SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17260, 12 April 1918, Page 6

SPORTING.

NOTES BY "MULTIFORM."

Mr. E. .1. Watt has leased the stallion All Black for three years to a New South Wales breeder, and the horse is to bo snipped to Australia shortly. Tho Marble Arch —Zinnia filly in N. G. Irwin's charge is thriving on the work.she is doing at Ellerslie, and is shaping into a nice youngster. A. J. McFlinn will be riding at the Manawatu meeting, one of his mounts being the St. Legcr winner Bonnie .Maid, in the Telegraph Handicap. Mr J. N. Heslop has disposed of the imported horse Polydatuon to the Gisbome stud-master, Mr Carrington, and he wiil bo shipped to his new home by the- lir-t boat.

Heathercute and Gamecock will represent Sir Go. Clifford at the Manawatu Club's meeting next week. Honthereote is going north for tho Sires' Produce. Stakes, in which be will meet Finmark. who appears to he the best of the North Island two-year-olds, and tin.', contest should settle the juvenile siipreinacw for tho season. Desert Gold is a daisy and one ovor (says the "Bulletin"). The field in the Autumn Stakes, one mile and a half, w.l'.a., was just about as good as can be produced these days. Of th<9eleven starters, at least nine would be in the first dozen of any distance handicap framed in Australia. The mare mado no race of it. Not at any time did she look anything but a winner, nor at any stage did one of the others look like arguing the point. The Maori- [ lander won by four lengths from Thana in "3:1." She, con Id have won by a dozen

T.sn't i* about time that we rid our speech of the feaiiinine "ess"? We made aii'end of "poetess" long ago, and ': authoress'"" (almost more dre.idful) followed it. By the way, did woman writers ever describe themselves as "authoresses" on their title page-;? Wasn't it usually "author of "so and so? But "manageress" and "proprietress" still unbeautifnlly linger, and conductress" is creeping into common speech. Why not " i\r] conductor" if we must define the sex? The Fren-h "ett"1' larked on *>.o a noun is a more ;ibomirai.ion. and finds its apotheosis in the* vulgarism "novelette," which -an bo defended on no grounds whatever.