AUCKLAND TOPICS.
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Scotty is evidently to ba given another opijortunity to earn distinction over hurdles, as the veteran son of St. L-e.ger is again being schooled over the small sticks. Quite possibly hie connection intend entering him for the New Zealand Grand National Hurdles.
Fii-st Gun, by Hotchkiss— First Love, is being tried ever tlxe small fences at training headquarters, but so fa-r has not shaped too well as a jumper.
The cross-country rider W. M'Kinnon. who was seriously injured when Irish fell in the Winter Stespleehasa at Ellerdia on Juno 9, and who it was thought had little chanes of pullinsr through, is now improving a little, and' hopes are enter-t-ain-eci for his recovery. The Auc-k'and nonius Silent, (by Soult) and Ettonia (by Eton), have been acid to Australian sportsmen, and were shipped to Sydn-av by the Mokoia to-day under the care o£ Mr A. E. Hopewell.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 63
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150AUCKLAND TOPICS. Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 63
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