NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1778, 19 December 1885, Page 21

NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTING NOTES.

(By our Australian Sporting, Correspondent "Warrior.")

1 Sydney, December 8,

Saturday fortnight and the first day of the new year Randwick racecourse should be well patronised by Sydney sportsmen. For on these two days will be decided, the A.J.C. Summer Cup and Tattersall's Cup. The declaration of forfeit for these events were made on Thursday last, and the result is very encouraging to both clubs: — SUMMER CUP. H Mile. • st lb , st lb Welcome Jack ... 810 Lennox ... 7 0 Soldier Bby ... 8 10 Merman ... 7 0 Honeydew ... 8 6 Espiegle ... 6 11 Battailous ... S 6" Tempe... ... 0 10 St. Lawrence ... 8 1 Pet Girl ... 610 Minerva ... 8 2 Ben Bolt ... (5 3 Despot... ... 8 0 Burrilda ... 6 8 Oatcake ... 8 0 Sawdust ... 15 0 Brownandßoae ... 712 Sterling ... 6 t5 Cerise andßlue ... 710 Phyllis... ... 6 L Folly ... ... 7 10 Ferndale ... 0 4 Elsinore . ... 7 8 Reoruit ... 0 l Desmond ... 7 8 Eclipse ... IS 4 Metal ... ... 7 8 Peeress ... 6 2 King's Own ... 7 4 Hexhani ... 6 2 Bonuioßee ... 7 4 Valetta ... (5 0' Caliban • ... 7 2 From the above' list it will be seen that Merlin (9st 21b), Tom Brown (9st), Acolyte, and Coulstoun (Bst 101b), Madcap and Warwick (Bst 61b), Prince Imperial, Wing, and Coriolanus (Bst 41b), have cried " enough." The New Zealander now heads the list, and if he was the horse of days gone by both races would be all over, but I am sorry to say he is not within a stone of his true running. At all events, if Welcome Jack were ever so fit the stable wouldn't show their hand on Boxing Day but reserve him for Tattersall's two-mile' event. Soldier Boy can only manage a mile and a quarter, so I can pass him over. Honeydew might have had a first-class show in this rac^had if not been for the serious illness of his trainer, Tom Brown, who, I am glad to say, is fast recovering. Yesterday morning Mr Long's horse ( did a spanking gallop, and looked as well as when he romped home at Randwick last spring. Well and fit on the day of the race Honeydew will run very forward. With Bst 41b St. Lawrence is handicapped fairly " out of it." The 'daughter of Maribyrnong — Aruma, with Bst 21b on her back, should secure a place, for she won the Wagga Cup and Murrumbidgee Mile Handicap hands down,; and, notwithstanding the mare was carrying 9st, would have beaten the 6st'6lb Friendship in the Wagga Town Plate ' (one mile and a half) had Curran not forced the pace from the jump. Minerva, since her grand, display at Wagga, has changed hands and gone into Mr Wm, Forrester's stable. She did an excellent spin before breakfast this morning. Despite' the public running of Despot I must, on his 'daily gallops, recommend my readers to give him' one more show. I have always been of opinion that Mr White's horse can only travel one mile and a half, and with Bst on his back he may manage to carry off the Summer Cup. I prefer Cerise and Blue to either Oatcake, Brown and Rose, or Folly, and if I was to take my pick of the 7st division, Cerise and Blue, Metal, and King's Own would be my choice. The first-named rin away with the Hotham Handicap and the Free Handicap (one mile and a furlong) at the late Melbourne Cup meeting, carrying 7st 51b in the last-named race, and finishing the distance in 1.55|. Espiegle and Tempe have been pitchforked in at 6st 111b and 6st 101b, and if the former was only fit enough the Cup would be a.ll over. Of the thirty-three horses left in this handicap I would recommend my readers to study the merits of the following half-dozen : — Despot,' Cerise and

Of the ninety-two entries for Tattersall'a Cup forty-nine have failed to pay up ; conspicuous among them — Merlin, Tom Brown, Acolyte, Coriolanus, Warwick,. Coulstoun, Wing, Lord Exeter, Fayo, Matchlock, the Queensland-bred Blsinore, Impulse, Highland Mary, Old Gold, and Petronel, which places Mr James Wilson's Off-Colour at the head of affairs.