SPORTING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13057, 27 April 1910, Page 6

SPORTING.

BY “ACHILLES.”

J. Lamhess, the Foxton trainer, has purchased a handsome two-year-old hay gelding from Mr J. Taylor, of Westmere (Wanganui). The gelding is by Nestor out of Yapour, dam. of Emblem and Ngaruhoe.

It is quite probable that Naumai andWaiata will be taken to Australia for some of the winter meetings there. Ashby, the crack Auckland two-year-old; who holds an unbeaten record, has sufficiently recovered from the accident which happened to him in December to be giveneasy exercise.

In connection with the ten days’ racing, which the' Auckland R.C. have so far provided this season, fithe bookmakers have paid no less a sum than £7583 for the right to bet at Elleiklie. A forfeit for the Epsom Derby fell due just before the last mail left, and there are 165 horses still in. The advertised value of the race is £6500, but as owners have already made themselves liable' for £6290', it is improbable that there will bo any deficiency for'the club to make up. This is very different from the Australian Jockey; Club’s Derby, to which the club adds £4OOO to the subscriptions; The Stockwell line has more than held its own in connodtion with the North Island Challenge Stakes, despite the fact that the St. Simon blood has' been the ruling fashion for some years The race was instituted in 1899, and since .-en Stockwell horses in Formosan, Porirua, Martin, Glenculloch, Provocation, and Formby have lauded the prize, whilst M-enschikoff,- another winner, is out of a Lochiel mare.

At a recent Manchester (England) meeting it was discovered, on a protest being lodged against a winner, that although the names of five stewards were 'on the card, uot one was present. “Good old England!” At the late Bombay meeting the exNew Zealanders Soultliue and Master Delaval shone in a particularly bright light. The latter made the x-nglish horse Fizzy and the remainder of his oppouets look extremely cheap in the City Plate, and Soultline simply ran away with the Malabar Hill Plate, in which he carried 9.7, and left six furlongs behind him in 1.13 4-3. The English mare humiliation acted as runner-up, but nothing could live with Soultline, who made every yard of the ruuninug, and won with his head in his chest. Soultline is to be taken to England in charge of the English trainer Mumford, but the Australasian six furlongs record-holder may go into E. Wootto.n’s hands on Iris arrival.

Waitapu, since coming into Mr J. O’Driscoll’s possession, has made a wonderful improvement so far as looks are concerned. The Gipsy King gelding is looking quite lusty. Tlie well-known horseman, W. Young, who is at'present under suspension, intends applying for a license at the ’next meeting os the Wanganui Metropolitan Club, which is to be held on May Bth. Should he be successful, one of his first rides will be on Jack Pot in the Wanganui Steeples.

Mr A. xJliugham’s aged gelding is standing up to his work at Hastings, and Ins owner is confident that he will get him to the post at Wanganui. In connection with the Cuirassier gelding John, says a ■ southern paper, it is interesting to notice that the Waikato trainer, E. Hannon, who formerly raced John, states that he is the best jumper which ho ever owned, and, for two successive seasons, he hunted him himself, and the gelding never once put a foot worng.