SPORTING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13339, 30 March 1911, Page 6

SPORTING.

BY “ACHILLES.” It is stated that tire sale of Soultiform reported after the New Plymouth meeting has fallen through, the colt having failed to satisfactorily pass a veterinary examination. ■ ~' ■i The Merriwee mare Vi is at present on the easy list, as she was recently found to he suffering from two broken ribs. It is hot known how the mare came by the injury. A sand track at Trentham is now in the making and it is expected the work will bo completed by the date of the Wellington Racing Club’s next gathering. , Sir Geo. Clifford’s team for the Manawatu meeting; including Masterpiece, Counterfeit, and Big Blast, are expected to arrive at Awapuni in charge of H. Cutts towards the end of the week.

The New Zealand Cup winner Bridge, who has been allotted Bst 71bs in the Sydney Cup, a £4OOO race to be decided next month, is stated to have improved a lot in looks since he arrived in Sydney. A good jumper ought to pay his way in France just now, as according to the correspondent of a London ournal, the Societe des Steeplechases has’allotted £143,280 for jumping races in France this year. Arthur Birch, the English cross-coun-try horseman who rode Moifaa when he won the Liverpool Grand National, died recently in England. For the four years preceding his death Birch had lived with a broken back-bone and the lower portion of his body paralysed, the result of an accident sustained while riding in a hurdle race at Gatwick.