SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 346, 3 September 1889, Page 3

SPORTING.

WAERENGA-A-HIKA JOCKEY CLUB. The adjourned annual meeting of the above Club was held on Saturday afternoon. Mr G. L. Sunderland occupied the chair, and there were present: Messrs Sunderland, Bennett, Dunlop, Stevenson, Wethered, Parker, Barry, Cooper, Colebrook, Scott, Harding, Devery. The Chairman explained that the balanoseheet had been considered and other business transacted at the previous meeting, and it now only remained for them to eleot the officers for the ensuing year. On the motion of Mr Colebrook, seconded by Mr Stevenson, Mr G. L Sunderland was re-elected President. Mr Wethered was, on the motion of Mr Cooper, seconded by Mr Harding, elected as Vice-President. The following gentlemen were elected as Committeemen for the ensuing year Messrs Bennett, Colebrook, Hatton, VV. Cooper, Harding, S. Parker, and Devery.

Loudon, Sept 1, Slavin has challenged Peter Jackson to fight with gloves for a £lOOO.

In this morning’s issue the Poverty Bay Tur* Club announce the programme of their Spring Meeting which takes place on the 15'h of October next. The following are the amounts allotted for the various events:— Maiden Plate £4O, Spring Handicap £l5O, Handicap Hurdles £7O, Hack Hurdles £lO, Flying Handicap £75, Handicap Hacks £lO, and Forced Handicap of £3O. Nominations are due on the 23rd inst.

In referring to a paragraph which appeared in the Hawke’s Bay Herald we ourselves fell into an error. We are informed that the Gisborne Racing Club have definitely decided to hold two days’ racing in January. The first races take place ou November 11. No definite decision has yet been come to regarding the appointment of a handicapper. Over a hundred people visited the Park Company’s grounds on Sunday. The Napier Park Racing Club have now drawn up their programme for their three meetings, the spring, summer, and autumn, It has not yet been decided whether the Club will hold a winter meeting or not, The programmes will be published in book form this year. The Club have also decided to build an outside stand, and make other improvements for the convenience of the public, For the spring meeting the Club give away in stakes £970, £540 on the first day and £430 on the sencond. For the New Year’s Dry meeting the added money is £505 ; and for the autumn meeting, £1)50 on the first and £BOO ths second day. A Wanganui correspondent reports the sale of Stonewall Jackson, a very ordinary looking hunter that came up from Canterbury some weeks ago, at £B5. Whatever may be the fate of a prophet, a horse seems to be hold in much greater esteem away from his own country, remarks a sporting writer. Mr L. Markey says of the Grand National course The fences are not half big enough, the horses unfit to carry a pair of boots, and the jockeys, with very few exceptions, a parcel of senseless old women. The annual meeting of the Victoria Racing Club was held on August 5. Several alterations to the Rules of Racing were adopted. The proposal to limit the maximum weight to be allotted to horses in hurdle races and steeplechases mot with considerable opposition, and was abandoned. The motion, “ That no member of the Committee or Steward of the Victoria Racing Ciub shall be eligible.as a Steward or a Committeeman for any other of the principal Racing Clubs in Victoria,’’ was carried. A short time ago we stated that Mr Morton, of Waverley, would shortly send a shipment of racing ponies, including Kaipai, to Australia. Now we laarn that Mr Stevens intends sending a shipment of similar stock to Indis, These exportations ought to encourage breeders.

There have been several commissions in the market lately to purchase a stud-horse for the North Island. An offer was made for Vanguard, but led to no business, and the same buyers are now enquiring about Sextant. “Gipsy King” reports Reeluse as a much improved horse that is bound to sustain the favorable impression he has already made. The son of Daniel O'Rorke is at present suffering from a very severe cold, but no serious results are apprehended, A Southern paper remarks“ Speelere ” are daily growing bolder and are seen, heard and felt on all our racecourses. The police should remember that the consumption of a free lunch and the organisation of half-crown sweeps are only some of their responsibilities. Joe Morrison, the well-known trainer, who had his leg broken while riding Chester in the Melbourne Cup, is about to undergo an operation. The injured leg has never progressed well, and now there has formed a bony substance, which causes great pain,