HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 303, 14 May 1896, Page 5

HAWKES BAY.

Mr Rathbone’s horses trained near Waipawa now—A well-bred “frost”—The Quinlivan versus Douglas arbitrators at work.

Mr H. Rathbone will for the future have his team trained in the vicinity of Waipawa, and, in consequence, his Hastings establishment will be closed. A. Robertson, his trainer, will still continue tohold that position, and at the same time keep an eye on the brood mares and young stock at Mr Rathbone’s estate.

The Australian-bred Beauharnais (Gang Forward—Josephine) and the rest of Mr J, Pettit’s team, at Kaikora North, have been turned out. The Victorian purchase must have proved rather a costly moke for the well-known Kaikora North boniface, as, although he has competed several times, he has not yet given the judge the trouble to hoist his number.

At the Maori Oat Meeting, held at Omahu on Wednesday, Gold Cup won the principal race. On Wednesday week, the arbitrators iff,the Q.uinlivan-Douglas racing' dispute commenced proceedings, in the club-room of the Masonic Hotel, Messrs A. C. and T. H. Lewis appearing

for Mr Quinlivan, and Mr Humphries for Mr Douglas, Mr C. A. Loughnan acting as referee. The arbitrators expect to get finished in about a week, and when I state that they sat till ten o’clock last Thursday night, it will be seen that a great deal of evidence has to be waded through. The proceedings are not open to the Press, but great interest is evinced in the case, and the town has been full of sporting people from Hastings, Waipawa, and Danevirke.