TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 489, 7 December 1899, Page 14

TARANAKI.

SUNDRY SUBJECTS. New Plymouth, December 4. I was pleased to see that Mr J. George scored a brace of wins at Feilding with that consistent horse, Crusoe. AVhen well - placed the black gelding always gives a good account of himself. Sarsaparilla, a mare that was being schooled for hurdling, dropped dead in the Taranaki saddling paddock on Friday last, after being worked. D. Crozier was training her. The local and coastal bookmakers are somewhat piqued at being shut out by the Taranaki Jockey Club from future meetings. I notice that Taranaki is well represented in the acceptances for the Auckland Cup, etc. Should training operations prove satisfactory, I expect to see all our open handicap horses journey North, as the four days’ bill-of-fare at Auckland is both tempting and varied. Mr N. King, the well - known sport, had Ta startling experience on Thursday last. He was driving Mrs King, their two children, and a lady friend from the Taranaki Show, when the mare in the shafts got restive in the steepest part of the main street, and, swerving suddenly, got on the asphalt footpath/ and took downhill under the verandahs for nearly 100 yards. Mr King, being untenaciously, managed, after carrying away a verandah post, to pull the mare up. The trap was almost demolished. Luckily the occur pants escaped with a severe shaking only. This was little short of marvellous under the circumstances. - . Mr H. Hammond, the trainer of Lady Nelina, Singleshot, and Co., is now combining carpentry with horse training. Coronet is still in favor here for the Auckland Cup. Mr G. N. Oorke, who is well-known in business and racing circles in Taranaki, has just returned from a sojourn at the Klondyke goldfields. He gives a poor account of the fields, and says that the reported big finds exist almost in every instance in the imagination of newspaper reporters, who boom the fields for the railway and steamship companies. Mr J. George’s colt, Lasting (Sylvia Park — Durus) has been spelled in his work. Mr A. W. Budge has accepted the position of starter for the Taranaki Jockey Club. - Mr J. Ruesell has bestowed the name of on the full brother to Bille and Waituna on the Waiuku —Lady Onslow filly. The Waitara Club have added a few necessary improvements to the course at Sentry Hill. The Taranaki trotters that competed at the recent Otahuhu Meeting were not successful in one instance. Gowrie made a successful debut in open company at Feilding last week. Owing to the rainy weather experienced lately, local trainers have been handicapped in the preparation of their charges. Mr P. Raill, who figured in the Emmett case some years ago, and who has been residing in Auckland for some years, has again taken up his residence in this district. ■