SPORTING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 August 1921, Page 3

SPORTING.

■ Mr J. El Whyte has been re-elected president of the Foxton Racing Club. At the annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club, Mr Whibley moved a resolution to the effect that the officers and stewards retire every year. After a lengthy discussion; the resolution was defeated by a majority of two to one. After his poor showing at Gisborne on Thursday, there seems little chance of Gay Boy being sent South for the Grand National Steeplechase. 1 The New Zealand-bred colt Dialogue (by Demosthenes —Tete-a-tete), who cost Sir Samuel Hordern 1700gns as a yearling, won a race for the Sydney sportsman at Canterbury Path on July 15, and he is regarded as a colt of promise. Though many horses have attempted to win the two big jumping events at the Grand National meeting in the one season, the task still remains unaccomplished. This year, only Fisher and Coroglen are eligible to contest the two events, but the chance of either landing the double is rather remote. . A. McDonald has been engaged to ride Sturdee in the C.J.C. Grand National Steeplechase. News by the mail states that H. Gray had a ride in the Grand Prix dc •Paris, his mount, Haipocrate, running third. Cleft which won the Winter Oats at Gisborne on Thursday, ran a dead heat with Orateur in the same race last year. The Taranaki Jockey Club paid the in taxes as the result of last season’s working the sum of £7033. The death is reported from Sydney of Mr Robert Craig, who at one time was a prominent figure in Australian racing circles, arid who will be best known to New Zealanders as the owner of Yum Yum, that' remarkably fine Square-gaited trotter which raced with ..considerable success in the Dominion. F. E. Jones, who has not done much riding of late, has,taken out a jockey’s license with.. the Canterbury Jockey Club. Hyginas, which has been taking matters easy since the Wellington fixture, will soon be put in work again. Reports from Napier state that Sir Georgq Hunter, who was responsible for the appointment of the Racing Commission, ’■ has definitely ranged himself on 'the side of the clubs who are wiped oiif, and that from his seat in Parliament he will vigorously oppose the adoption'of the commissioners’ report- "