SPORTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1843, 18 June 1920, Page 5

SPORTING.

NAPIER PARK MEETING. JPIP PBIHB GREENMEADOWS, June 18. For the Napier Park first day's races there is fine but dull weather. The attendance i? large, and the course excellent. Results :-- Moteo Hurdles.—Hen'dra 1, All Over 2, Marshal Neil 3. Won. by three lengths. Scratched: Pretty Bobby, Miss Do Burlotii. Strangeways. Time, 3.21 4-5. Stewards' Handicap.—Heathersprig .1, Gold Kip 2, Maioha 3. Scratched: Grooms, Ruddy, Hookah. Won by two lengths, lime, 1.43 4-5. ' " Pctane Steeplechase—Oakleigh 1, Slumix 2, Manhattan 3. . Won by »df.a head. Scratched: Brunswick, Gunwale.. BolLin, Parewaniii,'Hikurangi. ' Time, 4.20 4-5.

CONQUEST SUSPENDED. .', SEQUEL TO AVONDALE " STRIKE." Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 17.At a meeting of the Auckland District Committee, the jockey, J. J. Conquest, had his license suspended for the remainder of the season for breaking an engagement to ride at the Avondale races on April 10th. The committee expressed appreciation of the i'ranknefs of Conquest's explanation, and was sajtisfWl (hat in breaking his engagements, as he admitted, he honestly considered he was bound to join with the members of his Association, and that he was not a nromoter of the action complained of.

ASCOT GOLD CUP,

Received Juno 18, 11.5 a.m. LONDON 1 , June 17. The Gold Cup vcsiiltcd.-Tangiers 1, ..Trivei'Tifin 2, Key-soc 3. Bucha/i passed the post first, but a protest for crossing was sustained, and the race was awarded to Tangicrs.--(A. and N.Z. cable).