BITS OF TURF.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 32, 8 February 1890, Page 3

BITS OF TURF.

The Auckland Racing Club will profit about £100 over the Jubilee meeting.

An enjoyable afternoon's sport is promised at Whitford Park next Wednesday. One of .the principal events is the Maori race, for horses owned and ridden by natives. It is anticipated there will at least be a dozen starters. Post entries will be received for the different races.

Tattersall's Club have fixed their annual race meeting for Saturday, the Ist oi March. The gathering takes place on the Takapuna racecourse, when £270 will be given in added money.

I see by late Australian tiles that Carbine is wonderfully well just now, and is striding along in great style. His opponent, Abercorn, has also performed good work of late, so the pair will probably meet in tho Champion Stakes. Dreadnought, Rudolph and Singapore are also chronicled as looking well. The Hon. J. White's horses were to leave Sydney for Melbourne last Saturday.

While at Sylvia Park on Monday, Lord Carrington expressed the opinion that Carbine is the greatest horse ever seen in Australia.

The Sydney Turf Club Anniversary Meeting on the 27th of last month was notorious for the downfall of the favourites. In each event an outsider got home, and backers had a most diaastrous day. Gipsy King, the Dunedin Cup winner of 1888, is in work again. Chemist was shipped back to Napier in the 6arly part of the week.

The two-year-old colt Ben Trovato, by Apremont - Flattery, was submitted co auction in Christchurch, and found a buyer in Mr D; Rutherford. The price paid was 105 guineas. _ Mr D. S. Wallace, the owner of Carbine, got his collar bone broken the other week, fie was out driving, and was thrown from his conveyance. ...'-.,

The only horseman that accompanied Mason to Melbourne with Scots Grey and Medallion were Cusdin and Boyle. The horses will be taken on to Sydney for the Easter meeting, so that Mason will not return to this colony for three months.

Writes "Rata":— " Merrie England, though undoubtedly very fat at present, is improving. He was given a strong sprint gallop on Saturday morning, in presence of Mr W. 0. Rutherford, and he went better than I have seen him go for some time back."

The Christchurch weeklies regularly treat us to a par. to the effect that Sultan is to be shipped to Australia. The other day it was wired by the Press Association agent that the horse had been purchased by a patron of Cutts's stable, but in last Saturday's issue of the daily Ohristtihurcb " Press " I came across the following :4-* "The racehorse Sultan was to have been shipped yesterday for Sydney, * but on Thursday Mi* E". Cutta purchased the horse from Mr Hammond, not for a patron of his stable, but for an Australian buyer." The Takapuna Jockey Club, paid away £570 in stakes over their Jubilee Meeting. Mr J. J. Russell and Mr D. McKinnon were the two largest winners. The Henderson's Mill Turf Olub are out with their programme for- the annual race meeting op St, Patrick's Day (Monday, 17th March), . s