SPORTING NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 106, 9 May 1896, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

♦ ig FIXXUBBS. May 13, 14— Napier Park Baoing Club May 23, 25— Dunedin Jockey Club May 25— Wanganui Jookey Club June 8, 9— Auokland Racing Club ir June 24, 26-Hawke'a Bay Jookey Clnb I NOTES BY THUNDERBOLT. l .' The Egmont meeting is always one „ for good dividends, and the one | t during the week has been no exception to the rule. B Booties has now annexed the c Steeplechase twice, and run second „ once, out of four attempts. a Waiuku appears to be racing himsslf into form, and when well, " make no mistake, he's an all right 'un." ? It looks strange to see the ex-hack Dummy beating two ex-New Zealand 3 Cup favorites m Marino and The » Artist. The Napier Park Meeting takes " t place next week, and this will be my 3 last opportunity of commenting therei on. In the Trial Hurdles Umslopogaas, who "is said to have taken 3 kindly to the sticks, should be hard • to beat. Solitaire reads well m the Electric | Handicap and Panoply and Lotion m ) the Stewards, with Crimson Streak k as best of the light weights. Canard will, no doubt, be seized upon as a good thing for hurdles, but . fit on the day I prefer Waiiuna. The Steeplechase should produce a 1 good fight between the two top weights, and it would not surprise me to see Glenelg take a hand m the finish, and eventually win. Brennan (Torpedo-Primrose) may possibly show good form at this meeting. Local owners are keeping their horses on the move, and it almo3t seems a pity we have not a small meeting on the 24th inst. They should remember Otaki nominations close to-night. The Ace was sold after the Nelson races, and has been shipped to Sydney, where he has been engaged m several races. Pluck is not the name for it. The following paragraph from the Sporting Review concerns a well known performer here :— Mr C. Cress, of Greytown North, thinking that Captain Boison, by Natator (he was originally named and ran as Captain Boynton), the well-known hurdle and steeplechase horse, would do well m harness, had him broken m, and then hitched the big black gelding to his buggy, which he completely wrecked on Saturday last. Captain Boison wants Professor Leitchwark, the best of horse educators, about him for a few hours. The English sporting writer " Rapier " makes the following remarks re the renewal of licenses of prominent jockeys : — " It has always seemed to me that if a rider has been shown to be a rogue he should never be permitted an opportunity of renewing his fraudulent practices. In certain cases the severest warnings have been found inoperative — jockeys who have been ' let back ' after being warned off have again incurred suspicion. For mere breaches of Jockey Club law which did not include fraud, the withholding of licenses for so many months might be a fitting penalty ; but it is so hard to prove a jockey's guilt, that, once proved, his sentence of banishment should be irrevocable."