SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 19 January 1923, Page 3

SPORTING.

FOXTON JUBILEE MEETING. To-morrow and Monday, January 20 and 22, the Foxton Club will hold their annual meeting, and, being the sixtieth year of racing in that part of the Mana- j watu district, the fixture will be known ! as the Foxton Diamond Jubilee Meeting (1863-1923). This being so, it is ' needless to add that there will be keen interest taken in this particular meet- , ing by old and present-day residents of | this coast, many Of whom make this meeting the annual re-union of old { friendship. Th Club's grounds lend i themselves admirably as an enjoyablo picnic spot, and the Club always sup- f plies ample hoi water for everyone who .' care to avail themselves thereof. The

course being conveniently situated, and easily asscssiblc both by road and railway (the trains pull up directly opposite), tkcic will, no doubt, be a record crowd to participate in the 1923 jubilee meeting. Secretary Freeman states that all arrangements are well in hand, and that the races will be got off well to time, so that every one of its patrons will be enabled to catch tho outgoing trains. Following the decision of the Wanganui District Committee Club, the complimentary tickets have been cut out but that to cope with this end. the charges have been reduced accordingly to both ladies and gentlemen to lawn and saddling paddock.

Great interest centres in the Foxton races which open to-morrow. Local owners arc well represented and their horses should run well. Probate, unfortunately, is a bit sore after her southern trip and is not expected to run up to expectations. The Feilding horseman, Win, Young, left last week for Levin, where he will in future reside. It is more than probable that Young will set up as a train er at the latter place. It is reported that Ashley Reed intends disposing of his Trcutham property and taking up his residence in Auckland.

F. Cress, who has been an inmate of the Pukeora Sanatorium for the past seven months, has left that institution and intends taking up the profession of trainer again.

During his stay in England Mr V. Riddiford purchased a valuable gold cup, which he has presented to the Wellington B.C. for a race to be decided on. At a recent meeting of the stewards of the club, Mr Riddiford was elected a life member.

J. Olsen, who, it will be remembered, met with a severe accident through Signysiau coming to grief with him while contesting in the Omahu Hack Hurdles at the Napier Park meeting of 1921, is in a .fair way to be able to again follow his profession.

A good many Feilding sports would like to know the wherabouts of one gentleman who vanished after the second day of the recent Marton meeting.

It is understood that horses sent to the West Coast for the holidaymeetings ate expected to earn their oats anJ '. ' velliug expenses during the seven days' racing. Balefire. Demonstrate, and Bestir were the hardest worked. Balefire started in 11 raes;, for three firsts and one third, and Demonstrate a similar number of times for two firsts ard ons second. Bestir had 10 recesj in whiqh he was first past the past in one, and in the second place on no fewer than seven occasions.

The Greymouth Jockey Club refunded nomination and acceptance fees to Mr J. Barr, the owner of Sir Huon, the horse having met with fatal injuries on the opening day of the club's recent meeting. In addition, the stewards decided to give Mr Barr a cheque for £lO to partially recompense him for his loss.

Horses carrying the colours of his Majesty won stakes last season to the value of 4419.

The racehorses Danger Zone and Roefield were shipped to Sydney on Friday by the Marama. An old time horseman and trainer. W, Kraft, was a visitor to the summer meeting at Tauherenikau. He is now located at Feilding. He won the Wairarapa Cup on Laertes in ISSO, and had not been to the Tauherenikau course since. In his day they ran the opposite way to the way they do now. and raced through a clump of bush. Needless to say, he noticed great changes in the appointments. Mr Kraft is one of the ■ few living who saw Ladybird -win the first champion race in New Zealand —60 j years ago. It was the first thousand j pounds' stake in the Dominion, the dis- j tance being three miles. Ladybird was j owned by the late Mr H. Redwood, and | ridden by his lat-e son "Joe." Ladybird was bred by the late Major Morse. then a resident of Nelson. Advices to hand from Melbourne ere- ) dit Eurythmie with training on spleri- , didly, and strong are ' tU\t '' the chestnut'' will be in a position to" meet Beauford in his best j form when the weight-for-age races come up for decision in the autvmim I The success of Scion in both the New Zealand Cup and the Auckland Cup, draws, attention to the fact that in 1592 St. Hippo won both race:. In I 190 i Warstep won the Auckland Cup and e'esd-beated with Indigo in the New Zealand Cup. There were three New Zealand-bred winners at the VSclcris pony meeting, in Sydney, on PceemWi 30th. Merry Knight, an nUurc'ly-named three-year-old ally, by Mountain Knight from Merry Gain, won the opening event, the first division of the 14.1 handicap Mistress Biddy, a six-year-old mare, by Luculious from Lady Neville, won the third division of the Flying Handicap, and Nola, a four-year-old filly, .by Thurnham from Flagship, accounted for th& first division of the 14.2 handicap.

Girtoa Girl (Linacre —Miss Arlington), tee winner of the second division of the December Nursery Handicap and tb-e December Stak?r st Randwick, is a »ist«j to Acre. The lziiit was- x very

useful performer, and given a chance may prove a success at the stud. Another son of Linacre, in Garlia, has pleased the Australian critics, his stock being specially promising. Girton Girl was bought as a yearling for 500 guineas. I C. Emerson still holds the peak as 1 fhe most successful jockey in the Doi minion at the present time. The Eiecarton horseman during this season has ' been riding in his best form. He is a delicate chap, and for the greater portion of last season was not enjoying j the best of health. Apparently (say? an exchange) he is now in the best of I health, to judge by his many successes I during the past season. J. Olsen, who met with a severe accident through Signysian coming to grief •with him while contesting the Omahu I Hack Hurdles at the autumn meeting

[ of. the Napier Park Racing Club in March of 1921, is in a fair way to b„> able to again follow his profession. The stallion Elysian was recently ; I numbered among the defunct. Elysian, ' who was got by Soult from the Cadogan marc Dreamland, ■won marked distinction in the spring of his three-year-old career, his captures at that period including the Avoudale Guineas, Hawke 's Bay Guineas, Champion Plate, New Zealand Derby, and Canterbury Cup. He then soured of racing and his refusal to gallop was of such a pronounced character that it was deemed useless to go on with him. When Mr H. R. Mackenzie established the Ascot stud he bought Elysian, and on the dispersal of that collection some four years back no one appeared to want Elysian, even at 100 guineas. Elysian subsequently went to Mr H. G'aisford 's estate in Hawke's Bay. The following were the principal winning o*.»)rrs at the Pahiatua meeting: j Mr J. M. Durie, £220; Mr C. Erickson, £200; Mr T. Higgins, £145; Mr L. H. Oollinson, £100; Mr C. W. Boyd, £105; Mr A. C. Plummer, £100; Mr G. D. Bcatson, £BS. At the Foxton Racing Club's Diamond Jubilee meeting, to-morrow, in the birdcage, immediately after the race for tho Diamond Jubilee Cup (1863-1923), the owner of the winning horse will be presented with the very handsome cup, valued at forty-five guineas, donated by" the Manawatu racecourse trustees. The trainer of the winner will receive a pair of racing binoculars, donated by the executive of the Manawatu Licensed Victuallers' Association, and the jockey will be given a handsome gold-mounted whip, by Mrs Walter Kirkland, Whyte's Hotel, Foxton. On the second day the rider of tho winner in the President's Handicap will receive a jockey's whip presented by Mr H. D. Mclver, and the rider of the Apprentices' Hack Handicap will receive a similar trophy, the donor being Mr C, Price, of Sanson.