TURF GOSSIP.

(by spectator.) The Sporting Times speaking of theresuits of the Two Thousand during the past seven years has the following :— The superstitious who anticipated another intermittence of P and C in the Two Thousand pinned their faith in Cameliard and Cnmberland,but Peregrine broke the charm, and scored another mark fortheP's. The Guineas is becoming more than ever a P.P. race,don't you C? Under the heading " Englishmen in New Zealand," appears in the Sporting Times a letter signed Rosy Cross, Wanganui, March 25th. The writer says "Our horses they say, as far as training goes, areas gx>d as the English ones, but I, who am fresh from home, cannot and will not believe this." The letter contains a few lines about Natator, his owners, Messrs Lance and Robinson, and mentions that Musket is standing in New Zealand at 20 guineas a mare. A weekly paper containing a report of the Autumn meeting was sent to the editor by "Rosy Cross " who claims to be a subscriber to the " Pink Un " when with his regiment in India.

John Corlett, author of " Our Note Book," in the paper above alluded to, commenting oil the performance of Windsor, from the dam of Musket, by West Australia, who won the Chester Tradeß Cnp of 500sovs., thus writes about the Auckland Stud Company's sire : — It is worthy of note that, while the Windsor Meeting was being held on the Clewer meadows, a mare of the name of Windsor was winning the Chester Cup. She had performed so badly this year that her victory was little anticipated, but when it came to going two miles and a quarter the Musket blood asserted itself, and we have an additional reason for lamenting the expatriation of that very smart horse. In another column will be found a most interesting letter from a correspondent in New Zealand, who makes mention of Musket, whose fee in that colony is only twenty guineas. It would be worth while to buy him back again, as '• we never knew how much we loved him till we lost him." The Cobham Stud Company will be pleased to hear their horse so well spoken of by such an authority as John Corlett, and those in these districts who have patronized the horse will no doubt be glad to hear of the success of others of the family. The writer goes on to say :— " Windsor, little as she was fancied at Chester, was backed to win a very heavy stake by Sir John Astley for the Lincolnshire Handicap, but the mile was not far enough for her. It is now-a-days too readily assumed that a horse cannot stay, and many • horse that might have been a Musket never had the * chance afforded him of showing his stamina. Musket was actually sentenced to be shot before it was discovered that though bad at a short distance he could stay for ever. It was sound advice that Frederic Swindles once gave vs — never to part with a horse before trying him over all distance. "Thou know'st, lad, what a master I found in Wallace that way." As a set-off to the unpleasant " scratching of Natator " gossip, into which Mr Robinson's name was dragged, the following from the same article reads well:— "Our correspondent further makes mention of Mr "Gratitude" Robinson, whose remarkable career on the English Turf we described in a leading article in this journal not long ago. We spoke of Mr Robinson as being one of the most light-hearted losers we ever met, and mentioned that after spending a fortune here, he, in the most matter-of-fact manner, announced his intention of going back to New Zealand and getting another. It will rejoice all who appreciated his straightforward career on the English Turf to know that he has done so ; and we are also glad to notice the honor that has been done him by his fellow colonists."

The Snorting Times, some five or six months since, contained an article to the effect that a mare called " Gratitude "nearly broke the Hon Mr Robinson by losing the Czarewitch. This is why his name is men* tioned as Mr "Gratitude" Robinson. In New Zealand he is better known as " Ready Money Robinson."