SPORTING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14698, 1 September 1915, Page 7

SPORTING.

MARTON J.C. SPRING AIEETING. (Per United Press Association.) ■' MARTON JUNCTION, September 1. The Marton Spring Meeting is being held to-day. Tile going is holding. The weather is showery, but there is a good attendance. Results:Hurdles.—Toreador 1, Euatangata 2, Rexer 3. Scratched: Qlenorchy, Patronymic, Epworth, Aleladist, Mona Park and Hinemanua. Time, 3.25 3-5, Hunt Steeples.—The Ranter 1, Consul 2, Baron 3. All started. Won by ten lengths. Time, 7.8 2-s’. Maiden.—Hydros i, Moutoa Queen 2, Bronk Delaval 3. Scratched: Chatto. Danger Signal, Pomeroy and Braemorc. Won easily. Time, 1.34 3-5. Railway Handicap.—Mia Cara 1, Crown Pearl 2, Tangiwai 3. Scratched: Calais Won by a length. Time, 1.19:1-5. The New Zealand Cup favourite, War step, continues to get through satisfac tory tasks at Eiccartou, and bowls alon; in her gallops just as freely as ever. .Or present appearances she could be got ready to race at any of the spring meet ings. Nothing has been showing more bri! liant form at Hiccarton recently tha:_ Nones, who should certainly give a goo< account of herself in the early three-year old contests. “T.P.D.,” in "Baily’s Magazine,” pay Australian horses the following corapli ment: —“It has been my good fortune to see many foreign and colonial horses, but of these the Australian is far the best as a troop horse or as a hunter. After my Indian experiences, I should be in dined to say that the Australian horse is one of the best remounts for cavalry and artillery in the world, and that be rides the services which these horses will do for us in the war, an infusion of Australian blood into our English breeding stocks may do for the riding horse what Spearmint, son of Carbine, seems likely to do for racehorses. We often hear about the value of Eastern blood. I am not going to depreciate. this. but I be lieve that the Australian is the true outcross for the English riding horse, and that, as in the case of Eastern cresses, we shall see the best results when the new strains are introduced through the marc.-:.”