SPORTING.

Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 4

SPORTING.

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB RACES. [By Old Identity.] This meeting begins on Thursday (Boxing Day), and is to be continued on Saturday. In the full sense of the phrase it is a' popular function, available to all. The expense is reduced to a minimum. A2s railway fare and Is for a book are the only items of necessary expense fir a townsman. Few cities in the world provide racing at so cheap a rate. The special train fr >m Cbrislchurch that arrived at 8.30 last night brought, a'number of leading trainers, including E. Cutts, H. Thomson, P. M'Grath, W. M'Donald, J. A. M'Ginniss (with Murray Hobbs's horsesh S. Trilford, C. Giesler, JL>. Roberts, P. Christmas, and J. Lindsay. Editah is scratched for the' Otokia Welter. That is the only withdrawal so far. The races start at 12.50 each day. A liberal train service is provided, leaving Dunedin at 9.5. 9.20. 9.50, 11.10, 11.30, 11.45, 12.15, and 1.15. R ACING MEN AT LAW. A legal action between two ex-Australian racing men came to a conclusion in London on December 13. The action was brought by Ernest Huxley to recover from Richard Wootton money alleged to be due to his son William Huxiey for services under apprenticeship articles. In giving evidence Huxley, sen., said that, on hearing of the success of his son William, he went to Kngland, leaving his wife and children in Sydney penniless. He asked his son for £I.OOO. or for £lO weekly, but William refused. Witness was now impecunious. He had been betting and frequenting racecourses, and this was prejudicial to his son William, as it was presumed that his father (witness) was getting stable tips. William Huxley said that he was earning large sums of money, one retainer alone being £I,OOO a year.'" He was sendin<r money to maintain his mother. An affidavit by Mrs Huxley, mother of Inst witness, was read. Wootton asked for the dismissal of the action, on the ground 'that it was brought for the fathers benefit, not the son's. Mr Justice Eve said that he believed the action was instituted to extort money, and dismissed it, with costs against Huxley. ° POLO CHAMPIONSHIP. Arrangemente are now completed for world's championship polo matches in 1913 for the Hurlingham Hup. The Americans will select Whitney a' their captain. , AUCKLAND CUP. Monorail was withdrawn from the Auckland Cun at 10.20 this morning, reports an Association wire. At a meeting of th? management committee of the Tuajvka fountv Jockey Club, hd.-i ]. ; , i eveniu-.:. it wa.« resolved that the annual race programme connri?o eight events, n .s follows :—Maiden Pint'* (6?) 35:-:ov.<=. President's Trot. (2m) 7oVvs, •luapeka. Comity Joekev flub Handicap (l.!m) 50--OV.-. Jubilee Handicap (4f) 40 sovs. Valley Trot Handicap (of) 35sov*, Jb.<h Trot dm) 40 fovs, aixl Flying Hardican (of) "40sovs. 'j-he aggregate value of th- r.tahts is £360, which ic; £6O hi o>;c-" of the 1912 meeting. 7ho secret m- wa~, i ret rue ted to write to the Railway Department that a -.pecia! tram run between Dunedin and Lawrence on race day (Easter Saturday), arriving here at 11. cO a.m. and departing at 7 p.m. Tim Racing Conference having decided to delete Ea~tor Saturday from one of the racing day-: c;l ;!,., sorting calendar. ]ho Jockey Cl::b are taking ,-toDs to induce the conference to r--:-ciu<i their determination. A circular lias been dra'fted [m- lF.mc ami anm-ov.d'amengft the other J cokey clubs, p-rferring a request, for the reter.'.mn of Eafter f-atrrdny "n the sporting calendar. Tl apnea re, there are two clubs in th- North Island w i ?rv 7nn on Ea-lr," S-vmday. and thev are joining forces with th" lore! eluh in a=k;po- tb-'t. the day -tai-d r * a n an* dav'. 'Easter Saturday, with the Beaumont Club holding Heir me---ting on En.-fer Monday, fits in nicely and heir;-: to make a success of the Tiir.neka. Meeting, now that it is rcdur.rd to the ore d.av. The snorting fraternity a-- aiKioin that the Each-,- fon-i'-rmee will concede the day to the local <-li'b. and u-der the eircumstanece, with the on~ dav's meeting, it is not a very hi.-: fav-'v to allow.—Our Lawrence cornspendent.