SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

RACING IN AUSTRALIA. Received 15th, 0.38 p.m. Melbourne, July 15. Lion Heart has been allotted 1u.5 In the Caullicld National Hurdle, and Swimmer 10.4 in the National Steeplechase. TURF TOPICS. General Soult, liie rising two-year-.oid ' full brother to Mamlial Sunk, has been broken in some lime; but he is not to be hurried, and it is cjuiL' possible tint his ouners will let him miss all bis eary engigenients as a youngster. I lioniform, the two-year-old full brother to Sungod, who has not carried, silk since he won the Breeders' l'l ite in September last, is again in work, and according to advices to hand he looks in capital nick for the time. It was only last month that .1. 11-iIT had his jockey's license restored by tlu' English Jockey Club, and it is not unlikely that Orby in the Derby was the first winner under ihe new p.rmit. iteitt' once before held a license under the English Jockey Club, but Ml foul of the authorities.

Charlie -J.nkins, tlie well-known jockey, received an injury at Bulls lewntly, and tho matter was explained by his friends saying he fell on a scythe while skylarking. It is understood that

! the police have been investigating the matter, and it is alleged that Jenkins received the injury during a (brawl. Fuil inquiries are to be made into the question, and if any offence has been committed more will be heard of the affair.

At a meeting to be held in Buenos Ayres in IStIO, the Argentine Jockey Club's programme will iuelude a race worth JC20,000. Under thj circumstances Argentine buyers are likely to give high prices for good English performers the year prior to that event being decided.

It is stated to be probable that 11. J. .Mason will make an early move to N<iw Soutn Wales with several of Mr Stead's horses-

A Bkin disease has broken out among horses at Fietuington, and there is a fear that it will become an epidemic. The disease at first appears in tie form of boils widen spread all over iue lioree's body, and eventually bre.ik. But the horses continue to work and eat as li nothing unusual had happcued to them.

At Pari*, in May, William Carver, an old-time English jockey, died as the result of an attack made upon him by French roughs. Carver was one of the first Eng.ish jockeys to ride in Prance, and in 1873 won the prench Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris on Botard. The nine-year-old stallion Australian Colors (The" Australian Peer—Colors), who had not previously raced since competing at Chester in May, 1904, was a runner for the principal race at Rosehill last month. Despite his years, he looked well, but finished last.

Since the suppression of the bookmakers in France there has been a trcmend ous increase in totalifiator betting, and at the commencement of June, though j the racing season had barely commenced, the Minister of Agriculture announced that the turnover since the commencement of the year was £1,000,000, or £640,000 more than had been put through during the whole of the preceding year. The gate-money returns had increased in like proportion, being £114,000 for four months, as against £lO2, 400 for the whole of 1900.