SPORTING

Northern Advocate, 7 June 1933, Page 9

SPORTING

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1932-33 SEASQN. June. 10. —Foxton R.C. FI, 17—Hawke’s Hay J.C. 17 —South Canterbury J.C. 22, 24 —Napier Park R.C. ogl-Egmont-Wanganiu Hunt Club. 24—Ashburton County R.C. July. I—Oaxnaru1 —Oaxnaru J.C. fj—Dannevirke Hunt Club, 1 B—Waimate District Hunt Club. 11, 13, 15—Wellington R.C. 22 —Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. 22. —South Canterbury Hunt Club. 22. —Auckland R.C. 27, 29 —Gisborne R.C. 29 —Christchurch Hunt Club. TROTTING June. 10. — Ashburton T>C. Hi, 17.---Xelson T.C. tat Civyiuouth). 21, 24. —Auckland T.C. FOXTON FIXTURE. ACCEPTORS POSTED. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) FOXTON. This Day. Acceptances for the Foxton Racing Club’s annual meeting are as follows; — MAIDEN' STAKES, Of 55 so vs. Weight, 8.0. Six furlongs. Amyrii Princess Ruth Arctic Region Sir Romeo Aweketea Stadium D’Acre Swithou Envidette Te Eangituma. Gay Coat. Thomist Hawora Toxmiss POROFTA WHAO HURDLES, Of 75 sovs. One mile and five furlongs. Adventus 11 i Cape Town 9 0 Birkbeck 9 .12 Fallow 9 0 Tnvictus 9 1 Moutoa King 9 0 Vita-phone 9 4. Te Hckenga 9 0 Knollmere 9 3 No Humbug 9 0 HTMATAXGT HACK, Of 95 sovs. Six furlongs. Glenvanc .10 3 Aroma 8 3 Wasteland S 12 Land Tax ,is 1 St. Roger 811 I.n cleat one S 0 Ebeum 8 10 Pahiko S 0 King Peg 8 5 Whetuma 8 0 Arastar 8 5

FOXTON CUP, Of 100 sows. One mile and a quarter. Takakua 0 S -Senegal 8 0 All Humbug 9 3 Chief Lucky Alice 813 Marionette 8 0 Cape Fair 8 5 ■CARNARVON HACK, Of 70 so vs. One mile. Thrasher 9 ID Kotahi Eka 8 0 Palace 9 1 Park Acre 8 5 Mercian Willowmere S 1 Prince 9 0 Priscilla Shootist 8 11 Verne '8 0 Dick Whittington 8 10 KEBBELL MEMORIAL HANDICAP, Of 75 sovs. Seven furlongs. All Humbug 9 12 Orby’s Habit 9 10 Choice 8 0 Takakua 9 7 Leisure 8 5 Royal Sir Pornbnl 8 0 Bengal 9 4 Arena 8 0 The Tiger 9 3 Purse 8 0 Glen vane 8 0 HERRINGTON HACK, Of 00 sovs. Five furlongs and a halt. Foreign Willowmere 8 M Queen 9 7 Lackstnne 8 0 Wasteland 8 12 Pheon 8 0 Hunting Arctic Lodge* 8 10 Region 8 0 Fbenm S 10 Toxmiss 8 0 King Peg S 5 Whetnma 8 0 Arastnr 8 5 Thomist 8 0 Amvril 8 2

LION-HEARTED HORSE.

WINS WITH BROKEN LEG. A remarkable incident occurred recently at Worcester (England), where, at a jumping meeting, a thirteen-year-old gelding named "Roomlet won the Pitchcroft Selling Hurdles with a broken leg. There were only throe runners for the race. Craigendoran, who had given a lot of trouble at the gate, refused at the first hurdle and took First Principle out with him. This left Roomlet to go round at his leisure, and everything was well until Dudley Williams’ mount jumped the hurdle entering the straight. Here he rapped his off hind leg, but the jockey, unaware of the extent of the damage, carried on. Roomlet scrambled over the last two obstacles and reached the judge’s box on three legs. He was ■shortly afterwards destroyed. Mr David White, the auctioneer, said that lie could not recollect such a case in his sixty years ol racing. While the crowd was still shouting to acclaim the success of the favourite, his injured leg was examined, and when it was seen that this was broken lie was painlessly destroyed.

The own or was Mr Tk TO. Large, and tho trainer Ivor Anthony. At liis

Wrought on training l ,' Quarters tlie horse was known ns “P.oonilet the Lionheart.” “I have known him for ten years, and 1 have never met a plnekie." horse,” said the head stable boy. “Only lor a seeond did Roomlet hesitate when his hind leg snapped, then with head np he went bravely on to victory. ’' “~He was as game as the devil,” was the tribute paid by Mr Anthony. Tt is the view of a veterinary surgeon that Roomlet may have been earned forward by his momentum, or may have kept going on three legs without nuieh di/Ti i-nlty. “Roomlet,” he said, “may have .been so eager to pass the post —like a human sprinter—that he did not fnltv realise the pain of his broken, leg until lie had won.”

A few weeks .ago Rigid Knight, who finished fourth in a race at Mallow,

County Cork, .jumped throe fences and cleared three water .jumps after break' ing his back. Right Knight walked eighteen miles back to his stable before his owner, Mr J. J. I'urcill, discover*'; his injuries.