IMPORTATION OF FISH EGGS.
[May, 1 ! , 1875

Sporting.
the race run — adding, as a rider, that gentlemen must give and take. Mr Red wood's letter, aft<-r quoting this, hoped the Jockey Club would take into considera tion the slur he lay under regarding the dis qualification. The Secretary of the Jockey Club was instructed to reply that the pro test could not be reconsidered, and to state that the wording of rule 30 (C. J.O. Rules) — " If any horae cross or jostle another horse, unless he be two clear lengths before the horse whose track he crossed, he and every horse belonging to his owner, or in which he may have a sharp, running in the same race, will be disqualified from winning whether Buch cross was caused by accident or foul riding. The horse whose rider is in fault be distanced " — precluded them arriving at any other conclusion when the fact of the jostle was proved. The Stewards would fur ther pnint out that the jostle at the finish of the race was altogether a different matter from such accidents as Admiral Rous referß to in his remarks on the Chester Cup. The Stewards bid the secre tary add that they entirely acquitted the rider of the Phoebe colt of any intention to infringe the law, and they were much pleased at the candid manner in which he answered the questions put to him on the subject. Mr Redwood has offered to run the Phoebe colt against Templeton for any sum of money, if Mr Delamain will first hand the Flying Handicap Stakes over to a char itable institu tion,

CHRISTCHURCH RACES-1870.
