SPORTING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1888, Page 5

SPORTING NEWS.

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_r was «s «ff diay at Ranelwfefe this merafng, and feiie hesses out were ali treated to easy work-. . * ! iiATEST BBTTINGv j For the Met_opo_tan Stakes Tkuc-StotMH j Lamondv and __bercorn ftrt.ftb Bto-1 \ Cor*. digaa and Blarn^ 16 to - The quota*-1 t'ionfi of tlie other horses hre unaltered*. Lamond _ac been backed for the Caulfleld ; Qup M win -_40.0<30 at !»_ to 4 and 100 s *0& ' .. ■..;-.■ '

Sv_K_v» last night* I_, consequence of La_.9nd*B flne perform* ance this morning) he has been hacked for tlie G-roafc Meti-poUton Stakes at 6 to 1. Other quotations are as follows i—__oney» dew, 6tel (tk)j Touchstone, 7 to itoff I Cardigan, 8 to 1 (off) J Aber'conu IMo l(tk and off) 5 kr-entd, 12 to 1 (tk and oft) j The ■Je-x.l, 12 to I \ First Flaneur, 14 to 1 } Plutarch, 20 to 1 } Monto Christo, 25 to 1, (all offered); the btliore being uhchang-ed. Dick Swiveller and Whakawai have been backed for the Caulfleld Cup for £2,000 at 100 to 3,100 to 4, and 100 to 6. The New Zealand colt Carbine, which was being supported ato 10 to 1 for the Y.BkC; Derby, lias since shortened to 4 to 1, tho latter price being freoly taken. \

C_rbiho was soratohed yesterday for all engagements at the Chnstchurch Spring Meeting. Tho colt beiug taken to Melbourne may now be looked on as a certainty, and we shall probably hear of his being shipped in a day or two. , ;• Kean takes his team of horses to Napier bo-morrow to fulfil their racing engagements there. We gather from a late Napier paper that Dudu and Escapade arrived at Nai ier from Wanganui on Friday last, and that Cutts has sent wor ■> from Christchurch that he is sending up Chudleigh. Silence" has been scratched ..for the Spring Handicap and Uranus for the Hurdle Race. None of the Hon. J. White's horses started in the Hayvkesbury Guineas. Sydney papers to hand.up to Thursday last, record that V(.Hey had,receded to 3 to 1 for the Victorian Derby.