SPORTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 11

SPORTING NOTES

NOTES BY SENTINEL. T~ GiwJda was schooled over fences at Wingatui on Monday in company with another horse. —Mr W. R. Kemball, owner of Hymestra and co., may send a team over to nice at the Sydney spring meetings. — R. J. Mason will probably leave for Australia in the near future with a. team of Mr Greenwood's horses. — Seadown may figure as a hurdler at the Auckland winter meet ins?. He ha® been schooled since arriving at Wanganui. — Marsa strode along niccly in her. work on Saturday, and if she put a bit more heart into the business might capture a stake before' the season ends. — Sleight of Hand slightly injured himself whilst being indulged in a roll at wanganui, and hence is not likely to race at Wanganui or Auckland. — The Ot-ago Hunt Club will probably hold a couple of point-to-point meetings this season, but otherwise will carry on quietly as for as hunting is concerned. — Two girls have been doing riding work on (he Caulfiold track. One of them schooled a horse over brush fences. — Ayah has been shaping well in her work at Trent ham. She has been more or le3s sore, but may be found doing better when the sting is out of the going. — Adjutant is being kept busy in view of his Dunedin engagements, and on Saturdav worked pleasingly over a mile in 1.43, with the assistance of Brambletye over the last six furlongs. — Mowhawk went away from Sedd-01-Bahr towards the end of a seven-furlong gallop on the grass at Wingatui. The American is a lazy worker, but he gave Sedd-el-Bahr a handsome beating. — Both Don Pacifico and Polonius are galloping m improved style. They were eent over a solid nine fulongs on Saturday. Don Pacifico seems to have improved since he was "added to the list." — Our Thorpe is reported to be shaping in bis work, and as ho was exhibiting flashes of good speed prior to the lost Addington meeting, he should be about right for the Canterbury Park fixture. — Devotion has been purchased by Mr J. G\ Duncan, and will no doubt join the Waikanae stud. She is an attractively-bred mare, oa she was got by All Black from Culmmati6n, by San Francisco from feldtMowhawk is either a very thick-winded horse, or else he is on the way to join the musical brigade. He made considerable noise in his gallop on Saturday, and the fact suggests trouble in the respiratory organs. 1 — The well-known riders C. Emnvcrson and J. Olson are booked to go into camp early next month. Enunerson will ride at the Dunedin winter meeting if he can got a few days extension of time before going into camp. — Improvements are being carried out at the Wingatui Racecourse in order. to make better accommodation for motor cars. A new entrance to the oourse will be made at the north end of the grounds, beyond C. Gieseler's property. — Zarkoma, Palladio, and Sylva were schooled over fences at Wingatui on Monday afternoon, and all jumped welL Sylva has improved a good deal in his fencing 6ince making bis debut- over country at the Southland autumn meeting. , — Borodino led home Multiplication at the end of five furlongs on Saturday, but the lattc.r has been shaping better in his work than the finish of the gallop suggested. Borodino is shaping nicely, and should well for tho Dunedin winter meeting. ~~ , "W. Robinson, who ha»s been associated with P. T. Hogan'a stable as first horseman, leaves for the North Island after the D.J.C. winter meeting to take' up service with the Feilding stablo from which he accepted a retainer some time back. — Some of the Wingatui trainers are apparently more concerned about dodging the watchliolders than galloping their horses in a manner which is likely to achieve the right result when it comes to Tacing. Pulling horses off at the finish of their gallops or finishing at a peg down, the running may be clever training, but fiddling liorees about in their work has also a strong tendency to make animals too wise and clever. Horses ni-e sometimes most erroneously called rogues, but some of them are merely repeating what they have been taught by being continually messed about at tho start, blocked and stopped in gallops and races, and consequently they are likely to do it again when the coin is on. Teach a horse the way it should go, and it will generally run right and straight up to ability; but when it is repeatedly made to do this, that, and the other thing it may go a repeat when a complete change of programme has been mapped out. The combined South Auckland racing clubs, with the object of improving the breed of houses in the district, some '{me ago decided t-o import one or more thoroughbred stallions. Ihe schea» adopted provided for to cla'is s.ssociu.t-ed in tho venture each having the opportunity of a oertain number of subscriptions to the horses purchased, thus enabling the various dis u Ticts to securo the new thoroughbred strains. In view of the difficulty of transport from England, inquiries were madb in Australia regarding the possibility of obtaining suitable horeei in that country, but no business resulted. Eventually it was decided to communicate with Mr E. D. O Rflrke, who is now a resident of England, with a view to tLo purchase of suitable horses at Home. Information was received front Mr O'Rorke by cablegram lajt week that he had Twrrcha-scd two stallions oa behalf of the combined clubs, and it is understood (says the. X«ew Zealand Herald) they will leave for New Zealand very shortly! Tho horses purchased are Archies town, by Sir Archibald—Cra.ige4lao.hio, and Day Comet by St. Frusquin—Catgut. Both horses arc direct defendants of St. Simon on tho sire's side, St. Frnsquin, tho sire of Day Comet, baim; a eon of St. Simon, while Desmond, th? grandsire of Archiestown, is also a eon of Sv. Simon.