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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1304, 22 April 1915, Page 12

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Chokebore Pair for Manawatu Meeting—The Unruly Ngatiruanui—The South Canterbury J.C.’s Gathering The Pole to be Taken to Sydney. Sir Geo. Clifford will be represented at the Manawatu Racing Club’s meeting bv Flying Start and Adjutant. The other members of the Chokebore Lodge team that raced at Wellington returned home on Saturday evening. It is reported that the Dunedin Jockey Club has decided to refuse the nomination of Ngatiruanui for its winter meeting. This auction has doubtless been taken in view of the horse’s unruly habits at the barrier, where he has frequently caused a lot of trouble in the past. The son of Maniapoto has now been relegated to steeplechasing, where the barrier is usually dispensed with. There were three double winners at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting last week, Kim, Medley and Daytime. Each of them scored much more easily the second time than the first. . Only three of the six starters m the Tipperary Steeplechase at Timaru on Saturday completed the course without mishap. Golden Grape, the favourite, was going particularly well when he came to grief. Only for the accident he sustained on the first day of the South Canterbury meeting, F. E. Jones would have had the mount on Warstep in the Trentham Gold Cup. Specialform put up an attractive performance in the Autumn Handicap at the South Canterbury meeting, and her success was very popular. On the night of the first day’s racing at Timaru Ngatiruanui got tangled up in a wire fence, and was unable to start in the cross-country events on Saturday. On the conclusion of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting The Pole is to be sent across to Sydney, where his ex-stable companion Tim Doolan is now being trained. During the Wellington meeting a North Island sportsman was anxious to secure Gowanbrae, the full-sister to Botanist and Briar Patch. A substantial sum was offered, but no business resulted.