SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 608, 16 May 1891, Page 2

SPORTING.

Everything promises well tor the old established annual meeting of the VPaerenga-a-hika Jockey Club, to be held on the 2fitfi test., and it goes without saying that it success Is to be achieved nothing will bo left undone io secure it. Without ladlvldualleing those to whom all preparatory steps are entrusted, it may not be out of place to mention that the Secretary has been, as usual, tudefctagable in his efforts to keep up thh refutation the W.J.C- has so honestiv earned. The very fact cf the acceptance! being to large adds another leather to tbg already adorned bat of the handicapped The sale of privileges takes place tosday ana. judging from the entries as well as from outside expressions of opinion, keen competition may be anticipated. Twenty-one horses started tor the last English Grand National, fifteen of which ielj before completing the journey. Among the starters were four previous winners ci tfis race in Gamecock, Hex, Roquefort, and Voluntary. Etqperor, a horse owned by Captain Kacbsll and ridden by W. fall early in the race, and as he was coming home—thinking probably that the otthodo* fences were not big enough for him—tried to jump the rail:' on to the oflurse, with the result that he broke bis t>Mk.