SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6743, 27 April 1893, Page 2

SPORTING.

At the Marton races yesterday Pennant beat Magazine, Countess, and others in tho Hack Flying, payin .£i Is. MrD. Page's Jack (Koul Play- Qu-en of Hearts) won the Open Fljing, nnd pdi £3 Is. Mutiny (The Mute--1 udv M;ix well} ran second, and Dir.go thi*d Wind-rir, who ran unplaced a* Itiiiisora, ;»oi. hunt v> the tlurdles with 0-0 up, Sonustt-r -nd m'-l-inds being in the pines. Dividend. £i 13s. Then came the Haok Maiden, which foil to Swift. Monte Car'o (Afoot —'■■'pfcul.it.ioc) sot home in the Autumn Handicap of l ; J- r_i!es, Jack b--ing second, and Mutiny third Dividend, £7 18s The btggeit, dividend paid out dnrinjy •■"■■■■. the day was on Countess, vho got home in front of Slave Girl and Strike in the York Farm Handicap, rewarding each backer wiih -43 Gs Mr J. A. Craven, a member of the English Jockey Club, and owner of a few horses, mostly winners, has committed suicide, for what reasrn will never be known. He used t> be mastor of the Pytchey Hunt, in which he was succeeded by Eail Spencer. Everyone admired and respected him. Melancholy as is his dea'h, it did not create anything like the causation that the suicide of hi-s namesake, the Honorable Berkeley Craven, did in 1536. who, on witnessing th* victory of Phosphorus in the Derby, on which he lost nearly £10.000, went homß.o his house, 17, C»nnaught Terrace. Edgwart road, and shot hirnsu'f in the head, in the same manner as dii the unfortunate gentleman whose d°ath we have now to relate, and he was about the same age. In ihe tee of the Honorable Berkeley Craven it that the bats he had made on the Oaks vfcrald have relieved him from all his Dsrby difficulties. The Hon. B. Craven was, wa believe, not a member of the Jockey Club, nor was the Marquis of Queensberry, who met wilh a mysterious accident, after laying very heavily against _aunterer for the Goodwood Cup of 1858. He retired to Scotland, and dragging his gun after him, in passing through a hedge, the charge entered his body. The benefit of the doubt was, we believe, given, and the life insurances paid on tbe policies. Of more recent years tho most excitement was caused by the suicide of Mr Stephen Eon, but in tha case, as that of Mr J. A. Craven, there were no turf losses to account for the act. With -.he Hon. B. Craven and the Marquis of Queensberry, on the other hand, they were both the victims of reckless speculation.— English paper.