RACE TRACK EVENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 4

RACE TRACK EVENTS

!■ -OVE.R THE FENCE. (By “Paritutu.”) Good Egg—mont! o o » « Nelson on Friday, Good Lord. *#♦ . ■ Winter racing gives us the jumps. ’ » ' o' O’ o Footballers’ trials are just begining. « ' # # * Trans-Tasman flights—flights of fancy. » a » # ’’•Snowy” Moris should be at home at Egmont. » * * * Gray appears to be in the pink at preeent. # , ■ * « Cape Egmont Light Out. —The light that failed. =» - * # # “Art Union Winner —D 45.” And so uay, all of us. . . #. s . # The non-tricr’s heart is always bowed down with "Whoa.” * * * » Wrestling: Shikat beats Steinke. No rude remarks, please. »## • # Mister Gamp should be worth remembering Tor a rainy day. *. * * Pucks were not the only ones to get - "shot” on the First of Muy. #7# # # Australian cricketers hope that Bradman will never be found out. ,■# * * • Two Palmerston North ladies adver- •• tise.for lost tabby cats. Puss! Puss!.. •» * Thranaki’s Tommy Donovan appears ■ io be firing away as strongly as ever. * * ' Advt. “Man wants work; no. job toe small.” A man after my Awn heart! ♦ ' > # ' ■ * *; Once upon a - time it was all voile and bustle; now its Coyle and Russell. « » The post-and-rails. at Hawera should j»ake.*our -jumpers rise to the occasion. • * . : Still:’ Most of our so-called ’chasers overdo. the maxim, “Look before you < leap?’ *** * , . Taranaki, jocksters N. F. Johnson and U. K. Alexander have departed for Calcutta: All’s riot there at present. *9’ « « Some of our hurdle and steeplechase horsemen could write a book on their experiences. The Downfall of Man. #■» * * Ridden by tho ex-New Zealander, Maurice MeCarten, and starting at a good price, Mr. 11. J. McManaway’s filly Habit (Thespian—Cowl) finished second in a large field. # » * * Last year Tommy Green /won the fiat'.double on Seatown and Gold Money on both the first and. third'days at the A.R.C.. Steeplechase meeting. Will any horseman emulate this remarkable performance this year? By the mid-day train W. F. Mantle ’left New Plymouth for Ha.wera with - his string comprising Manly, ( Havering, Gold' Dawn, Whenuanui, Annoyey and, ■Crennatown. By the same; train R. Johnson’s quartette comprising The Swell, Ridgemount. Borrngne and Crown Link, were also railed to Hawera. ./ EGMONT R.C. SCRATCHING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hawera., May 7. Ten Acre was scratched ,at 8 o’clock last night for all engagements at the Egmont winter meeting. WAGGA GOLD CUP RACE. TIME EQUALS THE RECORDBy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 0.30 p.m. Sydney, May 7. ■ At Wagga to-day the Wagga Gold Cup resulted: Bawn-na-glas, 7.9 (Simpson) 1, Goshawk, 8.12, 2; Port Said, 7.6, 3. Nine started. Won by half a length, with three lengths between second and third. Time, 2min 3£se'c,- which equals the Australian and New Zealand Tecord for a mile and a-quarter.