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Mr H. F. Nicoll has donated a cup, valued at 10 guineas, to the Wanganui Trotting Club, to be allotted to any race the officials may choose.

C. Jenkins expects to be fit to don silk again in %he near future, and will probably have th e ride on All Red in the Auckland Cun.

Ngapuka and Advocate, a couple of fancies for the Auckland Cup, are reported to be training on satisfactorily.

Although Bobrikoff was withdrawn from his handicap engagements at the Auckland Cup meeting, he figures amongst the list of entries for the Auckland Plato, which is decided over 1.0 furlongs at weight-for-age.

The nominations received for ill? minor events to be decided at the Auckland Cup meeting total 590, or 156 more than last year.

Reports from Auckland state that the i,hree-year-old Taskmaster, who claims an engagement in the Auckland Cup, is showing slight sympton;s of soreness.'

Mr Ralph H. Skip-worth has been appointed sporting editor of the Wellington "Post."

Genius, who won the Maiden Plate at the Christchurch Racing Club's meeting on Saturday, is an Atistralianbrecl three-year-old, and is a half-broth er to Mundoie, who won the Suburban Handicap at the Australian Jockey Club's spring meeting. He is held under lease by Mr H. Portland from F. Holmes, who purchased the horse when he visited Randwick with Pilot.

The bookmakers who took out licenses to bet at the Chiistcburc'.i Racing Club's meeting on Saturday went "on strike" when they discovered the position which had been allotted to them. They were not operating on the first race, but a consultation with the stewards resulted in a better stand being conceded, and business was commenced on the second race, after which everything went smoothly.