RACING.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1923, Page 1

RACING.

[ay telegram:—per press association.] DERBY RACE, JAJNDON. June 0. Over a quarter of a million witnessed the Derby. The Prince of Wales received a great ovation. The weather was showery. For the first time in j its history, the race \\ as won by a tenant farmer, named Irish, who pur- I chased Papyrus as a yearling in R)2l j for 3500 guineas. Steve Ponoghue ! rode t.ie winner, and thus accomplish- ! ed the unparalleled feat of winning j three consecutive Derbies, making five I ko his credit since 1910. Walker, an j Australian jockey, rode Partli, while I Gardner rode Pharos. Xownguard, the j favourite, who finished 13th., was j never prominent. There were 19 start- j

From tlie out ranee of the straight the race resolved itself into a desperate and prolonged duel between Papyrus and Pharos. The latter headed Papyrus slowly below tlie entrance, but this effort exhausted him. and Papyrus then forged ahead, and won by a length. 'l'he third horse was a length and a half away. Time 2..‘!5. ‘ Sporting Life" interviewed Walker, I "ho said : “.My first ride ill the Derby "as lint quite as enjoyable as 1 eould have wished. I’arth was moving well forward, but for some unexplained reason, probably due to the rising of the tapes, he stuck his toes into the ground, and seemed disineliued to move. Tile leader must have been 20 lengths ahead before I’arth set off. lie failed to overtake much of the lost ground, until well into the home line. Mere he began to gain rapidly. Me moved so freely that I had just a remote hope that he would get up, though the winning post seemed ten near. Hut lor the lost ground at the start. 1 feel jretty sure that he would have won. .AN Al’l’KAl. SrtCKKMS. ( MKISTCIU.IUII, June 7, ’flic judges appointed by Mie Raring Conference, Sir Geo. t liflord and Messrs Geo. Gould and H. L. Lane, have given their decision in regard to ihe appeal of George Paul, owner of the |-,<i'rso Signature, against the dis-

(|ii:iliiiciil inn ol' that horse, consequent ;11 >tin the disqualification til" •!. A. C }•'!t• 111i1 1 u‘. previous part owner of the lior.se. The appellant statrtl that he pur-lin-ed the horse Signature from ('. K. Walker, previous part owner, with I l '!i■ min<i‘, in p«:>rfor-11 y good faith, and without any knowledge whatever that a breach of the rules of racing; had been committed by Fleming prior to the dale of the sale of the horse. Fleming was, some months after the sale of the horse to Paul. disqualified for a term of three years from .March loth, liii’.'l, for corrupt practices committed by him on or about October Id and IT 1021.

The judgment, after sotting ont the facts, is as follows: —“Though the Judges are reluctant to make any except ion in the .stringent enforcement of the Useful rule of disqualifying horses owned hy a disqualified person at the time of his offence, yet., after

examining the papers in connection with the purchase of 1 lie ..horse, Signature on May I, 1020, hy (too. i’aul. and being satisfied that (ten. I’aul purchased the said horse Signature in good fait It from If. Walker, former part owner with J. A. C. Fleming, of the liot'sc, we therefore order the removal of the disqualification of the said horse Signature, ns from the date of purchase hv (too. Pan! from C. F. Wtilker and J. A. C. Fleming. We direct the deposit to he refunded to appellant."

BOMB LN A GARDEN. LONDON, April 5. A mysterious explosion occurred ill the lligldields district of Sheffield on Tuesday night when a bond), believed to have been flung either from the rear of Grosvenor-Square or from ■Shnrrow-strcet, a by-road, exploded In front of Dr G S. Davidson’s Residence which stands in its own grourjds in a thickly populated district. The bomb was stopped by trellis I work, but the force of the explosion shuttered garden frames and shook the windows of neighbouring houses. | It was in the Iliglifields district that I on Thursday last a bomb exploded out- j side a shopkeeper’s promises, and it j was in the Bole Hill-road district that j a Mills hand grenade wars found on | Tuesday in a garden allotment.