THE ZETLAND SPOTS

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 43

THE ZETLAND SPOTS

"Most persons much interested in tun matters must, hardly knowing the cause, feel satisfaction when fortune smiles on certain establishments Should she frown, they sympathise with those concer-ccl in. the stable that is out of form." Thi3 quotation is from " Vigilant," of the London Sportsman, and prompts me to say that the Hon. G. M'Lean's stable comes within that category, but when the Zetland spots are carried to the front w* do know the reason of our patisfaction The president of the D.J.C. keep? on lacing for the sake of the sport itself, and any man who dees that nowadays is Mire to secure the sympathy of sporting folk. The success of Mr M'Lean's fine colt Pampero in the Easter Handicap at the C.J.C. meeting last week was, I am safe in saying, received, with great satisfaction by the large majority of sporting folk in this province at at least. The fact that the son of St Cla:r — Mistral won so handsomely, and is a colt of hi= own breeding, must havo. been very gratifying to the squire of Warring ton Tt would appear from all accounts that the Dunedin Cup runner no had none the host of the luck in the Oeat Autumn Handicap, for lie had. when nearing home, to run wirle to avoid being unduly interfered with, and thus must have co-vered more thnn the 12 furlong?. Had the Warring tenbred colt hid an uninterrupted run the whole uay Palaver's ta*k would in all likelihood have been a much more difficult one than ir actually was — indeed, there are those who hold the opinion that Pamuero would have landed the" double. The tplr-nnid condition in which M'Ginness turned the colt out redounds greatly to the credit of that mentor.