AUCKLAND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 276, 8 October 1910, Page 2

AUCKLAND NOTES.

Floalings at Cambria Park include Kitiroa, a colt to Stepmiak, Lady Alys, a filly to Obligiado. •Last week's shipment of horses for Sydney included handsome Paul, Jack Johnson and Flying Cloud. " ■».' ■ At Glenora Park, Pa'erora (Gipsy Grand— Tempest) lias foaled a colt to Martian and St. Edifcti a filly to Soult. Charlie Coleman returned irom Australia last week with Hoanga and Nelius, after an unsuccessful inva- j sion of Australia . Jack Williamson's success with Black Northern at Avondale points' to the young trainer following m the footsteps of his lat6 dad, the popular and widely-lamented "J. 8.," as a trainer of winning hurdlers. Track work hag slackened oft considerably at Ellerslie since Avond>ale, but with the big Novem-ber fixtures m view steady work will resume very shortly. Poictiers put m several promising gallops at Ellerslie last week before being shipped for Hawke's Bay to fulfil his engagement m the Guineas. There are sanguine hopes expressed that Poictiers will be tihe hope of the north for the N.Z. Cup. J. R. Shepherd, who brought out, per Athenic, the largest consignment of .thoroughbreds so far shipped from the Motherland to New Zealand, has decided to take up his residence wi the Northern City. Shepherd is a hurdle horseman who has achieved considerable success m .the British Isles, and no doubt he will soon be seen m the saddle m this land. Nominations for the leading handicap events to be run at the Auckland Racing Club's spring an-d summer meetings closed last week. The lists are of a satisfactory character, although m the aggregate they fall a little short of last year's nominations. The following shows the numbers m each event :— Spring meeting : City Handicap 21, King Edward Memorial 2G, Ascot Handicap 32. Summer meeting : Auckland Cup 56 (last year 62), Grafton Hurdles 20, Railway Handicap 59, Summer Cup 71, A.R.C. Handicap 53 (last year 61), and. Grandstand. Handicap 7G. Northern sports have at last awakened to the necessity of making some stand for self-preservation against the extreme views of the cranky Nonconformist faction of kill-joys, and have banded themselves into a Mutual Sports Protection Association. Last week they held a meeting, at which there was a large and representative gathering of sportsmen as delegates from practically every branch of outdoor sporting organisations. "Teddy" O'Rorke was elected to the chair, and expressed the hope that the Association of all true sportsmen would extend throughout -tho Dominion for the preservation and betterment of every form of outdoor recreation. Among the objects of the newly-launched Association are the following :—Creating a healthy and rational public opinion m all matters relating to our legitimate sports and pastimes. Counteracting the influence of any parties or sections of the people who, having for their objects the imposition of extreme views and measures upon the community, thereby assail, detract from, or injure any legitimate form of sport or pastime. At an early date a public meeting will be held to arouse more widespread sympathy, and there is every reason ;o believe that there will be a great l< rally, which should be a triumphant counterblast to the waitings of de- : crepit old croakers, who wish to choke the manliness aivd {rue sport- : ing spirit ou.t of the young New Z.eaInnder.