CONDENSED ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4124, 22 September 1883, Page 5 (Supplement)

CONDENSED ITEMS.

Prometheus is doing slow work at Caul field.

The Sydney public were heavily hit over the A.J.C. Meeting.

It is said that Dirk Hatteraick was not " cherry ripe " in the S.A.J.C. Derby. Beau Brummel had the pen put through his name for the Doncaster St. Leger. Tho value of the A.J.C. Derby was 525 soys, the Metropolitan 1,009 soys.

Fordham rode Border Minstrel in the Goodwood Cup. It made his fifth win in the event.

At the Otago Hunt Club Steeplechase Meeting £2,852 went through the totalisators.

Old Foul Play, lately in work at Napier, has been thrown out of training, and has returned to stud duties at Gisborne.

The Epsom Derby for 1885 has closed with 193 subscribers, the Oaks with 146, and the Epsom Grand Prize with 217.

Plunger Walton "scooped in" 75,000 dollars at the Monmouth Park (New York) Race Meeting. Lone Hand, and the three-year-old Musket colt Snider, were shipped for Napier on Thursday to fulfil their engagements there. The famous Fernhill (N.S.W.) stud is to be managed by the Messrs Cox Bros., who are racing the late Hon. E. K. Cox's horses.

Trevallyn, who stretched Grand Flaneur's neck in the A.J.C. Derby of 1880, but did nothing of any note subsequently, has been leased for breeding purposes by a Victorian sportsman.

The Wanganui horses Dan, Fame, Buzzard, Hinemoa, Ngata, and Leonessa, are all reported to be in excellent health. It is said the latter has grown into a fine strapping iilly.

Last week I chronicled the sale of Mr Bates's two mares, Minerva and The Jilt, to aMr Hamilton. "Senex" says they are still in Sam Higgott's stable with the rest of Mr Bates's team.

Final payments for the Hawke's Bay J.C Spring Handicap, Hurdles, and Flying Handicap are due on Tuesday next. A sweep of ssovs. for the Guineas is also due on the same day. The -victory of Ossian in the Doncaster St. Leger could not have been the big surprise imagined. At Goodwood, his owner took 5,000 to 200 about him for the race, and in tho " Sportsman " of the 7th of August he was in the betting list. "Martindale" says had Martini-Henry started in the A. J.C. Derby dressed in his best, he would have been defeated by Le Grand. He thinks the son of Epigram will take a lot of beating from the best in the land.

It is rumoured in Melbourne that Le Grand has been purchased by a well-known Caulfleld owner of horses. Yately is also reported to have been purchased in Sydney, privately, by a Melbourne sportsman, whose name has not transpired. The trustees of the late Mr J. D. Powdrell have decided to sell by auction at an early date the whole of his racing stock, with their engagements. The horses include Hailstorm, Tally-ho, Ringleader, Tantivvy, Discretion, Daphne, and several brood mares and young stock.

A Napier paper states that in consequence of Mr Gr. P. Donnelly's trainer, Mr Munn, leaving for Australia, Mr Donnelly has determined to relinquish the turf, and his racing stud will be sold by public auction immediately after the Spring Meeting. The list will include sevei-al youngsters by Musket.

The popular Adelaide sportsman Sir Thomas Elder will probably break up the Morphetville stud at the end of the year. The reasons ' given are that Mr Dakin his trainer, cannot make the stud pay to his satisfaction, and when the stable has a good horse iie is crushed by the handicappers.

Second King is now a firm first favourite for the Maribyrnong Plate, and has been supported at 100 to 12. Suberba has receded to 100 to 0, the South Australian filly Helene now being second favourite at 100 to 7. Mr White's lolanthe and Buckingham have received support at 100 to 7, and the Cocoanut colt finds friends at 100's to 6.

The racing engagement between the Dowager Duchess uf Montrose (widow of the late Mr W. S. Crawfurd), Lord Alington, and Sir Frederick Johnstone will not be renewed at the close of the present English racing season. Her Grace has adopted the noi)i clc course of Mr Manton, and has registered the "all scarlet" of her late husband as her colours.

When the news arrived that First Demon had run second for the Metropolitan, an Adelaide gentleman who got an early wire took all the money the local books would lay about him for the Melbourne Cup, leaving off at 100 to 6. Two Adelaideans who were in Sydney heard that The Gem would be dangerous for the Metropolitan, backed him, and pocketed about £3,000 between them.