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By

Fritz.

I notice the Wellington correspondent of a Southern contemporary keeps hammering away about the disqualified Roseleaf being allowed to trot at the N.I.T.A. meetings. If this said correspondent knew all the particulars in conection with the disqualification of this mare, it would make his hair stand on end. When a trotting club offers to comprise a disqualification by offering to practically accept a certain sum of money to remove such disqualification, things are a bit shady with that particular club, but in the particular instance I refer 1 o, the secretary offered to effect the comprise, and 1 do not wish to infer that the club were cognisant of what was going on. Chew that over, young man. At the Geraldine Meeting last week, writes our Dundin correspondent, a good gauge of the amount of money available at a small meeting was curiously demonstrated, as in four of the events the dividends were over £2O, and strange to say, a couple of punters got the whole of the four dividends, minus, the ten per cent. After this, backers were about broke, and further investments, confined to a few pounds, appeared to be all the money they could rake up.

Maud V. is well handicapped in the Hawera Handicap Trot, two miles and a half. If she retains any of her old form she should win. Sonny has a soft thing in the Winter Harness Handicap Trot. At the Nelson races last week the first day’s Saddle Trot, one mile and a half, resulted—-Clyde 1, Invictus 2, Kate 11. 3; time, 4tnin 32sec; dividend, £2 15s. On the second day the Handicap Harness Trot, two miles and a half, resulted —lnvictus 1, Blackpool 2, Clyde 3 ; time, /min ssec ; dividend, £3 10s.