SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 3 March 1904, Page 2

SPORTING.

A DISQUALIFICATION. "(I'er J'veas Association.) CIIUISTCHI'KCII, March 2. The Now Zealand Association to-day decided to disqualify T. Johnston and 11 it> male Ituby for life, lor "ringing-in." WANOAXUI AIBKTIXG. Further scratchings for fjtis mceti ins, opening to-tluy, ufo'Glory, Wuikjikaho, and The Hanger. ANTICIPATIONS BY "MOTUROA." Stewards' Stakes, one mile—Jewellery 1, Lady Soult 2, Field Battery Juvenile Handicap, six furlongs— Xovgorod 4, Queen's Messenger 2, YtUois a, First Handicap Hurdles, two miles mid a distance—Waiwera 1, Mounter 2, Otairt 3, First Hack Hurdles, one mile und Ihruo-qmirtors—Hanana 1, Lissa 2 Toledo ;i. Wangunui Clip, one mile and threequarters—Convoy 1, ltomeo 2, Canteen y. • «. . l'eliy Welter, wilo aijd a Uistance—Oniiuli 1, Mussel '2, Ifnrdwork Wiriton Hack Handicap, one mile anil a distance-Louisa I, Sen Uo# A SL. Jlnrp ?1. Plying ivrlongH— Shra|.|ie( <t„Hai>at 2, Jewellery !i. A colt foal uy Mllltiform-I.a Nolle youngster was valued at -CfitlO At Christchuivh on Tuesday, J 1' fni l.nu U. It bookmaker, chaired wilh trespassing on the ('hrislrhm-ch racecourse on Feb, 11, and refusing to <|Ult when ordered to do so, was sentenced to one month's W. Mason, charged vit'i uvspas.sint; on the Metropolitan '{'rolling Club's ground.. w,Tj seuU'wed to t\ month's iumrisomuent. Other 'a: .■« have been tultuv.VHed mull :u,..th.r case •'«« hvvn hoard !>y the Appeal Court. There were last season in Kngljnd and Ireland over 200(1 races contested. Altogether th(* amounts won by thoroughbred horses came out nt something like £480,000 in England alone ; and this added to about £8:), 000 in Ireland and £ir>,ooo in Scotland, gives a grand totnl uf monj than half n million p.,' nwuie.v. These figures alonp prove what influence horsfMucnig has an the minds of patriotic and sporte'-loving Britons.