WANGANUI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1006, 17 June 1909, Page 8

WANGANUI.

WANGANUI, June 14

Frank Lind left this morning for Hastings with Aorangi and Moscow, both of whom are engaged at the Hawke’s Bay Meeting, and will probably remain over for the Napier Park Meeting next week. Aorangi was given a go over the big fences on Saturday morning, Lull setting off with the gelding. The latter jumped well, and cleared right away from Lull, who has just been taken up again after a short spell. Aorangi’s performance was an atractive one, and apparently he is at the top of his form. Lull will probably make his next ap-

pearance at the Wellington Winter Meeting, to be held next month, and if Alick Hall can get him back to the same form he was in a couple of weeks before the Wanganui Meeting, when he contracted influenza, the Handsome Jack gelding will take a power of beating whatever he starts in.

At a committee meeting of the Waverley and Waitotara Racing Club, held recently to discuss the question as to what alterations and additions should be made to the grandstand and other buildings, it was decided to add thirty feet to the grand stand, and to improve the stewards’ and press stands. These improvements will mean larger paddock spaces and greater accommodation for the public, while the grandstand will seat about 300 additional people. The stewards’ stand will be erected on top of the other offices. The committee of this progressive club are to be congratulated on their decision to thus improve the grandstand, etc. The annual race meeting of the club is one of the most popular of the smaller gatherings with racegoers on this coast, and such large numbers assemble there each 9th November that the accommodation in the present structure has been totally inadequate. D’Nil is now an inmate of W. Price’s stable. The half-brother (by Crackshot) to Kuroki should win a good race or two if he goes on all right in his preparation.

Nova, Guiding Star, and Carissima are expected to make the trip to Hastings, and the work they have been doing suggests that they should run well in their respective engagements.

Cauldron and Shannon Lass have gone into W. Rayner’s stable. Shannon Lass is a rakish looking filly, but possesses a deal of pace, and it is quite on the cards that the daughter of Merriwee—The Shannon will be a decent stake winner next season. Cauldron is a tremendously big fellow —much bigger than any other Merriwee seen here. If his legs stand to him he should make a good jumper later on. It is understood that he is to be kept going, so as to be ready for the summer hurdle events. Shannon Lass will take things easy for a few weeks, and then be prepared probably for the Marton Meeting. Research will not be raced again until next season. Efforts will be made to build him very considerably before he is again put into work. The son of Renown has not been too well treated by the handicappers recently, but it is to be hoped they will be a little more lenient with him when next he comes under their notice.