HAWKE’S BAT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 724, 21 January 1904, Page 9

HAWKE’S BAT.

Napier, January 19. Wilson arrived from Auckland on Thursday. He left with Catspaw this morning for Wellington, and after assisting at the Hutt this week, journeys up to Auckland, where he will pilot Hjnetaura and Gold Seal in their efforts at Takapuna. Matters 1 in the equine line are brisking up . in. Gisborne in . view of the approaching Summer Meeting, between forty and fifty horses being in work in that district.

Tahuei has evidently quitted the turf arena for the breeding paddocks, as the grey mare has been left . in Auckland with the object of being mated with Soult. Wairenga, a gelded son of Quilt and Ua, passed out last week at his birthplace, Te Mahanga Station. Although he had been racing for some time; he never did anything startling. The cause of his death is internal inflamation. Inspan is still on the resired list, and his rest is doing him a deal of good. All of the team who are engaged at the Wellington Summer Meeting left for the Hutt to-day. 1 /As all have been responsible for attractive essays of late, it looks as if their prospects 1 at the windy city are of a, particularly good sort. The full-sister to Float and Polyanthus, and a half-brother by The Possible to Seraphine, are amongst the yearly lot that Mr De Pelichet, manager of Mr S. M. Gollan’s Station, is sending up for .sale at the end of the month at Hastings. Matuku’s dam Kotuku, went to the happy hunting grounds the other day. Unluckily she got tangled up in a wire fence, cutting herself about badly. An inflamation setting in, carried her off. Awahuri is enjoying himself in the paddock at Ngatarawa. I give the big fellow a chance of seeing the post again for, as a general rule, horses that have a rough strain of blood permesing their veins get over troubles much better than those that have been born in the purple. Eclair’s three-parts brother has had the name of Matapiro claimed for him. Like his relative, he is a finished fencer, and as he can gallop and stay well, it looks like good business to predict a successful career for him at the leaping game. , , , The Hon. J. D. Ormond has christened Roie’s foal son, by San Francisco, that he recently acquired at the dispersal sales of the Sylvia Park Stud, Golden Gate. , . Asteroid, who was not able to put in an appearance on the convincing grounds of late through injuring cne of her heels, is well and healthy again, and has once again been set going cn the A well-attended Committee Meetigg of the Hawke’s Bay Kennel and Poultry Club was held in the Albion Hotel last evening, the President, Mr Paul Hunter, being in the chair. The schedule for the forthcoming show was revised, and it was decided to adhere to the liberal principle introduced last year of adding the special prizes to the Society’s prize money in all classes. It was reported that a number of applications for schedules had already been received from Fanciers in other parts of the Colony. Mr J. C. Coupe, of Melbourne, was appointed to judge all the dog classes. The question of the appointment of judges of the poultry classes was held over until next meeting in deference to a

generally expressed wish. It was decided to present, gold nuggets of the value of £io, £6, and £4 respectively, as prizes in the Art Union, instead of oqe principal prize of the value of £2O. A subcommittee was appointed to carry out the arrangements in connection with the Art Union.