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! TO-DAY'S .SPORTING CALENDAR.
(Thursday, 16tli January. — Trafalgar Turf
Club races: Merbbiri Turf Club races;
j special meeting of V.R.C. members, at 2
j 7>.'m.; Meredith entries; Cootamundra
! Jj.V.R.G. races (hrst day); settling over
; Moonee Valley races; sale of Rochester
.fockey Club booths: Corrvong handicaps
(. declared. The Gun: Trafalgar Starling
i £10 Handicap.
1 As usual, that portion devoted to sport
ing o£ this week's issue of ''The Leader"
iwill be found of much interest. In Turf
Topics "Poseidon" comments on recent
racing, and furnishes liis anticipations for
the V.A.T.C. meeting at Caulfield next
Saturday: while iu ,Slud Notes the same
writer contributes a tabulated pedigree ot
the successful 2-year-old Radnor, and a
number of interesting items. The racing
X>ages also cover Inter-State, English and
Foreign Racing; Turf Notes, Notes From
the Tracks at Flemington and Caulfield,
Trotting, Entries, Weights and Results.
Under Cricket, "Short Stop" deals with
the most recent premiership matches and
the game between South Australia and
New South Wales. All the other season
able field and outdoor sports are dealt
with by experts in each branch; and Box
ing, Swimming, Polo and Aviation all re
ceive due attention.
The Summer meeting of the Wangaratta
Turf Club, "which takes place on Saturday,
promises to be very successful, as very
good entries have been received for all the
events. The racecourse, which is recog
nised as the most up to date course in the
North-Eastern, lias liad great care be
stowed upon it during the last few months,
and the track is in splendid condition.
Melbourne visitors may travel by the mail
train on the morning of the races, and will
Ibe in ample time for the first race, which
starts at 2.30.
At the Women's Hospital Benefit Meet
ing at Moonee Valley yesterday only four
contested the Edward Wilson Hurdle
Race, and backers laid 7 to 4 on Reigle,
who was sold just before the race to Mr.
L. Hawthorn, in whose interests be ran.
' 'Reigle was going well in the lead with
'Eulbertie, when be fell half a mile from
home, and though Seldom ran up to Eul-
ibertie, who carried Mr. 11. G. Casey's
colors, yet is owned by Jus. Seobic, at the
Jast hurdle lie could not catch the leader,
who won by four lengths. In a field of
eleven that came to the post for the
Maiden Plate, Lynareh, a nice looking
2-year-old colt, by Bobadil from Lonely,
was solidly supported, but he bad, after
being near the front all the way, to strike
ibis colors in the ast hundred yards to
l'omosa, who carried the jacket made
famous by Trafalgar. Aviona, a member of
flic Mill Park stable, was third;
The steeplechaser Tinto has resumed
work at Flemington with Dau Coleman's
(team, after a short let up.
Settling over the Moonee Valley races
will take place at__tlic Victorian Club and
at Bowes's TuttersaH's this morning, com
mencing at 11 o'clock.
The Hospital Handicap, of one mile, at
Moonee Valley yesterday was reduced to a
triangular duel between Sharpshooter and
Mr. Woolliscroft's pair, Diabolo and Lazy
'.Lad. Odds of 7 to 4 were laid on Sharp-
shooter, but Diabolo, the outsider of the
trio, who started at 7 to 1, after keeping
close company all the way, accounted for
him at the finish by half a length. Sharp-
' ."hooter should undoubtedly have won
had W. Sampson ridden at "all judiciously,
and the liorse lost through the over-conii-
dence — to use no harsher a term — of
Sampson. The stipendiaries, at the re
quest of Adam Skirving, bad Sampson no
to explain his riding, and they accepted
bis explanation. It would be interesting rti
know what explanation Sampson gave for
losing a race that lie had to all intents and
purposes won. The Nurses' Plate was a
good betting race, witli Waska and
Minju most in request. Besides this pair
there was good money for Kigadoon, Lia-
been and Speak Out. Kigadoon looked a
likely winner at the home turn, but Minju
cut -him down in the straight, artd won
cleverly from AVaska, who linislied fast
and beat Eigadoon for second money.
The many friends of tile veteran turfite
I. T. Carslake will regret to hear that he
is af present lying seriously ill at the resi
dence of his son; Mr. Martin Carslake, with
pneumonia. On Monday Mr. Carslake was
knocked down by a tram in the city, and
it was while laying up with his injury that
ho contracted pneumonia.
If. A Bellamy has tiguiu put the steeple
chaser Kyarra into work after a couple of
months' spell.
R. Hoysted will remove- his horses from
Flemington to MordiaJloe at the end of
this week.
Mr. S. A. llnwdon received something of a
solatium for the defeat of Sharpshooter in
the Hospital Handicap yesterday at
Moonee Valley, in the -victory of Sidcra in
the Druids' Handicap. The winner, who
is a four-yoar-bld sister of Fiery Star,
started at 4 to 1, and iu the lianus of IV.
Smart won comfortably. Peek o' Mailt
had every chance, to win, but he is very
evidently no glutton for a tight, tinisli, and
he appeared to be trying to shirk his work
at the end. lleresford, who finished fast,
was third, hut Little Pos, whom it was
' thought would have been better suited by
the seven furlongs than he was by tile mile
on Saturday at Aspendale, in which lie
finished second, quite failed to run up to
expectations, and took no part at all in the
concluding struggle, though well placed for
the. first four and a half furlongs. The
Doctors' Purse, with which the meeting
. was concluded, brought out sixteen run
ners—by far the largest field of the after
noon — and Sir Froude and Gypsum were
about the only pair backed with spirit.
Gypsum, as usual, led to within a few yards
of the post, where the 12 to> 1 chance;
Morning Rose, came with a brilliant run
and won in tlie Inst twenty yards by a
couple of lengths.
Just prior to the start for the Edward
"Wilson Hurdle Race at Moonee Valley yes
terday, the odds on favorite Reigle was
sold for. it is stated, 175 guineas, the new
owner being the gentleman who race's as
"Mr. L. Hawthorn." Eulbertie, the win
ner. carried the colors of Mr. R. G. Casey,
chairman of tlie V.R.C., but, like lteiglc,
did not belong to" the gentleman whose
, colore lie bore, having been sold on Mon-
' day to liis trainer, Jus. Seobic, for 824
guineas.
While in the straight prior to. the start
for the Doctors' Purse at the Women's
Hospital Benefit Meeting at Moonee Valley
yesterday, Mr. E. Kelly's four-year-old
mare Sura reared un and fell, hurting her
rider, F. Fraser. Mr. Kelly received per
mission to withdraw lier. but he succeeded
in winning the race with Sura's six-year-
old sister, Morning Rose, who is by Koran
— Portlund Rose! .
Tlie apprentice, F. Dempsev. who rode
Yuranigli's Daughter in the Nurses'. Plate
at Moonee Valley yesterday, was jiaving
liis first ride with tlie colors up. The
little fellow, who finished close up fourth,
weighs only 4 st. 4 lb., and gives great pro-
mise."
'At Flemington Kiirreali, (Caiman— Queen
of the Vale) is being schooled for . hurdle
racing He i« only a three-year-old, aud
he shows no liking for the business;
Our Warrnarabool correspondent tele
graphs: — At a meeting of the committee
of the Warrnambool Racing Club on -Wed
nesday the secretary reported that the
profits from the Summer meeting totalled
£21, from, the Winter meeting £1560, and
from the Spring meeting £1 8/. The club
started its last financial year with an over
draft of £1008, add finished the year with
V n overdraft of £627. During, the year
" - ' (£674. haa-been spent on improvements, so
that ti\e club during the twelve - months
had improved its financial position by
£1054.
The programme for the forthcoming
Colac races will include a £100 cup, tlie
first for many years. The other stakes
have also been increased.
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