SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 192, 6 September 1888, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

[By Manuka, j As the Spring Meeting will soon creep around again, I have once more started my morning rambles to witness the performances of our local studs. There is no doubt but that the Spring Meeting will prove a success in the way of nominations. It is pleasing to see our local trainers preparing their horses, each one bent on victory. At Makaraka, that good little horse, Bit of Blue, along with Off Chance, The Moor, and a hack, is stationed: all well forward. Next door is old George with the veteran, Impostor, who, if he was fit and well, would always pay his way. At Makauri, Ariel is undergoing a preparation by J. Smith, a gentleman of good reputation, and if all goes well, Ariel will keep them going in the hurdles. At Waerenga-a-hika, Cairngorm is being schooled by A. Williams, and the big son of Foul Play may yet have a name, as he possesses a rare turn of foot. He may figure in the hurdles. At Ormond, Mr Hamon has that game little mare Nora, at slow work ; also a handsome chestnut filly, which has the appearance of being a flyer. These two work on a private course, bo much for Buckingham, a little further on is Bob Ray No. 2, with a brace of tough ones m the way of Darnley and Privateer, and a chestnut hack. Darnley is moving very strong and in race form. I would not be surprised to see him turn up trumps in the hurdle race. Privateer cuts up a bit rough in the way of pig-jumping on the track in the morning, but I can’t stand his big legs. At Kaiteratahi is that beautiful mare, Myth, in the pink of condition. She is just about to start work, and I guess that she will cut up very rough in the handicap with about six stone. The Waipawa County Racing Club hold their Spring Meeting during the month of October and will run under the new Association Rules. With four meetings of this club and four meetings of the Town and Suburban club, besides the annual meetings of Onga Onga, Takapau, Hampden, Danevirke, and Woodville, owners of Hawke's Bay hacks will be independent of the Metropolitan. “ Buff and Black ” in the Napier News writes:—The members of the Poverty Bay Turf Club are to be congratulated on the satisfactory state of their finances, the result of last season’s racing have been very profitable indeed. It is a most noticeable thing that owing to the prevailing dull times nearly every club in the colony is reducing the amount of its stakes and effecting retrenchment, but the Poverty Bay club, who last year increased the amount of its stakes has come out with a profit, while other clubs show a big debit.