BY "MULTIFORM "

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 24 October 1912, Page 3

BY "MULTIFORM "

North East and Phroso left yesterday

for Riccarton, where both claim engagements at tho Cup fixture. Both will bo well forward and will bo sure lv cany a lot of Wanganui money. Tho Wave r ley-yVaitotara ineoting, ncxi Monday promises to be a most suceesiful one, and a largo crowd intend making tiio journey from here. This gathering in getting more popular_«ver> year, being one of tho oldest and best conducted meetings on tho coast. Secretary McFarlane has everything well in hand and anticipates a capital day's tpyrt for visitors. John having ben sold and Roosevelt leased for stud purposes, A. Jackson now only has two horses in commission, namely Coromandel and Yankee Doodle, the latter of whom will make his next appearanco at Waverley. * A squatter who had been on his western station during the shearing returned to town recently (says a Sydney paper), and brought the newest racing story with Mm. Out back they get one mail each week, and some of the news is necessarily on the stale side. It was only tho other day they heard of-the accident to Hart, tho Australian aviator. The comment on tho subject being nearly exhausted, one shearer, whose chief occupation outside his work is tilting against the booking ring, was suddenly illuminated with a great idea: "So Hart fell, well, strike mo pink, if that isn't i;ho greatest office 1 ever heard. Hartfell for tho Eosom for me " Punters are

notoriously superstitious. They aro alwavfl looking for coincidences, and that I; why thero will be great' joy in at l^ast ono western shearing camp when they hear of tho name of tho winner of tho'Epsom of 1912, for almost to a man they wero on him.