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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 217, 10 September 1904, Page 6

' credit was also due to Sir Fanch for nis I efforts to teep botli the course and tracks I 'in flrst-dass condition. i The report and balance-sheet were unani-

I xoousiy adopted. | Messrs A. Alison, O. Lankham and Cap- i tain Coyle, the three retiring members of the committee, who offered themselves for re-election, and were the only persons nominated, were to office. The question of licensing bookmakers lat the club's race meetings during the incoming season was raised by Mr Lankham, and the chairman said it would be .as well for the meeting to oome to some decision on the matter. There was practically mo discussion, and the following resolution

] -.vas unanimously aaoptea: "ixiai peruiiaI -ion be granted to bookmakers who are members of Tattersall's Club to attend the club's race meetings on such conditions as the newly-elected committee may decide." At a subsequent meeting of the newlyelected committee, Mr E. W. Alison. 11.H.H.. ■ma.s unanimously re-appotated chairman, and Mr W. Knight was reappointed handicanper to the elnb. The question of appointing a starter was teft abeyance. The following resolutions were adopted: "(1) That each jockey shall iroduce to the clerk of the scales Ms liense to ride, and thar it in instruction

o the clerk of the scales v see mat acu ock*v shall produce such lierase before 'he ii peMoirted to be weighed out. {2) That each owner shall satisfy the clerk of the scales that the fee payable un<ler -he accident fund for each horse starting has been paid."

/ iIABTON JOCK.KY CLUB. THE SPRING 3£EETING. (By Telegraph.—bwn Correspondent) WELLINGTON this day. The Slarton Jockey Clubs Spring Meeting was well attended, and good fields were got together in most of the events. Tie course was very heavy, and always will be in wet weataer. The starting of Mr Saywell was not altogether satisfactory on either day, and results in several instances were dv« to uneven dismissals. On the first day the Sylvia Park mare Delamere won the Flying by several lengths from Firelight. U-ood Hope was quite ten lengths ahead of Delight in the Trial Han dicap Hurdles, Peruvian leading the tp l of a strong - out field. Tau-hau, - - aged daughter of Flinders, on whom Jenkins had the mount, got an initial advantage, and this easily settled the chances of seventeen others in the Trial Stakes, of wnich Confide and St. Ludlow proved the best. The useful Pushful won the Crofton Handicap with something to spare from

eep-well and lionneur, wjto ueu.u-inai-i.cu « second place, others starters being las, Malosi and Kohatu. There were rurteen runners In the Hunt Club Cup, 1 but five of which made mistakes. The urk, a fifteen-year-old hunter, with sev•ai winning achievements to his credit, >t home, ridden by Mr Budge Gordon, eating Haerelvn. who was ridden by larenee .CNell-l" with Cassimlr and La elle handy. Jack .Snipe might have won ot for mishaps. Condition was the main aotor which led to Valkyrie's victory in he Handicap Hurdle Race, which- he won >y five lengths from Otaio. who just beat loeraki. Ostiak's half-brother, Cairngorm, asily dispoael of Kohatu. Guelder Rose, md five others In the Maiden: and Merry soy and Durban ran a dead-b-eat for the rutaenui Welter Handicap, which Benmore night have won had\he got away. On the second -day Merry Lad, a son of klerry England, after a good race, beat Juartz, St. Lwllow, and several others, in•luding Veneer, a brother to Mahutonga, in iie Shorts' Handicap. Veneer later <i" •ame out and beat Delamere, Matnur and eight others in the Electric Handier ; after a good race. Peruvian beat Fir« Lesson, Springbok and six others in the Hunters' Hurdle Race, and Pushful defeated Merry Lrad and Bonheur in the Marton Handicap. Jack Snipe was practically in front all the way after the first few . fences In the Ladles' Bracelet, but Sa>breur made a bold attempt to concede him 311bs. Cassimir, Tiama, and Haerelyn were next to finish. Romany Girl, Moeraki. Otaßo. and Delight had a good set-to to the Second Handicap Hurdle Race, and the erratic sister to The Guard won. Delamere easily beat Tambourina and several moderates in the Railway Handicap; in the Final Handicap Cairngorm put down a heavily backed candidate in Guelder Rose, wtio only just beat Sleepwell for second pla«e. There were ten runners.