SPORTING.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 2

SPORTING.

RIOTES FROM THE TRACK(By "Martian.”) Otahuhu Trotting Club’s and Levin Racing Club's meetings to-morrow, Talaro, on Mis Addington form, should go well in the Jcllicoc Handicap to-morrow.

Mcgalo is being spoken of as likely to lie well up at Levin.

Goldman is expected to go well in the Jellicoc Handicap at the Otahuhu trotting gathering. Argue, who scored at Ashhurst and is engaged at Levin; is referred to as a useful hack.

Sunny Jim and Betty Moko are a pair who will carry a lot of money in IMo Campbell Handicap at ' Alexandra Dark to-morrow.

Axle, who is in the hurdles at, Levin, appears to have won- handily over the same journey at, Ashhurst.

It will be nr interest lo breeders tn know that Donzelon, ‘who won the Liverpool Autumn Gup, is by Chaucer, the sire of Arrowsmith. Lin Arlington ran second at Ashhurst. and may improve on that form at Levin.

Huia Girl has only to trot kindly to be a nuisance in the Introductory Handicap at Alexandra Park. Kiwini, who is an acceptor among the maiden performers at Levin showed some pace at Ashhurst. A good beginner like Manna must have prospects in the Stewards’ Handicap at the Otahuhu T.C.’s fixture to-morrow.

Imperial Spark may be Waetca’s most dangerous opponent in the. Levin Cup. I,ipso] and Birthmark arc among, the acceptors for the McDonald Memorial at the Levin fixture.

Hal Chimes, Tranquil and Scandal arc horses known to this district engaged in the President's Handicap,, a mile saddle item at the Otahuhu.Trotting Club’s meeting to-morrow. Waetea, flic winner of the Ashhurst Cup on Wednesday, lias 9.0 in the Levin Cup to-morrow. It is a solid impost bfit there is not much of quality to account for.

By annexing the Canterbury Gup, The Banker followed the lead established by Manton, Traillcur, Euroclydon, Lady Zetland, Seashore, Noctuiform and Vice-Admiral, who all, won the New Zealand .and Canterbury Cups in the same season.

According to some people the Melbourne Stakes spoiled the Melbourne Cup of 1925. One of the persons affected was tbe noted Victorian trainer, ,T. Holt, who backed Windbag fairly well in the Cup, but after the race for tiie Stakes lie laid it all off and reinvested the money on Manfred. It is 19 years since a Taranaki horse won the New Zealand Cup, Mr. R. Shore’s Star Rose scoring in 1906. It will be remembered that this horse, coupled with Captain Shannon, winner of the Stewards’ Handicap, paid a sensational dividend of over £2OOO on Hie double totalisator then in vogue. In 1902 Halberdier, belonging to Mr. B. T. Bennett, of Patea, was also successful, and in 1897 the late Mr. o.

McGuinncss won with Waiuku. Tho Banker’s, therefore, is the fourth New Zealand Cup to go to Taranaki. Sportsmen from that quarter have a good record in connection with the Mitehelson Cup, that handsome trophy having gone to Taranaki on five out of the eight occasions on which it has been raced for. For four successive years Taranaki horses—Depredation, Volo, Stork and Income—were successful, and now after a lapse of two years To Monanui notches victory. The winners of the Cup since its inception are as follow: 1918, Mrs. Lindsay's Uncle Ned; 1919, R. Barlow's Depredation; 1920, 11. J. Eaves’ Volo; 1921, Newton King’s Stork: 1922, E. Andrews' Income; 1923, T. H. Lowry’s Highland; 1927, W. J. Wilson’s Royal Present; 1925, Mrs. W. D. Graham’s Tc Monanui.