NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Press, Volume II, Issue 8704, 29 January 1894, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Palmerston Kacinsr Ciab made a loss of £57 over its last gathering. The jumping horses Gondolier and Kaimanawa are azain in work.; Charles Rudings was recently adjudicated a bankrupt. Galtee has been added to the list of geldings. . The bay colt by Medallion from Wave Queen has been named Victoria Cross. The two-year-old Chain Link has been sent to hie owner's place, Leslie Hills. The Committee of the Fairlie Creek Racintc Club met last week aud drew up a programme for ati Easter in .'Cting. The Ohinemuri Jockey Ciab purpose holding a gathering on March lGth and 17th.

The Taranaki hack, Waiiiku, has gone into temporary retiteinent, having struck himself.

The Walrarapa Jockey Cjnb holds its Autumn Meeting on March 24th and 26th.

After winning the pony race at Gore, Maid of Craignair w&i purchased by Mr E. Saunders/of A.shb<mon. St. Hippo and St. Valentine have been withdrawn from the O.J.C. Second Challenge Stake*.

Mr W. Elliott has named his gelding by Sovereign, engaged in the Tarauaki Hack Derby, "Quid." The Woodville Jockey Club has drawn up a programme for its Autumn Meeting, at which ie is proposed to give away £340 in stakes. The principal event willbe the Club Handicap of lOOsovs, one mile and a quarter. Strath Braan, who has again been taken up, is at present quartered at Derrett's place.

The Sydney papars pronounce the starting machine which was tried at the last Canterbury Park races a failure.

How are these for colours? Black jacket, gold collar, white armlets, black cap white peak. Mr Kean'a filly, Lottie, generally carries a rider so bedecked, and yet she wins ! It i 3 said thac James Hayes is likely to be again granted a license to ride by the V.R.C. very- shortly, and tlie Sportsman hints that alike privilege will be accorded Cundin.

Totalisator proprietors (cannot nowadays make fortunes out of running for small club?. The Wairoa Racing Club is only to pay 1 par cent, for the service. April llrh and 12th has been selected as the dates for the Nelson race«. The sum of £600 will be distributed in prizes, the Cup being endowed to the extent of 150 soys.

Three were sixteen applicants for the position of starter to .the Egmont Racing Club. Mr Martin Baird is said to have received Che appointment. The Wairarapa Racing Club made £300 profit out of its recent meeting. It is proposed to devote part of the money to the improvement of che training track. '!

A D.anediti backer invested £5 on Manilla for the race she won nt Hororata,thinking he was backing the O irnuru filly, Vanilla. The mistake enriched him to the extent of £70.

The Winton Jockey Club has removed the disqualification from T. B. Mortimer and F. Ward, who were placed under the ban iv connection with the running of Noriih in a trotting race some years back..

Norton and Kulniueare again in if*'»ve commission, having come dow, i on Leslie Hills last vveelc to join the ton strinj;:.

The Foxton papar, after announcing that lbs sporting contributor would supply tips for the gatherinsc that took place on Monday, discredits the tipster by adding— "iLafc everyone be guided bvhis own judgment."

Besides the (Jarbine mentioned in last week's issue aa having won the West Australian Derby—by the way, he secured four events at the gathering—there is a Carbine now running in Victoria. - The latest namesake of "old Jack's" competed in a selling race at Gisborne on January Ist, and finished one of a pair of winners. "

In recard to the protest referred by the Rotherham Sports executive to the Centerbury Jockey Club; asking its decision on the question as to whether a horse ridden hy an unlicensed jockey should be disqualified, the C.J.C. has notified that, although a technical breach of the rules was committed, these were not meant to apply to gatherings such as that held at Rotberham. The protest was, therefore, dismissed, a fine, ot Is being deemed sufficient to meS't the ciiae. ■ *■

The following emprKestive paragraph appears in a review .in a local paper on the recent Reef ton meeting:—"l am of opinion that had the stewards worked two machines instead of one the races .would have come off faster and a larger sum would have been handled by the totalizator proprietor." -This;bears out the allegation that the races are delayed for the totalizator. On this account; tlie races are never run at/near the stated hours, and the business o£,jthe day ia seldom concluded* until the shades of night have fallen. '..;' . ' ■ .*

The annual'meeting of the Patea Racing Club was held on the 16th, when a very satisfactory balauce sheet,was presented to members,'*the • balance of assets over, liabilities being shown at £245. The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing 'year:—President, Mr G. Hutchison : judge, ,Mr W. Wilson ; starter, Mr M. F. Baird ; handicapper, Mr Henry; clerk of the scales, Mr,T. fir Hamerton ; Limekteper, Mr W. Symes; clerk of the course, Mr Matthews; treasurer, Mr R. A. Adams : stewards, Messrs Adams, "C. Symea, W. Brown, W. Syrriea, G. Williams, A./Bretlierton and G. V. Pearc: committee, the stewards and Meears M&hony, Potts, Cowern, Derrett an<i T. E. Hamerton. An honorarium of £10 was voted to the secretary. v The programme for the "Raster races was drawn up,' with stakes showing aa increase on those offered last year. • " " : : ■ "Free Lance" in the Melbourne Sportsman contends that Cusdin was quite right in applying and Mr O'Brien in assisting him to obtain a license to ride in this colony, and says : " Which reasoning remind" mc that it.hae been hinted that Mr Dan O'Brien, the owner of Loyalty, has been mysteriously and melodramatically warned fu thecolumnsof a contemporary to * Beware! lest the Victorian racing authorities deal with him for daring to allow Cu?din to ride his horse in New Zealand.' Rubbish. If anyone baa done wronz in this connection or treated the V.R.C. contemptuously 'tis the Auckland Racing Club, and if anyone deserves fighting or punishment at the hands of the V.&.C. 'tis the t A.R,C, not Dan O'Brien. CuscJio, or Loyalty. Cusdin havfnat got hi« permission io ride, and so being qualified, it was open for any owner to employ him, and this Hγ O'Brien did, and thus contributed a hundred or.sb to Cuedin's exchequer, which, I happen to know, badly needed replenishing when he left -Melbourne. Aa regards Loyalty and the prospect of bis owner being 'dealfc with,' is it likely that the Y.R.C. would have tacitly accepted the colt's nomination for the Awumu events if the leading club had power, or, say, inclination, to prevent him running at Fleniington?"