WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 51

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(Feom Ocb Own Correspondent.J

August 8,

Claude Piper, the well-known tramer of trotting horses, returned Irom Sydney this week, after an absence of nine montns. He brought back with him the horses Brooklyn and Macquarne, belonging to Mr Taylor, of Welling toon, New South Wales. Mr Taylor has a stud and owns Alniont, who holds the three-mile stallion pacing record. Mr Piper went on to Christchurch, and will probably get some more horses later on. The Maniapoto gelding Munakau was brought back Irom Sydney this week by A. E. -Neale. He has been away about six months, and only won one race, t»o that the trip could hardly have been a profitable one. A. Oliver, the well-known horseman, returned from Sydney this week. The Wellington Pacing Cmb has decided to spend 82500 in improvements. This will include additions to the inside and outside totalisator houses. Mr Prosser’s attack of influenza developed into pneumonia. He went into a private hospital last Saturday, and is on tiio improve. The team for Riccarton went down in charge of H. Telford. Styx was slightly amiss, and he did not make the trip. Semaphore recently changed hands for 75gs, and has gone into J. bcott’s stable at Trentham. , Mr W. Duncan, a patron of E. Tilley s stable, has donated a gold cup, valued at lOOgs, to the winner of the next Wanganui Cup. Sea Queen and her full-sister Sequinette are to visit Boniforrn this season. Ebonite, bv Kilcheran, half-brother to the abovenamed pair, has been put in work by H. Kingan after a lengthy spell. It is reported that F. Davis is to make the trip to Sydney with Soltano and the two-year-old half-sister to Bobrikqll, and that A. Oliver will ride them in their engagements at Randwick.