SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 January 1926, Page 6

SPORTING

RACING FIXTURES.

Jan. 29, 30 —Takapuna. Feb. 4, 6—Gisborne. Feb. 6,’ B—Te8 —Te Kuiti. Feb. 11, 12 —Poverty Bay Feb. 11, 13 —Dunedin. Feb. 11, 13—Taranaki. Feb. 13, 15—Rotorua.

TROTTING FIXTURES.

Jan. 28, 30 —Forbury Park. ' Jan. 30 —Hawke’s Bay. Feb. 12 Poverty Bay. Feb. 13—N.Z. Metropolitan.

PAHIATUA R.C. MEETING.

(Per Press Association:)

PAHIATUA, January 27.

For the Pahiatua races there was splendid weather and a large attendance. The course was excellent. The tote handled £13,273 against £11,661 on the same day last year. L. Butterworth, rider of Parakai in the Maiden, fell frqfn his,mount at the corner and his leg was fractured. He was taken to the hospital. Remaining results : Hamua Hack. —L Tempean (Ridgway) 1,2 Carrigalien 2, 3 Pantagruel 3. The only starters. Wo)i by four lengths, third one length behind. Time 1.15 3-5.

Pahiatua Handicap.—s Printemps (A. Brown) 1, 1 Bright Day 2, 3 Opa 3. Also ran: 6 Tall Timber, 7 Son o’ Mine, 2 Modern, 4 Agitato. A splendid race. Won by half a length, third three lengths behind. Time 2.8. Konini Hack. —1 Novar (Morris) 1, 4 Panart 2,2 Bright Knight 3. Also ran: 5 Stroilghold, 3 Idanoe. A good race. Won by half a length, third a good-length away. Time 1.28 4-5. Makuri Hack.—2 Bonideer (Mackie) If 3 Lady Ideal 2, 5 Cherry Pie 3. Also ran: The Bolter, 6 Morning Gift, 4 Peggy Ford. Won by two lengths, third three-quarters of a length away. Time 1.1 4-5.

President’s Handicap.. —1 Standard (B. H. Morris) 1, '3 Westbroke 2, 4 Treadwell 3. Also ran: King Cheops. Won by half axlength. Time 1.5. Eketahuna Welter. —2 Rahapato (Tinker) and 4 Tawehi (Morris) a dead heat, 1, 10 Last Thought 3. Also ran : Newbury King, 3 Red Head, 6 Inoe, 5 Kyla, 9 Sartomo, 8 Festival, 7 Merry Wanderer. Third horse a length away. . Time 1.29 2-5. NOTES AND NEWS. Goosestep and Viewpoint are under orders for Dunedin. O'. Wasley has returned from Wellington, after an unsuccessful trap with Some Abbey. Mr F. Beban has been endeavouring to buy The Mask to add to the string of horses he is taking to British Columbia., but so far business has not been completed. Count Cavour looks in great fettle, 'and he is galloping very freely in his track work. He has a big load to carry in the Dunedin Cup, but he should play a prominent part dn that event. The Australian bred horse Dal Eaton has been sold to go back to his native country. It is understood that the selling price was 500 guineas. Nelson Derby is the popular fancy for the Dunedin Trotting Cup. F. E. Jones was taken off Listening .Post, because some thought he rode a bad race in the Wellington Cup. In the Wellington Cup weights Count Cavour was invited to give Listening Post 101 b, and over the same distance in the Dunedin Cup there is only 41b between them. Listening Post was set to give Baldowa 221 b in the Wellington Cup and at Wingatui there is 171 b between them. When next saddled up Paper' Boy will be more conspicuous in a finish than he has been up to date. He was badly handled at Trentham. and the fact may be worth noting. It was a foregone conclusion that the terms of disqualification imposed in connection with the recent racing on the West Coast would be increased when the case came before the District Committee (says the “Otago Daily Times”). The original term of punishment has been doubled, and the offenders can regard themselves as lucky uf they escape so lightly. To frame a field in what appears to have been a particularly impudent manner 1 strongly suggests that these riders regard with contempt the racing knowledge of those under whose supervision they • have been riding. If they had any great fear of punishment they would not dream of taking the risk of losing their means of living in addition to being disgraced in the eyes of the sporting public. The whole thing goes to show that the control of racing in the South Island is not half

strict enough. Some riders appear to feel that they can. take a risk without ' any great fear of detection, and so they go from bad to worse, and finally land themselves, no doubt to their surprise, in serious trouble. If a rider finds he can take a risk in handling a horse, it creates a growing confidence that he is cleverer than the people who are looking at a race. If, on the other hand, the first error was promptly challenged, it would be quite safe to say that developments sucli as took place on the West Coast would never be heard of. Riders would not take big risks if they were sure of being found out. The whole matter should be considered by the Racing Conference in order to find out what sort of control is it that educates riders up to such things as to frame up racing under notice. It stands to reason that if boys are educated to go wrong, they will do so. It then becomes a duty to punish the schoolmaster and sympathise with the pupil, who errs through the ignorant latitude of those who are supposed to control his racing morals. A perusal of the list of noteworthy winners in Australia and New* Zealand brings out Jin a pointed manner that the highest price paid for a horse included in what has a right to be termed “a brilliant seven” when a yearling is 620gns, and that the total sum for the seven is really of modest dimensions. The following is a statement bearing on the'sum at which the leading seven horses were respectively bought as yearlings and the amount they won in stakes: —

Sold. Stakes Won. Eurythmic ... 310 36,891 David ... 40 31,410 Gloaming ... 230 43,100 Carbine ... 620 29,626 Windbag ... 150 27,307 Cetigne ... 200 27,206 The Hawk ... 180 20,695 1730 £216,235