WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 126, 22 December 1892, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

December 19. , The privileges of the Manawatu Racing Club’s-'Summer Meeting were sold on last and fetched /j6B, as against £142 last year. • Retina was well backed in Wellington for; the iSiofth Canterbury Cup, which she ( won. Mh F. Martin, her owner, stood Ker for a good stake, and got back part 'of Kis heavy losses over last season, when s£e started sixteen times without winning. She is now first favourite for the Palmerston Cup, an admirer having taken 40 to 10 to-day., , t The Lower Valley Jockey Club have refused to receive the nomination of Jacob, and the Metropolitan Club have passed a resolution stating that they were wrong in not taking it under the circumstances. The secretary (Mr. W. Armstrong) lives twelve miles from Masterton, where entries are made, and it is thought this had something to do with the letter enclosing the nomination and fees not reaching him. Mr. Coulter’s hurdler Bide-a-wee has gone amiss, having hurt his shoulder, and has been turned out. La Petite Fille was to have accepted for the Palmerston Cup, but her owner missed the day. She is going up for the second day’s races. ’ Mr. t. W. Hungerford left for Sydney last, week. He has taken a large contract at Wooliongong, and goes over to superintend it. .‘‘ Jerry” Jerome and Joe Poole, well known sporting men, are leaving here for Sydney to-morrow. May Queen, a celebrated Southern thdtter, who was considered well in at Johnsonville on Boxing Day, has been scratched for all engagements at the meeting. Mr. Jackman, the owner of Daybreak, the hurdler, who was killed by being staked at Feilding, has sent into the Maori (Otaki) secretary a claim for return of his nomination fees. Mr. King, the handicapper, did not assign Daybreak ahy weight. The secretary of the club has declined to accede to Mr, Jackman’s request, and the Metropolitan Club back him up, holding that this is different from the case of Inez and the Wellington Racing Club last year, when Mr. Evett did not weight the mare because she was not here. It was rather rich of Mr. Jackman making such a claim, as he himself told the handicapper not to weigh Day break. The Napier horse Samoa, who broke down before the Wellington Spring Meeting, is still at the Hutt, his leg not being strong enough to allow him to make the journey home. ‘Mr. Joseph Meyers has been appointed hon. secretary of the United Hutt Club. The hurdler Traitress has gone into Tom Hill’s stable. She will be a starter at the Otaki Maori Meeting. k. Campbell, trainer, has taken Mr. Love’s stables at Waiwatawhere. He has the horses Alma and Nimrod in work.