WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 48

WELLINGTON NOTES.

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April 11. H. Telford left for Auckland yesterday with Bo Peep and Active. The only other members of the team racing at Eastertime are Cotillion and Philomela, woh go to Feilding. ■•'•* It was intended that Pacifio Slope and Revocation should go to WoodviU'e, but evidently their owners decided against the trip, as their names are missing from tha list of acceptances for the meeting named. The Otaki Maori Racing Club has increased the stakes for the winter meeting to £20,000. At the Dunedin, Auckland, and Otaki meetings over £20,000 will be given in stakes. Menelaus had done no work since he came home from Hawke's Bay, and his owners considered it advisable under the circumstances to take him out of Riccarton races when there appeared to be no chance of him going south. He may run in the Trentham Gold Cup if he stands up to the work between now and then.

H. Gray goes south to ride Sasanof in the Great Easter. This means that H. Telford will have to get someone else for Active at Ellerslie.

J. M'Laughlin left for Auckland on Tuesday with Rebekah. R. S. Bagby will ride her in the Great Easter Handicap. N. G. Porter came across from Blenheim with Pariform and Imaribbon, who races in the same ownership as Rebekah, and they were railed north in company. Imaribbon appears hardly treated in the race he is engaged in on the opening day. The clashing of the Marlborough meeting with Egmont and- South Canterbury may affect the first-named gathering. Leaving A clear week for taking the licensing poll was the cause of the clashing this time. A. M'Auley has settled down in his new quarers at Tauherinikau. Daytime and Kilrush are being kept going,\ and will be racing at the meetings up this way shortly. Most of the others are having an easy time of it, as they did a fair amount of racing and travelling this summer. From Taranaki your correspondent is advised that Silver Link's withdrawal from Auckland engagements was due to the wellknown sprinter having broken down. J. Bryce returned south yesterday after assisting*- at the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting. He took up four horses, and won races with two of them.