SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17125, 29 October 1917, Page 6

SPORTING.

iS TOTES BY '• MULTIFORM."

s C. Emerson has been engaged to ride Snub in the New Zealand Cup. F. Tilley has arrived at Riccarton with Client, Acre, Arrowfield, Rude, Moutoa Queen and Gang Aw a', and J. McOracken with Croesus.

All the horses in training owned by the late Hon. J. D. Ormond are to be siibmittod for sale by auction at Hastings on the 23rd of next month. . The N.Z. Cug candidate, Sleight of .Hand, is reported to be very forward .in condition. Disdainful.is said to be looking not quite as well as she did at the Grand National meeting. The Gisborne horse' Gazique, one of the much-fancied division in the C.J.O.

Stewards' Handicap, has arrived £t Riccarton in splendid order. . . The Marble Arch-Cresson colt, Mari'blo Crest, ricked himself rather badly on Satirrday morning, and he wiiLhave i i to be given an extended spell. | Of the N.Z. Cup candidates that have, in public since the handicaps appeared, Paraoa, Teka, a,nd Client have performed best. With nis penalty, Paraoa will now have to carry 7.4 in the big race: but his Wellington [ form :was so convincing that Jie must be voted to have a big say in the set ■ tlement 'of s.he -problem. Certain, shrewd judges who have closely followed the. running of Sieight-of-Hand. say the race is "all over hard shout"ing," but the Grand National winner has the haidest.pait of the^eontract to do. Client and GVlenelaus are both ■ brilliant. . Marsa, another Martian, may stay, and she is very fast. I also -look upon the Martian gelding, Johnny .Walker, as a dangerous factor in the .argument, with only 6.9 to carry. Al- . together there we the elements of t; great contest in this year's race, and it ■ present the ev-ent bears a very open -; appearance.

The hurdler. Combustion, was taken to the Waverley meeting, but was not started. He is particularly well just now, and is said to have improved very considerably since he left Wanganui. '« Mr E. Short, tha popular "Pareorangi" (Feilding) sportsman, has a cor iby Demosthenes ficm Jeanne DAre, ' dam of Orleans, vho is unmistakably the makings of a tj^ical galloper. The youngster, who can muster up some pace, will be seen in action at the Feilding meeting on December Ist. r Mr Greenwood's prograjnme for Biplane is to keep him an Austraiia to contest .the JI.J.C. Derby, Lfthgow Stakes, and the C. B. Fisher Plate. Then he will be brought to Auckland to ' v contest the classical events at the* , Christmas - fixture. Many offers haa jbeen received for Bipkne, but he had . refused them all, as he had no intention 'of selling at .an v figure, even before he went to Australia.