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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 2 May 1913, Page 3

The race for the Two Thousandl Guineas Stakec resulted: Louvois 1, Oraganour 2, Meeting House 3. Louvois won by a head. F. Woottou ■rod© Fairy King. I'he King- was prosent. (BY "EARLY BIRD.") R. H. Skipwith, the well-known starrer, has left on a holiday trip to Australia, but will bo- back in time to officiate at the local meeting on the 22nd and 24th rnets. The Taranaki Jockey Club is instituting a weight-for-ago event something on the lines of tho FeUding Stakes; It will he worth £500 and bo run over six furlongs. The race will be on the autumn programme. Manakau was well in in the Warwick Handicap, which race he won, witii 7.Q, Oth;<*r iNew 3ealanders /in 'thf" raoe were Electrakoff 8.8 and Sir Axtogal 7.0.

Manabau is tho first of the progeny of Maniapoto, who won the Metropolitan Stakes at Rand-wick in 1305, to raoa m Australia.

Mr J. B. Reid's two-year-olds, Mowbray, Rimaldo, Salzburg,, Ogier and Bradmante have won thirteen races between them this season of the total value of £3840.

After being schooled at Ellersli© on •Tuesday, Okaihau' was walking a bit short, and his trainer -vvill probably have' difficulty in getting him to tho post for tho big jumping events ahead. He was an optimistic soul and a sportsman, a combination that mad© him a friend to bookies, both directly and indirectly. His pals, whom ho infected with his entnusiasm. followed his tips blindly, with more often than not disastrous results. "See what you havo done," wailed one of his frieiids after a race. "And you told mo that I could put my shirt on that horse." «£ ncJ, did y°n?" "Yes * wor&3 luck.'* "Well, then," replied th© optimistic •sportsman, "see the money you'll saro on laundry bills!" :

The. Auckland-ibred colt Soltario, by Soult—Monoquil, now owned by Mr. T. H. Lowry, heads the list ox tho seaf»on s two-year-olds, his winnings amounting to £2190. Ho won his throe classical engagements, the Great Northern Foal Stakes, the A.R.C. J&oya' Stakes, and the Great Northern Uhampagnc Stakes, a handican event at Riccarton and one at Aapler Park, the latter on a technical point, ran a second at AVcllington. and a third at Napier Pa*k. Boltano is at present having an easy time of it, and"is furnishing splendidly. Returning by rail with his wife from the races before stipendiaries wero thought of and everything in connection with .racing was supposed to bo worsi? than bad, a well-known > trainer wad forced to listen to himaclf being decried in wholesale fashion by one of a party in the tame compartment. Ho did not know, the trainer, but the horse ho had run that afternoon was stone, stark dead, and tho whole lot should have been disqualified for life and longer. Tho trainer sat stolid.' At any moment his wife expected blood, in her husband's oar she whispered, 'You can't keep your temper like this at home." -And the answer was, "I'm not annoyed. Everything the man has said is true."

The ©thics of betting never have been* jnoro sanely and clearly expounded than they a.ro in Lord Durham's letler to the Turf Guardian Society, says "Country Life" of .March let. '"Belting is not a crime," ho says, "but it is not ci virtue. It is .an ineradicable foible of human, nature. It is generally an unhealthy excitement and an expensive amusement." And he goes on to add that "legislation cannot stamo <>v* th's Passion, but it need not foster it. The proprietors of sporting papers met some little time ago, and agreed to .refuse tipsters' .advertisement foi th© future. It was in reference to the statement about these that Lord Durham wrote. He denounces those dishonest bookmakers who put advertisements in tho papers for" th© purpose of exciting cupidity and playing on ignorance. But at the same tinr© he •paid a high tribute to "the honwt hnghsh bookmaker." He isaid ,that -■; after, miany years of turf experience I can gladly testify to the good conduct and fairness of the vest majority Qf tboso who attend race meet ir^s."

i« urther light is thrown on the Valido case by the following, which appeared in last Friday's " Sydney Sun": Tin 1 regular monthly meeting of the committee of tho Australian Jockey Club was held yesterday afternoon, when Mr G. D. Greenwood, the New Zealand jsportsman, was pi-esionjt to ap r peal against-the-decision of the stipendiary stewards in connection with their finding in what is known as tht« "Valido case," which originated in re-f-pect to the horse's running in tho A.J.C. Highwcight Handicap and FJying Handicap. The finding of the stewards was: "We cannot but regard tho form as inconsistent, but taking into consideration the difference an the seal© of weight and the bad run thai, Valido got in the former race in n big field, we hold "that those connected, with the horse are ertitled to have their explanation accented. The differ<mc© in tho betting on the two races is unsatisfactory and unexplained, :md we consider the employment <of Burke on the first day when G. Pinn (the rider on th© second dSTy) was not riding for the stable, was ill-advised." Mr Greenwood sought to hay* the fimiino; erased from tlie club's books, but after carefully going into th© matter tho comrmttes did not sco eye to eye with him, and they dismissed the ap-

General ■entries for the A.R.O. winter meeting close to-day (Friday) week May 9th. , ' To-day, nominations for the'Dunedin J.C. are duo. Wangnnui J.C. acceptances close on Monday fortnight, th© 19th. Acceptances for the Egtnont meeting ckww on Thursday next, May Bth