HAWKES BAY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1057, 9 June 1910, Page 8

HAWKES BAY

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, June 6. The monthly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club Metropolitan Committee was held at Hastings on Friday. Present: Messrs. G. Hunter (chairman), L. de Pelichet, J. F. Mclvor, G. P- Donnelly, C. L- Mackersey, H. M. Campbell and T. H. Lowry. Prior to proceeding to business, the chairman moved, “ That the committee of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, at their first meeting assembled, desire to place on record in the minutes of proceedings, their sense of the great loss the Empire has sustained in the death of His Majesty the late King Edward VII-, who will long be remembered as a great king, and as the first sportsman in the Empire-” The motion was seconded by Mr. G. P. Donnelly and carried, all members standing.

Correspondence was dealt with as follows: —Napier Park Racing Club, £5 ss, voted for gentlemen riders’ trophy. Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club, £lO 10s, voted for gentlemen riders’ trophy. Hurumua Mounted Rifles sports, asking committee to take action regarding alleged fraudulent practice.— To be informed that they must first take action and submit particulars for committee’s endorsement.

Hawke’s Bay Hunt programme for July 27- —Approved. Subsequently a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club committee was held, Mr. G. Hunter presiding. The Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club, asking permission to hold race meeting on the Hastings racecourse. Mr. A. H- Russell and H- Harrall appeared on behalf of the hunt club, and it was resolved to make a charge for the use of the grounds. After inspection of the improved birdcage and weighing room, a resolution was made that no persons other than officials be allowed to go on to

the course proper from the birdcage on race days. A letter was read from Sir W. R. Russell stating that he had left the colony for a time, and resigning the position as president of the club. A resolution was made accepting the position as president of the club- A resolution was made accepting the resignation with regret, and in consideration of past valuable services, Sir William Russell was unanimously elected a life member of the clubMessrs. G- Hunter and Ormond, the two vice-presidents, having declined the presidentship, Mr- G. P. Donnelly was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy.

A good deal of local money -was lost here on Friday through the failure of Multiple to annex at Ellerslie, as he had been responsible for very attractive work on the Napier Park tracks for several mornings before he was shipped North. Maori King and King Billy are timed to leave Hastings next Thursday for Wellington, en route to Sydney- The last-named equine, it is intended, will do stud work on his owner’s (Mr. E- J. Watt) station in Queensland. Maori King will be prepared for some of the future events that figure on the cards in New South Wales and Victoria. Bobrikoff is one of the drone brigade at present, as the black gelding is enjoying a slight cessation from toil, and is enjoying his fling at Okawa, the station belonging to his owner, Mr- T. H. Lowry. Star and Garter, the younger full brother to Kohinoor and Cullinan, has been emasculated. Virtue has also been operated upon. Mr- E. Limbrick, who has had All Trumps bearing his racing livery for some time, has purchased Lolita, and has placed his new purchase with J. ■Oldfield. She is a four-year-old daughter of a Torpedo horse called Explode, her dam being a Sou’-wester mare-

Eldorado was in such a bad state the latter part of last week that a vet. had to be called in to attend to him- The result of his examination showed that Mr. Donnelly’s ’chaser was suffering from a severe cold on the liver, but under the careful attendance of Mr. Bodie, he is making good headway against the malady, and it is anticipated that in a very short period Gold Reef’s son will be able to put in an appearance once more on the training tracks. Luke Wilson, who met with a nasty mishap through a horse rolling on top of him at the Napier Park tracks last Monday, is improving in good style, and his medical attendant considers that he will be about again in a very short time. Full Cry is going on the right way, and is giving some good exhibitions of lepping and galloping over the country fences on the preparing arena at Greenmeadows-

Midnight Sun, Royal Scotch and Ireland are a trio of youngsters from T. Quinlivan’s establishment that are being sprinted along on the tracks at Hastings. Royal Scotch, who is a son of Royal Artillery and Barley Bree, shows the most form. Fred. Davis’ juvenile contingent, who are regular attendants at Napier Park, consist of Sea Pink (Seaton Delaval —Rose Madder), Bellah (Royal Fusilier —Lissadurn), Trebelli (Birkenhead —Cantatrice), and War Scare (Martian —Gossip). The batch look bright and .forward, and show without doubt that they have been well looked after-

Mr. H. Dimmer, who got so badly injured last Boxing Day, was able to leave the hospital last Thursday, where he has been an inmate since his misfortune. The veteran sport is not quite sound yet, for he has to seek the aid of crutches in his locomotion, and he will have later on to go back to the doctor, as one of his legs is not yet out of plaster Paris. For a man of his age—he is getting on towards 65 —he has come out of the ordeal in an extraordinary manner when the serious nature of his accident is taken into considerationHe is a part owner of Amato, and the good deeds of the San Fran gelding have been the best tonic that it was possible for him to get. Mr. C. Kingston, a patron of G- Collelo’s, has placed the three-year-old son of St. Ambrose and Guiding Star with the Greenmeadows educator. The stranger is a well-proportioned, quality-looking gelding, and if appearances are a guide to criticise upon, Mr- Kingston’s latest acquisition has a rosy future before him. Jack Pot is not as well as could be wished, and it is an odds-on chance that Chain Link’s son will not be able to put in an appearance at the local meetings this month.