NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

\ Mawhiti : was very unlucky a<t Ellerslie.' i RustSque has been turned, out for a spell for the Winter. There "will be a fair profit over the j late Otaki meetfisig. The well-known jockey Willie Price was married m Wanganui last Monday. C. O'-Neilir steered Cavalry m Ms engagements at the Auckland meeting.- _■ . W. McDonald severed his connection with the Hon. Geo. McLean's stable last week. The New "> Zealand gelding Lionheart has been entered for tfye Nationals m Victoria. The light-weight jockeys A. Oliver and W. Young, left Auckland for Syidinev on Monday last. .' C Punters should now put their h : anids m 'tfoeir pockets and keep them there till Tihe Spring rolls round. Ru'ap&raha won two Bracelets at the G.N. meeting at Ellerslie, and was made favorite on both days. The New Plymouth owner-trainer, Mr J. O'Driscoll., leaves on a trip to -England, via Sydney this week. , When they .put it m on Celerity he always tabes out . Ask' the local Tommies foow ijhey Rot on last Saturday. Cuiraigmo, Nestator, Creusot was tJie order as they passed the post m both the 'Remwera and Campibfell- Hurdles, . They don't bet away from home m these parts. None of the local bookmakers laid a single wager ■ over, the English Defby. A Southern paper states that the well-^breid Somateria (Birkembefad— Merganser) has -been sold to a^ti Australian racing man. Celtic and Dan Leno would have been very bad horses fox the bookmakers had they got their heads m front on Saturday. Kaitere 12.13, Toe Guard 12.3, and Levanter 12.1, were the only horses carrying over twelve stone to win the Great Northern Steeplechase. G«o.. Walls, who was badly injured when St. Amelia fell at , Otaki, is progressing satisfactorily. His iuurt proved to "be a fracture of the- skull, but the rumors about . his eyesight being affected were unfounded. Last, year's winroer, Star Rose, is not entered for the next N.Z. Cup, but the stable has engaged Starina, who might be better than Star Rose. Tim Howard rode aheap of seconds at the Grea<t Northern meeting, but could not secure a win. At Oaulfield a tremendously large 2-year-^old gelding, by Birkenhead— Snooze, who stands about 16.3 high, and is built m proportion, has been broken m and put into work by £3B. Bell. For suoh a 'big fellow he is | Wbmterfully active,, and a good even liUQver,