SPORTING NOTES

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 April 1884, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES

♦ Notes bt " Pbocton." The prompt and decisive action taken by the stewards of .the Jockey Club in connection with the "Gundagai" swindle deserves every praise. The owner of " Sundown " seems to have foolishly allowed his horse to be used by those who perpetrated the swindle, without knowing the class of men he was dealing with or thinking for a moment that the horse was being made use of for anything but fair racing purposes. He was fully exonerated by the stewards, but still I cannot help thinking that if hahad^displayed a little more energya-nnd decision when he knew his horse waslentered'in a wrong name, a great deal of trouble might have been saved, and the gro»nds**fox% . suspicions, which certainly exist in tome people's minds, as to the extent the gentlemen referred to was implicated, Would have been removed. ':*•''■ ■'•■'.■•?,/.•-"'.'■". The disqualification of Wood;^connection with the same affair, was un- - doubtedly a just act. Mr Wood, of course, pleads his innocence, but . his pleadings are of a very contradictory nature, and he seems to thmk he should get off because he mad e nothing out^bf it. That, I take it, is his fault, and doeffciot establish his innocence, although it* says something for his foolishness. The.evidence connecting him with the affair was, I hear, perfectly clear and unquestionable. It is to be hoped the other partie£will be brought to justice. "flfc Mr Scott's application for a rehearing of the Armourer-Ahua case was- refused^ and properly so. Mr Scott's reason for making the applicaticn was that he had not sufficient time allowed to collect evidence. This was not considered' a sufficiently good reason, because on Mr Scott's own suggestion the case wafeheard two hours earlier than the time at first fixed upon. The stakes have been paid to Armourer. • ' Last evening's Manawatu Times is good enough to take notice of one of my notes which referred to the late Turakina meeting, in which I stated a swindle was worked in the Hack Hurdle Race. The Times states tbe race in question , was cleverly won by Sir William, which is perfectly correct but rather stale news, as it was reported in tbe Feildino Stak some weeks ago. It is news, though,, to hear that Sir William ran in the Maiden Hurdles at Wanganui, as no horse of that name was entered for the event. Ido rest assured tbat *** turf swindlers" will have less consideration at the hands of the editor of the Times than at mine. This is natural, as no one ever received any consideration at his hands nntes's a large advertiser. The Feiloin<j Stab is not "my orcan," as this gentleman calls it. I shonld like this tb be known, as"T hate misleading people. My chief inter, est in that organ is the few thousands a year I get for writing these notes.