SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1915, Page 8

SPORTING.

TARAXAKI JOCKEY CLUB. Till-; A.XXTAL MEETING. The nmiual meeting of the Tarannki Jo.Ucy Club was held tot night. .Mr. L. A. Nolan presided over a. good attendance. THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT. The chairman's report congratulated members on a very .successful year; in fact, the most successful year in the history of the club. The profits for the year, after providing for an increase in stakes of £S(X) and permanent improvements, £2r>s !ts sd, amount to the sum of £ll2B Tls~3d, from which had been Hriten oIT the sum of COi.) os lOd for depreciation 011 .buildings, iplant, etc. During the year a number of improvements had been carried out 0" the club's property. The iron railing fence had now been completed ai the end of the I saddling paddock. All up-to-date nu:'iIk'. - board had been erected and the club had been congratulated on having II number board second to none 7n the dominion for completeness and style. An ambulance room bad also been erected. The iuklition to the course was iif,ed at the Christmas mid February meetings and the many benefits to the track, through the addition, fu'iy justified the club's recent purchase of land. A new members' drive is now being I laid off and when completed will prob- | abb' improve the entrance. The club's thanks are due to the New Plymouth Borough Council and the Pukekura Park Board in this matter for so generously meeting the club in its several requests. The thanks of the club arc due to ail honorary officials for their untiring work at. .race meetings during the season. The committee's ambition is to make the club's property one of the prettiest and most attractive in the dominion, and there is no doubt that this object is being rapidly fulfilled.' Thanks to the generous support accorded by the publie to the club, the committee, has been aide to ■subsidise local societies to some small measure during the season. . The report and balance-sheet were | adopted. | OFFICERS. I The following officers were elected: — [ President, the Hen. Oi Samuel; vice-pre-sident, Mr. Newton King; judge for the Christmas meeting, ,Mr. J. 0. Standish: judge for the autumn meeting, Mr. W. >ll. .Hartnell; treasurer, 'Mr. W. C. Weston; clerk of scales. iMr. A. Goldwater; stewards, 'Messrs.;, W. Birdling, A. Alexander. H. I.'.nn. A. McL. Thomson, A. R. Standish, I). IT. t'Kanev, T. Elliott, F. Watson, A. IT. Ifaleoni'be. L. B. Webster, Newton King' and W. L. Newman; committee, Messrs. L N. Nolan, E. P. Blundell, B. H. Chaney, A. Alexander, F. OrheH. W. C. Phillips, G. leaser, A. R. Standish, .T. AfcLeod, Newton King. 0 W. Sole. 18. Webster and W. T. Tlookham: honorary surgeons, Mr. Wylie and Dr. Fooko?; auditor, Mr. 11. Stocker. GENERAL. Mr. W. h. Nc wman was elected a life member of the club. A vote of thanks was accorded the Hon. 0. Samuel for his services at the Racing Conference. 'Messrs. N«wton King and A. R. Stan, dis'h were appointed trustees. The chairman referred to the splendid work dc/n<! by the secretary, Mr. E, "P. Webster, who was .the rig Tit man in' the right place, ITe also expresed appreciation of the '\v6rk of the ilub'S caretaker. ' . i '." A vote of thanks was passed to the outgoing canrmltt-ee. At a subsequent meeting of the committee, Mr. L. A. Nolan was e!cctc<l chairman. Tt was decided to meet tile third Tuesday in the month. NORTH TARAXAKI ITU NT RACE. 1 1 The public are being considered in | every possible way by the energetic committee of the North Taranaki Hunt races, and Thursday's meeting should be one of the best. For the country visitors the Railway Department is issuing holiday excursion fares, and the utual train is being delayed until ">.32, connecting with Waitara and Whnngamomona. The Citizens' Band ha; been engaged, and will play a- firstelnss programme of music. The totalisator Is under the supervision of Mr. W. 0 Callaghun, which is sufficient g-ua ran-

tee that civility ami .promptness will Ik* received. With .Mr. (J. Morse us luimlicapper and Sir. C. O'Connor, who arrives liy tlio ltara.wa this morning, as starter, the meeting will be run on lines second to none. Tl'liF TOJ'ICS. (By 'Moturoa.) The acceptances received on Saturday evening for the Waiinate Plains Trotting Club'-; fiit-S, totalisator meeting, to In held in the H'awcra liaeeconr.se on \\ ediicsdny, are lir.,t rate. Largo Ileitis ar.' assured in all events, and the class of hor.-es engaged is very line. (.'live. A'lleaonia, I).'. Cliutr.e.-, Prin/.ora, flora MrKinney. Moiim-iii, Troubadour, Chub and otlier good horses have hail their engagement continued, and tl:o-e who make the trip on Wednesday will have a chance of witnessing some lir.-it-class trotting. There are a number of promising horses trained at Ilawcra and otlier pants of the province, and it is quite on the cards that the liest of the locals will hold their own "with tile outsider*. ' The weather appears to have taken a turn now, and the course is improving ,daily. iProvided line weather favors the gathering, the attendance should be large. Admission is fixed at the moderate charge of one shilling (outside), and l:Mvn patrons will be admitted for live shilling-; (gentlemen) and two shillings and sixipcn?e (ladies). A hand will be in ateiuiance, ancTthe first race is set down to start at twelve noon slarp.

Ai.tea. Ron', one i f the " ba: k-marke: - -" at the Waiinate meeting, is said to be a very s»ncecly mare. She scored -easily in the Electric Mandi-ap (one mile) at the Poverty Bay meeting on July 2, cutting out the mile in 2min 31 2-osee, and winning very easily. In the Farevvel Handicap she failed to concede llscc to Sweet Pet in a mile, but nevertheless showed a good turn of jpeed. I!utterfa.t, who shaped well at the Wanganui trotting meeting, has improved considerably, and should run forward at Haw-era.

The Weaver, recently leased by a Wangamii sportsman, is showing fine form at present, and is expected to show ivji in tlie principal event at tlic Waimate Tlains meeting. Trotting lias "caught on" all riirht in South Canterbury. At the Ttmaru meeting .t'2fl>Do was put through the totalisator on one race alone. The Poverty Bay Trotting Club had a most sireeasful meeting on .July '2. and has generously donated £l5O to the patriotic funds. Lord Roanehild competed as an unhobMcd trotter in one event at t'he Tiniani meeting, and later 011 the same day, with straps, as a pacer. That is ••mixing it" .surely! Rio Grand now in is the name of Mr. Arthur C'oe, the well-known Wanganui sportsman. The horse is looking very viell. and will be produced at H-awera on Wednesday. The conditions governing the New Zealand Trotting Cup are causing a heap of argument in the south. The general opinion is that the class of horses eligible f.liould lie out down to 4m in SOsw. Then there would be albout twenty eligible, .but under the present 4min STVtee rating the number .is 34. If all these horses saw the post, there would bo little hope of the back-markers getting through, and it is not fair to sacrifice the good ones for tliosc lefts speedy.

TROTTING AT THE EXPOSITION. A SENSATIONAL VICTORY.

•Pacing desperately through five gruelling heats that left her limp, White \Sox, a flighty Californian mare with a big heart, won the 20,000 dollars pacing stake at tlic Exposition on June 10, after one of the most sensational races known to the world of sulkydom. Sitting rateily through it all and bafinpjMjf into' play every bit of craft <trilled -into Kan bv his old father, William iVDorfee, a Californian boy, drove White. Sox-io -victory.

The sum was setting*-and tic strong wind had died down to a whisper, when four game horses paraded to the post for the fif'th heat. So far as the first money was concerned,' White Sox had clindhed that in tSJTopening dashes, but tlio race—the glory of which had brought -the' greatest stables in North America over the Rockies—was yet to be decided.

O.U.C. had a chance to wrest the laurels from White »Sox. But victory from tliiat field of four was the only way he could do it. O.U.C. tried and failed. He shot to the front at the word, laid second turning Into the stretch and then fell ha.'k defeated under the lashings of his driver. Meanwhile, White Sox caine along, and, answering every smart of the wliip, finished second to Hal ißoy. That was «11 that was needed. Hal Boy, by annexing the heat, had only won second money. So the spring meeting of racing had pulled to a close. So fifteen thousand persons stood in tlie stands and cheered the circling of the laurel wreath over tho head of Clarence Berry's White .Sox 3)y sixty Aine rif.'in heauties. There may have been better racing on a single afternoon. Imt grey-haired men, who have followed the game all their lives, had never seen it. White Sox is a bay mare by Del Coronado out of Snbito. Originally. Willie Purfoc had trained her to the gait of the trotter, but ,she soured, and Durfec set her to pacing. The change made a new race animal out of her. Last year was her first as a Ride-wheeler, and had s'he not had Considine's Clara 'Mac to contend with she would have ibeeii entitled to tl'f honors of ra-cing <(ueeii. White Sox's victory was not much of a .sjirpri'-e. '• ■ Ccmsiderijig . tlie raw wind and the early time of the nice season, the five heats in iavin '/'iM".', liirl ill -'X', 2niin TAwo. '2imn and 2min S%sec un<(ue.4iomuol}- stand as an American record.—(S&.ll Fntnei&o Examiner.