"Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe."

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 229, 31 January 1885, Page 4

"Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe."

We shall gladly ioelcome contribution.? and information on Coursing matter, duly aUc.-'fsd l<y the signatures and addresses of Oie senders.

Mr Hill's (Christchurch) well-known greyhound Young Ridley had to be shot last week on account of his having been seriously ruptured. Young Ridley was one of the oldest dogs in the district, having been whelped about eight years ago. As a sapling he won the first piece of plate run for there — a silver dog collar for the Sapling Stakes run in Hagely Park. lie was noted as one of the fastest dogs that ever ran in the Colony.

The Kempton Park November Coursing meeting- terminated on Xov. '29, after three days' progression. The chief event of the re-union, the Cardinal Wolsey Stakes, for dog and bitch puppies, at £10 10s each, with £200 added; winner, £400, second £200, third £40, fourth £40, four winners of three courses £20 each, eight Avinners of two

courses, £10 each : G4- subs. This stake fell to a division between Mr E. M. Crosses r w d Clamor, by Cvi Bono — Hari Kari, and Mr Keilly's ns (Mr E. Dent's) bd w d View Holloa, by Paris- -Pi*etty Nell. Accordingto the (stipulations of the promotion the stakes should have been run through absolutely penalty of the £200 added money being withdrawn, but in the present instance the executive only went so far as to reduce the amount by half, go that the money shared between the nominators of the two dogs amounted to £500 instead of £600, as originally announced. As it is possible that some difficulty may be experienced in settling upon such a contingency here, we give the Grand National Coursing Club rules relating to betting, which might well be adopted by Tattersall's Club. Rule 41 : " All bets upon an undecided course shall stand, unless one of the greyhounds be drawn. All bets upon a dog running further than another in a stake shall be p.p., whatever accident may happen. Bets upon a deciding, as upon every otner course, are off if the course is not run. Long odds bets shall be void, unless the greyhound the bet refers to shall run one course in the stake, other than a bye. after the bet is made. Long odds bets, with this exception, shall be p.p." liule 42: %i Bete on stakes divided. Where money has been laid against a dog winning a stake, and he divides, it, the two sums must be put together and divided in the same proportion as the value of the stakes."

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