TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 518, 22 November 1900, Page 12

TARANAKI.

BATTLE AXE AND CBUSOE FOR WELLING-TON-TUKAFA-BLOODSTOCK AT WAITARA -SHEILA-MR WATSON’S HORSES AND THE A.R.C- SPRING MEETING - SOME FEILDING ANTICIPATIONS.

New Plymouth, November 19.

Battleaxe, Crusoe, and Maro (hack) were railed to Wellington this morning to fulfil engagements at the Spring Meeting there. Okoari was not taken down, owing o injuries sustained through being galloped on at the Auckland Spring Meeting. Tukapa is nicely weighted in the Hack Race at Wellington, and if he is well I expect to see him score. Tukapa, Crusoe and Maro have engagements at Feilding on the way home from Wellington. Impati, a five-year-old mare by Castor—Brown Alice, is now in work in T. Goddard’s stable at Waitara. ahe mare has had a foal. The name of Whawhai has been bestowed on Mr T. Elliot’s colt by Soult from Leorina. The colt, who is ponified but strongly built, has not yet got over dental troubles. Diehard, a fouryear old by Label from Fish Lass, in the same stable, is suffering from rheumatism, and has been consequently st ,pped in his work. Mr T. Elliot has had a good deal of bad luck with his horses Angler, when at his best, had to be destroyed through an accident sustained while doing a gallop on the Waitara track, and Angler’s relation, Ikarire, was so crippled through rheuatics that his training had to be abandoned. Ikarire is at present located in the Awikino district.

There is quite a bloodstock establishment at Waitara. A local gentleman, who for years has been very keen in breeding bloodstock, has about half-a score of mares with foals at foot located in a nicely sheltered paddock at Waitara Boad, and the same gentleman has a property at Awikino, where several brood mares are located. I wish him success in his venture, and hope hie enterprise will be suitably rewarded by turning out some fast and sound gallopers.

The grey mare, Shiela, who used to race in Mr Standish’s colours, has produced a fine chestnut -colt foal to Sylvia Park, and Leda’s filly foal by the same sire is developing fast, and gives promise of being a counterpart of her dam. Mr F. Watson had a disastrous time with Battleaxe and Okoari at Auckland. The pair ■did not get any leniency from the avoirdupois adjuster, despite their indifferent form, more especially in the case of Okoari. This mare has the misfortune to be the own sister to Waiuku, and she has had to pay the penalty due to her brother’s greatness. The Opunake Bacing Club are out with their programme for New Year’s Day. Mr W. Elliot, of Waitara, informs me that Pyroxylin is doing well in his work, and will be started at Waitara, and Waireka, who was spelled through an accident to a front hoof, will be put in work forthwith. Gilknockie (a four-year-old stallion by Gipsy King from Hagar) and Howetia, a pony, are the other animals of his stable in work.

The handicaps for the Feilding Meeting at the end of the month have been declared, and 'Gowrie and Melwood look well in the Kiwitea Stakes; Fbost and Nayborn in the Hurdles ; Madman and Stbene in the Hack Hurdles ; Obusoe and Rubin in the St Andrew’s Handicap ; Laubebtina and Tukapa in the Hack Flying, and Tommy Atkins and Mazona in the Open Flying