SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7627, 1 June 1888, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club yesterday the balance-sheet showed receipts L 11.329 lis 4d, and expenditure L 11.022 18s 3d. The revenue from the totalisator was L 4.555 16s. Tho midsummer and autumn meetings had proved a loss to the extent of L 494 18s 5d ; but the spring.meeting had proved a gain to the amount of LI, 110 8s 7d. The assets of the Club showed a credit balance of L 9.583 3s 7d. The debit balance at the bank had been reduced to L 1,240. It was decided that if the incoming Committee consider it advisable to hold a midsummer meeting it shall be held on some day other than the New Year holiday. At Ambcrley races yesterday all the horses in the Hurdla Race fell, and the jockeys wcro more or less injured. Stewart broke his collar-bone. Isaac and Sockburn were mounted by spectators, and finished first and second respectively. The Taieri Amateur Jockey Club have elected the following officers:—President, MrC. Gore ; vice-president, Mr W. Snow ; committee, Messrs Melrose, Duff, O'Donncll, If. L. Christie, Brent, Low, Webb, Rutherford, W. Christie, D. Vannini.and N. M'Lcan; auditors, Messrs 11. L. Christie and W. J. Gore; secretary, Mr W. Carncross; treasurer, Mr It. Churton. This is rather rich (says " Vigilant"). Mr Donovan, the owner of Dunlop, who won the last Melbourne Cup, has been in the habit until very recently of displaying under a glass case in a side parlor adjoining his bar the gold horschoe which was tacked on to the L 3.155 which went to the credit of the Cup winner. The proud possessor of this trophy got a hint last week to the effect that it wasn't altogether the most sane proceeding in the world to leave a solid gold trophy, which might easily be pawned for ninety pounds, in such close proximity to the public bar. Mr Donovan took the hint, called on an acquaintance in the moulding line, and hadafac-simile made of lead gilded over. The 18-carat shoe went upstairs into his safe, the counterfeit of poor old Commotion's shoe stood until Monday night under the glass case in tho back bar. On Tuesday morning 'twas missing, and I sympathise sincerely with the hypothecator's feelings when he melted down the blue metal; value, approximately, two and fivepencc. A very frank correspondent writes to an American contemporary, apologising, as it were, because his horse got a record of 2.32 L He says : " I tried to keep him in the 2.40 class, and succeeded, until I struck a town in Connecticut, when they took me out and put up another man, and that was the way of it. The horse had a loaded twelve-ounce weight on one foot and a three-ounce weight on the other, but you see he won for all that."