SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 236, 18 December 1888, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

BOXING DAY MEETING. The following acceptances have been received for the Boxing Day meeting : — Boxing Day Handicap — Deceiver, Audacity, Fitzj ames, Dancing Master, Nora, Bit o’ Blue, Privateer. Flying Handicap — Audacity, Deceiver, Dancing Master, The Moor, Impostor, Myth, Turehau, Grayling, Forest Queen. Hurdles—Bit o’ Blue, Nancy, Dividend, Darnley, Ariel, The Moor, Cairngorm, Off Color. The following entries were received for the Maiden PlateMcMillan’s Forest Queen, Hepburn’s Cynical, Smith's Myth, Boyle’s Intruder, Carrington’s Impostor. The following acceptances have been received for the A.B.C. Summer Meeting:— Great Northern Derby : Manton, Kilda, Leopold, Tartar, Cuirassier, Raglan. Foal Stakes: The Beau, Cissy, Fiesole, Corunna, The Baron, Robinson Crusoe—Patch colt. Our correspondent “ Willow ” complains, and jnstly, that a slip (No 4) qualifying his remarks "as to Mr Burnand’s horses was omitted. We therefore now publish it, regretting such a mistake should have occured. It is as follows—“ When I say short of oats I do not for a moment mean that the horses are insufficiently fed, but that in my opinion, considering the work they get, more _ feed would not alone be acceptable to the animals but would give them greater stamina. Nancy did a serviceable two miles, but did not apparently get full steam on. ” We have been requested to state that all horses not entered for events in connection with the Waerenga a hika Jockey Club’s meeting are eligible for the Hack Races in connection therewith, notwithstanding that they may have been entered for the Anxuals or for the Karaka meeting.

At Melbourne on December 4 a petition of Mr 8. G. Cook, the well known racing man, for a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs Mary Ann Cook was heard in the Supreme Court. The petitioner, who is forty years of age, was married to the respondent in 1876, There was one child born of the marriage. In November last he suspected his wife of being unduly intimate with a man named Pritchard, and finding them together one day he thrashed Pritchard. After this Mra Cook did not return to her hueband, and had since left the colony for India under the nsme Oi Mra Pritchard. A decree niti waa EHUttd. v?ith cost* M'Ksjanitßh