SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1924, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") M ellingtn Steeples on Wednesday next. Musketoon reached Trentham this week. Loughrea's nomination for the Melbourne Cup was overlooked. F. D. Jones' team were shipped to Sydney on Friday last. Dick lias done a lot of work lately, and should strip well at Trentham. Nursing sister slipped a Ally foal (to Warplane) at Westmere last week. The erstwhile Wanganui horseman, G. C. Young, broke a coi.arbone when Waioheka Jack dropped him ait Napier. ’Stralian P. Riddle, so successful with trotting horses in the Dominion, is now traintag gallopers as well. The Aucklander, Elsie Aroha, changed hands recently, and will probably race in a Taranaki uniform iu future. The jockeys S. Walls and H. Goldfinch accompanied Pittsworth, Loyal Irish and King Cheops to Sydney last week. Celmlsia (Hymettus—By By) l s in foal to Wlarplane this season. The half-sister to Marquetedr, Mark Time, etc., was very speedy, and the result of her mating with another good performer like Warplane should produce something that will be able to gallop flast. The trouble over the ownership of Silver San came to a head at the Wanganui District Committee meeting on Tuesday, when O. Jefferson was “stood down” for two years. The case of the trainer, T. Coleman, ’for committing a technical breaech of the Rules of Racing will be met with a. fine, the amount being fixed by the President of the Conference. Mr. E. L. Barnes, the well-known Palmerston sportsman, was so disgusted with Cushat's running at Hustings tinat he made a gift of the highly-bred, but disappointing, son of Feramorz and Ringdove to Mr. H. Hickey at the conclusion of the meeting. In awarding Ballymena 9st 11b in the Melbourne Cup the handicapper has taken no risks wtih the Nassau gelding. This represents 11b over weight-for-age, according to the New Zealand standard. Ballymena has 9st 51bs in the Metropolitan Handicap, which is 51bs. over w.f.a,, so it cannot be said that Mr. Knight has been offered much inducement to take on the big handicaps with his fine