ENGLISH RACING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 3 December 1890, Page 3

ENGLISH RACING.

(FROM 01)11 OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

London, September 26. Sale op How. J. White's Houses. The auction of the Hon. James White's horses at Newmarket ou Wednesday realised—thanks chiefly to the spirited purchases of young Cooper, of Sydney—a substantial total. It was siKiiiticanc to find as shrewd a judgo as Captain Machell anxious to buy "the coach-horso Kirkham," and willing to bid up to 610 guineas for that discredited three-year-old. Mr Swan pot Navellan for 250 guineas only, and ther; a spirited competition took place ior the two-year-old Wentworth, Mr Cooper eventually outstaying all Englishmen, and getting the youngster for 1,300. The cracic of the sale, however, was Mods. Meg (a yramlson of Aiartini-Henry), which realised £2,600, Captain JMacholl, Mr Douglas Baird, Sherwood, and Mr Swan were all anxious to secure thia colt, but here again Mr Cooper would not be denied and (rob him. Mr Douglas Baird took the remaining Martini-Henry colt out of L.a l'rineesse for £650., the sale totalling £6,160, or an average oi over 1,000 guineas a lot.

it will be remembered that last year in the Keinpton Great Breeders' Foal Stakes (now worth £5,000) Mr Milner's Riviera we.3 just beaten by an outsider from Jewibt's stable called Dearest. Curiously enough, this anniversary history repeated itself precisely similarly, Mr J\j liner's Va'auris (bhe brother of Riviera) succumbing to Lord Calthorpe's blavatsky (a 20 to 1 chance) by a neck only. There were t\VG:ity-one runners, and Potard, Lady Primrose, Gold Reef and TittloTattle started better favourites than Vulaurio, which, openin£at6tol,wenb back to tens. Tho rank outsider Guardian (by Zealob—Selection) made the running to the distance, where io was challenged by Blavatsky, Lord Rosebery's Keronal and Valauris. A grand raco homo botwoen bhe four resulted in a neck victory for Lord Calthorpe'a daughter of I-onorny and Lotus, Valauris being a hoad in front of Guardian, and tho latter the same distance to the fore of Keronal. Like Riviera last year Valauria was unlucky to lose, na Tommy Loate3 managed to get shut in at the home burn, and so lost a lot of ground. Saturday a'fc Keinpton was a tragic day for backers, no fewer than four races out of bhe seven fulling to animals unsupported for sixpence. In tho Champion Nursery (pf. l,000sovs) Mr M ilner's St. Kilda was made a greab favourite, but never showed in the van, and Sir R. Jardino'a Bondage (by Muncastor—R-sata) won easily from Mr Houldsworth's Susiana and Mr Deacon'a Kate Allen. Betting : 100 to 7, Bondage ; 100 to 0, Sueiana; B~to 1, Kate Allen. The Middle Park Plate, Neither the Duke of Westminster's O.ion or Mr Milner's Valauris can bo anything like na good as their connections imagine. The former started favourite for the Middle Park Plate on Wednesday in a high-class fiald of nine, but could gcb no nearer than third to tho French Gonvernour (by Energy —Gladia), which won fairly cleverly from Mr Douglas Baird's Siphonia (by Sb. Simon-— Palmfiower). Gouverneur, it will ba remembered, came from Chantilly with a great reputation in the Spring, and was favourite for the Manchester Whitsuntide Plato, in which, howovcr, it ran nowhere, though Reverend (also an Energy youngster, and M. Blanc's property) won. In the Portland Stakes at Leicester Gouverneur again failed to show i prominently, and though a clever victory over Coreza in the Rous Memorial afc headquarters a fortnight ago eomowhab retrieved matter?, M. Blanc's colt really appeared to have small pretensions to beating cracks like Orion, Mimi, Valauris and Keronal. Siphonia, too, had nob done well sinco her smashing finish with The Deemster at Ascot. What, by the way, the feelings of the backers who" laid 3 to 1 on this filly beating Orion at Goodwood (and lost their money) can have boon on Wednesday when tliov saw the form reversed, I can't imagine. Evidently either the son of Bend Or and Shotovor has gone off or Siphonia has como on since Goodwood. Orviebo failed to stay, and so did Mimi, whose first defeat this was. Gouverneur made all bhe running and won rathsr easily by half a length ; Orion, two lengths ofl', third. The Cesarewitoii. Prince Soltykoff's Sheen (by Hampton— Brilliancy), which broke the record by winning the Ceearcwitch yesterday under the top Weight of 9sb 21b, has never been considered a very high-class animal, and probably owes its victory to the fact of there nob being another really downright good stavor in the field. Tho time shows the pace to havo been a cracker. When the 22 runners came well in sight there seemed only four or five in ib. At the distance, the favourite Alicante appeared to be about to score an easy victory, but old Sheen regularly wore her down, ultimately winning by two lengths. Tho French filly beat Judith half a length only for third place, and Victorious was fourth. For Ten Thovjsand Pouurs. Despite the prognostications of Tom Cannon and httle Loates, who declared that tho scrimmage during the race for the Leger cost St. Serf the second place, if nob victory itself, neither that col J nor Memoir could make a race with Amphion for the Ten Thousand Pound Lancashire Flate at Manchester last Saturday. There were nine runners altogether, and General Byrne's four-year-old, which looked magnificent in the paddock, finished up a red-hob favourite ab 11 to 8, 4 to 1 being offered Memoir, 7 to 1 againsb tho two-year-old Orion (much fancied by the "Sharps"), lOtol St. Serf, 100 to 7 a dark filly by Foxhall—Chopette, 20 to 1 Orvieto, and 33 to 1 Gold, Martagon, and Simonette. The race WOS run ab a terrific pace, the lightly-weighted two-year-olds being sent along in the hope that Amphion's lOab 21b would tell. Instead, I fancy they rather helped the great leathering colt. Memoir compounded a quarter of a mile from home and then the favourite had simply to canter home in front of Martagon, the Chopette filly, and Orion, and won easily by a couple of lengths from the tirst-narned, heads dividing the other three. The result was naturally very popular. With Amphion out of the way, the Duke of Westminster's Orion (by Bend Or—Shotover) would have won. Barrett pulled him up when pursuit was hopeless, Sb, Sarf

must have been " off colour," as it never showed prominently at any time. Newmabket, Tho racing at Newmarket First October Meeting (which ia in progress this week) calls for little comment, being made up in tho main of two-year-oid sprinte and nurseries. On Tuesday Mr Milner introduced us to a haudeome brother to Riviera and Seabreoze in Valauri?, which won fcho Bose&wen Stakes comfortably, oversetting a big pot in tho Duke of Beaufort's Simonctta. The Great Foal Stakes resulted in a match between Morion and Blue Green, which Lord Hartington's Crack just won, though it was palpably stopping, and in another hundred yards would have been easily beaten. Ton runnera contested tho Great Eastern Railway Handicap of six furlongs, on the Bretby Stakes course. Semolina, with 7st 101b on her small back, starting favourite. Tho issue, however, laj' between Mr C. D. Rose's Bel Domonio (3yrs, 6st 101b) and Mr Mann's L'Abbe Morin (3yre, 6st 101b), which drew away from the rest, and ultimately could not bo separated, tho judge declaring a dead heat. L'Abbesse do Jouarre (4yrs, 9<?t 71b) was third. Betting : 8 to 1 against each of the dead heaters. Stakes divided.

On Thursday the second of the three handicaps of l.OCOsovs apiece, presented by Mr C. D. Uoso, was run over the last milo and thrse-quorter of tho Ciesarewitch course, and fell to the favourite, Queen's Birthday, which won in a common canter from Chevy Chase, Padua, and seven others.