SPORTING.
THE POTURITY STAKES. Received March 11, 10 p.m. Melbourne, March 11. The. Futurity Stakes resulted: Lucknow 1, Sir Ibex 2, Greenstead 3. Fourteen started, including Nanna and Hymeetra. Won by half a neck. Time, Imin 27^sec. One of New Zealand's erstwhile leading horsemen, Charles Jenkins, has been arrested at Bulls and committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. The offence, to which he pleaded guilty, was breaking and entering and the theft of about £2 in silver and 141b of corned beef. At the Police Court nt Richmond (Queensland), on February fi, Charles Wilks, a jockey, was charged with having unlawfully used an electric battery on a horse named Half Deck,' which involved cruelty to the animal. Evidence was given to the effect that after Half Deck won the Club Mile at the Licensed Victuallers' Race Club meeting at Richmond, a complaint was made that Wilks used an electric battery. The rider at first refused to allow'any of the officials'or the police to search him, but eventually reposed the battery. Defendant was fined £lO, together with costs amounting to ,-E5 0s Sd,
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1919, Page 5
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185SPORTING. Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1919, Page 5
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