CONDENSED ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 212, 10 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

CONDENSED ITEMS.

Mr Carmody left for Sydney this week to try his fo> tune. The late Mr M. Fennelly had his life insured for £3,000. The price of the " Australian Turf Register" has been raised to 15s. Sextant has lately been inquired for in Melbourne for the V.R.O. Derby.

Vespasian (sire of Blairgowrie) was recently sold in Brisbane for 112 guineas. Lord Wilton is in work again at Flemington, but his standing a preparation is considered doubtful.

The Tasmanian Racing Club have purchased a totalisator from a New Zealand firm at a cost of £'250.

In the Moonee Valley Cup, run on October 22, Pasha has been awarded Bst 91b, and Teddy Yuille 7st 91b. The withdrawal of Volcano from the Hawkesbury Handicap and Trident from the " Metrop." was a severe blow to Sydney bankers.

The entry for the Epsom Derby of 1889 shows a slight advance on that for next year. The Prince of Wales is a nominator.

Mr John Field's Queen Mary has foaled a sister to Sheet Anchor this season. This should be a valuable addition to the blood isfcock of Victoria.

A serious disease, said by the Victorian Government veterinary to be Australian stringhalt, has broken out among the horses in the Moama district.

The Christchurch Middle Park Stud Company's matron Hammock, dam of Somnus and Siesta, has this season produced a filly foal to Apremont. Mr Payten, who since his boyhood has been under the late Mr M. Fennelly, has been placed at the head of the Hon. Jas. Whites stable.

Lord Ribblesdale, in an article on " Queen's Plates," in the " National Review," says that horsebreeding in England is in "a pining condition." July was sold in Christchurch last week for 125 guineas, Mr M. Cowan being the buyer. The disappointing son of Traducer is to be travelled in Canterbury.

A recent isfiie of the " Town and Country Journal " publishes in its sporting columns an engraving of Mr James Paul, secretary of the Tattuiaki Jockey Club.

Although the English St. Leger is not to be run "till September 14th, as little as 2 to 1 in thousands was taken in one hand six weeks ago about Merry Hampton. Tho "Jubilee Plunger," Mr Benzon, has purchased the English racehorse Kingswood for 2,500 soys., and shortly after he won the Victoria Cup abKempton Park.

Mr W. Kelso has disposed of his interest in the racehorse First; Chester to Mr E. Eagei*, and he now occupies a box in fche same stable as the Musket mare Industry.

An English paper says that the Duchess of Montrose has refused 15,000 guineas for the Sefton stud of yearlings, numbering 15, the value set upon them being £20,000.

Halcyon, by Epigram out of Ada, the property of Mr W. Forrester, and a fair performer as a two-year-old, injured himself so severely lately by falling that he had to be destroyed.

The Hon. W. A. Long's Moorhouse was among the starters in Sydney Tattersall's Spring Handicap. He failed to gain a place ; but strange to say, his name did not figure in the betting at the post. The English jockey C. Wood, who seems destined to fill tho late F. Archer's place, had up to fche time of the last mail leaving England, won 83 races for 258 mounts. G. Barrett was next with 63 out of 330.

An Adelaide writer states that Isonomy is looking as well as his enthusiastic wellwishers could desire. He is far more forward than he was lasfc year, and is doing any amount of work and standing it well. A horse called Koshishshebogamogran, was among the starters for the East Riding Hunters' flat race at Beverly, England, on June 22, but failed to gain a place. He was probably overweighted by his name. Kangaroo, by Manuka, is credited with being the biggest winner in Tasmania during the last season. The amount in stakes won was £359. He started a dozen times, and scored eight wins and two

seconds,

Kempton Park (England) shows that a racecourse well managed will pay as well as most enterprises. Nearly £40,000 has been spent in improving the property ; yet it would be hard *obuy one of the original £40 shares for £200, and this is the growth of a little more than a decade.

An American trotting stallion has lately arrived in Sydney from San Francisco in the shape of Doncaster, a handsome son of fche celebrated sire Elmo, whose pedigree on the male side runs back to Prunella (imp.), a blood mare by Comus, the grandsire of Melbourne. Doncaster is nine years old. The Adelaide-owned brood mare Deceptive is dead. She was foaled in 1865, so that she was 22 years old. Deceptive produced Tinfinder, one of the most valuable brood mares in Australia, and in addition to the dam of Assyrian, Pawnbroker, Helene, The Israelite, &c, was the mother of Totalisator and Delusion.

The " Sydney Telegraph" says that judging by the consistent suppoit accorded to Algerian for the Melbourne Cup, the son of Algeria is a great public favourite, and will probably advance to a short price in the quotations. He is now almost as good a favourite as anything else. Mr J. B.;Haggin, the Calif ornian sportsman, is in great fomt with his teams this season. At the Monmouth Park meeting he won the Hopeful Stakes with a colt named Woden, the Long Branch Handicap with Hidalgo, and the Monmouth Oaks and a sweepstakes with Frienzi. He was equally successful at the Chicago meeting.