SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1922, Page 3

SPORTING.

NORTH TARANAKI HUNT. STEEPLECHASE MEETING TO-MORROW. The North Taranaki Hunt will hold its annual steeplechase meeting on the New Plymouth racceourse to-morrow. The fixture is being looked forward to with a great deal of Interest, by racegoers, and a large crowd is expected. Judging by the very satisfactory acceptances there should he good fields and some very fine racing should result. The course and the appointments generally are in splendid order, Mr. Blewrnnn. the custodian, and those associated with him having spr.red no effort in seeing that everything was looking at its best. Mr. C. O’Connor will officiate as starter for the meeting, and Mr. J. Cameron will act as judge. Messrs. A. P. Wilson and A. W. Gordon have been appointed stipendiary stewards. The Hunt has arranged excursion fares on the railway, and the departure of the afternoon train has been delayed until 6.5 p.m. The committee has definitely decided to run the totalisator as a 10s machine inside ar. . out, and a competent staff under the management of Mr. L. Rea has been engaged to take charge. The gates have also been reduced. The admission at the outside gate will be 2s for men, ladies free, and at the lawn gates 6s for men, ladies 2s 6d, the club paying amusement tax.

CAMPGUARD SCRATCHED. Campguard was scratched for the Hunt Cup at five o’clock yesterday afternoon. GLOAMING IN AUSTRALIA. TRACK RECORD ESTABLISHED. Received Aug. 31. 10.30 p.m. Sydney, August 31. At P.nndwlck, Gloaming galloped seven furJongs in 1.27—a record for the track —and showed all the dash and freedom that characterised early performances in Sydney. Beauford has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. GLOAMING IN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, August 31. Mr. Mason discounts a number of Press reports extolling Gloaming's gallops, and says they convey a wrong impression, as the perfonmances were bettered by others whose names were not featured at the same time. Gloaming is progressing satisfactorily, and he hopes the horse will be well forward a month hence, and expects him also to be in good trim for the meeting against Beauford in the Chelmsford Stakes on September 9. The remainder of the team are shaping well, with the exception of Farceur, who Is slightly lame.