THE ARROW RACES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 40

THE ARROW RACES.

" Peeping Tom " says that beautiful weather favoured the Arrow Jockey Club for its annual race meeting, which wa3 held in MiReid's paddock on the 18th. and the racing was above the average usually seen nt small up-country meetings, the finishes for the Maiden Plate, Handicap Hack, Time Trot, and Flying Handicap all being both' close and e:ieiting. The two last-named races formed the medium of two protests. Frank, who passed the post first in the Two-mile Trot being protested against by the owner of The Boy, who finished within a neck of Frank, on the ground that " tho latter broke repeatedly during the race and gained an advantage by so breaking. The stewards upheld the protest, and awarded ii\e stakes to The Boy. Mr Perriam, who is one of our best up-country sports, received the decision in a manly way, but intimated that he would appeal to the South Island Trotting Association. What might have been a fatal accident happened in the' finish for the Flying Handicap, when Hazel and Goldring were fighting out a ding-dong finish approaching the winning post. Just before reaching the' end of the ropes Goldring suddenly shot to the inside of the course, right in amongst the onlookers. He stumbled and pitched right on to his head just where all the bookmakers had taken up their 3tand, shooting young M'Lean. who was riding him, several yards ahead of him. The iockey stood up almost immediately, and then fell back, remaining unconscious for some time. Being examined later on by Dr Thomson, it was found that he had three ribs -broken, and was very much shaken all over. M'Lean was at once removed to the Arrow Hospital, where he is getting on very well, and will be all right again in about three weeks' time. Mr J. Perriam went round with the- hat immediately "after the accident, and collected close upon £8 for' M'Lean, who is one of the straightest and most respectable of our goldfields riders. Mr Barnett considered that Richardson, the rider of Hazel, bored Goldring over to the inside of tho course, not allowing sufficient room for the horse to paes tho post on the side of the race track, a-nd thereby causing the accident. He protested against Hazel being declared the winner, 'but as there was not sufficient evidence to support Mr Bamett's statement, and the stewards not having noticed any boring on the part of Richardson, the protept was dismisped, Mr Barnett being returned his deposit money of £2.