SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10343, 17 June 1897, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TURF CHIT CHAT. [By Tub Admiral.] During the recent steeplechase meeting at Auckland the owner of YVaiuku backed that horse for a considerable sum for the New Zealand Cup. Daystar is now the absolute favorite for the race. A cable has been received in Melbourne stating that Mr W. R. Wilson, the St. Albans studmaster, who went to England to prosecute a lawsuit, in which he was plain* tiff, concerning some mining shares, has won his case with costs. Some £60,000 was involved in this suit. j The Canterbury Trottifig Club have adopted the more equitable distribution of ' stake money in the proportion of 70 per cent, to winner of a race, 20 per cent, to the second horse, aud 10 per cent, to the third. This is the way to encourage horses being run out, and I Bhould like to see it applied to flat races. A " small horse " named Melrose, winner of the Pony Purse run at Johannesburg (South Africa) recently, paid the handsome dividend of £409 10j to. a oabamn, who was the only one to invest on the animal in the totalUator. This is the record divldesd for South Afrioa. Hippomenes and Miwfire are both fencing oapitaljy, and may pay their way at the illegitimate game. THE COUNT TROUBLE. At a meeting of the Canterbury Trotting Club held on Tuesday night, Mr E. Clarkson referred to the South Island Trotting Association's action in upholding the -appeal made by Mr J. Loughlin against the disqualification of Count and his rider for suspioious running and disobedience to the order of the stewards. He said it appeared to bin) that while Mr LSughlin had been represented by a solicitor the olub had not been so represented, and the case had gone against them by default. As a matter of fact, Mr Loughlin had flatly refused to obey the stewards, and for this along he was entitled to a twelve months' disqualification. If the club's decisions were to be "repeatedly upset, as they had been during the past twelve months, by the Association, they might as well have no stewards, but send such matters direct to the Association. He thought it would have looked better if the Association had sent the fresh evidence back to the club, asking them to reconsider the case. He believed that some of the delegates comprising the Association possessed as much knowledge of their business as any men in New Zealand, but there were others who knew nothing about it. He considered buch a body properly constituted was much needed, but the present Association sadly needed reorganisation. Mr L. Matson said that nest month there would be a conference of the two associations in Wellington, and this an~bpportunity for making any suggested alterations. He considered that it was still open to the club to punish Mr Loughlin for disobeying the stewards. Mr Barns endorsed Mr Clarkson's remarks as to the possibilities of usefulness in the Association, and the incompetency of some of their present delegates. Mr Delamain said he should like their representative gathering to give their op nion oa the matter. He moved—" That the meeting endorse the action of the stewards in disqualifying Mr Loughliu and Count." The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. . The Otago Rowing Club's coach, George Southerw;>od, has arrived, -and the committee of the club will meet him on Friday -week. Mr Sontherwood comes from Ballarat, where he has done excellent servicj. Bookmakers will not be admitted to the Tahuoa Park trotting meeting. At Christchuroh on Tuesday, before Mr Beetham, S.M., a bookmaker named Nelson was fined 20jj and Qpsts for trespassing at the Addington trotting meeting on May 24, and for refusing to leave when ordered to do so. Informations against Georgs Hyde and F. W. Buckley were dismissed, with costs against the Canterbury Trotting Club, the defendants not having been served with notices to leave the