Sporting

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8629, 9 July 1924, Page 3

Sporting

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IS’OTES. Lite Matamata Record is informed that the racehors.- Daylight, which was purchased from Mr Frank Marshall, Morrinsvilie, over Iwo years age by Mr R. Casev, of Waharoa, and which was trained at the Matamat-a stabh- of Mr R. J. Mateer, lias been sold. The purchaser is stated to a patron of Mr R. Hall s stable. Tire punch ase price was <£6oo. The general opinion of followers of the bay gelding is that the- purchaser has got a mcnev proposition. Daylighthas sev eral victories and many placed performances to his credit, but is not yet out of the hack class. Zev was again beaten recentlv In an eight and a-half furlong race at Rialto (U.S.A.). Last year's champion could only grt third, and apparently is not so good this season as when he downed Rapyrns in their match at Belmont. Blue Spec who won the- Melbourne Cup and the Moonee Valiev Cup in 1905, died recently in ' Western Australia. He was rising 25 years of age. .

A cable message from London recently stated that an extraordinary outrage was perpetrated on June 9 at the stables of Melton Vasey, the well-known Doncaster trainer. Someoiv obtained access to the stables, ami deliberately opened the doors, releasing fourteen valuable horses cut of the forty-four stabled there. The animals ran riot for hours before the affair was discovered- Particulars cabled to Australian papers disclose the fact that a horse owned by Mr H Mollekin was badly kicked by other horses, and so were Day brook and Sternmarch. The horse most serious injured was Soval, who apparently ran full-tilt into a water post. The water-tap penetrated the shoulder of the horse who may never be able to mu

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A- further contingent of New Zea-land-owned horses is likely to invade Australia. The Waikato owner Mr Fraser Smith, has engaged Alfort, King Merv, and Muscari for spring events in Sydney. If the weights suit, the* Franktcn owner intends to’ race his representatives at Rand wick during October . At least one of the gallopers named is well known in Sydney, as Alfort, by I ortafix——Alcestis, was foaled in New South Wales, and ran well there prior to being purchased to run in New Zealand.

This is a Christchurch' view of the Gaming Bill-“As might be expected, the Gaming Bill to be introduced into Parliament this session is .being freely discussed at present. The opinion is expressed strongly in some quarters that it lias a very remote chance of becoming law this session in its present form. The proposal for an increase in totalisator license is said to be doomed to failure.”