HAWKE'S BAY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9432, 2 June 1896, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY.

Napiek, May 26. Mr W. Douglas has purchased Tiritea for 500gs and the "chaser has gone up to AuckUad with Mutiny. Redmond has gone up

to steer Tiritea, while Hope will pilot fa% Mutiny in his engagements. (»' After thelast ParklVleeting Mr C. Siddells, ap tke owner of Moonraker and Maid Marion, tui purchased the hack hurdler Tenby, the price th. paid, I believe, being 30sbvs. As Tenby won stt the Second Hack Hurdle Race at Ote-ki alt yesterday he was not long in returning his th purchase money to his new owner, nil The Waipawa County Racing Club had go ,: Queen's weather " and a record attendance ou for their meeting yesterday. It was esti- pr mated that about 2500 were present, visitors ac coming from all parts of the province, ne Amongst those present was the Hon. the se< Premier, accompanied by Miss Seddon and fa by Messrs Gray and Hamer, the Premier's ne two private secretaries. The party was St received by the officials of the club, who th also entertained them at hmcheon. The at course was in good order, though a trifle st heavy, owing to~ rain which had fallen the fa previous night. The racing was fairly good A though none of the finishes were so close as to to i leave the judge in doubt as to the winner. As w ! may be imagined with such a large attendance vi there was a considerable amount of specula- bl tion, the sum of £3513 being put through C .the two totolisators, worked by Messrs vi Abrahams and Stock. This is a very fair P' total for a-' country club to register. The jt largest dividend was £5 4s on Sylvanus in w the Handicap Hack Race, so it will be seen d: that-there were no rank outsiders amongst fa the victors, -fcut although the public v picked the "dividend payers fairly well, a four out of the seven winners were f< not favourites. Blarney was on his p best behaviour,-and scored somawhat easily g> in the principal event, and the stable, ir captured another double with Sylranus, who , was very leniently treated by the handi- \ x capper, and being brought to the post in tl good nick, got home comfortably in both B hurdle events. Wikitoria somewhat made » amends for a long string of defeats f) by appropriating the Hack Flying M Handicap, but as the dividend was f, only £3 169, the filly must still owe her c connections a good deal. Popgun is another | who scored his maiden win yeeterday. g That he is an improving colt and likely to s show to better advantage next year, lam a convinced, but all the same I thought had b Moonraker made his final effort a bit earlier R be might have got much closer to the son of Maxim and Burlesque. Later on in the day, with a 71b difference in the weights, Moonraker easily turned the tables on the colt, though the distance was a furlong less, which is all in Moonrakev's favour. A protest wa* entered against Moonraker for inconsistent runniug, but after a lengthy hearing it was dismissed. Kauri Gum, who went out favourite for the hurdle race, was returned the winner, bub the opposition was very weak, and King Quail's son would have had to be very much off colour to have lost. The starting of Mr H. Piper was, as nsnal, as near perfection as can be got. The secretary, Mr W. J. ' Standley, was almost übiquitous, apparently having considered every detail that he could to conduce to the comfort of the visitors, and the consequence was the meeting passed off without the slightest hitch. The club should come out good credit balance. The larger claims of Mr Quinlivan were in respeot to the mares Brooklet and The Brook. For the former he claimed £2500, sums won by that animal, sums likely to have been Avon by her, and wagers which ! would probably have been won by backing her if she had remained iit his stable instead of being seized. Iα the case of the latter £1050 was claimed for the mare, and £500 as reasonable damages for her deten- ; tion, and £25 damages for her seizure. ' Then there were/other claims made fo r training expenses, with regard to a number I of ; horses alleged by ;Mr Quinlivan tq have > been given in to" his hands by Mr Douglas, i , and still further amounts which Mr Quinlivan ' claimed to have'made over to Mr Douglas I as his banker, all going to make up the - main claim as aforesaid. Mr Quinlit van's story was that- Mr' Douglas had ' given him Brooklet to train for her racing career out of friendship, • but that subse- , quently he, at Mr Douglas's request, had i consented to pay the latter a fourth J of the mate's winnings. With regard to ■ The. 8r00k,.; Mr Quinlivan stated that ' he had bought her at the Te Mahariga sale, » and that she was his property. Quinlivan f further claimed that he had from a certain s subsequent date been engaged as Mr Douglas's trainer and claimed £437 for exa penses as trainer, and for amounts disbursed ■, in that capacity for nomination fees, II &c. Mr Douglas contended, on the L other hand, that he had leased Brooklet on r condition that he was to take one-fourth of c her winnings, or have power to take her if back at eny time incase she was ill-used, or a that Quinlivan took to drink. He asserted ■c that The Brook was bought-in by Quinlivan p under arrangement with him, and leased on •, precisely the same terms as Brooklet and i. could be resumed at his (Mr Douglas's) s pleasure in case of Quinlivan's misbehaviour. - He denied that he had ever engaged Quin t , livan as a trainer, but admitted limited - 's liability for keep of horses placed in the i, latter's hands at Hastings at various [r periods. Mr Douglas gave as his reason n for seizing Brooklet, The Brook and other jr, horses from Quinlivan's stable at Hastings ig that Quinlivan was drunk while in charge of the horses* at the Palmerston and Ashurst »s race meetings and subsequently while he re was staying at Woodville and that w while in that state he neglected them in and knocked their about. Quinlivan denied these allegations in toto, and asserted ig that he was sober at the race meetings mena tioned and subsequently, and that he was is unremitting in his care of the animals. Mr Douglas admitted having received various sums from Quinlivan in trust as claimed and n- allowed them ia credit of settlement. A ia tremendous amount of evidence was taken te bearing on Quinlivan's conduct on the: Id occasions mentioned, evidence of a startse lingly contradictory nature, deponents on rs the one side being positive of hie utter of sobriety and carefulness, and on the other 5W of his continued drunkenness and neglect, jd and ill-treatment of his charges. To dissect a from such a contradictorymass of verbiage the true or the probabilities, and give a fair and at impartial decision, was the work which the arbitrators undertook. The arbitration was na rendered all the more complicated by the as fact that neither side produced a scrap of iid paper in respect to agreement alleged to > c have been made between them, agreements sa. extending over a long period. It is no !e , wonder that they were nnable to agree, y > otherwise than to disagree and submit their ie differences to their referee.