SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9297, 26 July 1901, Page 6

SPORTING.

Seahorse, whose sale for 2000 guineas (200 guineas the Press Association telegram erroneously stated) was recorded the other day, was offered for 3000 guineas before he woo the New Zealand Cup, Canterbury Cup, and Derby. During the racing season just closed the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, with four meetings of two days each, paid away £6010 in stakes, and the totalisator investments aggregated £41,770. The Napier Pnrk Club, with three meetings of two days each, gave state money totalling £5935, and the totalisator receipts amounted to £30,237 Following are the rules adopted by the Wellington Racing Club in connection with the new system of paying dividends on the first and second horses ; (1) Three-quarters of the net amount will be paid out to holders of tickets on the first horse, and one quarter to holders of tickets on the second horse; (2) in the event of three or less starters the whole dividend will be paid to holders of tickets on the first horse onlyj (3) in the event of horses coupled on the machines being first or second, or a dead-heat for first place, the whole net money shall be paid to holders of tickets on the coupled horses; (4) in the event of coupled horses finishing first, and dead-heat for second place with another horse, the net amount shall be divided thus : sevtneights to holders of tickets on the coupled horses, and ene-eighth to holders of tickets on the other horse running a head heat for second place. .eter Jackson, the ex-champion boxer, died at Roma, Queensland, on . w afurday week. For a long time Peter had been ill with conpumption, and the last few weeks of Ins life were spent in a sanatorium at Roma. Jackson was born at Christiansted, St. Croix, West Indies, in 1861. When he was ten years of age he shipped aa an apprentice on a Danish merchantman. He was at sea until his 23rd year, when he went to Sydney, where he remained until 1891, when he went to America, and afterwards to England. He was to the boxing ring what Beach was to the sculling course, and when in his ptime would have lowered the colors of any American boxer but for the racial prejudice in the States, of which the white champions of the time availed themselves as an excuse for not meeting Jackson, who was a negro. His career was one of victory, and in England he maintained his Australian reputation. But where Jackson's best reputation will come from will be from the memory of bis many good qualities as an upright and honorable man. Barring his color, he might have figured as the actual embodiment of a character inConan Doyle's " Rodney Stone." He was a gentleman, every inch of him, and in the very heat and fury of bdttle never lost his temper. He leaves behind him r» clean record. Otto Cribb. the pugilist, whose sudden death is reported from Sydney, is a Christchurch boy, his real name being Simpson. Ho recently visited America where he tought several good battles, and on his return engaged in a combat with Mick Dunn, another New Zealauder, and it was immediately following this engagement that he died,