BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3722, 15 July 1882, Page 4

BREVITIES.

; 100 to 6 is what the Auckland books are ofTeriDg about King Quail for the G. J.C, Nominations for the Canterbury Cap {two soys.) on Ist August, and acceptances for the C. J.C, are due on the same date, Mr Griffin, the American Consul, is pro» paring a report for hi« Government on the br^edinc; of thoroughbreds in New Zealand. Nothing has yet been definitely decided anent the proposed Auckland Spring Meeting. • ".Augur" thinks $he Gem, with 7at. 4lbs., is "pitcWorked1' into the Melbourne Cap, a.nd, if allowed to run, will be one of the first three. The loading Victorian bookmakers ate sending in their license fees of 25 guineas totheV.R.C. . Wheatear, who cannot live Over a mile and three quartets, is overweighted with, Bst 41b for the Metropolitan St&kes. The Hon. J. Whit vat present in Eng* land, has .purchased La Princesse, a chestnut f\lly two, years old. "Nemo" says Se^enhoe is the finest colt that ever stepped on the Randwick course. - Ringarooma, by Tubal Cain, out of the New Zealand-bre^ mare Lurline, is said to be a yery promising yearling. Besides Martini-Heury, the Hon. Mr White has two colts by Maribyrncwg eatored for the Maribyruonjj flate. At the sale of the £arl of Wiuton's stud, a colt, clausing Shotovcr as a full sister, was spjd for 730 guineas; and a brother to Marden was knocked down at 110Q guineas. £10,000 worth of horsos wove recently exported from Adelaide to India, in one shipload, Brown $ess, by Musket, started second favourite for tho time-honoured. Chester Trades' Cup at 7 to 2, but only managed to finish fifth m a field of seven. Euclid and Sardonyx are scratched for the Melbourne Cup. A Queensland bookmaker was recently arrested foi having no lawful visiblo means of support. Enko, Belcher, and Yuile were the only bookmakers at the Napier meeting. Tho two former were bitten severely through the. favourites winning persistently. Tlw Morphetville (South Australia) race. course was lately graced by an English bookmaker. He laid most liberal prices and was well patroni&oti, Tasmanjan spojfcs expect great things from Stocljfwell, who is entered for the Melbourne Cap. He ran a good second for the Hoburt Cup, and appropriated the Launceston Cup a week after, Advices are to hand that Martini-Hemy, the Musketsylvia colt sold to Mr White, tho Australian owner, for £i,25(), is doing splendidly. lie shows a great turn of speed, and wil not disgrace his parents. The youngster is entered for the Marj. byrnong Plate. Kandwick and Vampire have left the course for tbe stud, the former having passed into the hands of Mr O. C. McGee, while the latter is now the property of a Kaipara gentleman, .- Robert the Devil, who won tho Maiden Steeplechase at Cambridge last season, is coming to town. He will be trained, and entered for some of our spring and summer

I Pell-mell, who ran second to ComrnotionJ \ J his stable companion by the way, aud beat Darflbin in thr. Victorian Racing Club St. Lngcr, is to be Kent to thft stud. "Caspian" expects the winner of the Hawk'Sbury Handicap to come from one of *tbe following :—Harbor, Cunoamnlln, Paul, Stella, Prinia Donna, Kingswortb, or Brjau O'Lynn. Epigram (Wheatear's sire) will only receive ten outside mares this season, and those at 25 guineas each. fj . A race without a winner was recently run in England, Three horses started; two did not complete the distance, and the favourite, who passed the winning, post amidst every demonstration of enthusiasm, could not make weight. The brood mare Ada, dtim of Danebury, Adamant, etc., has succumbed to a friendly bullet. Her last foal was a chestnut, filly by Perkin Warbeck, whom Mr Webb, of Clnistuburch, is now bringing up by hand. Manuka, the son of the Peer and W'aimea, that performed so brilliantly in this colony years ago, and has been at the stud iv Victoria, has been let to a Tasmanian breeder. Tartar, by liavensworth, who won the Maiden Hurdle and Maiden Steeplechase at the late Hawke's Bay meeting, wag lately bought at Wanganui by his owner, Mr Bloorofield, for £80. Geraldine Kacins Club annual meeting eventuates on September 28 and 29, The added money issossovs. divided among ten racec 'ihe principal events are :~K, C. Handicap of lOOsovs. 1J mile, and Cup, 100 soys. 2} miles. Nominations close on Sep. tember 21. Lohengrin was twice nominated for the Caulfield Cup—once in Melbourne and also in Sydney—so the actual entry for that raca is now reduced to 132 horses. Shotoyer was tipped for the Two Thou« sand Guineas by " Bleys " in Bell's Life and by " Vigilant" in the Sportsman, although almost friendless elsewhere. The filly was not mentioned in the betting till five days before the race, when on the strength of a good trial ehe was introduced at 25 to 1, and quickly rattled up to 10 to 1. The course was frightfully heavy on the day of the race, and the time was consequently slow. There are now located at Wanganui, and neighbourhood, no less than twelve thoroughbred sires, viz. :—Patriarch, by Yattendon ; Dilke, by Albion ; Gladiator, by Gladiateur; Barbarian, by Traducer; Early Bird, by Day Dawn; Opawa, by Ravensworth ; Cocksure, by Towton ; Don Juan, by Diomedes; three sons of old Sir Hercules mare Waimea (Papapa, Totara, Jfuriri), and Hinemoa. With Hippocampus and Cap-a-pie also at their service, next season, breeders cannot com. . plain, as they have a splendid list to select from, but I understand there are very few thoroughbred mares in the district.