Inter-Provincial.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 249, 2 May 1895, Page 6

Inter-Provincial.

[Own Correspondents.]

WELLINGTON.

[by wire.] ’p ~Z;:. : ' -'Aprif'3of'The weather is yeyy- the opening day of the Wellington Meeting. A good crowd of visitors is iri town, arid the course is in fair condition. St. Clemeuts is a firm favourite for the Thompson Handicap, and Barmby is a strong southern tip, but it is probable he will start in the Bkilway Handicap. ■ Frank Hill and‘Wim Profit, wellknown metallicians left here on a visit to England. ' Mr G-ollan’s quartette Of houses leave for England aboiis'September. - T hear good accounts of Mr Gollan’s string -at Caulfield, and it is expected the stable will show a strong hand in the Spring, and no doubt would be -Worth following.. Elk has broken down, and Brooklet has also gone amiss. Busaco is an ungainly looking brute, and is pecularly made behind/ being extraordinarily straight, and shows very little muscle. The report circulated in Wairarapa that Mr T. M. Wilford had purchased qhe hack Slaiden is incorrect. Mr Wilford offered £125 for the horse, with engagements, but the owner wanted to rotain the latter, so no deal was effected. The trotting stallion Pirate, by Childe Harold—Violetta, arrived from Sydney by the Talune, having been purchased for trie Marlborough district. He is a fine chestnut, standing 16 hands high, and between six and seven years old. Review’s connections are very dissatisfied with the judgment exercised by “ Kaiser ” Myers in the races at the Wairarapa Meeting. At a meeting of the committee of the Palmerston North Trotting Club it was decided to disqualify Te Horo, the nominator, J. Sullivan, and the jockeys, D. Nyhan and J. ’Forsyth; for life. ’Evidence was produced to show that Te Horo was identical-with’Steadfa’St.’’