SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 10

SPORTING.

Nominations for the ;Ashburton County Racing Club's Winter Meeting close on Monday. - Acceptances for the' Banks Peninsula Racing Club's Winter Meeting' are due on Tuesday. Otauru's owner has tired of tho gelding as a racing proposition, and it is said that 110 was given away after the Levin Meeting last Saturday.

A Press Association message from Sydney says that the eight final acceptors for the A.J.C.* Steeplechase include the New Ze&lander, Black Art. At a sale of horses in training at Ellerslio on Tuesday Cool Stimulants changed hands at 23gns. Marble Slab brought 26gns, Zircon 250gns, Makora 20gns and Waning Light-I2gns. The Riccarfcon apprentice C. Eastwood now requires only on© more win to deprive him of the apprentice allowance, his win on Geranial at Duncdin bringing his total to nineteen wins for the season.

In connexion with the rnco meeting at Motukarara on Saturday next, tho Railway Department has arranged a convenient train service. Special trains leave Christchurch at 8.20, 9.55 and 10.30 a.m.

Owing to illness, Mr W. Norman was unable to fulfil his duties as starter at the Ashburton Trotting Club's . Meeting yesterday, and his place was taken by Mr A. J. Hastings, who did Tery good work. The Ellerslio trainer J. Williamson left Auckland yesterday on a holiday visit.to Sydnoy. Spaco was booked in tho saino steamer for Whizbro, Queen March, and 'Queen March has been 'retired to the stud, and is to be mated witli an Australian sire.

, Imperial Spark has teen raced fairly extensively this season, and his win at Levin last Saturday brought his record in 35 starts, to nine wins, seyen seconds, and throe thirds. He opened his winning account for the season in a six furlong h&ck race, while his victory last week was in the principal event over a mile and a quarter A feature of tho Auckland Meeting was the success of horses from R. Hannon's stables at Cambridge (says an exchange). Four wins and four seconds was his record, and these "horses captured in stakes the sum of £2290. Hannon now trains Starland for Mr '• G. L. 'Stead, but the other successes were gained Jyy horses owned by the Cambridge trainer, his winnings being '£1740. .' , Tho New Zealand Sapling Stakes has now been run eoven times, and Nantwich's victory gave Mr H. F. Nieoll his third win, equalling the score ot .Mr 11. M. Morten in that race. The, first race in 1919 was won by Mr F. E. Jones's Doraldina; Mr Nieoll won in tho. two following years withChil.db Pointer and Latona, and then followed three wins in' succession for Mr Morten withAhuriri, Taurekareka and Kohara.

J. Barry a good run of suecesses ,is now oijly four poiints neliind vB Reed in the winning jockeys' list, tho respective figures being <ls It looks like being a good contest for first honours, whUe O. Emerson is assured of third place, his total now standing at 69. It is quite possible,for. Bmerson to overtnko Barry at least, but ho will need to have an extraord- , inary run, for while the meetings yet '. "to bo decided in tKo South Island only > nupiber three Barry iand Reed will have opportunities at six fiitures yet to be docided in tho north.: '■■■ ;. The Ashbttrton Trottinc Club's "Wintor Meeting will be concluded to-day, • and with auch cn oxcallent programmo as is offered for their entortaihment,' thero should be a big : attendance of the public. A special attraction. will be the for All, which will bring to-; getber some ' of the most brilliant "paoera in the Dominion, including Tjocan Chief,' Onyx, Acron, Sheik, and ; Realm, and a thrilling; contest should result. Last i night's-indications : aV Aohburton promised an improvement in the weather conditions.; Special passenger trains will' leave Chriatchurch - at 9 a.m. and 0;20 a.m. , , Some interesting -information which may act as a deterrent to would-be ownoTS of racehorses was given at theSupreme Court,! Blenheim, yesterdwr (telegraphs our correspondent), by Mr A. Bore, who was for many years train- , er of Mr J. J. Corry's strmg of horses; According to Mr Roro, a horse-will , consume at an average cost of 6s per v bushel, 18s worth of oats, a week, to-., gether with/ (at average prices) 6s 6d worth, of chaff,'2s 6d worth of bran, 4s worth of bay, and 3s worth of grass, io say nothing .of stable hoy's wages, ; cost of loosebox aiid straw, etc. Mr ' Bore' reckoned that, the average cost of keeping a racfehorse was £4 4s per - week, exclusive of the trainer's fee. ' Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs:—Somebody bow somebody give the steeplechaser Aurore a drink from a. bottle at the Dunedin Jockey Club Winter Mooting just before that .horse went out for his first race. Aurore shaped hadlv in that contest., The gjv- ; ing of the arink being reported to the " club, the stewards had the bottle impounded so as to asoßrtain whether the balance of the contents revealed any noxious"drug. The result of the analy? • sis was stated' at the meeting bf the Dunedin-Jocker Club Committee. The v analyst reported that .-tWspecimen submitted to him did not disclose the presence of any drug. The committee thereupon decided that no further action be taken in regard to the alleged.doping -of Attrore, and -that the owner be exonerated. .

P. KEENE'S DEATH.

X ENQUIRY CONCLUDED.

, * (riuus msocutiok mitQßiit.) DUNEDIN, June 12. The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Percy Keene, a jockey - who died, as a result of injuries received through a fall in a hurdle race while riding Captain on the sec- • ond 'day of the Dunedin Jockey Club's Winter Meeting at Wingatui was concluded to-day. , 1 . The Coroner* 'Mr: J. R. Bartholomew (in reviewing the evidence) said it appeared that Captain 6arto failed to t rise at the third hurdle, and deceased " was thrown and was struck bf the hooves of another horse. The evidence showed that the hurdles,were constructed and erected according ;to standard, and similar hurdles were in use in Auckland. Criticism had been levelled at the typo of. hurdles in*uso • rigid, whereas'the hurdles at 'Biccarton and "Wellington were; non-rigid. He did not : think thi? affected the present case. . It appeared to him to have been a pure misadventure, and there was nothing , in the racing- conditions that contributed: to it. There was an element' of risk in all sport. The verdict would ' .be that deceased's, death was due to a fractured 6kpll .with complications ?£ - meningitis, eaused ty being kicked by a horse' at the Dunedin' Jockey Club's Meeting-on,; June'4th. '' •

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