SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 9

SPORTING.

NOTES AND COMMENT'S

(By "Early Bird*

Bone Dry will 4o out to-day a hotter favourite than either Desert Gold or Gloaming has ever been. ■' Interesting working gallops are reported ..from . Riccarton. Glendower went, a milo and a quarter by himself, finishing we*l,itl 2 ittih 14 2-£ sees., a useful gallop, as he did not look as if he was. i>Ut affeivtiniev , J Gay Lad'and Punka were associated bvet Hjgveti furlongs. They finished toigfe'ther, "Gay Lad, oh the inside, apl>earing to be tr^v-elling a litths better than his companion over the last furlong. ■ ;■• •■■" - ; ■ ■ •■

. Bon Spec broke away at the sbc: furlong _ mark, and after going a.furlong \vas joined by Belair, who led him home. Bon Spec finished up in 1 rain 16 2-5 sees., a very smart galop, as he had a good Weight in the saddle. He is exceptionally well. : The North lelund claims eight representatives in the Great Easter and six in tha Great -Autumn; Cant«i*bury stables claim . seven and five respectively; while-the Otiigo and .Southlandowners have four in the seven furlongs •: race, and three in the mile and a half. With the horses drawn from such a wide area, there should bo plenty, of interest in both events. Sasanofj Gay Lad and Boh Spfec are the most popular Selections at present for the Great Easter Handicap, While Xxlehdower is the ruling favourite for the Great Autumn Handicap. , The opinion has been Expressed m more than one quarter that with Surveyor standing in the way the Canterbury Jockey Club was nob likely to secure a big field for tiiis season's Champagne Stakes. It seems probable, however, that the Yaldhurst crack will encounter fair opposition on Easter Monday. Miss Mimic and.Royal Stag are progressing well in their training nt; Iticcartjon, and though Surveyoi' appears to hoM them safe, the better of the pair, should give him a decent race. Rossini, a brother to Soldiers' Chorus, i Tannhauser, and Cherubini, has not j raced yet, and interests in him will | be aroused chiefly by his prospects hi I the future , Hetau£ has some godd performanoes to liis|fcredit lately, and i Warplane shaped v.ml enough in the I spring tio suggest great possibilitiies, which he has failed to realise up till now. Sunart is a winner in moderate company, and he is a gelding who should be capable of much improve- i ment. The best of the two-year-olds Also figure in the Challenge Stakes, iv which Gloaming will serve to thoroughly test their merits.

A Hastings hotel-keeper laid a level fifty last week that he would still be carrying on the hotel business three months hence. Strange to say, the other party to the transaction was a well-known sportsman who holds" very strong anti-Prohibition views. Evens is liberal odds for the latter;