SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 August 1907, Page 4

SPORTING.

I'aritnln figures an an entrant tor the Trial Hurdle liaee, to be run on the opening day of the C.4.C. meeting. As a victory in that event would entail 711) additional for the (fraud Hurdle Itaee is i» hardly iikely that his party will regard the position sufficiently tempting to start him. ° The New Zealand-bred horse, Xoctuitform, was sent out favorite for the Ascot Stakes event, hut the best he could do was to finish fourth. A sporting critic writes: "Noetuiform, it was reported, had at last found his •form,* so it was said—form which caused him to leave Australasia amid the regrets of many good sportsmen, who were deeplysorry that such a good horse had goue out ..." Ihe country. Month has sueceed- • I month, and Mr Iluchanan has waited •a vaiu lor Xuctniform to 'show himself.' It may he said that yesterday he certainly gave promise that in "the near future we may see the horse that the Australians did. He ran with any amount of tire and dash, and finished fourth. He looked so well in himself, too, and after Golden Measure's victory m the Vase, many were not slow to accept the pointer." Noetuiform was ridden by L. Hewitt.

The committee of the Victorian Uacing Club, instead of "registering" bookmakers, as formerly, now merely grants them a "permit" to bet. The'paddock men are provided with leatherette laliels, ii|>on which is printed among other matters—-Permit to Ret." Bookmakers on the flat liad nothing to indicate whether they had a permit or not. There are two betting rings on the flat, says a Melbourne writer, one opposite the weighing enclosure and the other beyond the grandstand lawn, and to each there is a telephone, as well as another on the hill, so that in case of dispute or trouble the authorities in the paddock may be communicated with. Mr Rieliard Croker's congratulations on winning the Derby with Orby did not end with those showered on him in Kngland, and it is doubtful if any were more appreciated than the welcome he received on returning to Ireland. He was enthusiastically cheered from the train to his residence at Glencairn, outside which brass and other lands played for several hours during the small hours of the morning; whjle the gathering crowd cheered. Mr (Jroker made a speech, in which he thanked the crowd for their welcome, and, of course, hoped there, would be many more similar Occasions for rejoicing. Though most sporting writers were agreed that Orby won the Derby on his merits, one noted authority wrote that had Higgs given Slieve (fallion a chance—that is to say, not sent him along as if he stayed for ever—and handled him neatly round the corner, he would nave won the Derby. The riding, he says, was deplorable.