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Turf Jottings

Oaltpo More, thr> great lilnotl sire, "is 'dead :U L>;| year.* of I" '* !ls llu ' great rai-e hurse- vi,n Ihe Middle Talk . Phite aI. two years. autl the following ywir thf> ilpsoni Otiby. He was theu pui chased by 'the Petiojrad an J -Moscow Jockey Cinb for 20,0*0. guinea*. Later-(lie German •■ Cknetrimwit . bought him tor xU.dUU. In the last eight years of hit; esiite/ice h*> ;=ii<*i 314 v.iniieis. daiiee Moto was hairt iv unloading- him from a rail wnf truck, and was afterwards '.shot. "Tohuwja" in the N.Z. "Tunes" :v"IL Kiugau ha<> lett camp., being declared unfit, physically. How many ■ more people are tv -lie taken from their billets, kept in camp for a month, to be then turned.'out into an extremely eelfisli world ou account of a physical blemish:' Kiugan is by no means the first, nor is lie the hundredth who has been so treated; moreover, there is nothing to indicate that he will be tlie. last.' King-an is a trainer, and has Prince Delaware and Trickery, in his charge.. ■ . ..-..'■...• .lv tile Epsoia Racing Club (Australia) fixture, Sir Ibex won a fire .furlong race in 1 mm. 2 sec. The son of Ibti carried 9.2, Only a few weeks before the owner gave fiGO guineas for the winner. ■'.•-, I An old-time racing man named Robert I Beaney died in Melbourne the other day. He had been 50 years a saddler in - Bourke Street West, and wanted two years of a century when Death put his number up—9S. A Sydney trainer, P. Xolan, has a strange record for the pru&mt ■ racing season. Tie has (reined 10 firsts, 1(5 seconds, and 10 thirds. A extract from Sydney "P.e--h-ix-e": "In England tins ■ year the whole of tlo flat-racing 'is.io l>e-done at Newmarket, and the- .number of days j will be >t : l. This total include*- -the "" 112 extra, days decided ' upon by-' the I Jockey Club since the announcement 3 ' that there was 1 to be no racing , other J j than at the course mentioned. .In Ger- I ! many this year arrangements were made f i for 155 days' racing (jumping and flat)." : ) Fat has his 6port in all lands, war or no war. Sydney "Roferee" says that the New Zealand horse, The Toll', i? 'seemingly a utueh better stayer than sprinter. The Sydney journal ba?«?« its opinion on j The Toff's runnin? at Auckland, ' wlitrs lie was second favorite for the F.a;:ter Handicap, and ran nowhere with his impost of 8.12. though he sifterwards won the Great Northern St. - i.egpr. In Australia the recent win? of imported horses have made the English horse sought after. Mr. F. Reynolds at Sydney sales gave 70U guineas for Don j r!'vnaldo, an Vight-year-old ■■imported niillnii:-'!', who had good wins over short and liiitjf dii-lauoes when on (he In if. Don Ueyjiyldo gcea to the slud. "Terlinga," in the "Australasian," speaki/i? of Desert Gold's recent defeats: "When the New Zealand M ,* wr-ro in Australia last spring. Mr. Luttrell told ,ns that ppsert Gold was never to be beaten again; and I ennnot help thinking we will hear that she was unlucky Details oL' how Desert Gold came to bu defeated will be awaited" "" with interest." Well, by. this time Aus- I traliu will have learned why the great mare went down. "Terlinjja" re<:alle the fact that history produce!! a greater mure than New Zealaud's Desert Gold—Kinsce-in, th<? greui .Hungarian ma.re of la=t century. She won 54 race?, uu'd nerer knfev>' what it was to be beaten. She rated at two, tkr'e.e, four ' and five '; vvhis. :iijd amonget xet wins was the ' gi>3iit Goodwood Cup of England. Her owner. If. Elascoritch, was' offered iJIO.OOO for the flyer, but he declined it. The following , nominations, have boen : received in connection with tho " Auckland Eacinj: Club's winter inectinjj:— Great Northern Hurdles of 1250 soys.; two mile 3 and a-half—Art, Arlington, I Bou Reve. Black Heart, Cast-iron, Combustion. Diavolo. Golden Ifartb, Kurapii. Lupfrino, Spalperion, Sir Solo. Sir Fi6her,' Tararu Jack, Tr> Onga, True j Gun, Tenacious, Waimai. St. Elmo, j Hereford. Yellow- and Blat-k, Yankee j Doodle. El Gallo, Fisher, Hopfield.- j Gladtul, Moreeamiw, Hylaus, Guiding J Way. Marconi,' Thrace, Colonel Souliv I Decide, Patronymic, Penniless. Great [Northern Steeplechase of MOO soys; I about three miles and a-half—Art, Arlington, Bonnie- Jean, P.raeburn, Czaron- U5, Diarolo, Fagot, Gluopot, Kiwitea, Knrapni, Nita. Kecord, Spalperion, Slip'-.'iol-, Shvras. Tarnrn Jack. Taroro. Te Ons. Waimai, St. Elmo, Hereford, Rant za, Mist, El Gallo. llorecarnbe. Idealj ism, Troublesome, Tluatanjjafca, Jnipostov, Ulster. All fhe. men at the front don't send homo for Y3I.C.A. tracts. The secretary of n South Australian racing club I received Inst week a wire from fin i Australian in Egypt askinp for the results of the first day's racing of the I club to be wired to him. ,

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