SPORTING NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 982, 3 October 1901, Page 5

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Peisping Tou.] The Wanaka Jockey Club intend holding a race meeting on January Ist. The programme for the Lake County Jockev Club is to hand. There are eight races each day, the Cup, of 45 sovs., and the Jockey Club Handicap, of 40sovs., being the big races. The four trotting events are in saddle. The present spell of tine weather has put the local training track in good order, and trainers are now busy sending their charges along. A very large number of horses are in training locally and the Arrow J.C. meeting on the 16th of next month should be the most successful the Club has had. Mr A. Jopp's two trotters, Moutere and Gipsy Queen, are looking in rare nick. The latter is a bonny mare, and a nice mover. Her owner is training her in a sulky. Mr D. Richardson's team are also looking well. He has Silveriuaid (late Hazel) and a couple of trotters in work. Messrs Cotter's trotters, The Boy, Dick lE, and Aggie, are all in steady work, Aggie being worked in a sulky. They have also a galloper, Miss Deal, in training. Mr W.Larkins, vho has Mr C. Davis's Glencairn-Cornicello gelding and Mr Barnett's S.lvermark colt in hand, has taken boxes in Arrowtown. His two charges are looking well. Mr T. Feebly has a maiden trotter in hand, and he intends giving him a go at the Arrow meeting. He looks a very likely-looking customer too. Says " The Fly" in the Cromwell Argus : —" The programme to be offered to the public this year by the O.J.C ought to lead to big entries and a large attendance. A £SO race the first day and a £6O race the second should bring some good horses into the district. The total of £360 nett cash is to be paid away in stakes ; the largest sum ever paid by the local club. I anticipate big fields and, with Wrightson's handicapping, close finishes.—Strange to say there are no horses in Cromwell this year to have a ' go' for the C. J.C. money. We shall have to depend entirely for the success of our races on outside talent." Whakawatea has in his long career, run 154 races. Australian Colours favorite for Melbourne Cup. The Alexandra Jockey Club will dispense £260 at their annual race meeting. Persimmon earns annually £12,000 in Stud fees for our sporting King Edward. The gross revenue leceived from all sources by the V.A.T.C. during the past season amounted to £37,000.

As au instance of the lottery of buying yearlings, a Sydney writer cites the case of the record-breaker Sequence, who was bought for 40 guineas. The last has probably been heard of Mr D. O’Brien’s contemplated return to Sydney. His stables at Randwick have been purchased by J. Gough, who has occupied them for some time. The Premier has written to theMasterton Racing Club to th i effect that tho Government was considering the question whether jockeys should be exempted from the clauses of the Accident Compensation Bill. All the classic races run this year on the English Turf were won by different horses. In tne two proceeding years Flying Fox and Diamond Jubilee respectively landed the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St Leger Stakes. An English story is going the rounds cf a well-known judge, fond of racing, who, while trying a case at the O.d Bailey, was more immersed in studying the form of a horse than in the case. At length, after the summing up and the jury had found the prisoner guilty, his Lordship, in passing sentence, said : “ Prisoner, you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen, and the sentence of the court is that you be imprisoned for six furlongs -—l—er—mean six calender months.”