RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3102, 27 January 1909, Page 6

RACING.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Received January 26. 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, January 26. There was glorious weather for the holiday. The Anniversary Handicap resulted as follows : Plunder (Lee) 1 Yabbagabba (Osborne) 2 Lady Wilde (Smith) 3 There were sixteen starters. Plunder practically led all the way, and won by a neck.. Time, 2min 36J sec. The recent Foxton meeting was a notable one in many ways, states the sporting writer of the "Manawatu Times." The riding at the meeting taken all through was of the poorest, few of the prominent horsemen being* present, and a large majority of the mounts being given to stable boys. Yet the sport was so clean and free from unfair tactics, pulling, etc., that one inclined to wish that the prominent jockeys might always be elsewhere. Whether they could ride or not, the boys, in most cases, were out to win every time, and the result was that, though some races were thrown away by poor horsemanship, the racing was of a distinctly high order. A bookmaker informed a Northern sporting writer recently that since the reinstatement on the racecourse of the members of his calling, he had paid over £I,OOO in fees and had cleared something like £3,000 sterling.