SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 150, 19 July 1901, Page 2

SPORTING.

RACING CONFEKBNOK. PSK PRUSS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, July 18. The Racing Conference opened today. The Ciiairnoao, ia his report, stated th.it U'e curren l ; season gavo tnary evident s of iujreasing popularity o c tlio Kpo.f, and of the determination of racing authorities to improve it by the suppression of abu os, Their eft' rfs bad been geueral'y conducive to pu'ity of the tuif. Tho Cieferencfi had issuad a stud boolr, for which the account showed a dobit balance of £2q against stock in hand valued at ,£350. : With the fxcept : on of one c'ub in Auckland, two in Canterbury, and | throe in Qtago, there hid been a total : abolitiou of the five per cent, deduction | from stakes. The narrow escape of i the perpetrators of the Ethel firuds i from criminal punishment s-ems to j have ended such at'empts in this colony, but the renewal in Australia of similar opeiations shows how com--1 plct'ly justified the Conferjr.ce was in institut : ng the prosecution. He warned horse-owners of the dacger of negligence in complying with rules relating to registration of partnerships, i Duiing tho ye»r 62 clubs increased their totalisator business, and 18 had I fallen off. In connection with tha d'st tributioa of s'akes of clubs mon'iooed .last year, Pahiatua, S.ratford, EiverJton, Foxton,and, pre-emiueotly, Avon- ! had subitintially increaxf d their prize'. 1 Pafcta atao did si, but is now required, under rule 8, to m .ke further iidditiocs. The Takapuna and ilarton Clubs, as i era'ofore, were conspicuous for want of liberality. . Th<» report ar d balance sheet for the , Conferei C 3 f r tho yea-, end«d July Bth l.i-t, shi»ing a cridit buhnce of X 124 6s 20d. Wits adopt.d. Mr. Friedlau ier g»ve notice ef motion for a committer coneisung of r>ne d'l-gat* fro'u each Metropolitan Club, with thfl Chairman of the Conference »s convenor and member of committee ex officio, to beset up to consider the >'isp >eal of the funds standing to. the C'edit of the Trainers and Joskeys Provident Fund. A petition was received from a large t number of horse trainers asking for better cnncessiocs for travelling on the Government linrs. Petitioners asked that instead of the present rates they should be charged half fares each way when travelling to race meetings. . The Conference decided to lay the matter before the Minis'er of Railways. W. H. Fergus, ap injured jockey, applied for compansition, Mr. Pvtrie explained that applicant was t iojurei twoy. ars ago when the Nelson C.iib was a Metropo'itan Club. The Greymouth Jockey (Jlub hid bsen unable to find out. what had btcjme of the Nelson Club's DUtr>.ss-d Jockeys : Fund.—The m itter whs reft-rred to the Nek m Jockey Club's del' g >te for informition. 1 hu consideration of d ttes and totalbat r permits submitted by the Secretaries of Clubs for meetings during the forthcoming season was submitted to tbe fo'lowiog committ-e to repirt:— , Mess s Alieoo, Ftie lhnde", McVay, Mil er, and Nolan. The Tsrataiii Jockey Club's proposal to set up a committee ti be appointed far the purpose of preparing rules of racing w#s lost. The proposal of the Tarati-ki Jcckey Club that all races ither than handicaps shall be considered weight for age events was withdrawn.

The Osago County Olub's proposal to reduci the stuke limit from £l5O to £l2O per day was withdrawn. The Ofaj,o Ocunty Club's propped further imecdm-'rit that clubs should be allowed to give £3O of their s'akes in trotting even's was negatived. The Wellington Raeicg Club's proposed addition tj rub 13, giving ; stewards tlu power to review the running of a h >rse 14 days prior or subsequent (o any meeting being h Id was wirhdniwn. On behalf of Country Clubs, Mr. Nolin moved that tha mioimum wa'ght be altered from 6st. 71bs. to 7st. ill'. Bidsvill stated the 7sfc. minimum had been t'ied by the Wairarapa Racing Club, and it wis found that good horses were overweighted. The amendment was negatived. Mr. McLean's (Dunedin Jockey ' j üb) motion that the season for writer ve ; ghts in flat races be faltered from June 30th to September Ist was negatived. • The Au kland Racing Club asked that the gilding allowance be increased from 31ba to slbs. A committee was appointed to del with the matter. The Taranaki Jockey Club's motion that no Club d duct five per cent from the stakes was objected to by Mr. McLean. The Chairman expre-sed the opinion that so long as a Club gave the amount of s'akes in accordance with the rules clu v >s cautd deduct more than five per cent. The amendment was negatived. The Wanganui Couttiy Clu' r s moved that the amount to be wen by hacks before being debarred from competing in such races be incre-sad from 150 to 250sovs. When the ru'e was pass-d the stakes wrre less than at present. The mo'ion w»s supported, out the proposal was negatived. An addition to Rule 51 was moved by the Chairman, providing that th<> name prop;sed for any horse must be egisteied with the secretary of the rac.ng club, was carriedjwitfcout discus sit n. The Well'iigton Racing Club moved lo Hdd to Rule 59 that no ass'imcd name shall ba registered foi' any part-o'-rship or association of owners.— Agreed to. The Conference agreed that the Chairman's ruliog that all horses in wliich orie owner was interested shou'd bj bracketed in the totalizator be added t j the ropott of the proceedings of the Conference and circulated among clubs. The Taranaki Jockey Club move'! to amend rule 62 to read " stewards may prevent a horse from starting, if all fdf a are lo t > paid. A mot on by the Taranaki and Hawk s 13.y Clubs to amend rule 142, cluiS'3 3, to ttrike out the word " owter" was agreed to. A motion to remove tho registration of apprentices from tha office of the Jon fere nco to the Jockey Clubs wes uega'ivod. A proposal to ccmpel owners to te fined for not running a hor.e in the colours named tt the time •f entry was negatived. A mo!ion by the Wanganui Country Clubi abjlishing the fee of XI fur gentleman riders' certificates was postpon.-d. Captain Russell's proposed amendment to rule 156, that no hurdle race shall be utidor a mi!e and three quarters was negatived, i

WELLINGTON ACCEPTANCES,

WELLJNOTON, Ju'y 18. Acjeptances for the Bccocd day's races Hutt; Flying.—Odtiak 11.0, Sylvia

Park, Sundial 10.7, Tukapa 10.5, Aide-1 de-Camp 10.0, Lody's Link, Rebtl, Indian Shoi 9.7, Regret, Maro, Osborne, Ngaparu 9.0. Spcand Hack aod Hunters' Steeplechase.—Lochade 11.13, Pukana 11.9, Sultana 10 9, Mangatara 10 4, Unravelled 10 3, Fiying Colours, Snapshot, Sam Slick 9.7. Winter o»t«.—Crusoe 12.4, Ruatnahung* 10.7, Tigress 10.6, Sundial 10 4, Sylvia Park 10.2, Tulcapa 10.0, Daphne 9.11, Wbitirea 97, Indian Sh >t 9.5, Rigs, Watnrford 9.0. | Final Hurdles.—Hotu 11.7, Haydn 11.4, Darring otte 10 7, Right Metal, Hairt'igger 10 2, Rodara 9.12, Stockade 9.7. July Steeplechase. Wnitio 11.6, Nipapu 11 0, Straybird 10.12, Opaku 10.9, Hairtrigger 10.4, Hinau 9.11, Hutana 9.7. Final Hack Handicap.—Marianthus, 10.11; Moturna, 10 9; Cornet, Kidbrook, 10.5 ; GrteDslwve, 10.2 ; First | Light, 10.0; Raukura, 9.11; General Wolfe, 9.7; Hortoo, 9.6; Ra«ma, Ocean, 9 5 ; Tutuo, 9.3 ; Gunfeldt, 9.2; The Pearlar, Bjnne Esperance, Notoriety, Emplajer, Cobra, Greygowo, | Waitoa, Velocity, Leinster Las', 9.0.