Sporting Reviews THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1894.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 June 1894, Page 4

Sporting Reviews THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1894.

The attention of racing men will be turned towards Wellington next month, not through any race meeting, but because the annual Conference of racing delegates will be held there. The exact date has not yet been decided, but the month has been fixed on, and as July has been selected and as one month’s notice of motion is necessary under the rules, delegates have not much time in which to prepare their propositions. We have from time to time pointed out in these columns the loopholes which exist in the present rules and the need for reform, and as the time is opportune we will retrace the suggestions made by the Review. First and foremost in the suggestions to be brought forward at the Conference is that put forward by Dr. Newman, M.H.R., who has intimated to Captain Russell, the president of the Conference, that he will move for the establishment of a New Zealand Jockey Club. Opposition has been keen and determined in the past to such an innovation, and at last year’s Conference the Auckland delegates were firm in their opposition to it. We may say that the Americans have seen the benefit of it, and now possess a governing jockey club. But we are advised that the movement to be instituted by Dr. Newman is foredoomed, so we will at present refrain from saying more than that the subject is a very important one and well worth serious consideration on the part of the delegates.