WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 351, 15 April 1897, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

Sea Serpent —Leda —The Hutt teams The Nelson Meeting— Death of a jockey. Wellington, April 13. Sea Serpent has gone into Tommy Clarke’s stable at The Hutt. The man on the course has it that Fred Martin is the new owner. W. Davis has taken Leda and her brother (St. Elmo) South to compete at the Canterbury meeting. T The Hutt teams will be mostly at the Wairarapa meeting, where the hack fields are large, and seventy-seven acceptances have been received for seven events. According to a returned visitor from the Nelson meeting, things were very mixed there, and in more than one case the dead came to life. William Sharp, the well-known jockey, whose career during the past few seasons has been a down-hill one, was found dead here on Saturday evening. Only recently he was reprimanded by the stewards of the Wellington Racing Club for indiscretion. Deceased’s most notable successes in the saddle were on horses owned by Messrs Stephenson and Hazlett, of Dunedin. He won the Dunedin Cup in 1882 on Adamant, and, in 1891, on Accident; the Dunedin Birthday Handicap, in 1884, on Captain Webster. After leavDunedin he was for a while in Gisborne, but latterly was at The Hutt, riding for the stable of which Loveshot is an inmate, and which was the last horse he rode to victory.