THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 130, 23 May 1908, Page 4

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

IUCLSU FIXTURES. M.*y --1 and aiigauui J.C. Winter. May and -•*). —Takapunu J.C. Winter Meeting. May 23 and 2~»,—North Otago J.C. W in ter. May 30, June It and 6.—A.U.C. Steeplech:'ne Meeting. Juno 17 and 18.—llawke"* Bay J.C. W into r. June 3 and I.—Duiu'diu J.C. Winter. TURF TOPICS. tßy "Moturoa.") Race* at Wauganui to-day and on Monday. The North Otago J. C. Winter meeting Uke*s place oil the same days.

The events at Wanganui have draun poor tiekU. but tliu kaik event-?, u-iul. have tHled well.

il.ihoe In-? I*ecn iu hi- old during tlft» week, and »eeins to liave got over the lejj troulde tliat ]»ut him off the Hnne after the W'angaimi winter meeting last year.

P. Johnson took I'aritutu to Auckland on Monday night. The gelding is looking very well, and after his display at Avondafe there is no doubt about lm ability to jump boldly. Be has a steadier to carry in the (jreat Northern Hurdles, bufc aU the same will carry a heap of Taranaki money when the day arrives.

The probable jockeys in the Wangamii Steeplechase arc: Xadador (J. o'Cyunell), Eurus (W. CConnell), Kangitoto (J. Hercock), .Kaipetipeti (J. Ilall), Itomany King (P. Und), Fretwork (\V. Higgins), Tilron (Oalbrnith). Canton (O. J. Pine), Cloudy Morn (J. Stanley).

IrMi was scratched f.»r all ongag*mw.s at the Auckland IJ.C. winter meeting during the wirk. Irish was one of the best performed of the jumping division and ran second to Merriwai last year in the Great Northern Hurdles, which race he won ia liX)5.

Jt transpires that -oviTiil errors occurred in the tr]<£r.i[n'jed )i-t of weight! for the miuor event- of tlit- Creat Northern meeting. The following: corrections are notifiedln tin' Members' Handicap Ilia ha'. weight i- S<t. 41b., Wailum's Bst. 1 !!>.. ami Sou!',maid's S.-i. lib. In the Jcrvois Handicap Waima 8«t. lib. slioaid have read Dainty S»t. lib., and in tic same rare the name Glenore (8s t.) appeared instead of Elenore (Bst.).

A link with the pa<t! Carbine's old pilot. I!. Ramage. rnde Littii Mary when she won a race at the W.'-tralian A.T.C. meeting at Perth on Saturday week. Some of these old jockeys seem to got through a suppo-cd dangerous exi-tewe just in time to qualify for the Old Age Pension. The most noticeable of the veterans in the Dominion is 1!. IJerrett, who rods a winner at Christ church a few weeks ago.

Asked qa to whether Fleetfoot was the best two-year-old he had bred. Sir Ceorgc Clifford replied that -iie was not equal to Kirriemuir. -

L. 11. Hewitt started the season Weil in Kngland by riding a couple of winners last month. lie was up on SandUith in the Longliehl Spring Foal .Stakes, and landed the outsider a vomtortable winner from live others. His next winnins ride was at Cat wick, where he piloted a tilly bv Forfarshire—- • Ironies 11. first past lite po-t in the Tno\ rsr-eld Stakes. The winner started at a good price. Thk, season Hewitt is first jockey for Colonel HallWalker. and second for W. Cilpin's stable. He will also ride fur Day and ('. Wuugh. Hewitt is coming to Australia <|B a holiday trip at the end of the year, and will be accompanied by Crigs:* and Dillon, two well-known Knglish riders.

Lord Lurgan, writing ill M.A.I'., -ays that when he wa s in the Ouard- his chief recreation was racing. Among the horse rt he owned was Acme. This animal was engaged in and heavily back'd for the Lincolnshire Handicap of ISs'.i. whirl) Wise Man, 4yr-., 7.5., won. lieat ing twenty-five rivals. • Shortly beforthe race," his lordship savs. " I was astonished to receive a letter from my trainer. Sherrard. raying he had lieen expecting to receive written confirmation of my telegram to liiin ordering him to stop Acme in his work, and asking what were now my intentions in re garrl to "the horse. Of course. I had never sent any telegram of the kind—indeed. having already I.OKI Acme for .C.ViOtl to go to Buenos Ayres. I had no power t" interfere—and the whole thin_> was a dicing swindle. I'mortiinately 1 fciiccf'ssful one. too; for Sherrard had olwved the forged telegram, and although Acme ran a great race, and was beaten by half a length only, the four days' stoppage of work was fatal to wliat would otherwise have been an 'absolute certainty.' However, three days later the horse won the Liverpool Cup in a canter. I had a shrewd idea of the perpetrator of this fraud, but it w .1-impo-sible to prove anything, and the rascal and his confederates made a -übatantial haul."

were journryiiij; lioiii»* by rai[ from a provincial meetinj:. aud alter discussing " the stiffs " aud "the triers,' and what \ve "should have hacked il fronirltody hadn't put us olT.'' tire couversatioa turned on the Maori as a

M spoit,' and it was almost unanimou-ly admitted that Jack Maori, or the r part of hini, to lx* on the safe side, wand a true sport, hut played the game, like l'hil May's card-harpers "for all they knew." The short mau in the brown felt hat told a fearful lie about what he h*d seen done on a Maori racecourse, and ventured tin* opinion that a fellow had to beat the Maori's hor-e by a full two length* or the judge would give it a dead beat. Of course, we di--believtd him, and in consequence ouj*

vehemeiit endorsement of the liar's I'abrieatiun sounded rather ik-hy. "] in*n the tall man iu the corner >tivt:hcd biuiself, and languidly a-kej. - Ant o' hlokes ever K«eu to race- at V. ai p:ro Flat!" We admitted that Waipiro Flat had never been grated by our presence. ** Well, down there.'* -aid the ftiranger, "they're hot -tulf. Saw on • day there about the -wifte-t TarbiueV day.'' We vu up and sinoke 1 bird. The tall man llickexl the a»-h olf his cigarette and continued. " Tli.-p----were hilf a dozen starter* in the cup that day, and two triers." "Two trier-!'' we «asped. for mo>t we saw j»o- - one trier. "Ve-. two triei>," he repeated, "a Maori-owned prad named Blue Fire aud Sandy ( hap mau'- lhimt Cake. Fire wa- -ho* out six lengths when the llag fell, and came into the straight with a g»nl bed. but I'lirnt Cake wa- pu-hing hi- le a l through the atnnft-phere at a great Kite and v..i- catching the Maori nag hand over H-t. At the di-tati'e J'iue lae began to fail, and the Scot-Iriteu - }•■- try looked "good good-.'' It wa- a m-M exciting finish, and jK-rhap- the u; ■ L excited on the <t>ur-+' wa-re tlrjthtgf and the man who h' Id uj> l'>" vinning post. These two colored gentlejnen had backed the Dago prad for all thev held, and their consternation wh**n t Ih»v saw the Avhich threatened their plan* wa* wonderful to -e:-. T' »\v went quite mad. "Jty eorrv.' v..ii!"d the judge to hi- pa! a< ro- th-- tr. k 4 1 think it IMue Fire get la-.it.* *H- no goot thr stayer.' shrinked the man tin* pwt. eiJging down the cour-e. "I loosetii tree "quid.- * ISIuo Fire «fry time; rdiouh'd the judge, in «vn_' a I"' \ard- in thi* same direeiioii. * I'tie

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