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The Judge.)

Entries for the Third Feilding Stakes of 500sovs dlose with Mr. E. Goodbehere at 8.30 p.m. to-morrow (Friday).

* * • * The Waipa R.C. will hold a meeting at Te Awamutu on April 1.

Hallow Eve, who last week won the English Water 00 Cup, is a red bitch belonging to Mr. E. Hulton. Originally known as Forrest Kitten, she was got by Pateley Bridge (a son of Mellor Moor from the great Thoughtless Beauty) from Forest Fairy, by Under the Globe, from Fantine. Silhouette, the runner up, belongs to the Earl of Sefton, and is by Strange Mystery from Slish. By a curious coincidence this year’s winner is a litter sister to last year’s Waterloo Cup winner Long Span.

In answer to “ Wa.ger,” Pretty Polly did not start in the Derby of 1904. In that year the runners were: —St. Amant (1), John of Gaunt (2), St. Denis (3), Andover, Henry 1., Coxswain, the French horse Gouvernant, and Lancashire. Pretty POl ly won the Oaks at the same meeting.

Mountain King and Antonio will measure strides again to-day in the All-aged Stakes at Flemignton, but this time the conditions are more in favour of the three-year-old champion.

There is a great race in Australia between Grafton and Wallace for first place on the Sist of winning sires. Wallace got a big lift at Flemington, his descendants winning the St. Leger, Newmarket Handicap, and Sires’ Produce Stakes. Not to be outdone, Grafton’s progeny have annexed the Brunswick Stakes and the Australian Cup. At present Wallace has a very slight lead.

Auckland owners do not seem to relish for their horses the steamer trip between Onehunga and New Plymouth. Very few from the North have been entered for the Taranaki meeting, but the fixture has been freely supported from other centres.

A number of Auckland sportsmen have gone South to assist at the Wanganui meeting. Among the number is Mr. Hayr, secretary Avondale Jockey Club.

Lochbuhie was in good form at the Papakura meeting, winning a double in good style.

Landlock seems to have lost his once great sprinting abilities. He ran fairly well in the Papakura Cup, but couldn’t pace it with Lochbuhie in the Railway Handicap.

Although Apologue won the Essenden Stakes very easily, the opposition was not very strong. Tulkeroo, who finished second, occupied a similar position in the Australian Cup. In the Essenden Stakes he was meeting Apologue on even terms, but in the Cup the ex-Aucklander had to concede the son of Simmer 231 b.

Lord Seaton beat Le Beau in the Ohaupo Cup, but in the Papakura Cup positions were reversed.

Next year it would be better if the special to Papakura was started an hour ear ier, and the meeting commenced at two p.m. Racegoers like to be back in town by six p.m., and there is no reason why they should not be after the Papakura meeting.

There are eight horses in the Waihi Cup, to be run on Saturday. Sweet Alice is top weigkt with 9st.

Sonoma showed a glimpse of her old form at Papakura when she annexed the Welter Handicap.

Mr. W. Walters, of Glenora Park, was a passenger to New Plymouth by the Rarawa on Tuesday, Wanganui being his destination.

The Dannevirke R.C. autumn meeting takes place on March 11 and 12.

Good nominations have been received for the Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s meeting on March 16 and 17. Handicaps are due on Monday.

Bookmakers are to be charged £7 10s. for betting at the Ohinemuri Meeting, with 10s. a day for clerks. So as to defeat the syndicate method of betting, if there are six or less bookmakers they will be charged £2O a day.

Mountain King’s time for the St. Leger has only.been beaten twice, viz., by The Officer (1897) and by Bobadil (1899).

Gold Crest has been given top weight of 9st in the Napier Carnival Cup.

The Huntly-Kimihia Racing Club has been formed, and will hold the initial meeting on May 16. Mr. J. Mclntosh is secretary.

Mountain King had a very soft snap in the V.R.C. St. Leger, beating Peru in a canter by four lengths. As the latter two days later won the Australian Cup, it will be seen that “ the King’s” claim to being the fastest horse ever seen in Australia is based on some solid ground, tall though the order may seem.

The Royal Artillery mare Pearlie won three races at the Shannon meeting last week.

Elevation is to make his next appearance under silk in the Manawatu Stakes.

Master Delaval is reported to have done some sound gallops on the Wanganui track, and is very well for the Cup race to-day.

Handicaps for the first day of the Ohinemuri meeting are due on Monday next.

Weights for the first day’s events of the Taranaki J.C. meeting are due to appear on Monday.

The Wanganui Cup meeting commences to-day.

Entries for the Auckland Trotting Club’s autumn meeting close on the 20th inst.

Victoria has beaten Tasmania at cricket by 337 an£ l 2 5§ to 302 and 235. * * « *

The Englishmen! scored 404 in their first innings against South Australia, the consistent Gunn getting another century. After the match the visitors leave for England, playing a match against West Australia en route.

Ben Deeley further added to his long list of wins by getting Lochbuhie first past the post on two occasions at Papakura.

The rising two-year-old colt by Eton from Anadyomene, died on Saturday from tetanus.

The other day Mr. Sol Green offered 5,000 guineas for Mountain King, contingent on delivery prior to the Futurity Stakes. Mr. McDonald declined.

A London paper announces the death in Paris of Mr. T. R. Hennessy, the well-known sportsman and owner of racehorses. He was a great pigeon shot, and had won several big psizes at Monte Carlo, Paris, Dieppe, Deauville, etc., but of late years he had not been very successful on the turf.

If any trainer in Australia has cause to review the past 18 months with pleasure it is I. Earnshaw, as during that period horses from his stable have accounted for two Derbies, two St. Legers, two Melbourne Cups, two Caulfield Cups, a Carrington Stakes, and a Futurity Stakes, to say nothing of other events.

With the present scarcity of food, the following is a hint from an American paper worth quoting:—A farmer has found a way by which he can make his horses use up to a good advantage the poor hay raised on the ranch. He learned that horses could be made to eat poor hay with great relish if it were sprinkled over with a little cheap molasses and water. He tried it, and has made a great success. The horses no longes waste the hay, but clear up every whisp of it that is thrown in the manger, and look well. This has been tried in the southern part of Caifornia, where hay is scarce and where cheaper qualities of food have to be used.

No more forcible evidence of the sensational progress that. has been made in the development of the trot-

ter and pacer can be had than a comparison of the number of extreme speed performers at both gaits at the close of the racing season of 1908 and those at the present time —a period of ten years. At the close of 1898 the world’s trotting champion was Alix, 2.0344, and only two other trotters had taken records of 2.05 or better, these being Nancy Hanks 2.04 and Azote 2.04%. The list of pacers with records of 2.05 or better numbered twenty-two, and of these only four had records faster than 2.03, namely, the champion Star Pointer 1.59%, John R. Gentry 2.00%, Joe Patchen and Robert J. 2.01%. j So that ten years ago the total number of trotters and pacers in the 2.05 list was just twenty-five. At the close of the racing season of 1907 we find no less than 107 members of the 2.05 list, thirteen trotters and ninety-four pacers. —‘ Stock Farm.”

Poor George Dixon, the one-time feather-weight champion of the world, is dead. Alone and friendless, he passed away in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue Hospital, New York, on January 6. Inflammatory rheumatism and heast disease, following a protracted bout with John Barleycorn, was the immediate cause of death.

The publishers <of “ The Argus ” and “ The Age ” were proceeded against in the District Court last Thursday for publishing betting information contrary to the Gaming Act. The alleged offences took place in October last. The publishers of both papers were also charged with having published information as to the drawing of Tattersall’s sweep on the Caulfield Cup. The charges were withdrawn on the defendants paying costs and giving an assurance that they would not offend again. It is a pity (says the “ Referee ”) that the papers did not see the thing through. The odds are long that even if a conviction had been recorded by the lower Court, it would not have held good in a higher Court.