Kawakawa Races.

Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 23, 1 February 1909, Page 4

Kawakawa Races.

Last Friday Kawakawa was en fete. It was the day of the annual races. There was a large attendance and fairly good sport. The results were Maiden Plate.—Lady Lanta 1, Lady Sperry 2, Waiata 3. Flying Handicap.—Disooverer 1, Mid. cyr 2. These were the only starters. Kawakawa Cup.—Lady Ellen 1, Jollv Tar 2, Shorts Handicap.—Disoovarer walked over, Railway Plate.—Discoverer 1, gyfioet Alice 2. Hack Hurry Scurry.—Lady Sperry 1, Ruby 2, Farewell Handicap.—Simple Simon 1, Discoverer 2. We do not care to print all we have heard about the management of the meeting, because we feel sure that much must be allowed for feeling and that in all probability the arrangements made were as perfect as they could be under the circumstances. In regard to the Cup there however appears to be serious cause for complaint. We are informed that 13 horses were to be started in this event but that as there were only eight licensed jockeys on the ground and the Club refused to issue permits to any other riders five horses had to be scratched at the last moment. Also that the scramble for the v j° cke 5' 8 resulfc ed disastrously to the chances of some of the horses. There is no attempt to say that the Cup was an unfair race but it is emphatically asserted that such a state of things as occurred in the arrangement for the Kawakawa Cup ““ be brought to the notioe of the A R.C. Our own opinion is that, the rales of the A.R.C. notwithstanding, the Club should have issued permits to the owners’ recognised jockeys and this course would, we believe, have been upheld by the Metropolitan body,