Trotting

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 414, 30 June 1898, Page 15

Trotting

MOUTH ISLAND TROTTING ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND. Affiliated Clubs to the North Island Trotting Association.

fesSv ; . . — gQTES. > The recently-made match for 10,000 dollars a- > side, between John R. Gentry and Guinette, the ; most notable from a money standpoint in recent :<ya*w, has (says The Horseman) brought to light the recollections of an old horseman regarding the match race, in 1859, between Princess and Glencoe Chief, which took place in San Francisco, fki , March 2, and w»8 to waggon, distance ten 1.5 niiies. Princess was taken to the coast especially ! to make the match, and she had no trouble in defeating her rival in 29min lOisec, and the stakes, amounting to 36,000d015., were paid to her rpßhager,;james O. Eloff. A second match was arranged between the pair, same distance, for 5000 . dollars a-side, Princess again winning. This race 'took place the day following the first race, and it !? » very doubtful if an owner of a pacer or trotter in the front rank would now send his horse in ■ •two bard engagements on successive days at any distance, much less ten-mile races. American sportsmen, who do not find the horse fast enough, now propose {The Daily Chronicle \ isaye) to utilise the antelope as a “ trotter.” One of these animals is being broken into harness to run in a “sulky,” and has lately given evidence that it will be able to break the world’s record of a mile in Imin 35Jsec. The Australians should endeavor to go One better than, our Yankee friends. Why not train an emu to do the trick ? I A kangaroo would probably put up the record, especially if there was a dog in the sulky, but then his gait might be objected to. : We cull the following from the Sydney Bulletin :—A Maorilatid clergyman, struck with the “coincidence ” racing theory, gave a discreet ‘, member of his flock a fiver to back a trotter bear- ■ ing his name at a wayside country show. The neddy paid the “limit,” but bookie disappeared. The saint and the sinner! Big dividends sometimes occur in trotting in France.' A paragraph from an exchange says : — .■ Kate Caffrey’s victory was so little expected that she brought 108dol for Idol at the pari-mutuel. A BIHGINGJN BILL. 'i. A Bill has beep recently passed by the Legislature in the State of New York which is of the utmost importance in the principle that it recog* ! nisesj namely, theadvisableness of securing State . aMutance* to prevent what are essentially turf The W referred to makes ■: * ringing in ”an offence punishable by law, and bringing with it the very severest penalties. lu view of the fact that other countries, including New Zealand, may some day deem it wise to bring ; forward such a measure, it is well to publish the £% fall text of the Bill, which is as follows(1) Any person who knowingly enters for competition for any purse, prize, premium, stake or sweepstake offered or established by any person, association •;< <n? corporation, any trotting or pacing horse, mare, "gelding, colt or filly under an assumed name, or i out of its proper class, or that has been painted - mr disguised or represented to be any other or ‘ different horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly from [ the one which is purported to be entered, where such prize, putsb, premium, stake or sweepstake is to be decided by a contest of speed; or (2) being the owner, trainer or other person having " the control of the racing qualities of any trotting or pacing horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, knowingly allows the same to compete for any such prize, purse, premium, stake or sweepstakes under an assumed name, or out of its proper class, or as any other or different horse, mare, gelding, colt ■ or filly than the one it actually is; or (3) in any competition for any such purse, prize, premium, stake or sweepstake, knowingly drives any trotting ■. or pacing horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly which ha. been entered under an assumed name, or out . df its proper class, or which has been painted or K disguised, or represented to be any other or r ■ different hone, mare, gelding, colt or filly than the one it actually is, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, punisnable-by a fine of not less than Ave hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, i or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. The class to which any such animal bejrmgs for the purpose of the entry in any such coptjwfc of speed shall be determined by the public : Pffrfbirmatine thereof in former contests or trials ' of speed, as provided by the printed rules of the S person association or corporation under which < the prdpoeed contest is advertised to be conducted.

;■ Our £lOO Con row should afford Turfmen an opportunity of exercising their skill. See page 20.

• Name or Club. SSCBBTABY. Tote P’mits •Auckland T.C C. F. Mark .. 3 Hawke’s BayT.C. W. D. Ireland 2 •Palmerston North T.C. C. C. Mlles ... ... 2 Wellington T.C.... •- f •Johnsonville and Hutt Geo. McDonald 2 County T.C HaWeraT.C Geo. Bennett.. ... 1 W. H. Tristram 2 ; •OtahuhuT.C. ... W. Lockhart 1 New Plymouth T.C. A. A. Ambridge , ;••• ‘ -1 NormanbyT.C. ... J. Scott ... o Total Permits ... 14 : •Includes pony racing. C. C. MELES, Secretary, Palmerston North.