and Hutt Park trustees, for the prohibition of bookmaking and tho exclusion of betting men and their agents, appears in another part of this issue. Particulars of tho train arrangements to-day in connection with tho races at the Hutt will be found set, forth in our advertising columns Nominations for tho Ashlmrst Hack Guineas of 1904 close with tho secretary of the Ashlmrst-Pohangina Racing Club (Mr A. W. Trass)’on Saturday next.