SPORTING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1575, 7 December 1885, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

'ACCIDENT TO THE HORSE COMi ....... MOTION. . Auiong our Australian cable mesfagep last week was one that will be eagerly discussed by the sporting section of the community. The Hon. Mr Pearson offers £1006 reward for the discovery; .o$ the persons who wilfully injured his well-known racehorse Commotion- on ?6r about the 3rd of October last. , It jwill.be remembered that Commotion was backed for an enormous sum sf money to .■yiji the Melbourne Cup, being from thcisstrrof the weights for over three months nearly first favourite.- "He was ..alief* largely backed for the Caulfield CnD~ At the beginning of October his backer* were greatly alarmed by the intejligenee.. that be had put his foot m a hole whuV galloping, and was not likely te -start for i the Cauifield Cup. A few days after he: was scratched for that racei and subsequently for the Melbourne tJqp./^Er^a^ that time to this there has not been, Ik*" far as we have heard, any suggestion; made that foul play had anything to dj> . with the horse's disablement, but yes. today's message throws a new. and lnys-. | terious complexioiTupon the reported^^ cident. The magnitude of the reward. | may prove effective m bringing. to*lighfc.. another turf iniquity, all traces of whicb the perpetrators by this time, no doubt,, j had fondly imagined£were - successfully? i obliterated. — Post. . .