WAITARA MEETING THIS DAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11823, 21 November 1901, Page 3

WAITARA MEETING THIS DAY.

Splendid weather favoured the Waitara Racing Club for their annual meeting at Sentry Hill on Thursday. There was a good attendance of the public, visitors being present from nearly all the centres in the district, town a large number, drove otit or went by train to patronise die fixture. ' The Club,- who have purchased the property, had everything looking in £rim order, several improvements having been effected since last ''meeting/ 1 The acceptances ,arid'entriesrfof,the events, except the Hurdles, w^re numerous,, and during tie day some interesting racing was witnessed. . . ; • L^pperton, , Npveinber^ 21. — Follow- ; ing are" the -results- :^-: '" Hurdles.— Sultana 1, Midas 5, Clarion .3... Only sta4-ters. , Diy., \ Jiaidonl— Lpch Eriu 1, Cbrivoy Si [Die Hard 3. : Divs., £2 2s and £2 i All Aged Stakes.— Bowman 1, Royal Flush 2,, Laertes _3,._Diys., £4V/s 1^ Koliina 2, ; Siand^ra 3. Scratched : Moturoa, King Edward, Divs., £2 ,1s and £1 Is. , TUBP TOPICS, BY "TARANAKI." ' The Dunedin correspondent of the N.Z.- Times. states that persons, who tried to win' money fronl Barnptt, & Grant,- over the . C . J . C .. Meeting are now in a state of anxiety as to whe^ther they will 1 be called on I-Yiday to give evidence in the prosecution of Peter Grant. The police have issued about 50 summonses relating to as many informations. ..The cases v are to come before the Magistrate pn Friday. So far the. police have only taken action against Grant. Whether other bookmakers, will be proceeded against, afterwards remains to be seen. . ' ■ ■ . . , At a meeting of the stewards, of the Masterton Racing Club, C. Jenkins was fined- £3 3s for breaking an engagement to ride the. horse Raema, for Mr Vallance at the recent race meeting. The' disqualification of young Chitham, who was connected with the Ethel ringing-in case, was removed, ;Jie .having made an explanation to the stewards. He, declared that he was not concerned in the. ringing-in, out alleged that .a, Featherstou. man. knew all about it. Do they manage racecourses better in France? It isT a question incidentally arising out of a statement in the^l*ond,6n Referee. " Mordred, speaking of -Dieppe races, or French courseWT generally, says that -at a race - there yon may leave your chair" with* your race glasses on it, and when you return he warrants you will find, neither place nor glasses gone. ,'. Yet ae. adds* -that the turf vagaries' in France are notorious, and '; further say* that "at Dieppe the other day I' will swear "that it was h'6t from' J any want of trymg on the part of tfcd £ jockey— it was. sunblyand; solely the fault of the horse which-' came in second— that the -race r was won by the bes£ horses. I never saw anything so deliberate in all mv life, excepting once— on the :sam« co'urse-^-wnen the field- pulled up almost to a man when a. jockey- fell from the horse which was apparently 'meant to win.' '; --An- American who has* raced : grotty weß all over ;the World says that nb\«here.is racing so honourably conducted as- in England. { TKe ' lolloWihg lfiCv6' t been -selected represent Auckland: at the New Zealand Amateur -Athletic Championship Meeting:- oa December 18th - 1-Sprints, G. W;.>Smith and. J. Campbell ; 440 yds,. H- G. Thomson. A. H. ( D TVatson., and M.\ Power ; 'dis■tances, -E. Sutherland, C. E. Hansen, HVA. D., Amiefson, and J- Mc r Kean ;. hurdles, G. W.. Smith and J. JCampbell ; piole. Viult. C C. Laurie and Te Faa t ,Hotf jateua: iiigh jump, C. C. Laurie ; btfiad jump. C. O. ,I^uri?; A. E; St^bh'/H. CJ. Thom•son,.and B. Brdwulee; walks, D. r Wilson J. J. Dickey 1 ; O. BarrBrown and AllanE. Ucll; shot and Thamnra- events, Wi H. Madill and T. 'B. O/Connor,