MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 139, 13 June 1891, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

There are likely to be some chancres in the Auckland Racing; Club programmes next season. I hear it is proposed to add another meeting, bringing the number for the season up to live, and probably the Winter Meeting may be extended to two days. The consideration of the last proposal will require a lot of caution, on .ccoutit of the weather at this period of the year being so unfavourable to bringing a Crowd together. S. Fergus went to Napier on Thursday _ ndei' engagement to Mr Pitt.

Lord Alington did nob see fib to take Common, bhe winner of this year's Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, across the Channel to bake part in tha Grand Prix of Paris, run on Sunday last. The cable tells us that (die well-known French sportsman, Mr E. Blanc (bho owner of Gouverneur), supplied both bhe first and second horses in Clamart and Reverend. Ciamarb is by Saumur —Princess Catherine, and his only ,'jppearanco as a two-year-old was in tho Prix de Saint Fivmin, of -lOOsovs, ab the Chantilly October Mooring, when he ran third to Amaudier and Le Hardy in a held of 13.

W. HatSeld, bhe cross-country rider, did no. atop long in Auckland. He returned to Sydney on Tuesday last.

At a committee meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, notice of mobion was given for a new rule providing that no horse, in whose ownership any paid official of a race meeting, or any person engaged in working the totalisator thereat, has any interest, shall be qualified to be entered or starb at such meeting. Any person so entering or starting a horse to be liable to a fine nob exceeding £100. Tho unexpected defeat of Mr Stead's Palliser ab the hands of his cast-off Retina ab the recent Dunedin Birthday Meeting, is thus referred to by a Wellington scribe .—" Talking with T. H. Hill since his return, the genial 'Tom' gave mo tho . übstance of a conversation be had with Mr Stead in Christchurch on his way home. Mr Stead said he was amused at the papers enlarging upon the chagrin ho must have ielt at being boaten by a cast-off from his own stable. Of course, he would have liked Palliser to win, bub if Palliser was to be beaten, he certainly hoped it would be by Retina, and for several reasons—in the first place ho had bred the mare ; in the next place be still owned Iris, her dam, whose value, wibh thab of her foal, would be increased by Retina's victory ; and in the third place ho did nob wish people to believe thab he only sold horses thab were tso good. The good opinion Matthew Dawson, the famous English trainer, formed of Mons Meg was fully borne oub at Royal Ascot on Tuesday last, when tbe daughter of Martini-Henri and Malacca wa3 successful in bhe Gold Vase. Mons Meg was ono of the batch sont to England by tho Hon. .James White shortly before his death, and when the deceased gentleman's horses were sold by auction in England, she became Mr Daniel Cooper's property ab 2,600 guineas. There would naturally be great glee among Hie Australians present at Mr Cooper's success. The wealthy Sydney sportsman also annexed, on the Sanaa afternoon, tho Prince of Wales Stakes with the English-bred filly Melody.