FATAL FALL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 8

FATAL FALL.

A. EASTWOOD SUCCUMBS. A SUCCESSFUL JOCKEY. Per Press Association. ' CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 7.. Arthur Eastwood, rider of Manet.ho in H * TrK-lcev Club Handicap at Ricearton th received a fractured skull and a b l ,otosn.'£™ “ 11 • H “

was taken to St. George’s Hospital at once in a very serious condition, but passed away early this morning. Eastwood, who was aged 30, was married witli two children. Ho was a wellknown lightweight jockey and had ridden many winners, two of which had won the New Zealand Cup. Eastwood was cox of the rowing team that went to the Empire Games in Canada in 1930 TURF HERALDRY. SOME FAMOUS JACKETS. A STUDY IN COLOURS. Mr J. B. Booth writes in the London Tinres’s weekly edition: —The new colour heraldry is depressing. It may reflect the spirit of a drab age in its black and brown; but it is a relief to turn to the gaiety of an older colour ritual which, happily, still persists, the heraldry of the Turf—the colours of “the silken jackets whistling in the breeze.”

A history of the famous racing jackets, and of all that pertains to them, would be to no small extent a social and political history of England—-a history of the great families, of social conditions, of changing habits, of the advent of democracy and the pomilarisation of sport. The jackets run every gamut, sound every note —the majestic, the austere, the businesslike, the whimsical, and the purely comic. Consider the range —from the august ‘‘purple, gold braid, scarlet sleeves, black velvet cap, gold tassel” of the King, and the severe “black, white cap” of the Earls of Derby, to the whimsical and punning “primrose and rose” of the Earl of Rosebery, head of the house of Primrose, and- the piscatorial “salmon jacket, cucumber sleeves, lobster cap” as the printed list of starters described the colours bearing which Old Joe failed to win the Cesarewitch of 1886.

SIMPLICITY. What one particularly notices is the splendid simplicity of tire more famous of the old racing colours. They are in marked contrast to the fanciful combinations of later times, in which too often the colours run into one another, and little can be seen of them a quarter of a mile away. The colours of “Mr Manton,” the famous Caroline Duchess of Montrose, were simply “scarlet.” but poor old Colonel North’s were “light blue, with primrose fivepointed stars, primrose sleeves, and scarlet cap”; and there was a Mr Jowett who registered his colours in the eighties as “green, with red crossband and belt, gold collar, green cap with red band, gold cord and tassel.” Taking up the Racing Calendar for 1789, one notices that the colours of only 43 noblemen a ; nd gentlemen were registered. The Prince of Wales headed the list, his jacket being “crimson, purple sleeves, black cap.” Now the Royal colours are reversed, the jacket being purple, the sleeves crimson, and the whole ornamented with gold braid. The Duke of Devonshire of 1789 had the familiar straw-coloured jacket, and Lord Grosvenor’s iacket was orange, with black cap. The Duke of Westminster of to-day has virtually the same, but the orange is called yellow. Lord Derby’s black and white were first registered in 1788; before, then they were green and white stripes. PRETTY COURTESIES.

Perhaps the most famous of all the racing jackets is the yellow, black cap. For a time the Grosvenors had little to do with the Turf, though the Derby winner Maca.roni was bred by the Marquess. Lord Cl if den stepped into the breach, and “The boy i u yellow' wins!” was the cry when Surplice won the Derby. Later there came a greater than Lord Clifden in Mr Merry, whose colours were yellow, and the year, after Surplice’s Derby be took the jacket and cap that Lord Mostyn had dropped, a.nd for upwards of 25 years made it more widely known than it had ever been, until the late Duke of Westminster appeared on the scene, when he surrendered it, as Mr Saville had surrendered the yellow jaeket and scarlet cap to the Earl of March. These were prettv courtesies. The “white, black sleeves and cap of the Duke of Portland; the Rothschild blue and yellow; the “white, red spots and cap” of the Zetlands, the “purple, straw sleeves” of the Durhams, all form part of Turf history. For various reasons owners have changed their colours, generally in the hope of changing had luck to good.