SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7710, 12 January 1905, Page 4

SPORTING.

XOTES, (By "Moturoa.") At thj close of the A.R.C. meeting Beau Scaton (Scaton Delav Q l_Ties Belle) was purchased by the Southern sportsman. Mr J. liucklev. The price is reported to be 250 guineas •Phaeton," writing j„ the New Zealand Herald, states he has received information from a Wellington correspondent to the effect that W. Itainuridgc, a well-known English trainer and jockey, arrived by the lomc, with his wife and family. He intends to settle in Auckland and to continue training and riding! inc season before last Bainbridgc trained 63 winners for Major Inwards, and'rode San Toy to victory in the Jubilee S'takcs, the Brighton Cup, and the Free Handicap at Newmarket. He has also trained and ridden for Captain Gordon. Multiform is putting up quite. an attractive record as a sire. So far six of his descendants have raced and they have all won. The winners are : Nightfall, Golden JLilv Ouidafonn, Multifid, Sungod, and Noctuiform. Mr J. Houlston has disposed of Up-to-date, the purchaser being Mr ». Lyons, a well-known and popular penciller 0 f Auckland, The price paid was 400 guineas. Up-to-Date is now quartered in J. R ac ' s establishment. Mr °' Brion ' s winS in stalf PS at tne A.R.C. meeting amount to £240 made up as follows :—Second Foal Stakes, £SO; second, Christmas Handicap, £ls ; first, Visitors' Plato i9O ; second, Midsummer Handicap £35 ; second, Royal Stakes, £SO. ' 'Thaeton" expresses himself in strong, terms over the Nightfall incident in the Derby, as the following extract will show :-The laxitv of the A.R.C. stewards in not holding an inquiry into the mishap that fccfell Mghtfall in the face of an allegation m a de that she was interfered with has formed the subject of much comment. The stewards were no douibt, waiting for a eomplaint to bo lodged, either by Mr Stead or Hewitt, and when such was not forthcoming they did not deem it necessary to move in the matter. It will, I think, be a pretty general opinion that, objection or no objection, it is the bounden dutv of the stewards to hold an inquiry when tliere is a case such as occurred during the running of the Great Northern Derby. Now and again racing stewards are quick to 'act on a question of reversal of form or when a jockey goes out in colours that are a. little faded ,- |„ lt j tl a case that might have involved the loss of life matters are allowed to quietly slip by without a word of inquiry. This procedure might be conceivable in the backblocks 'but at a meeting held on a metropolitan course one would expect to sec an inquiry quickly set on foot, so that there should be no grounds for an impression being formed that those in authority are lax in oversight