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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 800, 6 July 1905, Page 7

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Dunedin, July 5. At the Police Court this morning several jockey club prosecutions for trespass on the Wingatui course were withdrawn at the request of the club’s counsel (Mr. Williams), who stated that the defendants had paid costs and made a swbrn declaration that they would not go on the course again without the consent of the Jockey Club. The magistrate (Mr. Widdowson, S.M.), remarked that the recent fines seemed to have a good effect, but for all that the writer is open to wager that bookmakers of some sort or other will be amongst the attendance at the next Wingatui meeting. It appears to be a general belief that Pipi was well beaten when he came down in the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase, and all the opinions the writer has read agree on that point. That may be, but as an interesting matter of fact, the fence which proved fatal to the Natator gelding’s chance was the same obstacle which brought him to grass two years ago, when he went out favourite for the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase, won by Jack o’ Lantern. Pipi, in the interim, has successfully crossed dozens and dozens of fences, but he evidently has a strong recollection of the jump at Hawke’s Bay. as he was inclined to shirk the first time he was sent

at it, and the next tinfcj he again went sit it in a half-hearted manner and came down.

Pipi is one of the Best fencers ever seen in the colony, but his memory, can evidently bring this down at a jump which in the ordinary course of events would be' negotiated without an effort. The two-year-old Stepniak—Cobweb gelding Stepchild, who has been in J. Rutledge’s stable since he was a yearl ing, was shipped last week to Adelaide to his owner, Mr. J. Tennant. Stepchild has been a failure as a racehorse, but he has a bit of pace, and would probably do better with more age.. If he should fail to train on in his new home he will be relegated to utility work on the owner’s station, where Evening Wonder is at present following the sheep, etc. The Elderslie stud matron Madder has been a good producer of winning stock, as Madrigal, Rose Madder, and Rubia are her three first foals. Her vearling, which was nut up at the last annual sale of the stud stock, made 350 guineas, and was purchased by Mr. G. Hunter, the well-known Southern sportsman. Mr. T. Kent passed through Dunedin last week on a visit to Rotorua. His companion de voyage is Mr. J. Loughlin, the well-known metallician. It is quite possible Mr. Kent may pick up a hoise or two should he take a fancy to something he meets on his travels. Two Wingatui colts in Tartar (Stepniak—Miss Betty) and Mondjik (Stepniak—Vault ress) have been nominated for the Wellington St. Leger. Mr. Jas. Jeffs has sold Ostiak to a Southern buyer. Very little interest was taken here in the V.R.C. National Hurdles, and York was a turn up for most of his followers.