SPORTING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8839, 15 June 1907, Page 2

SPORTING.

Hawke'a Bay Acceptances, Per Press Association. Napieb,- June 14. The following acceptances have been received for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's winter meeting:— Wbakatu Hack Hurdl6S, 1| miles— Kaipetipeti 11.0, Top Rose 10.3, Pleka 10.2, Tilson 9.13, Matakokiri 9.9, Oasis , 9.8, Variation 9.5, Bulcinoa 9.4, Cavalcade, Blue Streak, Airiki, Arohura, Glenairic 9.0. Winter Hack Handicap, I mile—Slower Girl 9.13, Reservoir 9.8, Tangaroa 9.4 Robin Link, Hinupai, Waipu, Jack 9.0. Ladies' Bracelet, 1-1 miles—Hipporbfla 12.7, To Arai 12.0, Outer 11.11, Te Kainui 11.2, Tho Stake 10.13 { First Foot, San Cruz, Maku 10.9, Coraona, Iceland Tigrisona 10.7. Hawke's Bay Steeplechase, about 3 miles—Nadador 11.3, Irish 11.2, Hutana 10.9, Comfort 10.8, Rangitoto, Eclair 10.0, Daredevil 9.13, Hikairoa, Le Vent, Lord OTliu 9.7.

H*wke's Bay Hurdles, 2 miles—Creusot 11.2, Prospector 11.0, Pushful 10.9. Black Reynard 10 8, Te tfira 9.G, Matakokiri 9.0.

Scurry Hack Handicap, 5 furlongs— Chicane 10.9, Merriwing, Stvathcona 9.12, Martyrium 9.11, Tihi. Linkless, Pluck, Blue River 9.8, Tarina 9.3, Snowshell, Greenleaf 9.2, Lothair, Waiariki, Quaver, Hutivvai, Tedious 9,0.

Heretaunga Handicap, 1 mile—lntelligence 10.3. Lyrist 10.2, Narcotic 9.12, Moloch 9.11, Pantaloon 9.7, Te Hauke, Hately 9.0

Tod Sloan's Confessions.

Tod Sloan appears to bo in a somewhat despondent mood, writes tho New York correspondent of tho London Tolergaph. When the authorities barrod him from racecourses in Europe, and the American Turf treated him similarly, he ran a billiard room in .conjuncion with M' Graw, the famous baseball manager. Then ho drifted to the vaudeville stage, in immacnlato silk hat and evening dross, tolling stories, the-most popular of which was his description of how he was supposed to be one clay walking along the Strand with an illustrious personage. Somebody stopped them with, '' Hullo, Tod! Delighted to see you. Who's your friend?" This never i failed to bring the house down. Later on, when the vaudeville houses 'grew tired of him, Mr Hearst's newspapers made him racing editor, All last year he gavo tips to the ovening paper reputed to enjoy three-quarters of a million circulation Somehow the horses persisted in running regardless of his • predictions. A fortnight ago he was said to be galloping horses at Bennings, tho famous Washington race-track, while to-day ho published in ono of the newspapers a . pago of '' confessions, '' the burden of which is that one of tho world's most-talked-of j ockeys owes his downfall to '' swelled head" and high living. "I had £IOO,OOO five years ago," he says, "I have lost it through unfortunate speculations and false friends. When I was in England I was invited to hunting partios and week-ends. I met lords and la-lies, apparently on equal terms. Indeed, they would remain perhaps two days and I for a week. I forgot that I was only a jockey; that is how I developed big head.'' He tells characteristic anecdotes of his halcyon days, when he electrified England ten years ago. "Most jockeys," ho declares, "have a poor knowledge of pace. It was pace alone that won for me on Oaiman at Newmarket in 1899. Morny Gannon, on Flying Pox, was considered invincible. He let me steal five lengths at tho start. I gradually slowed down and so did the others. They waited for me to run my horse oil' his feet, and come back to them. Nearing tho finish I let Caiman down with plenty of speed in resorvo, and they did not discover my trick in time.- Flying Pox could have beaten Caiman by a street if Cannon had sent him on about his business.''

Again Jio says:—"The English public gave me lots of credit, and quite turned my head. At Kempton Park the same year when Lathor v on Wheel reared and fell on me, a lord and lady fainted, and titled people showed me the greatest consideration and welfare.''

Then lie gives his version of the lawsuit with the French Jockoy Olub, when Maitre Labori defended him, and he lost. He is seeking opportunities to establish himself anew in the hearts of racing patrons, and would like, as a last resort, to found and conduct a riding school for jockeys. "I am exercising horses now, but the muscles which formerly served me in good stead have disappeared. I could ride to-iriorrow at less than Bsfc 41b. My hope in life is in a large measure based on reinstatement. ! '