SPORTING

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 6

SPORTING

Galore may win a race to-day.

Hori will not be a starter at the Master ton meeting to-day.

Dainty tSep baa been backed to win something at Master ton to-day.

The Waimate Cup, run on Thursday, was won by Bon Spec, with Radial second, and Sunart third.

Swanee River wil lprobably be heard of in the six furlongs event to-day, if the going happens to be soft.

The crack galloper Arrowsmith has gone into F. Christmas's stable at Riccarton. Christmas took him South on Wednesday night.

In view of the disappearance of Sasanoff, the interest in the Autumn Handicap at Masterton to-day will be reduced. Rose Wreath and Red Ribbon may fight out the finish.

The whole of Mr Stead's horses have been scratched for the Masterton meeting. These embrace Sasanoff, Cashmere, Golden Bubble, Tout Bon, and Lalla Rookh.

A good gallop was registered at Riccarton this week when Macduff and Onslaught covered five furlongs in under 62sees.

Ashley Reed will have the mount on Red Ribbon to-day, and Bagby will guide Rose Wreath.

Vaailkov, which is nominated for the Trial Plate at Opaki, is closely related to Sasanof, and a couple of seasons ago cost his owner, Mr W. R. Kemball, something in the vicinity of 1000 guineas.

Acceptances clow to-day for the Hukanui Trotting Club's meeting.

A Dannevirke resident purchased several tickets on the winner of the Inst race on the second day of the Dannevirke meeting. On attending the pay-out window to collect his dividend, about £l6O, he found that a wallet containing the tickets had been taken from his pocket.

The Pahiatua Herald says:—The Woodlajwls Hunt Club voluntarily suspended operations during tho war period with the consent of the Minister for Internal Affairs, who promised that when the Club wished to resume racing after the war its totalizator permit would be restored. Members of the Club have now received a rude shock by the discovery that the Dannevirke Hunt Club has applied to the Minister for tho transfer fer of the Woodlands' permit, on tho ground that the Woodlands Club is defunct.' As it happens the annual meeting of tho Woodlands Club ia fixed for Tuesday next, and the Dannevirke usurpers will discover that far from being defunct, it is a live organisation, fully determined to maintain its right. The Hunt Club proposes to hold a one-day meeting next year on the day following ths Pahiatua Racing Club's meeting.