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THE CHINA MAIL, SPECIAL RACING SUPPLEMENT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1935.
Romantic History
Of Jockey Club
Sir Paul Chater's Record Run Of Successes
By A N B. L.
THERE are but, few Clubs in bolted." against this historic event.
1
His Excellenes the Governor snapped at the races on Suturday
in company with Sir William Shenton.(King's Studio).
China Pony's Win the Orient with a more in-
The meeting wa's Rise mémor- teresting or older history than able for the fact that in one of the the Hong Kong Jockey Club.rices a China pony for the first and, although the records, of the time in the Colony was placed in Club do not go further back than a race for mixed ponies.
The first recorded victory, of a the year 1819, the Chine Mail of December 1846, announced that China-pony-in-the Valley Stakes Ja meeting had been fixed for De-came in 1859 when Mr. Markham's
No Fish of Lightning `romped home. cember 17 and 19, 1846.
The year 1859, however, saw. 2, how- account of the races are, ever, to be found in subsequent deel.ne in local racing, only twings, and the China" pổny began days' racing being held during the to come into its own. Probably saues of the.paper..
The meets for 1850, is, how-twelve months, and the following the most convincing sign of the de- lever, described in the China-Mai year apears to have echoed the feline of horse racing was the great Freduction in value of the Fonchow as the sixth annual meeting, and it decline.
A new rule was introduced a Cop and The Garrison Cup. may be assumed that the first race
In 1862, by which In 1869 the Wongneichong Stakes meet.ng to be held in Hong Kong the meeting
rooms and professional riders were for the Grst time confined was in 1845.
There is only fragmentary evi-were prohibited from riding in the exclusively to China, ponies.
The year 1870 saw the advent of dence of the meeting of 1847, at training after December 1 until
after
the date of the meeting the Champion Stakes, but the re which the Wongacichong and
February 18.
fords the two following years Valley Stakes. ivere. won by a
The now historic, Poochow Cup Jare very vague.. Manila pany named Tepoy.
on Saturday by Mr. In 1950, £ is recorded that Mr.,
In 1873 The Hong Kong Derby Rafterwards Sir Robert Jar Dunbar's Liberty Bay-valued at
Was presented was rud for the Arst time, dine broke his leg while, riding 100 guineas.
the meeting of 1863. A being confined to ,China pon- Mess Trooper. He rollided with at
other interesting fact was that ies. All the pony Faces were. the bamboo railing.
the ladies who presented the Ladies'; as in the previous year, con- Parse made longer speeches iP]fined to China, Manila, and Japan-' those days than they do now! ese ponies. This continued to be
Riding Ruler Revised
so, with several exceptions, till In the following year, 1864, the 1887, when all races were confined
Buggy Horse Wins
A sensation was caused of the 1x51 four-day meeting held ip when there were only two starters
WON
The First Derby.
in the Consolation Race. In order rule prohibiting professional to China ponies.
יי
Mr.
to make price, a ̈Sydney pony was ders from riding in the training] The most remarkable success of taken from the shifts of a buggy after December'1 to the date of thefany one stable in the records of and allowed to run. It won by a meeting, was altered to "after the the Hong Kong, Turf, was achieved comfortable margin. Times were date of the closing of the entries at the 1884 meeting when first taken at this meeting.
Is the date of the meeting." Paul now Sir Paul) Chuter, wön The year 1850 witnessed the ad- Severni well-known English 15 different races with 10 different ¡vent of the China Ponies when the burges, made their first appearance ponies out of a string of 13 ponies. "Celestial Cuv." over half a mile, that year, but one or two died on These wins included the Hong provided the first race run ex-the way out to the Colony. Kony Derby, the Maharajah Cup, į clusively for China ponies in Hong The decline and gradual extine- the Foochow Cup, the German Cup, Kon. There is no record of the lion of horse racing commenced in the Garrison Cup and the Cham- weights carried, but there was a 1868, being forshadowed by the nions. significant note "won vasy--all'small fields the previous meet (Continued on Page 8).
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