SOUTHLAND NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 7

SOUTHLAND NOTES.

(Special to the “ Star.”) 1N \ FRCA.RG ILL, J ulie ]9. I lie only horses Avho are working on the. Southland Racing Club’s tracks at present are M arhaven and Penury Rose. r J ho pair may compete at the M'ellington Racing Club’s winter meeting, Avith a call at Riccarton on the way home, to take part in the Grand National fixture. Cupidon* has been fired, and he is running out in a paddock by dav, while his stable mate Radial now being spelled, advantage Laving been taken of the opportunity to "blister bis shoulder, Avhieh Avas injured some time ago. In the meantime. R. M’Kay is busy educating a rising tAvc-venr-old brother to Francaise and A par-lie and half-brother to Frenchman, for Air AV. T. Jlazlett, also, a rising three-year-old by Gay Lad—Parable, the property of her breeder, Mr M\ C'rcsson, of Dunedin. During the past few weeks extensi'a'c alterations have been made to the Southland Racing Club’s racing track. The nAvkward turn from the live furlong post, leading past the half mile mark, has been hanked on the outside, to a height of four feet six inches, tapering away to the rails. It . A’as a big job, but it is now almost completed. Reports come from M ingatui to the effect that Ecuador is training on the right way Avith :P. Shaw in view of the Mel ling ton fixture. Obligio has been eased up by J. A. Rowland and will not be trained again until late next season. Salerno, in the same stable, will bo backed about during the winter months. At the Bircliwood Hunt flagged steeplechase fixture, held at Clifden on Wednesday, Kilkee beat July Spark by half a length in the Tuataperc' Steeplechase. The latter was ridden by Air .1. Jlazlett, the eldest son of Air M\ T. Hazlett, who is better knoAvu as a Rugby footballer, but who is now too busy on a back country run to engage in the national pastime. July Spark is an upstanding son of Boniform who lias been a failure on the flat. Ihe horses raced at Wingatui by F. W. Ellis have been out in the paddock since their return from the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting. JMlis is at present absent on a holiday. Jt is not known vet Avliethor he will have anything for the Grand National gathering, but if so they will have to bo prepared somewhere else, as the local tracks, with tho exception of the cinder circuit, xvill bo definitely closed 1 down in a fortnight’s time. Air M*. Stone’s gelding Alastcr Sandstone bad an adventurous trip from’ the north. Lie left Wellington on' Saturday morning of last Avcek by the coastal boat Calm, which had subsequently to take refuge from the scA’ere storm, and she is not due at, the. Bluff till to-morrow morning. When first shipped some weeks ago. Alastcr Sandstone had to disembark again owing* to industrial troubles, and he could not bo found for some time, until be was located, in a livery stable in the Empire City. On his arrival here Master Sandstone will probablv Lo operator upon for breathing troubles. If the motion to come before the Racing Conference next month is carried, the Southland Racing Club will in' future rank as a. metropolitan body, Avith jurisdiction over -the Southland, Wallace, Fiord and Lake Counties. The local mentor .1. A. RoAvland has made arrangements to handle three rising two-year-olds for their respective owners. Jn addition he has taken the rising thrcc-ycar-old Haphazard up again.