SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 June 1920, Page 3

SPORTING.

Tlie stewards of the .Foxton Racing Club have decided to agree to the 7st minimum as suggested by the Dunedin Club, and have appointed .Messrs W. T. Jewell and Leu Freeman delegates to attend the conference of Now Zealand [ Country Racing Clubs, to be held at I Wellington. The Horowlienua Racing Club has made appiisation to hold their annual race meeting on January 26th. The Foxton Club will hold their meeting on January 2-nd H. Goldfinch sustained a fractured loot owing to being pressed on the rails while riding tit Otaki, and he is not likely to be seen in the saddle for some little time. It is stated that the Fliers He horseman has been offered a j retainer to ride for a prominent .Southern owner. The following resolution lots been passed bv a special meeting of the I eoininillee of the Hawke's Bay Jockey , i ‘ini, : —“That in the opinion of this committee the sport of racing cannot I l«o continued while there is a regis- . tcrod jockeys ’ union, but that the rca- j sonable ami proper representations of a jockeys’ association placed before the Conference in proper terms should . receive the fair and full consideration of the chairman and members, and that every effort should be made to meet any reasonable demands of the jockeys I bearing on their conditions of employ- j meat, and that in this respect the con- j fercnce may rely on the whole support of the committee in any action it nu) i t a ke. ” ’ Arch Lassie is a recent, addition to t Oxenham’s string at Levin. She is to i >e spelled for a while and put into tomnission for spring racing. * A deputation from I lie Levin Racng Club will shortly wait on the Prime I s d mister and request a two-days’ meet- J i ng. . I ’ Parcwnnui has been scut 1 rom Otaki | s Oxeiihalll’s stables, ami will spurt e olours at the Napier Jneetiug. I b