SPORTING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4008, 30 December 1875, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

A special meeting of the North Otago Jockey Club was held a few days ago, at which a somewhat warm discussion took place with regard to the removal, at a previous meeting, of the disqualification of tho horse Exile. The horse, > with ds owner (Mr R. Barton) was disqualified at the March race meeting at Oamaru, and at the committee meeting now called in question the disqualification was removed from tire horse but not from tho owner. After a long it was resolved that the facts should be laid before the Committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club and their opinion asked as to whether the p.evious meeting w.i< legal—only three members of committee having called it instead of five, the number specified in tho rules.

At the above meeting a letter was read from the Secretary to the Christchurch Jockey Club enclosing a resolution passed at a meeting of that Club to the effect that an endeavor should be made to arrange that the different race meetings in the Colony should not clash. It suggested that tha Oamaru races should be held on the 25th and 20th February, The North Otago Jockey Club, however, agreed that the dates suggested by Mr Digby were unsuitable, Rowing to that being about the middle of harvest, and it was pointed out tin t as the Timaru races are fixed to come off on the 18th and 19 tk February, and the Dunedin race meeting on the 21Cd, 21th, and 25th March, it would be advisable to iix the Oamaru races to some off in the first week ia March, so that the horses running at Timaru could call on their way down to the Dunedin meeting. A reply to that effect was instructed to be sent to Mr Digby. In the Christchurch paper, from which we quoted last week a rule of the C, J.C., that if a race were postponed from one week to another (so that a Sunday intervened) all bets were off, an error occurred. The decision of the Club was that, according to the Canterbury rule bets would stand. The Palmerston races come off to-morrow, and a good day’s sport may bo anticipated, although the resultr of the K a Kanm meeting have caused several scratchings for the Palmei slim Handicap and Shag Va 1.-y Cup. M.VIi OF THE \ i u.i. should win the Hurdle Face, with Kildare second, and Pakeha third, ii. the Palmerston Handicap, Merry Monarch

meeti Sir William and Cceleno on 4lb worse terms each than at Kakauui, and this should bring them well together. I shall, however, phico them Mekht Moxabch, 1; Sir Willi aw, t 0| winner incurs a 71b penalty Jj ,r bbtt S valley Cup, which should fall to bin \Vn LIAM, 1; Merbv Mokauch, 2; Blue a - Pegasus.