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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1107, 29 June 1911, Page 7

favourite was successful. In the Coronation Cup, i f 20J0dol , Chanteuse won by a short head only from Silver Hampton, last year’s Epsom Handicap winner being followed how by Seddon and Severity- The Spring Handicap, of 150 > 101., run cn the second day, *ell to Seddon with ('’ey Plume and Durbar filling the places. Other Australian bred wlrne”? at »he meeting were Pin, Phonograph, and Good Rose. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at the scratching by the Sultan of Johore of the whole of his horses at the last moment on the concluding day of the meeting. The proprietors of the (Allendale Stock Farm have sold the well-known trotting stallion Marvin Wilkes (2.12!£), to Mr. H. S. Cribb, of Ipswich, Queensland. The price paid was 1000 guineas. :j: ❖ * A total of 275 nominations for the six principal events at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting shows a good response from owners. The previous best list was 231 in 1907. « * * * In an interview with a representative of “The Melbourne Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News,” the exN.Z, horseman, J. N. McGregor, stated that he had incurred no less than 10S falls. He has had one or both collarbones broken six times, and his thigh, right arm, skull and nose fractured. The worst fall he ever got was off Lull at Feilding, when he had both collarbones fractured and received severe injuries to his back, which left him partially paralysed. After being nine and a-half months in the Palmerston North Hospital, he was discharged as incurable, and it was two years ere he fully recovered.