TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 6

TARANAKI.

; June 2nd. Mr ‘ Keswick,’ the owner of Mutiny, has supplied me with the record of the son of The Mute — Lady Maxwell. Mutiny has started 21 times this season, being first 10 times, second 5, third 4, and unplaced twice Among his starts are three in open company, in which he got two seconds (Marton Meeting) and one third (Wanganui Winter Meeting). He carried 9.8 when he won the Hack Mile at the Egmont Summer Meeting, and 9.7 when he won the Patea Cup, miles. Union Jack is being spelled, and the same remark applies to Melas. Mr C. Tate, who is well and favorably known in Wellington sporting circles, has settled down here, having taken the Taranaki Hotel, in which, I am pleased to say, he is doing well. My reference in last issue to the best hack on the coast this season has attracted a good deal of attention. Mr ‘ Keswick’ informs me that he would not mind having a go for a level £5O or backing his horse Mutiny against either of the other three selected by me as worthy of being classed for the honour of best hack, namely, lonic, Pill and Melas, the distance to be from 1 mile to miles. We have just had a visit from Fillis’ 1 circus and menagerie, which I can recommend to the Auckland public as first-class. Charlie Crocker has gone into Mr W. Elliott’s stables at Waitara. He is a good lad, and will soon make himself popular at Waitara. Fred Ross, late of Canterbury, is working for Mr J. Goodwin at Waitara West. I hear that the colt Sylvia Park (St. Leger —Atalanta) got a slight knock on one of his legs the other day, but I am pleased to state that the injury was only of a trivial nature. Lebel, I am informed, is looking well, and Mr Goodwin expects to do well with him next season. The stallion Howitzer in Mr W. Elliot’s stable is gradually getting into condition with attention and plenty of good feed. He was an awful object when Mr Elliot brought him down from Auckland ; in fact he looked as if he had been fed on sawdust and shavings. The decision of the Wanganui Jockey Club in the enquiry into the alleged * ringing in ’ of Emmett, has been deferred for a month, for the purpose of obtaining additional evidence. The case must be rather weak when the club adopt such a course. It strikes me there are too ■many lawyers mixed up in the case. Fancy four lawyers being at the enquiry 1 It is customary for clubs to hear facts without any lawyers appearing as special pleaders, and I think the Wanganui Club ■ J are < establishing a bad precedent by allowing them to appear on the occasion referred to. lonic again proved what a good horse he: is by winning the Glasgow Plate at

Otaki, carrying 9.6. The time was slow, but the track was exceedingly heavy. He put up 10.4 (1 olb penalty) in the Stewards’ Handicap the same day, and got third. He must have won had he not got into a mud hole in the straight. Mr A. Goodson, the Hawera sportsman, had the misfortune to have his house destroyed by fire the other day. I understand he was uninsured, and he will therefore be a heavy loser.