WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2273, 23 September 1897, Page 33

WELLINGTON NOTES.

Bt Onlooxbx.

September 20. t That game son of Ingomar, Irish Twist, after a well-deserved spell, is to be put in work again.

' Mr J. X Henry has been appointed handicappsr to the Aihnrst Jockey Club at a salary of £15. Mosterton sports have taken veiy unkindly to the refusal of the Colonial Secretary to graut a permit to the Mahterton Trotting Club. Mr D. Pritigle is appointed secretary of the Manawatu Racing Clnb at a salary of £120 per year. luritan (Cas-sivelaunus— Fair Puritan), sire of the National Hurdle winner Umi-lopogaas and others, .died ab Otoki last week front ia ft tin matiou of the bowels. An examination showed that the flesh covering of the ribs was completely perforated by bots. HandicApper Henry has sufficiently recovered from his recent indispofcition to get about. Ihe Manawatu U.C. has increased the stake? of its Summer meetiug hy £100. The principal events are the Manawatu Cup, of £150, and the President's Handicap, of £200. Mr W. Butler has in hand at Wanganui Tokauui, Famous (by Natatoi— Fame), a bay gelding by Natator, Io (a half-brother to Cheque), and & three-year-old colt by Recluse. Mr J. Green, of Marton, recently refused £150 for the five-year-old gelding Pokomoko (Foul Shot — Lady Gorton). One of the Cateshy colts in A. Peters s stable at the Hutt ha 3 been named Conspircr, and will likely start in tho Welcome Stakes at the Hawke's Bay Spiing meeting. Owing to the Wa->canui stewards not issuing a trainer's license to W. Holmes at the beginning of the season, his team of hordes at Bu'-ls is being trained by G. Hathaway. Toroa, a full sister to Mr Prosser's gelding Kaaku (Gipsy King— Minnie), is now in Holmes'.-* Stable.

Consideration of Holmea's training license is to rome before the Waoganui J.C. stewards next ineefciug. ' Tds .siewiids of Ih's Taratahi-Carterton J.C fined Walter BuckuriJge £1 for removing the hurdles on the enmfe,

it. Whreler. of Wai.g-inui, has in hand a full sister to La Petite Fillc (by Sou-wester—: ady Grey). Tho latest addition to W. Daviefc's striug at the Hutt is a three-year-old filly by Castor— Lioness, by Leolinus.