SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 149, 15 June 1908, Page 3

SPORTING.

HORSES FATALLY INJURED. ' % Association. Iveceivcd June lj. 0.-lj a.m. .... , Melbourne, June 14. ihe horses Comic und Penguin re cmed iatal injuries i„ lh , taulllol, Stii-plc-hase yesterday. KACIN<7jN~ENIiLAND. London, June l:j. ihe .Manchester Utip race resulted:ship V' 1 " '' All -> M'fi-"' Court Tl'liF TOI'IUS,

. ■ (H.V "iloliirou.'-j (uneilorm, who was sold bv the late |i'. C. (.. Stead to Mr. 11. Patterson , sun ha, bee,, sent to the stud in Neiv Sou h W ales Cuneiform was a rank l ; ;,.'" Al| stialia, but won ninny «eigll-|o,, a .c races in the Domini,,,', as a two iimt three-year-old. Although he lias been oil' the scene tor a couple of months, Hen Deeley's record „| 58 winning riaes still holds lop place. Jhe Ponrtia horseman J!, latch is run,,,,,. we ll U p in second place with 4(1 wins. Sid. lieid and F F •Jones have each piloted 43 winners; Luke W ilson 41, and A. Olli.vcr ;i7 Swimming Belt seems to have lost all form, and ran very badly at Otaki. | Wkhh .Swift, who won ihe City and Suburban Handicap last month, holds a good record in tnai event, lie lias won it twice, and was twice in a place helium Ihe winner.

Jockey !•'. K. Jones ],.„| a n , ulolV t . b cape from a nasty acc-idem ivnen mounting SliiiiiiiiiT i„ the Trial Handicap at DuiK-diii. Jiay U,»iu lashed uul and caught hmi in the face. Fortunately the kick was somewhat spent hv the time Jones -faced" it, and nothing'more serious tliitn a swollen jaw resulted. "Whalebone," of the Auckland Star, comments thus on the hi- Klicrslii ""■die race: -"Considerable argument "as arisen as to which was the lirst I lorse to fall in the (irar.d -National Hurdles. From the i'nss stand it looked "" 'I Aorangi had a slight advauU"c of , "";" i i »'I'"U they came to the jump, "lid thai the f0r,,,,.,- f,.|l )iM . Ju yersat.on with the riders of these two Horses I gathered that Aorangi was about a neck in front of Omati when they came to the hurdle, and was the first to rise. Omati, however, blundered right into the fence, and in falling struck Aorangi, fetching him down, while l'aritutu, who was close behind, to|>|iled over I hem."

Oimax lias been tried over tin- small sticks at Hawera, and shapes well for a beginner. Of the lioncs engaged i n ij,,, n ;l »| u .'s Bay Steepleelia.se, all, with the exception of Uk-Ii Fvne and .Miss King, were working at Hastings during last week. I Pierre li;t, arrived at Hastings and l'"d<s in good condition to tackle liis ilawkc's JSjy and .\apier I>ark engagements. The steeplechaser llullwortli, wlio showed promising form at Takapuna and at K]|ers| ! e. is now owned liv Air. A. 1\ Douglas, of Ilawke's Kay. ' In the t'ity and Suburban 'Handicap, won by JJean Swift, the third horse, Snow Leopard, was ridden bv J,. 11. Hewitt. The ex-New Zealande'r Nightfall earried 7.0, was quoted at forlorn odds, and finished second to last.