WANGANUI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1122, 12 October 1911, Page 7

WANGANUI.

(krom Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, Monday. The dam of Labour Day has a colt foal at foot to Maniapoto, and is again in foal to the same horse. The Waverley-Waitotara Club has a new tote house in course of erection, the old one having been converted into a jockeys’ room. The weights for the Waverley-Wai-totara meeting appear to have been framed in George Morse’s usual careful style, and the acceptances promise to be large. The meeting, which is to be held on Monday, the 23rd inst. (Labour Day) gives every promise of being the most successful the club has yet held. Of the 2 4 handicapped for the Flying Handicap, Master Sylvia heads the list with 9.13, Con the Shaughran 9.7, Labour Day 9.6, and Patriotic 8.11, following in order. These are four good ones to start with, and there are several other speedy ones carrying lighter imposts, so that a great race should be witnessed. On the strength of her showing here Labour Day will probably be the favourite, if she starts in this event in preference to the Cup. She will, however, have to be all she is cracked up to be to beat Master Sylvia and Con the Shaughran. The latter at his best .-is very brilliant over six furlongs. Master Sylvia heads the list with 9.11 in the Brewer Handicap, seven furlongs. Jargon 7.4, looks well treated in view of his good form here, while Topic 6.13, and Minora 7.1 also ran well enough at the W.J.C. meeting to suggest that they would do better soon. Euroco has 12.6 in the Hurdles, Patrobus 11.4, Mahuta 10.4, Koran "0.3, and there are fourteen others weighted, of whom Contralto 9.4, may turn out the best. Euroco performed like a champion at Marton, and if in the same fettle next Monday week, will set a merry pace, notwithstanding his weight. Such a lot has been heard of Koran that many are anxious to see how he will shape against a good one like Euroco, and it will be interesting to see how the pair perform. In the Cup Sandy Paul and Labour Day have 9.4 each, Otahu 9.1. The latter was galloping so well at the end of the Moutoa Hack Race here, that many think he will turn the tables on Labour Day" over the mile and a quarter at Waverley. Midian was galloping very well on the tracks prior to the Wanganui meeting, and she may have to be reckoned with at 7.6, while Jargon 7.2, will run well if reserved for this.

Most of the horses engaged in the Momohaki Stakes are also in one or two of the other events, so that it is difficult to say how the field will be made up. The form shown by Boanerges in the Higgie Handicap at the recent Wanganui meeting has led to some good judges favouring his chance in the New Zealand Cup, but others reckon that he will not see the journey out. A friend, who has recently had a

look over the Waverley racecourse, informs the writer that it is in splendid order for the forthcoming meeting, which promises to be the best ever held by the club. George Laing, who trains Whimper, also has a fine looking three-year-old gelding by. Sweet Simon, out of a Sou’-wester mare In work. This youngster is named King Simon, and is a fine big upstanding horse that ought to make a splendid hurdler. He has shown that he possesses a fair amount of pace, and his trainer thinks a lot of him. It is on the cards that Laing will take Whimper to Australia shortly, in order that the Wonderland gelding may be given a chance in some of the many short steeplechase races in the North.