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SPORTING.

7WO MEN DISQUALIFUfBt BACINp THE HORSE STEVENS. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wanganui, Last Night. As the outcome of an inquiry held today by the Wanganui District Committee, three months’ disqualification was imposed on F. S. Easton, of Foxton, and one month’s disqualification on W. J. Trask in connection with the racing of the horse Stevens in 1913 by Trask, while the same was a disqualified horse, having been disqualified under a man named Wright in 1912. Easton is lodging an appeal with the Racing Conference on the grounds that the verdict is against the weight of evidence, and that no offence nor corrupt practice under the rules of racing was proved to have been committed. TARANAKI JOCKEY CT.UB. A meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club district committee was held last night. Present: Messrs L. A. Nolan (chairman), G. Fraser, 0. W. Sole. A. Alexander, A. R. Standish, B. H. Chaney, J. McLeod, AV. C. Weston, and Ij. B. Webster. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. Hookham and Orbell. Eight new members were elected. Matters With the forthcoming meeting in February were gone into, and sub-committees set up to deal with same. Accounts amounting to £554 10s 6d were passed for payment. TURF TOPICS. (By ‘'MotUToa.”) The Taranaki Trotting Club is exceedingly fortunate in having secured the Saturday between the Taranaki J.C, and Egmont R.C. February meetings, for the second annual trotting meeting, t-o be held on the New Plymouth racecourse. The coming racing carnival prom ses to attract a large number of outside sportsmen to Taranaki, and the Trotting Club should be well patronised. The light harness horse deserves every encouragement, and judging by the success of .the Waimate Plains and Taranaki Trotting Clubs, this branch of sport is rapidly gaining the support and confidence of the public. The Taranaki Trotting Club is at present labouring under the disadvantage cf not being blessed with a totalisator permit, but its members have gamely tackled the proposition of running a meeting without a permit, and backed up by the general sporting public, they have already got off one successful meeting, and are looking forward to bigger things this season. Next year the club will have its after which it will never look back. Six events are carded for the forthcoming meeting, and stakes totalling 270 sovs. are offered, as well as various trophies for owners and drivers. The Taranaki Trotting Cup is worth ’OO sovs.. and the minor events are all well worth racing for. Nominations for all events close with the secretary. Mr D. Le C. Morgan, on Thursday, January 13. at 9 p.m. Owners and trainers of gallopers will find it worth their while to peruse the programme of the Taranaki Jockey Club’s autumn meeting, which appears in this issue. Tin gathering takes place on February 2 and 3, and stakes totalling £5525 are offered for all classes of horses. This year’s Taranaki Cup, one and a quarter miles, will be worth 1000 sovs., and the Paul Memorial Handicap, nine furlongs, been raised to 600 sovs. The principal six furlongs sprints are also well endowed, the Flying Handicap being worth 560 sovs., and the Farewell Handicap 400 sovs. In addition hacks and hack hurdlers have been catered for, no stake being worth less than 200 sovs. Nominations for all events cl&e with the secretary, Mr E. P. Webster, on Friday, January 14. at 9 p.m. Wellington weights are now the chief topic of interest. Trainer Fred Tilley enjoys the doubtful honor of providing the top-weight pair, Client and Oratress, who have been awarded 9.3. On the mare’s New Zealand Cup and Auckland Cup (fourth) running she should hold h'er older stablemate safe, and should also have it on Volo 9.1, and First Salute 8.9. Maioha. a treble winner at Auckland, is. well in with 8.7, and should beat the aged Red Ribbon at a difference of 21bs. Vespucci and Bonny Maid, both on the Bst. mark, showed excellent form at the holiday meetings, and may prove dangerous. Tenterfield (7.13) is too much of a horse of moods for most ■ punters, and Punka, with a pound less, is more reliable. Of the light-weights nothing reads better than Dusky Eve and Esperance.

Silver Link has a big load (9.9) in the Telecraph Handicap, but she is in great nick at present, and should run well if started. Parisian Diamond is reported to have lightened up considerably as the result of his recent efforts, and the stable may rely upon Statuette to do the trick at Trentham. Rossini is touched in the wind, which will tell against him in a solidly run race. Chimera is in well with 8.11, and the same may be said of Warplane B.G, and Solfanello 8.4. Warplane looked much above himself at Awapuni when he won. and should be capable of much improvement.

In the minor events at Trentham Maniahera 10.9, and Falstaff 10.0 look well in the Jumpers’ Flat Race; The Hawk may prove a cut above theXwo-year-olds engaged in the Nursery Handicap: and Rente 9.5, and 80-peep 9.13, have nothing to complain of in the Anniversary Handicap. A fair crowd of hacks figure in the Ruapehu Handicap, and quick beginifrrs like Counter Attack, Strategy, and Militaire should not be troubled by. their weights. The meeting opens on Thursday week. The Kelburn Plate, four furlongs, at standard weight-for-age, comes up for decision on the second day of the Wellington meeting, and if Gloaming; Arrowsmith. Silver Link, Rational, %nd The Hawk go to the post there will be no waiting on the journey. Taranaki sportsmen have little reason to grumble at the starting at local meetings, our clubs being fortunate in securing capable men to act at the barrier. The reverse is the case in the south, and at the recent Southland and Wyndham meetings the starting is described as befng simply awful. Start after start was wretched, and most races were lost on the The judging at Wyndham was also pretty “deadly,” as may be judged by such a conservative paper as the Referee openly stating that on three occasions in one day the results were hoisted wrongly! In some places they would havt

torn down the lawn fence and annihilated the man in the box, but the dour Scots take their .sport with more equanimity than their warmer-blooded north, ern confreres. Foxton weights leave little room for complaint. *Rouen 8.11, Esperance 7.11, and Mouton Ivanova 7.8 all read well in the Cup, and Egmont Park 7.11, Bonny Briar 7.13, and. Waimatoa 9.’6 are well treated in the Anniversary Handicap. Vigilo, Hautawa. and Sail Home may prove the best of the hurdlers at the weights, and Borealis and Sir Fanciful are well placed in the Herrington Welter. Of the hacks engaged War Baby, Warrawee, Admiration, HaJlowroz, and Minsk should show up in whatever races they start. Acceptances for first day’s events close on Friday, January 14, at 8 p.m.

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Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1921, Page 3

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SPORTING. Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1921, Page 3

SPORTING. Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1921, Page 3

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