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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 515, 1 November 1900, Page 13

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WAVERLEY WEIGHTS-POKOMOKO- - HORSES-THE MINERVA CASE.

October 27. The handicaps for the Waverley-Waitotara Meeting, on November 9, which were declared on Wednesday, appear in this issue. For the Hurdles I like Waylay and Avantgarde. In the Cup, Queen’s Guard and Hadyn. For the Morton Memorial, Lady Belle and Brown Bill. Gipsy Queen, Tukapa, and Golden Crown look well in the Flying. For the Momahaki Stakes I like Tawara and Brown Bill. The Prince of Wales Handicap has a large field. The Crawler, Tukapa, and Gipsy Queen look a good trio. Two short events, entries for which close next Tuesday, make up the programme.

From a Hawera writer I learn that the disqualified horse, Pokomoko, has been sold by Mr W. Lucena to a resident of Onehunga. The Eltham-owned Klondyke (by Fraternite) has been sold to a Mr O’Sullivan, of the West Coast, South Island.

Mr Dan McLeod, the Auckland bookmaker, was in town to-day, en route to Christchurch. The scratching of Record Reign for the New Zealand Cup was a severe facer to backers here, as he had been well supported, principally in doubles, ever since the weights appeared. The three candidates that I like in the Cup are Dundas, Fulmen, and Ideal in order, and for a boil over Huku, who has been doing fairly good track work. In the Stewards Formosan, Chasseur, and Ostiak look a likely trio for places. The Derby should be a fair thing for Renown. The Oaks might be run by Field Rose, and the Welcome Stakes by Cruciform.

Battleaxe and Okoari are to be taken North for the Auckland Spring Meeting, and I expect that by the time these notes appear in print they will be on the scene of action.

The St Leger gelding, Dartmoor, in the same stable, is still under a cloud owing to a cronk leg. Mr Watson intends to give the leggy chestnut another trial to see if his pin will stand training. The steeplechaser, Dummy, is still on the retired list. His poisoned leg has gone down considerably, but there is still a large hard lump all round the fetlock, and it is very doubtful whether 1 the Mute gelding will ever see the post again. A report, is current here that a petition is being circulated in Auckland, asking the Egmont Racing Club to remit the two years’ disqualification on Messrs J. Beckett and M. McAuliffe.