WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 52

WELLINGTON NOTES.

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j August 26. I S. Lindsay will probably journey, north for the Avondale" meeting next month. Paderewski is now stabled at Higgott's. I understand that Pope, who rode Hydrant at Kicccaton, lakes him. to Auckland' on Tuesday next. W. Thomas, for some time head lad at Elan's stable, has gone south to a billet. St. "Winifred is in work again, acd so fax appears sound enough. 2£elwood pulled up l&mo one morning this wee>k,«and has been easisd' in consequence. Alick Halji bought Shrapnel last Saturday, and took the gliding to Napier with him. Hugh Telford is back ait the Hutt with his arm in a sling, having broken his collarbone when The Dauber fell at) Hiccarton. O. Pritcharcl bought The Dauber, Levant, and Dofos back, but left Matuku behind, the Gold E^eef rmre having been sold for oOgs. She is fast, but not two sound. The Dauber may bs talwn. to Rangitikei. Black Squall and To 3£anui, in ibe- sarnie stable, may be taken, 10 Maxton. Jeanne d'Arc did not stay long at the. Hutt, and returned to Cartertom this wsek. Although. Whatsroa wa9 sold at Ohristcburcb, her owner bought him back, and he came home with Valima and Flying Cloud. Mrs Watson, owner of Black Squall and Wind, recently bough.fi four ojiarter-acres at Treritham for £180. T. Pritchard w«ait to Otaki to-d&y to) take delivery at a fcmr-year-old geldiz-g by St. Hippo— Riporipo (by Puriri), dam of Tutua* D. J. Price returned to Sydney to-day to look after Machine G-un. " Optimist one day this week threw a shoe and ran one of the nails mk his foot. Ho h«s since been very lame, and has been thrown- cut of work. His stable companion, Galahad, will only require a few winding-up gallops to be in racing trim. With ihe -exception of Prank Higgoit, -who has been having a holiday at Christchurch, the Hutt trainers "have all returned from, the Grand National meeting. Ca*mont brought back Shrapnel Shell Hydrant. The former will mak« his next appearance at T^auganixi, on which course, he has run some of hiti. best races. Higgotti returns from Christchurch to^-nsorrow. J. •W. Low« has leased the. stabl#g at the H-ut f . formeily tenanted by R. W. Paterson, and intends to set up as a public trainer. W. H. Keith, who tcck Union Jack to Australia this tiina last year, returned from Sydney this week. Nonette appears among the entries for the principal flat events at the Eangitikei meeting next rponth. Mr G. G. Stead has paid forfeit for all Yaldhurst two-year-olds engaged in th© Wei- ' lesley- Stakes in October. ;