SPORTING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 45, 21 July 1885, Page 4

SPORTING NEWS.

RANGITIS&I HUNT CLUB STEEPLECHASE. ...

"" The following weights have beau'de- . clared.:*^- ' ;i ' I' ■ " : '■'•■' ■■'■'■ ■'•;•'• ->•'•• Handicap Steeplechase. — Totara, 12 10 ; Nukurau, 12 3 ; Arolia,ll j.Eticalyp- ' tvs, 11 ; (jazelle, 10 12 ; Interpreter/ 10 7 ; JLiUlo^D.ukis ,Uo l; Patent Safely, 10 Ladies' .Bi-aceiet.—tTotara, 13; Niik lira u, 12 5 ; Anarora, 1 1 7; . Arolm, 11 3; Gazelle, .11; Interpreter, 10 7; Jtlemlock, 10 7 ; Claygon, 10.

A curious match was-made at Epsom m 1,795 for a lOOgs between Mr . (j i;isewdod's '(lovse, ; Crop aud Air.; M. Hurria' roan. Crop was to g,o. a 10U miles before the roan went BQ. „ prpp rau his tirdt 20 miles m 'about' one 1 hour arid a minute but ftoin^ ronnd the eleventh time wa» 'neai-ly knocked tip. Tlie other was also .so tired that lie could not e-ven trot. After, this they walked round the course with their, riders on. their backs, people ;goijjg before with a v bowl of.oats and a *.h and fulof hay "to en t ice them on . By tlie time the roan had dot)ohisßo miles C|tip had only accomplished 94, and 1 consequently lost. ;

; 'The Duke of Bcaumonty -writing to an English sporting paper on the use jockeys "make of the whip-, says; V I am perfectly certain where one race is wou by a horse being floirgod, a. humired and .fifty are lost.?'. He ailso goes on to say that more- horses are ruined .by it than 'anything' else, two-year-olds espceial'y. . He says "there are only four jockeys m EuglaniJ who know how and when to use a whip m a close finish." I should Ilka some judge to tell me how there nre' m New Zeal and 1 , I •think these hack races show us-the most brutal use of the whip. Some b..y with neither head nor hands, finds himself on a half-bred aud" probably, half-lraiued h.ack ;at the half-mile, post ; -he : finds his liorse, never ma prominent position, dropping still further behind ; it is seldom that a half-bred horse comes up'-to the whip after the first two strokes, yet the boy. gets his whip out, whips ail the way home, doing no good, and prol-aMy punishing the horsey ;so that he b'-comes a coward and swerves the next time on the whip Being lifted m a close finish and gets done a head. ,1. suppose if the owner of the horse \yas to stockwhip the boy for a inilc, hewould b« had up for assault and 'heavily fined ; yet I fail to see why boys should be alloA'od to whip hopelessly beaten horses without being fined. Could ; not the jockey tltibs do this.and suspend the boy from riding .till he paid Ins.fine.— {l Grirth "m the VVanganui Herald. '"'