RACING.

Grey River Argus, 22 July 1910, Page 7

RACING.

FIXTURES July 23— Wellington R.C. Winter. July 27.— Hawke's Bay Hun- Club's Annual . July 28— North Canterbury J.C Sports!. August ' 9, 11, and 13— C.j.C. Giandj National ' : JOTTINGS . [ Apellon is not to be sent to Aus-! tralia after all. He has been showing' signs of soreness, and has been eased in his work. Feu de Joie has been suffering from kidney trouble since arrival at Trentham hence here withdrawal from the Winter Hurdles on aturday. The balance-sheet of the Thames Jockey Club shows that the assets amount to £5825. J. Cameron is to leave shortly for Australiar taking with ( him Kaitere and Woolloomooloo, each of whom claims engagements at the Ca'ulfield meeting. Kaitere is the veteran of the horses taking part at the Trentham meeting as he was foaled :in 1896, or three years before Paritutu first j saw the light. ■ ' The stallions Marble Arch and Penury- arrived in Auckland by the Maheno on Sunday. Such finely-bred horses should prove valuable additions to the bloodstock of the north. Southern Cross has so persistently refused to tackle the big country in his schooling tasjes at Trentham that numerous flat jockeys have expressed their willingness to ride him in to-morrow's steeplechase, for which the "losing" fee is £6, . F. Porter leaves Gisborne for Lyttelton to-morrow with the Grand National favourite Te AraC . Waipuna, whose victory in the Adelaide Tattersall's Cup is reported by cable, was bred in 1900 by Mr J. Muir, of: the Waikato. The black son of Soult and Folly was taken to Australia by Mr W. Lyons, who, however, had no luck" with him, and disposed of him some time ago. Although the Aucklanders Te Arai and Loch Fyne will not be seen out at Trentham it is expected they will race at the C.J.C meeting. Apparently Loch. Fyne cannot have been so bad as reported ,as he has been accepted for in the C.J.C. Grand National Steeplechase. Seemingly there is very little to choose between the English crack three-year-olds Lembery and Neil ; Gow. The latter won the Two Thousand Guineas, but his bay rival turned the tables on the chestnut in the Derby. Now comes word that they have run a dead heat in the Eclipse Stakes, of .£IO,OOO, one of the bis events run at the picturesque San■clown Park course in Surrey. One can readily imagine the scene of ex- : citement that prevailed as the pair fouglut out the finish up the lone straight. IMPERSONATING A JOCKEY A PLAUSIBLE ' YOUN.G MAN. PALMERSTON N., July 18. At the Police Court to-day, before 1 Mt- A. D. Thomson, S.M., a young man named jGeonge McDonald, who was previously before the Court on charges of obtaining money by false pretences , by representing himKing (for which he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment) was again before the Court on charges of false pretences and forgery. , Dr J. D. O'Brien gave evidence that, on the evening of June 29, a man rode up to his house on horseback. He wanted, the doctor to do him a favour and stated that he had an urgent wire from Gisborne. His employer, Mr 'Buick, was away, and he was short of £1. ..He added: "You don't remember me, doctor; I am "Len" King; I rode Mr Buick^s •mare Taugimoana in the Manawatu Cup." • The doctor said: "No you didn't; 'Sid' Reid rode her."' Accused replied: "I beg your pardon, it was in another race." The doctor, being suspicious, made out a cheque to "Len" Kirigi and made it payable to order, saying: "This is made payable to order, and if you monkey with it, you will gret into trosuble.'' Mark Dumbleton deposed to cashing the cheque after it Lad betn endorsed by accused as "Len" KiLg. Accused pleaded guilty and desired to be dealt with . summarly, but the S.M., 'said that he had ao power to deal with the case, and actu&ed was remanded to the Supreme Court in Wellington for sentence. THE GAMBLING PRIME MINISTER'S REPLY TO A DEPUTATION. The Prime Minister (Sir Jcseph Ward) stated that he fully recognised the representative nature of the deputation waiting upon him as be<id of the Government. No one in New Zealand either in official life cr c l-er wise, who had been • watclrag <he course of events for some t?:ne, could avoid realising that the time had arrived when Parliament should step in and control what admittedly v.as growing into a very bad state of affairs. He was not against those •who' believed in horse-nc'.ngy or against those who believed in helping to support a sport in which some of the best people the world over were interested, but he was against a system which had grown up in New Zealand by which an , immense amount of' damage and ruination was being caused to a large section. Only the other, day he received particulars of a young man; with an income of £150 a year; who had lost over £400 to bookmakers in one day, and he had known, in his experience a's an administrator of large State departments employing numbers of young men, scores and scores o$ cases where young men go; into (rouble, the cause being mostly that "they were carded away by a desire

to make ttitaey by gambling to an extent which brought about their ruin. A SERIOUS POSITION. As a citizen he was impressed with the seriousness of the position, and even those who were the advocates of jiKMrse-iracing should subordinate ; their personal interests and help to pass legislation that would make K-ambliag- much more difficult, particularly fdr the younger portion of the community, in New Zealand. It was for that reason that a few days ago, in conformity with .a promise to a deputation last' session, he had •given notice of three resolutions to •be submitted to Parliament in order that the Government could ascertain the feeling of the people's representatives and submit a Bill embodying their conclusions. He did not know what reason there was for supposing that lany" of the points would be side-tracked. That would not occur. (Hea?; hear). Tihe decision or^i?*^ liament would be taken independently in regard the bookmaker and totalisator, and legislation would be ibrougiht down this session to give effect to the decisions. He had been considering, with his colleagues, whether or not they would submit to Parliament a resolution in regard to a referendum on the totalisator. The issue of reducing racing and totalisator permits would be put separately, and on the decision of Parliament in the matter would depend the legislation to be submitted this sessioi to Parliament.