SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 79, 13 December 1887, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

ACCEPTANCES FOR THE BOXING DAY MEETING. The following acceptances have been received for the Waerenga-a-hika J.C. Boxing Day Meeting i— KUBtILE IUCX, Duadine Nancy Nina Off Color juißiN mrt. Darnley Robert the Devil Cairngorm Chiquita Nancy rivisa KAHDiesr. Audacity Cairngorm Fitejamea The Hogue Pouawa Chiquita Longwaist Off Chance The Moor BOXIKO PAX HANDICAP. Fltzjames Longwaist Nora The Rogue Nina Off Cnance

On the first day of the Dunedin meeting Mr Driver inflicted sentences on the jockeys as follows: —Maiden Plate, all the jockeys were fined £1 each for being late at the post; St. Andrew’s Handicap, Derrett and Huxtable were fined £2 each for disobedience of the starter’s orders; Two-year-old race, Huxtable t was fined £3, and warned that if he incurred another fine he would be suspended; Selling Mace, T. Buddicombe and W. Buddicombe were fined £1 each for being late at the post; Poet Stakes, Sharp was fined £3 for disobedience/and Price and W. Buddicombe were suspended from riding during the remainder of the meeting for a similar offence. Respecting this matter the Referee says i —Mr Driver may have been perfectly justified in all this—we are not going to contend that he was not, because we have seen too many examples of unruly conduct on the part of boys riding races in New Zealand, not to know that in nine cases out of ten a starter’s patience is tried very sorely—but it stems to us that there was no justification for the action he took on the second day when, on Effigy’s rider in the Hurdle Race breaking over the line once, he was ordered back to the paddock by Mr Driver, who intimated I that he would not start him without another rider taking the place of Allan, who was then on his back. As Effigy was one of the most fancied horses in the race, there was naturally a good deal of dissatisfaction expressed at Mr Driver's fiat. The public took occasion to give their opinion of the affair in no

mealy-mouthed way, for, at one time, it was very short odds about the backers of Effigy forcibly demanding from the totalisator the money they bad invested on him, but, wonderful to relate, Mr Driver “ relented ” and Effigy, with the same jockey up, took his place among the starters. The American jockey, "Snapper” Garrison, who, according to the latest accounts, was at the head of winning jockeys in the United States, has instituted proceedings against two papers in New York for publishing articles reflecting upon his honesty as a rider. The dam ages in each instance are assessed at £5OOO. Garrison is only 19 or 20 years of age, ahd when only a baby rode his first race. That was, in 1882, when he only weighed 4st 121 b. His first winning mount Was on Monk ; and then the lad was getting £l5 per month. Now he is engaged to ride for the owner of Darebin, Mr J. B. Haggin, at £2OO per month, besides outside mounts. He owns two good race-horses, which he rides when not otherwise engaged. He paid only £7OO for Eolian and gave a like sum for Cyclops, and has won large sums on the two already, while the colts are worth £5OOO each to-day.