TOKOMAIRIRO ANNUAL RACES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 13 March 1873, Page 5

TOKOMAIRIRO ANNUAL RACES.

The Tokomairiro annual races took place on Thursday and Friday last. The weather was fine, the racing indifferent, and the attendance email. The following are the results of the various events :—: — First Day, Maiden Plate, 30 soys. ; distance 1J mile. Hutcheson'a c m Mabel, 4 years, Bst lllbs (Pearson) 1 Thomson's c g Romeo, aged, 9st 41bs, (Haynes) 2 Richardson's b g Little Dan, aged, 9st 4lba (Richards) 3 Davidson's b m Belle of the Me, aged, 9at4lb» (Cotton) 0

Derritt's b m Fanny, aged, 9st 41bs (Derritt) 0 M'Kay's Highland Mary, 4 years, Bst lllbs (Mouaghan) 0 District HANmcAP, of 50 soys ; distance, l£ mile. Derritt'a b g Tambourini, 9st 12lba (Rae) 1 Richardson's br m Awatea, 6st 31bs (T. Cotton) 2 Coombe's b g Catapult, 6at lib (Malone) 3 Nosworthy's Malice, 9at (scratched) Distance Handicap Trotting Race, 20 soys. ; distance 2 miles. M'Laren'g b g Thaw, (200 yds.) 9st Gibs (Barker) 1 Philp'3 br m Jesse, (200 yds.) 9st 61bs (Parsons) 2 M'Laren's Frost, (200 yds. j 9st 61bs (M'Laren) 3 Davidson's r g Quicksand, (scratch) 9st 61bs (M'Kechnie) 0 Dunne's b g Long Dick, (50 yds) 9st 61bs (p a t) 0 Hack Selling Rack, 10 soys. ; 1 mile heats. Coombe's c g Specimen, (Tiny) 1 Four started. Flying Handicap, 35 soys; distance, 1 mile. Coombe's b g Catapult, aged, 6st 31bs (JohnstoneJ 1 NoswoFthy's c m Hatred, 5 years, 9at 31bs (Derritt) 2 Richardson's Awatea, 3 years, 6st 3lbs (C. Holt) 3 Hazlett's Brunette, 6 years, 7st 91bs (T. Cotton) 0 Haynes' No b g Gentleman (late Reliance), 6st 121bs (Malone) 0 M'Kechnie's c m Sultana, 9 years, 6st 121bs (Alonaghan; 0 Nosworthy's br m Malice, 5 years, 9at . lib (scratched). Second Day. Publicans Handicap, 35 soys. ; distance, 1 J mile. Haynes' No Gentleman, 6st 71bs (Malone J 1 Coombe's b g Catapult, 6st 71bs (Lowe) 2 Nosworthy's b m Malice, Bst lllbs (Derritt) 3 Handicap Httedlb Race, 80 soys ; 1 mile and a distance ; heats, over four flights of hurdles. R. Derritt's b m Fanny list (O'Brien) 1 1 Philip's c m Miss Tatton (late Unknown) IPst 81ba (W. M'Kay) 2 2 Thomson's c g Romeo, lOst lllbs (distanced) 0 0 Settler's Race, 15 soys ; 1 mile heats ; weight for age. Thomson's Romeo (Waddle) 1 1 Tokomairiro Handicap, £70 ; distance, 2 miles Denitt's b g Tamborinini, 9st 121bs (Reay) 1 Hutcheson's c m Mabel 78t (Malone) 2 Consolation Stakes, £20 ; distance 1 mile. Noßworthy's b m Hatred, 9st 71b (Reay) 1

Considerable surprise was expressed when it was found that the stewards of the Tokomairiro Races allowed the jockey Reay to enter and run his horses at their meeting, knowing, as they did, that the Tuapeka Jockey Club had disqualified him for a flagrant breach of racing morality. These gentlemen have felt that their conduct in so doing required explanation, and accordingly have recorded on their minutes a resolution expressive of regret that the v Tuapeka Jockey Club should have acted so discourteously as not to furnish them with particulars regarding the disqualification of the jockeys Reay and Malone, although requested to do so; and theieby left them unable to take any action in the matter of their disqualification." If there is any discourtesy at all in the matter, it is on the side of the Tokomairiro stewards. In answer to a telegram, the Secretary of the Tuapeka Jockey Club, on the 26th ult., sent a letter stating the action taken by his Club, to Mr. Philp, one of the stewards of the Tokomairiro Races. This letter con. tamed fuller information than was sent' to the Dunedin Jockey Clvb 4 yet the latter without hesitation disqualified Reay. Only two coßstructions can be placed upon the eo»duct of the Tokomairiro stewards. Either they did not want to disqualify Reay, and saw an opportunity to get out of doing so by this wretched quibble about " particulars,* or they did not consider the gentlemen who are the stewards of the Tuapeka Jockey Club sufficiently trustworthy or intelligent to arrive at a correct judgment on the ease. They can accept either of the two alternatives. Stated shortly, they mean that either the Tbkomairiro stewards did not deal fairly with the public, or they deliberately offered a gratituoua I affront to the Tuapeka Jockey Club. \ Reay had been tried and convicted by I a competent tribunal. "What right j had the Tokomairiro stewards ta < order him a new trial for an offence i committed beyond their jurisdiction ? I In this matter, the " Bruce Bferald " has found congenial occupation, and appears as the champion of a" jockey convicted oa the clearest evidence of [ malpractice. ¥c congratulate Mr. Reay on his advocate, and must confess that advocate arid client are well suited to each other. A want tbat has long been felt in the journalism of the colony, by a certain, class, has been filled by our contemporary. Advocates of turf morality,, there are plenty ; but never, tmtil tb» present time, has there been a journalistic defender of turf immorality. The newspaper which ha 3 taken the role., possesses qualifications peculiarly fitting it therefor, and we have much, pleasure in recommend in* its servioc* to disqualified jockeys et hoe gcmm