AUCKLAND TOPICS.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 56

AUCKLAND TOPICS.

Br Taihoa.

October 4.

Tho entries received for the principal events to be decided at the Auckland Jttacir,g Club's spring and summer meetings easily constitute a fresh record for the club, and a g'la.nce at the list shows that practically all the leading 1 horse-owners throughout the Dominion are represented for the Ma.nuliau Hurdles, City Handicap, and Birthday Hand.cap, to be decided at the spring gathering. The nominations total 66, against 48 last year, whilst for the Auckland Oup, Grafton* Hurdles, Railway Handicap, Sumiroea- Oup, A.R.O. Handicap, and Grand Stand Handicap, which events will bo rum dtering the summer carnival at Ellerslie, no less tharn 355 horses have been entered as against 280 for the corresponding meeting last year. The raisin? of the stake for the Aukland Cup to 2000sovs has led to an entry of 62. Auckland will be represented in the Hawke's Bay Guineas on Thursday next by Elysian, who, as a result of his win in tb& Avondale Stakes, will carry an additional 51b in the Hastings event, in ■which his impost will be 9.1. The eon of Soult is reported to have favourably impiessed cr-uTse- watchers in his gallops since reachine Hastings. Exeat ibar, a three-year-old geldiing by Eton, from Tournament, was put under the hammer on Friday last, and passed into the ha-mjjj of Mr W. Foss at 35g®. The New Zealand Cup candidate Lady Lucy, who last year Avon the Hawera Cup as a three-year-old, end recently accounted for the Higgie Handicap at Wanganui, was sold as a motherless foal at the Auckland breeding establishment, "Wellington Park, when four months old for 33gs. Her dam, Hilda, was on the catalogue as for eale with a filly foal at foot by Seaton Delaval. but th<J dtmghte.r of Musket died a few days before the dispersal of the stud. It is anticipated that Master Soult, who, all goitio; well meanwhile, will represent Auckland in the New Zealand Cup, will bs take™ out under silk in the Welter Handicap, to be run at the Hawke's Bay J.C. spring meeting next Wednesday. The son of Soult, who was in great .heart when.' shipped south, will carry 10.13 in the Hastings race. Foalings at Glenora Park stud for tlie pa«>t week are:— W. Walter's Caller Ou (Swordfifih— Helen M'Gregor), colt to boult); W H. Herriee's Fairy Tale (Tasnian—Sapphira), filly oo Souft; P Maxwell's Mjsb Dawson, nily to Soult- T Cunningham's Postmistress, colfc Do Soult • Roulston's Lady Winnie (Castor— Winnie), colt to Soult; J. B. Williamson's Allanah (Salvacaan— Cuirasetta), colt to Soult Four hundle horses— Dunbarve. BuJlv Compass, and Seotty— figure amonc the nominations for the Auckland Cup