TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 499, 15 February 1900, Page 12

TARANAKI.

New Plymouth, February 10. The regrettable accident to The Crown in the Farewell Handicap at the Taranaki Meeting ended what looked to be a promising career. The big son of Hotchkiss was coming on fast, and, being endowed with pace, there was every

prospect of his furnishing into something specialHis dam (Moilena) was got by Panic from Josephine. There is plenty of luck in racing. A punter at the recent meeting went to invest a pound for himaelf and some friends on Venus in the Second Hack Hurdles, but when he returned to his party he found he had invested on No. 6 (Tarrigan). He was profuse in his apologies for his mistake, and was looked on by the others as a man of ill omen. However, when Tarrigan won and paid £3B Bs, he was regarded as a person whose lucky star was in the ascendant. Mr J. E. Henry was watching the form at the form at the Taranaki Meeting, preparatory to declaring his Egmont weights. One of the Taranaki stewards while peregrinating in the saddling-paddock on the second day received a hard kick from a horse in the rear part of his anatomy. It is not related whether he took the forcible hint as “ the office ” for the next event. I hear that Flying Jib is to be given a chance at the jumping game. An official at the Taranaki meetings who carries out his duties thoroughly is Mr Ab. Goldwater, the clerk of the scales. Mr J. B. Williamson renewed many old acquaintanceships here, and also obligingly carried off the Chip through the agency of Coronet.