SPORTING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11974, 18 September 1906, Page 7

SPORTING.

NOTES BY "ACHILLES."

Amongst the New Zealand Cup candidates engaged at the Wanganui J.C. Meeting, which takes place next week, are Zimmerman, Flamen, Bourrasque, Martello, St, Joe, and Auratue. Lord Roeebery's colt Traquair, who held an unbeaten certificate up to the Goodwood meeting, was defeated in the Prince of Wales Sakee under somewhat sensational circumstances. ' The race in question was thought to be so completely at his mercy that odds of 8 to 1 were laid on his ability to win. Lord Wolverton'a unnamed colt, by Florizel 11. from Marsh Marigold, wa» the one to have the distinction of leading Traquair home. The result of the Rosehill Cup, which was to have been decided in Sydney on Saturday last,, has not yet come to hand. A well-known local barber Postilion in one of Tattereall's sweeps on the evenjt is naturally particularly anxious to hear the result, as ie also a Maori lad living up the Wanganui River who drew Tatterdemalion. It is rater a coincidence that the two horses thus drawn by Wanganui-ites should both have had 8.8 apportioned them as their handicap. English papers to hand show that the New Zealand-bred pair Nightfall and Noctuiform figure amongst the entrants for the C*6arewitch and Cambridgeshire Stakes, to be run next month. If the Totaliaator Permits Bill introduced into the House of Representatives be carried, and licenses to use the instrument be prohibited on bank holidays, a great many clubs would be affected. In looking up the Bank Holidays Act, I find the same to be as follows: — New Year's Day, Good Friday, the day after Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day, the day after Christmas Day, St. Patrick's Day (March 17), St. George's Day (April 23), St. Andrew's Day (November 30), the Sovereign's Birthday (November 9), Prince of Wales Birthday (June 6), Labour Day (second Wednesday in October). Solution will not be required to carry a penalty in the Metropolitan Handicap as the result of her meritorious win in the Rawson Stakes on Saturday.

Hone Heke, a Native member, had a little gibe at his Pakeha brethren during the debate on the Quackery Bill. He supported the measure, and was glad he said, that steps were to be taken to deal with the Pakeha tohunga.