SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3141, 14 March 1873, Page 3

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

o amaru Races.— The following are the nominations for the Handicaps at the Oamaru Meeting O.J.C. Handicap: Mr R. Derritt’s Hatred; same, Tambourini; Mr O’Brien’s Burgundy; same, Wildboy ; Mr Grant’s Nelly Gray ; Maid of the Mill; Mr Hazlett’s Atlas, Captain Hutcheson’s Butterfly (late Flying Scud). Flying Handicap : Mr ‘Derritt’s Tambourini; same, Hatred ; Mr O’Brien’s Burgundy; same, Wildboy ; Mr Haync’s No Gentleman ; Exile; Mr Hazlett’s Brunette; Captain Hutchison’s Butterfly ; Mr M ‘Lean’s Electricity, Handicap Hurdle: Mr Derritt’s Tambourini; Mr Fraser’s Medora; same, Banjo; same, Maid of the Mill; M‘Lean’s Alarm ; Honest John. The Reay Affair. Considerable surprise was expressed when it was found that the stewards of the Tokomairiro Races allowed the jockey Reay to enter and run his horses at their meeting, knowing as they did that the Tuapcka Jockey Club had disqualified him for a flagrant breach of racing morality. These gentlemen have felt that their conduct in so doing required explanation, and accordingly have recorded on their minutes a resolution expressive of regret that the “Tuapeka Jockey Club should have acted so discourteously as not to furnish them with particulars regarding the disqualification of the jockeys Reay and Malone, although requested to do so; and thereby left them unable to take any action in the matter of their disqualification.” If there is any discourtesy at all in the matter, it is on the side of the Tokomairiro stewards. In answer to a telegram, the Secretary of the 'luapeka Jockey Club, on the 20th nit., sent a letter stating the action taken by his Club, to Mr Pbilp, one of the stcAvards of the Tokomairiro Races. This letter contained fuller information than was sent to the Dunedin Jockey Club ; yet the latter, without hesitation, disqualified Reay. (inly two constructions can be placed upon the conduct of the Tokomairiro stewards. Either they did not want to disqualify Reay. and saw an opportunity to get out of doing so by ibis wretched quibble about “ particula s,” or they did not consider the gentlemen who are the stewards of the Tuapeka Jockey Club sufficiently trustworthy or intelligent to arrive at a correct judgment on the case. They can accept either of the two alternatives. Stated shortly, they mean that either the Tokomairiro stewards did not deal fairly with the public, or they deliberately offered a gratuitous affront to the Tuapeka Jockey Club. Reay had been tried and convicted by a competent tribunal. What right had the Tokomariro stewards to order him a new trial, for an offence committed beyond their jurisdiction Times.