Sporting Notes.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 16, 13 February 1906, Page 3

Sporting Notes.

— o — The annual meeting of the Waipukurau Jockey Club will be held to-morrow evening. The Soult gelding Sol has the record of winning on each occasion that; he contested a cross-country event. The amount of stakes raced for on the flat in the United Kingdom last year amounted to £5’24,896. Foreign buyers have been buying so largely in the blood stock market in England as to cause some little alarm. In a speech at the Gimcrack Club’s dinner, Lord Downe advocated as a solution of the bookmaking question that betting should be made legal, and that bookmakers should be licensed, a statement that was received with loud cheers. No Government in the world, said Lord Downe, would ever stop betting, and the sooner Sir Henry* Campbell-Bannerman realised that the better. The latest legislation of the Tasmanian Racing Club is to the effect that jockeys who have suffered on account of foul riding without lodging a complaint will be held culpable with the wrongdoers. The Hon. Henry Chaplin, who won the sensational Derby of 1867 with Hermit, was defeated at the English elections. The constituency which rejected Mr Chaplin had been represented by him for 38 years. Some idea of the value of highclass trotting stock can be gleaned from the fact that at a big sale in New York about the end of November the eleven-year-old champion trotting stallion (2min. 2fs.) was sold to Mr M. W. Savage, of Minneapolis, for £4250. Air George Herring, formerly a turf commission agent aud owner of horses in the Uld Country, but who gave those pursuits up, .in order to indulge in higher flights of finance, has just given £lOO,OOO. towards improving the condition of the unemployed by settling them on the land, this in addition to the sum of £BO,OOO which he has in recent years given to the Metropolitan Hospitals Fund. The £lOO,OOO will be laid out through the agency o f General Booth.