WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 54

WELLINGTON NOTES.

CFbou Oub Own Coebkspondbnt.) June 4. Ihe Otaki Maori Racing Ciuo was favoured with splendid weather lor its winter meeting yesterday and to-day. 'ihe Raukawa Cup held included linaroso and .Lady Louisa, winner and ruiuieiPup in the same race last year. Both ran well, but were beaten by Multiply, who proved the Wanganui running to be wrong. The Raukawa Cup is worth 425sovs to the winner. The Wanganui double, Connolly and Umpire Handicaps, won by Lady Louisa, was only worth 445sovs. Lady Louisa again ran-second in the iiuia Handicap on the second day to i Wild Lupin (Lupin—Silver Agnes), who 'has benefited by a spell since Christinas. Wild Lupin ran second to Veronal (by Linacre) in the Rahul Handicap on the hist day. On both days Goicistreain and George, from the Porirua stable, were sent out first and second favourites; but they .failed to get in the money. Rene was another that did not seem to act in the going, which was holding. Soporific was not seen out, and the class of jumping horses that competed in the steeplechase events was poor. Stockade (owned by Mr Barton, the circus proprietor) scored from Bonny the first day. On the second the latter again ran second to Naupata (who ran second in a hurdle race at Easter at Riccarton to Daylight Bill), and was making his first appearance in a cross-country race, and only two out of eight runners got round safely on the second day. By permission of the chairman of the Racing Conference, some of the horses formerly raced by the late Mr J. R. M‘Don aid ran in the names of their trainers. One of them, Tan.gihou (by St. Ambrose—Yivalve), won a double. He is trained by A. Attwood at Peilding, and is an improved gelding. tie has run three firsts and a second in his last four starts.

B. Deoley scored on Multiply and V«ronal ou the first day and on Achilleus on the second, and has beaten O. Jenkins’s record (89) for one season. Mr W. E. Bidwill, who was not present at the meeting, won the Maiden with Deviation (by Elevation—Wailethe). His other representative at the meeting, Submersion (Elevation—lmmersion), was placed on the concluding day. Mr W. Bowden, who trains his own horses at Otaki, won with Hush-a-bye (Achilles—Berceuse) and His Eminence (Hierarch—Merry Soult) on the first day. The latter was ridden by a son of the owner.

Tiora (St. Clements —Kohina) made her only appearance at the meeting in the Telegraph Hack Handicap, live furlongs, on the second day. Fortify could only get third in the Flying Hack Handicap on the first day, but he won the Railway Handicap easily on tho second day after giving the field a start. Veronal is only a pony, and 8.13 stopped her.

His Eminence and Ruatan.gata again ran consistently on the second day, when both were beaten by Achilleus (Achilles —Dexterity), who was ridden by Deelcy. This was the first win for Achilleus, who was unplaced in the Maiden on the first day. Two South Island-bred horses, Kawarau (Kelburne —Duntroon mare) and Battalion (Stepniak—Tempest), were engaged at tho Otaki meeting.