HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 494, 11 January 1900, Page 13

HAWKES BAY.

CLUB MEETINGS—TURF TALK

Napiee, January 9. A committee meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club was held this afternoon. Present: Messrs John McVay (in the chair), J. Bennett; W. Sweetapple, J. Bicknell, and F. G. Smith. The plan of a caretaker’s cottage to be erected on the course was submitted and approved, and several improvements to the buildings were authorised. The secretary was instructed to write to the Hawke’s Bay jockey Club and the Agricultural and Pastoral Society re dates of Spring Meeting and bhow. A meeting of the committee of the Waipawa Racing Club was held on Saturday night. Present : Messers W. White (chairman), Harker, J. Petitt, W. H. Rathbone, M. C. Symons, W. Nicholson, C. H. Arrow, T. Butler, J. H. Jones, and C. M. Whittington. Leave of absence was given to Mr H. H. Bridge. The levy made by the Napier Park Club for the expenses of delegates to the Conference was ordered to be paid. The reeig nation of Mr W. Baker as caretaker was accepted. The committee regretted that it had no power to order the proprietor of totalisator to pay on mutilated tickets. At a special general meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, to be held next Friday, the Hon. <i. D. Ormond will move that the following words be added to Rule 11 of the Rules of Constitution (except that under Rule of Racing 165 a) : “ The quorum shall consist of five, including the country clubs delegates ” At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Wm. Hoskings Marriatt was committed for trial for attempting t > defraud Messrs Stock and Cohen, totalisator proprietors, at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s Meeting by means of forged tickets.

Donovan has changed hands, Mr E. J. Watt having purchased The Dauphin’s handsome son, and he competed in that owner’s interests at the Rangitikei Meeting. Bush Rose has recovered from the malady that knocked him out just prior to the New Zealand Cup Meeting, and he made a start on the training track at Napier Park last week. He looks none the worse for his enforced idleness, and his legs have lost that ugly appearance that was so visible when he returned from the South.

Mr W. Rathbone had the misfortune last week to lose the filly foal by Apremont from Merganser. The youngster was found in the paddock with its leg broken, and was consequently destroyed. The following appellations have been bestowed by Dr Nairn upon hi St Andrew geldings Black Watch, Scotch Mist, and Queen’s Signal. Eland, Plover, and Waimarama are the respective dams of the trio.

Lady Lome, Te Hapuku, and Will-o’-the-Wisp have vacated the training track at Kaikora, and are now inmates of Vincent’s stables at Green Meadows, Ihe owner’s (Mr Robinson) reason for removing his string from the country was because he wanted to avail himself of the good opportunities that the Napier Park track possesses for the preparation of horses After the Wellington Meeting I understand the team will go into country quarters again. Dave Munn, who has been in charge for several months, has severed his connection with Mr Robinson, and that sport’s son (who rode his father’s horses in such a successful manner at Hastings) has the horses under his mentorship. Lady Lome was to have gone to Woodville to-day to take a hand in the discussion of events there, but she unluckily got out of her box at Hastings and cut herself about, which necessitated her being slowed down a little. She is getting all right again, and, provided the weights are suitable, will be a contestant at the Wellington Meeting this month.

Notoriety has been thrown out of toil, and is being indulged in a term of relaxation at Te Aute.

H.M.S. Pinafore now tenants one of the boxes at Mr Richardson’s private training stables at Green Meadows, that owner having bought Dreadnought’s excitable daughter from W. Whitaker.

Mr L. de Pelichet was acting on behalf of Mr E. J. Watt when he secured the St Leger— Lady Oureton colt at the Wellington Park sale last week.

Tire (who seems to be getting over his trouble), Renown (who looks as if he had a cold), Ideal, Jabber, and Ruby arrived here from Auckland by the Te Anau yesterday.