SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6170, 10 June 1891, Page 2

SPORTING.

The committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club decided at a meeting last night th«t Ross, the jockey who was injured at Napier, not eligible for a donation from .he di--tressed jockeys' fund, as the fund is for jockey., injured at Riccarton only. Mr (t. H. Clifford was appointed to represent the Club at the Wellington conference Notice of motion was given for a new rule providing that no horse iv whose ownership any paid official of a race meeting, or any person engaged in working a totalisator thereat, has any interet-t in shall be qualified to enter or start at such meeting; any person so entering or starting a horse to "be liable to a fine not exceeding £100. In the programmes the committee have increased the total stakes at the spring meeting by 195 soys, and at the mid-summer meeting by 70 soys. The dates of the spring meeting are fixed for November 9th, 11th, and 14th. At the autumn meeting the Great Autumn Handicap will be run on the second day, and a race called the Great Easter Handioap, 500 soys, will be run on the first day. The Easter Handicap of 200 soys has been struck off.

Mr James Cotton, an old identity, at one time owner of some racehorses, and father of the brothers Cotton, known as trainers and steeplechase riders, died at Christchurch yesterday.