WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 45

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(From Our Owh Correspondent.) May 5. The yearlings purchased by Mr A. G. Hill, of Dunedin, and Mr Chas. Edgar, of Wairarapa, at the Sydney sales are aboard the Manuka, due here on Monday next. Formerly the Wellingtoni Winter meeting extended over three days, but recently it has been only two days. It is hoped to get the lost day back this season, thus bringing this important venter into line with Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin. F. Higgott brought bark with him from the West Coast the horses Lady Pallas and By roe, who will in future be trained at Otaki. Vindictive and Solfanello were submitted at auction at Sydney on Friday last, but failed to find purchasers. Private cable advice has been that they are returning by the Manuka on Monday next. After racing on the West Coast Gold Problem. Demoness and Bestir arrived from the south on Thursday, and were shipped to Blenheim the same day. The local owner, Mr W. Higgins, has half a dozen of his team at the Blenheim meeting. He has engaged several horses at the Ashburton and North Otago meetings. lie will probably have a couple of horses racing at Wanganui. The sum of £3OOO will be given in stakes at the Otaki Maori Racing Club’s Winter meeting. The amount named is £BOO less than last year. Mr W. Riordan, who raced Ethopian, Bardol and other horses in V ictoria. is on a holiday visit to his relatives here. He may attend the Egmont and Wanganui meetings, and send O. Cox, the Hawera trainer, across a horse or two to train. He thinks it is easier to win races here than on the other side. All the same, Jbe liandioappers on the other side take great care of the New Zealand horses. So’.fanello received anything from 101 b to a stone more than he should have got. The imported horse Valkyrian. by William the Third, has been entered at the Wanganui meeting. He only raced a few times in the Old Country ami won at Rundown as a three-year-old. His dam is a daughter of Eager,-who is also the sirs of Light, dam of Gloaming.