SOUTHLAND SPORTING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2391, 28 December 1899, Page 40

SOUTHLAND SPORTING NOTES.

By Got.tispub.' , "Wedlock lias arrived in Gore on furlough iot 12 months. Irish Girl is recruiting at Mataura. It is reported that Pansy or Edith leaves shortly for the North Island. The hurdler Pioneer possesses a leg. Zillah hss basn put into work again, after an enforced spell for 12 months?. Dilemma is doing stud duties at his owner's place, near Waikawa. Governor will be taken up ia time for Tuhuna or Christchuroh iixtures. i Hippoiuciies is on the warpath again, and I indulges in plenty of swimming exerciss. It there is a permit to spare the "Winton Jockey Club will in ail likelihood bo granted cue to enable thorn to hold a- race meeting in, I May next. | ironworker, by Lo Loup — Ouida, is king of ; the ring this season. lie beat the lashionablyi bred Pnlli^ec, also Lupu?, at the Invercargill ' show; and Seaward, by Hilarious — Tera, at tho : Rivcrioii show. On his dam's side Ironworker is haH-bvother to SkiiMuaher and St. Ouida, and j ho undoubtedly has grown into a- fino horse, ( with a good set of legs, and a well-proportioned i Lotly. ! Red Ensign, by St. George — Hed Rose, and I clam of Red Lancer, Keel Banner, and Red • Pc-one, is on a visit to Occident. How would i "The Scarlet Runner" fit in as an appropriate name for the future progeny? Two winners of trotting events at the Alezcrdra meeting claim King Harold as their sire — > Lady Criterion and Ha-roldeton. •• j Pringle and his team left foi Cbxistchurch j last week. % j Candidate is very well just now, and should I win one o£ the big events over two miles. Without a list of tho accex^tancea to assist in. making my selections, I should say that hoAoura will be divided between Arline and Ellis' s elect for the principal events at WynrJham. Langlcy lias a chance in tha Novel, and i3iack and iced or Picket should score over tlie jest in the Farmers' Plate and District Handicap. The best of the others is Clinker. In tho Two-mile Trot I have a fancy for Phoebe and Ivy, and for the shorter diatance I select Cynthia and St. George to furnish the winner. J. 3. was scratched immediately the handicaps appeared, and the owner of Banshee may have reason to complain at her adjustment in the mile and a-ha!f race. I think fclie ia entitled to be on a better mark. The dividends in the trots are paid in full, which fchould induce owners to back their own horses. The nominations this year are in. excess of the number received for the meeting hi January last, and include the same quality, as do the. fixtures further ahead. Improvement's have been carried ou in the way of conveniences, the track is in tip-top condition, and the racing public will, if the Weather it at all favourable, be treated to a good day's fun. On his way back from the Alexandra races Pringle lost the trotter Trader through pegging out on the joacl. Gossoon, by Del Paso— Fancy, by Goldfinder, travels the Tapanui district in the place o£ the defunct Holiest Wilkes, whose death, was clue to a rupture. A likely stallion, I should say, to breed an, all-round useful sort of beast is Lupus, who is at the service of breeders at Gore. The first meeting of the Woodlands Racing Club will be held on Boxing Day. Locally it is causing considerable interest, and good entries have 'been received. Mr Gibbs, of Gore, handicaps for the club. All the events for the Wairio Jockey Club's fixture in January have been well' filled, perhaps with, the notable exception of the Handicap Trot, which is all the more to be wondered at, as tho country is overrun at the present time with "no class " horses. Mr Dowses handicaps will appear about the 6th prox. Following in the lead of the Winton Club, the Wairio and local institution will pay out on iiiaiicstaud. seesnd iioise in thq irato*