DUNEDIN

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9281, 5 December 1895, Page 2

DUNEDIN

D'-nedix, November 25. Ths monthly meeting of the D.J.C. Committee was held on Thursday, when there were present, Hon. G. M*l.ean (in the chair), Messrs Meen-tn, Fleming, Hazlett. Stephenson, Miller, Fergus and Short. The Works Committee reported having inspected and tried all the starting machines erected by Mr John Rose, and found them to work in a most satisfactory manner. The following were placed on the unpaid forfeit list : M. E. Wheeler (Waggoner2os), dm: Vincent Club ; J. Kin-slon (Kancv Lee 30s), J. IVyde {Don 30s), J. Williams (Songster 20s), due Alexandra Club : J. Ryder (.lack 40s, Starlight, 255, Toby 30s, Dragon 10s), T. Mortimer (Nanier 30s, Cinnabar 30*,) M. Han ley (< V:iiety.,3r*s), due Tap*u*ui Club.' A donation of £2 2s was received (per Mr Miller) from Mr C. S. Howell, saddler, Christchurch, to the Distressed Jockeys' Fund, and ordered to be acknowledged with thank*. Ii was resolved that tickets o-i the outside totalisator should ba issued on Cup Day at 20s, ;i*id on the oMicr two days of the nice!ing at 10s, with the proviso that inve'-'ora from inside must invest at least 20s. It was resolved to ask Mr Taggarl to act as clerk of the course at the ensuing meeting, Mr Gouvley having been appointed starter. The question of excluding bookmakers from the course during the maeting was remitted to a special committee with power to not. The Betrayer gelding, Starling, has gone into HankinV stable, and after the meeting here is over he will be taken to Invercargill with Salute and Cuiriassina. Outpost wa* buried on the Forbnry, close to where he fell. Bishop thinks the horse stumbled over the small ridge across the track, this ridge marking the line of the lane through which hares are driven at the coursing meetings. Outpost must have been a very game horse. He galloped nearly a mile after meeting with the accident that broke him down at the end of his two-year-old career, and it is now* stated that, after he fell with his leg shattered he climbed to his. feet and began eating grass while the lad was fetching the gun with which he was to be despatched. The course is very heavy at the time of writing, and the work thereon is nothing to g-> *>yThe two-year-old -filly, l:ry Apremont— Whim, the property of Mr Guinness, broke away from the lad the other day, and, scampering,in th* direction of Anderson's Bay, MiiSk'tined siv-h ssveiv injuries a.--, necessitated destruction. .Sorceress, Trump, and Lady Elizabeth are the three withdrawals from the Cromwell Derby, leaving ten engaged.