SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 143, 14 July 1909, Page 3

SPORTING

STIPENDIARY STEWARDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. n.u , r l>illme ''s'°n North, Tuesday. Ihc Manawatu Racing Club decided not to support the stipendiary steward proposal unless these officials are anpointed by the Racing Conference and tile practice made, more universal. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa"). ■•Maidi has been scratched for all' cngageineiiUj m tm , Wellington Rutin" Ui.'.j's winter meeting.—Press wire. ° The Wellington winter meeting opens on Saturday. The double appears to ue very hard to pick this time, and good odds are offered against all combinations.

Bully, Uriah, Cymri, North Head, Le Beau, Scotty, and Ben Johnson passed through New Plymouth on Monday, c:i routo for Trentham. Waihuka left for Wellington the same morning. Paritutu was to liave accompanied the San Fran gelding, but the old veteran pulled up lame after galloping with Waihuka 011 Saturday morning.' Waihuka is very well, and is jumping nicely. Albert Rhodes left for Melbourne last' week, taking with him an unnamed pony which is said to be fairly slippery. I'ony racing in New Zealand is practically dead, and the locally-trained lilliputian could pay a hatful if it sprung a. surprise on a Melbourne pony course. Scratehmgs posted for the Wellington mooting are, Maidi for all engagements and Kremlin for first day's events. The Main Trunk railway threatened to divert most of tile racehorse uanic from New Plymouth, but the announcement has been made that the Hail Wily Department will not in future take horse-boxes, and for this reason the i Auckland continegnt came through »y steamer from Onehunga and were railed from here to Wellington. Coroneted, Stayboy, Lingerer, and \ Waione leave for Trentham to-day. The Hawera quartette are said to be in the pink of condition for their Wellington engagements. The New Zealand bred Scddon, who has lately been termed an arrant rogue, was 111 good form at the recent Flemington meeting and won the Winter Handicap in hollow fashion. The Cunningham appeal case comes before the Racing Conference at Wellington oil Monday, 19th inst. Ml'. 11. H. Haye, secretary, will represent the Avondale Club.

lnehbonny has put in an appeaTancc at Trentham, but the Cnnterunryite is stated to be very backward, and can hardly be noted as dangerous for near at hand events. Southern Cross is galloping well, and, before leaving Riccarton, was jumping better than usual. Anent the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, run last Saturday, t;ie Australasian says:—"An admirer of Corrigan—a man who rode with him—declares that in the days of big fences there was no man to compare with the late 'Tim' Corrigan in a steeplechase.

'No otlicr man in tin? world,' lie rteclaros. ' could have got a brute like Wvmlet round. H e hit most fences with his chest, and everything else that he could hit with, and at the last fe"ice of all his quarters were up in the air arid Ms head on the ground, lint Tom never siiifted, and the horses righted himself and won.' The. man who said this was riding Governor, who fell early. He perched on a fence to see how Wymlet, whom he Had hacked, would fare. At the )«ce they go now Wymlet hitting fence after fence would have no chance, but'in those days stceploehasing was stceplcchasing, and a great rider like Corrigan could win races which other men would lose. Xow the fences arc smaller, the pace faster, and one I man is much the same as another.'