SPORTING.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16901, 31 July 1920, Page 10

SPORTING.

The Brackenfield Hunt Club's Race & Meeting to be held at Aniberley, to- 9 dav will bring the racing season of B 1920-21 to a close. There aro good & fields engaged, and the Meeting should 9 bo a successful one. A special train N will leave Christchurch at 9.20 a.m. |S Acceptances for the New Zealand 9 Metropolitan Trotting Club's August J Meeting closo at noon on Tuesday. ■ BIPLANE SCRATCHED. | (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) R MELBOURNE, July 30. g Biplane has been scratched for the Caul- P field and WiQiamstown Cups and the Toorak £ Handicap. § A HORSE POISONED. 1 | BRIoBANE, July SO. 8 ' Boy Syce, the favourite for the Prince of g Wales Cup, and winner of the Derby and 5 the St Lcger, died in his box as a result I of a mysterious- poisoning. The colt dropped j out of the Cup at six furlonga. • J ENGLISH RACING. I GOODWOOD CUP. j (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) J LONDON, July 29. j At the Goodwood meeting, the following I was the result of the I GOODWOOD CUP, of 1000 sova. About i 2m and of. I Lady Conliffo Owen's br c Mount Royal, I by Royal Realm—Mountain Eagle, Syrs . I (Donoghue) 1 I W. Casalet's b h Kentish Cob, by I Sunstar —Maid of Kent, 4yrs .. 2 I W. Williams's ch h St. Eloi, by Tor- i point—Lily of the Valley, aged ..3 i [lb is seldom now that good horses take I part in the long-distance weight-foi>age races j in England. -The Alexandra Plate, of two ! miles 6 furlongs 85 yards, is the longest. The j result of this race, run on June 18th, was j not cabled, but looking at the field in the j Ascot Cup, .of 2£ miles, in which Buchan ! was disqualified, it was no doubt of poor | class, and the Goodwood Cup (two miles five ! furlongs) contestants were probably the I worst of any period. Mount Royal only | won three, small races last season, worth al- ' together £757. He has started five times I this season. He was not in the first nine in the Two Thousand Guineas, and he was ! last in a field of six in the Newmarket Stakes. Kentish Cob won the only two j races he started in up to June 3rd. He won the Babraham Welter Handicap 1J miles, at Newmarket,. and be boat Keysoo, Perion, Dynamo, and Prince Herod' (the Stewards' Handicap winner at Epsom on June 2nd) in the Burwell Plate, of 1§ miles, at Newmarket, on May 11th, but Keysoe is obviously out of form this season. St. Eloi is an eight-year-old battleT, who won. the Alexandra Plate last year from Jack Point and Greek Scholar, who were little, if- anything, above • ■ Selling Plate form.] . NORTH CANTERBURY S*TO OXFORD. JOCKEY CLUB. ' ANOTTAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the North Caater> i bnry and Oxford Jockey Club was held at Rangiora last evening, Mr H. C. D. van Asch presiding. The annual report, as presented by the committee,- congratulated the club on> its continued success. The past season was a record' one in the: history of the club. The revenue from the totalisator amounted to £1898 15s 9a, as against £1244 9s 6d for the previous year, and there was a considerable increase in revenue from other sources. The incoming committee would commence the new season with'a credit balance of £1123 18s 7d. Plans were in hand for-removing and enlarging the horse boxes, enlarging the saddling* .paddock, increasing the lawn area, installing a water supply, and duplicating the admission gates. The membership was 186. The balance-sheet showed receipts £3240 S3 Bd, the principal items being:—Totalisator revenue £1898 15s 9d, gate £492 5s lid, nominations and acceptances'£427 10s, sheep grazing account £100 2s Bd.' subscriptions £99 la, sale of race books £82 6s. The expenditure was £2513 0s lid, the principal items being: —Stakes £BCO, dividend duty £873 4s 10d, work on "course ,and repairs £209 6s Bd, interest on mortgage £154 12s 4d, officials and ; general expense? £220 5s 6d, printing, advwr- : tising. and stationery £79.18s Id, amusement tax £37 3s Gd, salary £50. The •assets exceeded the liabilities by £1262 14a Id. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr W.' Parsons for his judicious management of the club's property, also to Mr A: S. Duncan. ,for so capably officiating as judge. a The secretary, Mr H. A. Archdall. gave an outline of what bad been done at the annual' ■ conference of the New Zealand Country Racing Clubs recently held in Wellington^ The election of officers resulted as follows: —President,: Mr H.. C. D. van Asoh (re-elect-ed) ; vice-presidents, Mfeesrs A. Henderson, W. A. Kelcher, and H. Enjor: representative oni the district committee, Mr G. N. McLean (Amberley) j judicial committee, Messrs* W. A, Keloher, W. Parsons, J. G. McDonald, A. Howard, and G. Cndby;. general committee, Messrs G. Cudby, W. Parsons, A. Howard, P. Johns, W. Crotbers,. A. Blunden, T. Frame, R. F. Henderson, j. McCr&cken, J. G. MoDonald, E. Fear , and F. Weatherspoon; auditor, Mr L. W. Harley; treasurer, Mr G. Leech. It was unanimously resolved that it be a recommendation to the. general-committee to consider the.raising of the stakes to within ; the vicinity of £1200. • A rjearty vote of.thanks was accorded the secretary and the retiring officials.