NOTES BY HIPPONA

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4419, 12 July 1884, Page 4

NOTES BY HIPPONA

TIIK I'akuranga Hunt Club Htoeplechnse promise!" to produce a very largo field this year, for in addition to the old candidates, I understand that there are about twenty now ones qualifying. Another addition was mndo to tho ranks this week in the shape of the well-known Wanganui jumper Sunray, who has boon purchased by Mr 11. Henderson. During iiis career, Sunray has placed several races to his credit, and last year he won tho Rangitikoi Hunt Club Steeplcchaso, -1 miles, with 12st. 71b. up, his six other opponents carry ing lOst. 71b.

Our two-year-old races next season will certainly bo worth witnessing if tho numorous youngsters now boing taught tho rudiments of their education continue to go on nil right. J. Kno is now busy with Mr Lounard's lilly Capollu, by Cap-apio— Xantippe, and from all accounts sho promises to grow into a good-looking young lady.

Tlio Victoria Racing Club SlcoploehaM Mooting takes place on Saturday next. No boat having nrrivod from Sydney Ihi.-i week, tlic woiglite for tho principal cvciitn liavo not yet coma to hand.

Tho Canterbury Jockoy Club have li\o.l thoir Sfuin^r Mooting to take place on Kovombor 11, 13, and 14. The Cup in to bo run on tho first day, tlio Doiby on tlio second, and tlio Canterbury Cup on (ho third.

1 am glad to hoar that the "N.Z. Referee," published in Christclmrcli, in proving such n success that the proprietors havo detormined to enlarge the paper to twelve pages, anil reduce the price to threepence. It was to have appeared in its enlarged form yesterday. Mr N. (!. Lennox is agent for the sale of the "Koforco" here.

The Caullicld Cup weights which enmo to hand by cable this week, show a great similarity to those issued for tho Mclbourno Cup, so it may bo safely inferred that Mr Barnard's work in tho big Flemington event has been received with favour "over tin pond." 1 am glad to see that ho has attain acted with consideration towards tho New Zealand horses, and ho far as weight is concerned, there is littlo to interfere with tieir chances.

Tlio Wanganui steeplechaser Alaric, of whom there lias been so much talk in local sp<irting circles from time to lime, has at la»t been brought tip here, he having been Vurchasod by Air \V. K. Carter, of Cambridge. Alurie was deliver-d to his now owner in tlio early part of the week by Koss lleaton, at whose hands 1 understand he will bo prepared for next season's campaign."

The Hon. \V. Robinson has left Christchurch for Melbourne via Sydney. Ho in- | formed " Sir Lnuncolol," jtint prior to his 1 departure, Unit a portion of the time occupiod by his trip (from which ho expects to return in about a month) would bo devoted to finding stable accommodation for Welcome .lack, Oudeix, Liverpool ard Kskatos, should it bo decided to send them over, a contingency which—judging from the (■onvermiliidi I lmd with tho registered owner of'tho " white jw-kot nnd block and gold bolt"—scorns to bo far from remote Christchureli fwporx clironielti tlio fact .li.it Mr li. (i. Stead lias disposed of his breeding establishment known us •• Ku.-shv " to tlio Ljchl rtiudiou who races •mder the name ot1 Mr " Horsford." Mr Stead, however, still retain." the eight horses in training, tlio best known of which arc Sir BoiUvore, Ike, Carlton, and Marion, and they are to tenant .Mr llorsford's old quarters at Crisis. Lodge. Carlton, it may bo noted, ia a full brother to Noneoneo, and was greatly fancied for the Welcome Stakes at tlio last O.J.C. Spring Meeting, but ho failed to train ft situation. Ho cost Mr Stead (i 7."> guineas when a yearlint;.

Tho (ivo-ycnrold jroldinir .Vsscjjni, who rail n (lend heat with Uoachcr for tho Maiden Steeplechase- at tlio rer-cut Hauko's Bay Meeting, has by no moans boon nnprotitiblo to his owner during tlio piist BCiwon. ?rom his performances which have been •upplicd nio by >i friend, I gather that since last, November ho has started ih fifteen raco.", winning ten out nf tin; number and -ccutiil in the other live, but it may be mentioned (hat tin)majority of his successes ivoro gained in hnclt races. Tlio amount of moncv won by Assegai la.-1 season tots up to £335.

Our old friend Dick Wheeler scorns to have established himself in Wanganui. One of tho local journals states that he has leased tho Delamoro training stables from Mr.l. W. .liickson, and his boxes are full. Under his cr.ro is Miss Puritan, by Antcros —Miss Puritan (who it will be remembered defeated Carbineer in tho Nursery Handicap on tho second day of tho Taranaki Autumn Meeting); a Wanganui Derby candidate called Titokowaru, by Dilkc—Flora McDonnell ; Maid of Eccloston, by Tho Painter— Policy, and thrco or four others of local fame

Writes "Maiceppa " :—" Verily Claronco is a wonder ! This season lio has won eight of tho littcen events which ho has contested. Taking his record for tho past fivo seasons, I find that dining; that poriod ho has started in S8 races, of which ho lias won no less than 39, his earnings in stakes amounting to over '"3.750." Tho same writer states that Taiaroa's " leg " is gotting all right again, and Captain Webster is in good health, and seems to be thickening out a bit.

forty-two sires are represented in tho next V.R.C. Derby, run on the Ist of Novombcr. Sylvia's son, Goldsborough, heads tho list, with 10 youngsters to his credit, Maribyrnong treading closoon<his heels with 9 ; Julian Avenol ranks noxt with 7 ; King of the King and Tubal Cain, 5 each; Argus "Scandal, Countryman, Gang Forward, and Robinson Crusoe, 4 cacht Tim Whitller (imp.), Kolpio, Napoleon, Comma di Vergy, Chandos, and Piscator, 3 each ; Kingsborough, Glorious, Tho Gondolier, Nowminster, King Tom, Malta, and Emulation, 2 each j Aldinga, Blair Athol, Don Giovanni, Englishman, First King, Grandmaster, Hawthornden, King Arthur, KingColo, Ladykirk, Marquis, Proto-Martyr, Quambono, Roprievo.Roodeo, Slanderer, Somnus, Tester, Wintorlakc, and Wollotnai, 1 each ; in all, 104 nominations. Musket's name docs not appear in tho list this year.

"Sonox," who is reviewing the two-year-olds of tho past season, speaks in the following glowing terms of tho lord of tho harem at. Sylvia 1 ark :—Tho season of ISS3-84 will he remembered as "tho Musket year," this sire having established a name for liiniriolf throughout tho Australian colonies which will live for ever. When tho news came fioin England that I'ol-ronel had won tho Two Thousand Guineas, we knew that Auckland poi-'scspcd a sire who, if judiciously mated, could got it racehorso of tho highest class, but as ho had in England been visited by a very choice lot of maros, whose progeny, with this ono excoption, had loft no mark at all upon tho turf, it was inferred that Musket was not likely to provo an all-round success at tho stud, although some happy nick might at any time produce a clinker. Tho running of liia first lot of two-year-olds in tho North (javo colouring to tho idea, and when Martini-Henry's Derby and Cup peformmances were wired from Mclbourno, it was only looked upon us another instance of tho "happy nick," but since then the successes of his two-year-olds of tho presont season, got as they are from sevoral different strains of blood, has quite altered the complexion of affairs, and Musket, undoubtedly, now ranks as the most successful all-round sire in Now Zealand. Trenton, Krupp, and JNlecklaco have all proved themselves very high-class horses, and some others, such as Carbineer, Revolver, and Fusilier, have shown good form.

It is most amusing to read how poor " Walton the plunger " has got into hot water because ho has managed to deceive the touts (writes the English correspondent of the " Australasian "). Richmond, a colt by Bold Dayrell out of Miss Harriott, is now the property of this highly speculative American, and is trained by Sherwood at Epsom. Well, it seems that Walton was not at all satisfied with the price the bookmakers offered him against his colt, so he got Sherwood to leave the horse in the stable two or three mornings, and give him his work in tho afternoon instead. Of course the sporting papers c.imc out next day with reports that the liorso was absent from exercise and hod " hit his log," Meantime the odds so extended against his chance that I did see as much as 33 to 1 laid. It is doubtless very riling for these scribes to find they have been hoodwinked, but it would be far better to lot the matter drop than to assume a lot of virtuous indignation

when they know perfoctly well that the same tactics would (if thought worth while) bo adopted by at least 90 per cent, of these immaculate English racehorse-owners. According to tho Now York "Clipper," an apparatus for registering the speed of horses has been invented by Thomas Ackloy, of Warren,O. It is called a speod indicator, and looks something like a watch, with a diameter of 3in. It can bo attached to a sulky shaft, and started or stopped by the driver's foot. Thoro are two hands on the dial. One registers 40 seconds in one revolution. The other, a curved hand, is worked with ingenious machinery by the right wheel of tho suiky, and makos one revolution when tho sulky goes ono mile. By a system of linos and figures on the dial, the exact rate of speed is shown.