TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1576, 8 July 1920, Page 14

TURF TOPICS.

The Wellington meeting will be the last on the Racing Calendar for 1919-20, and the prospects are good. Mr. H. S. Moss, secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, has returned to Hastings after being away on holiday leave for a couple of months, and his many friends will be glad to learn that he has greatly benefited from his well-deserved spell. Mr. J. J. Corry, the well - known Blenheim sportsman, recently effected the purchase from the Highden establishment of the three-year-old Martian —Bebe filly, War Baby, who it will be remembered won a couple of hack races for Mr. J. Goring Johnston towards the end of last year at Feilding and Awapuni respectively. The well - known New Zealand sportsman, Mr. E. J. Watt, who several years ago took up his permanent residence in Western Australia, is at present on a visit to the Dominion. Another prominent Hawke’s Bay owner, in Mr. W. Richmond, left Wellington last week for the Commonwealth, where he will spend a few months.

The Wairarapa sportsman in whose colours Luke runs, has received a refund of the money forwarded to the Dunedin Jockey Club to cover Luke’s nomination for the Dunedin Steeplechase, and it is understood that the Auckland Club will do likewise respecting some of the horses wlw were prevented by the shipping holdup from getting to the meeting (says the “New Zealand Times”). It is to be hoped that all clubs will adopt this attitude during the present trouble.