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SPORTING NOTES.

(By "Also Started.") FIXTURES. April 10 and 17.—Hawko' s Bay R.C. Autumn. April Hi, I<J.—Avondale J.C. April 2:.5, 2-I.—South Canterbury .J.C. April 24 and 25. —Masterton It.C. Autumn. April ;.W, Alnv I.—Marlborough R.C. Alav M !.">.-•-Kgmont U.O. .M;iy 22, 2 I.—Wanganui J.C. j Weight." for the Mastrrton Racing tilth's Autumn meeting art- due this I owning, and acceptances on Friday I next. '1 he course and appointments ] at Onaki are in splendid order and I everything points to the Club having ! a most successful meeting. It onl\ I i-Ci(Uiii'c:.i a lew financially successful i meetings and the Masterton Club will raise its stakes considerably, and aa befitting a town of the importance of Masterton. The new totalisator and! staid appointments have cost the] C'-lub a large sum, and it only remains j for the liabilities to be wiped off, j \vh;n no doubt stakes will be given, I which will quite equal those given by I many of the larger clubs. , j ■Sir Solo is suffering from mouth trouble., and will be laid up for a | time. The Sir Laddo gelding has been a good stake-earner tin's season, and has well earned a i\:-st. Hiy principal victories were the Manawatu and Wellington Cups, while he also ran sec- ( end in the Feilding and Woodville Cups. Sir Solo will probably be given j a. special preparation for the next New ! Zealand Cup. | Sir Knox will make his next appearance at the Masterton meeting, j A number of Mas-terton horses will be competing nex't week at the Pallia tua illacing Club's non-totalisator meeting. I In less'than six we?ks the jumping season will.be opened with the Wangamii Steeplechase meeting. Many trainers are already schooling their charges with a view to selecting probable national candidates. Present indications point to there being a dearth of capable hurdle and crosscountry horsemen. Several of the Dominion's prominent riders are in. Australia, while one or two are on the disqualified list. There is little doubt that horsemen who have to undergo the risks, attached to steeplechase and hurdle racing, receive but little encouragement to take to this form of riding. When a horseman meets with an accident he. has to look out for himself in the best way he can. He certainly'' receives a certain amount from the accident fund, but does he oreceive compensation commensurate with the risks run and the injuries received? He does not. The jockeys' accident fund is contiibuted to by the riders themselves, and is; controlled by a body, whose chief aim seems to be to horde up a large sum. What is this money for? Whom is it to benefit if not those who provide, as a .fund to assist them when they are not able to ride, through disablement hy accident. The casa of that popular horseman T. Pritchard is quite sufficient to make one rail against those controlling the ♦accident fund. Should it not be the first burdera of the fund to see that an injured jockey is -l-tingly provided for' until he is able to resume his profession. It is certainly high time that some of those at the head of the so-called "sport of kings" took a more .considerate and sensible.- view of the claims of the jockeys, more especially those engaged in the dangerous game of hurdle and cross-country 'tiding, and mot permit the riders to pay into a fund year by year, and when they fall upon -hard times to find it humiliatingly necessary to look elsewhere for the assistance which it is their right to expect from their own accident fund. Tyrannic, who is now trained at Opaki by W. Garrett, was taken to the Mamawatu meeting and given a run ovel- the small sticks. The bay gelding looks well and should be ready to pLay a prominent part in cross-coun-try events this season. Hopes are still held out of making Full Rate a proficient jumper. He will probably be given a run at the Pahiatua meeting fo r educational purposes. ■ Autumnus's most recent form stamps him as the best three-year-old out this season. It would nevertheless be interesting to witness a contest over, say, a mile, between he and Bon Revo, with both horses at their best. A stirring gallop would result. Peroneal was unlucky to be beaten on the first day at Palmerston, and the same applies to Coroniform, who. was always in trouble. There are 396 licensed jockeys in the Dominion, and yet how few are our capable horsemen. The apprentices total 158, so that from point of numbers riders should not be lacking, and yet when we think of some of the exhibitions given, the quality of NewZealand horsemen, always excepting our very best, is of a very lowstandard. The question may well be asked, who is to blame? ;

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 6

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SPORTING NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 6

SPORTING NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 6

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