CONDENSED ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4353, 26 April 1884, Page 5

CONDENSED ITEMS.

The Adelaide Cup acceptances were duoon Tuesday last. £1,100 passed through the totalisator at the Papakura races. Mischief broke down while running in the Great Autumn Handicap. • The time for the A.J.C. St. Leger was the fastest yet run at Kandwick.

A Southern purchaser has offered tho tempting price of £800 for Krupp. Bargo won the Claret Stakes at tho Hawkesbury Autumn Meeting. Martini-Henry's sister Woodnymph has been turned out at Sylvia Park.

Libeller, Musketeer, and Tetford woiQ taken to the Thames yesterday, Mrßobbe't having decided to winter them there. :

£12,886 went through the totalisator at the C. J.C, Autumn Meeting, being nearly £2,0*0 in excess of last year. Sir Thomas Elder's colt Guesswork waa recently cast in his box, and is said to bo a good deal hurt.

W. Edwards to*k Leonora and the twoyear old filly that he purchased at the Stud Company sale to Napier yesterday. Mr Kent, the Queensland breeder, has named the filly by Epigram—Legend (full sister to Lo Grand)" Lady Bell." Colonel Fraser bought in Sham after the Selling P v aoo at Papakura on Wednesday! He has put him into French's hands.

Messrs Houghton and Sheenan's steeplechaser Hercules is reported to have changedhands at something Uke 300 guineas. Off Colour's withdrawal from his A.J.C;-ij engagements was on account of his having split his hoof while galloping with Littlo Sister.

For the future, the Christchurch Middle Park Stud Company intend holding their annual sales after the C.J.C. Spring Meeting. LeGrand started a. ho* favourite for the Sydney Cup at &to 2, but Morpeth and Martini-Henry's accident interfered with him.

The Fielding Handicap, run on Easter Monday, was won by Ahua, Armourer being second, and Hinemoa third. Six others started.

The Canterbury Jockey Club, netted-be! tween. i? 00 and £800 over theif recent Autumn Meeting, which now [places tho Club out of debt.

Buckingham recently pulled up lame.and £j it is probable the match between him and : t\ lolanthe did uot take place on Saturday | last owing to this cause. Previous to tho race for the Great Autumn Handicap, Ike became greatly I excited in the paddock, and at the Btarting § post tried to dislodge Wattie. , • I Power rode Martini-Henry in tho Sydney - Cup, and Hales had the mount on Morpeth. I I The former had his collar-bone broken, but L Hales escaped with a severe shaking. ' " i Vanguard was: bought in at the Christ- ' church sale by Mr E. Ray, and ?ione of 1 Mason and Vallance's team were disposed 1 of. Mr Stead's colt Ike was not offered. * 1 Mr W. Profit has put the Musket—Dun- i dee's Katie filly that ho purchased at tie 1 Stud Company'» sale last week into R. ! Thorpe's han,ds, She, has been christened' - Welcome j^atie. ■ ■ ;

A number of Mr DeMestre's two.year-" ' 5 olds were sold in Sydney the other week, "i The highest price obtained was for Sirocco who fell to the nod of Mr Maitland for 235 " guineas.. Two oi the classic events of the English ' tuvf -will be decided next week, viz., tho • Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas. The former is run on Wednesday, and the : ■ 1 latter on Friday. ; The loading Australian bookmakers re-" •'. fused to. bet at the Hawkeabury Autumn ?■■ Meeting, and the owner of-Empress waa ; L compelled to pick up his wagers £50 at a- .' time from the small ring men. Tho Melbourne ring got off with a clean :. book over tho Sydney Cup, and Pavo's . victory, it is stated, will go a great way towards making up their losses over the" '■'', V.R.C. Autumn Meeting. ■*'.- Vanguard's time for the roile-and-a-ha'lf;; in the Great Autumn Handicap was incbr- : , rectly talegvsphed. It should have been ' 2.40J, w.hrch ia 2soc. slower than the 1 fastest thne yeb reoorded for the race, ! Ivimy, at one time in Mason and Val- ' laneo'sewploy, and who wontheNewmatkefc Handicap on Malua, has purchased, as a' ■''■ result of that 75$ hoc. ride, a neat little . villa residence at Kensington, Melbourne. I Mr J, Thompson ("The Leviathan") cables to a Melbourne friend that he was betting at the Lincolnshire, Liverpool: 1 Grand National, and Kempton Park Meetings, and lost about £1,000 at the three * gatherings. The Supreme Court of Sydney hasrevetsed 'M the decision given by tho police ConfT^ Magistrates in the eases taken by Davis, ; the bookmaker, against the Australian : Jockey Club, and considers the Magistrates, ruling was. wrong. , An, English trainer and horseman named I Wood arrived from the South during the $ week, and is open for engagement. He has boen jn two of the best training establish ments in England, and until recently was * in the employ of Mr D. O'Brien. :? Voluptuary, the winner of the Liverpool ' Grand National Steeplechase, was at one time the property of Lord Rosebery, arid 1 ran several fast races on the flat as a two-year-old. Since then he has been gelded and schooled over fences. ■ "

In the " Tasmanian Mail": there is an ae~ " count of a trotting match for £5 a-sido I from Hobart to Green Ponds and back, th» I distance feoing 60 miles. Money must bo ; sea.roe in Hobart, or else horsofleah and time f areoSKttle consequence. The week before the A.J.C. Meeting, i V Martini-Henry, was most erratic in hia • gallops, One morning ho swerved right I across the course three times, and although Hales got him going again each timo, Be i wont as unkindly as ever s horse could go, :- and -wound up by rubbing Hales up against >>? a post. in the course of his speech at Hawera, the i*remier, In reply to a question re the I § totaliiiator, said that he disapproved of any . public recognition of gambling. -■; Tlj^V v matter bod not yet been considered by ■the' Cabinet, but inquiries would bo matte, and if the Government found that thetotoJisatorwas the evil it was represeßSsd' to boJ Parliament must deal with the matter. I