MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1892, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

■Nominations lor. the farewell race meetin, Sed to Lord and Lady Onslow by Sffidßacta* Club close on Friday k It is a pity that a Se ing Race SL in an otherwise excellent prosamine. Mr Percival should _ certain ly Ltowork to have the race eliminated. Waior George will send some of his horses to either Melbourne or tho South during tbecourseof the next fortnight. He thinks fo Workman is unfairly treated in the Handicap, but Reprisal has mUtat his fair deserts. % Auckland Trotting Club made a not ptofit pi £260 over the Summer Meeting. !l„ mount of the totalisator tax paid_ to the Colonial/Treasurer over the gathering totted iu,to £97 ls6d. A*\tißpMlfuaga Racing Club Meeting: „s*_?, the amount of £1,418 10s was jawittjo the-totalisator by Mr Blom/_ir/_W_J_ft , ... ■'• Be/ore waving for Christchurch Mr TX O'Moieft-Yattaghan and Tamar with _mef©Sii.' ir ' l Tam'4r figures among the entries for the juvenile races at the TakajwJockey Club Summer Meeting. Acceptances for the Takapuna Cup and Steeplechase close on Friday night. General entries are also due.

Iter George Hopa has secured an ap{lintmenfc as trainer to Goodson Bros., of aiera. D. O'Meara, lately in Mr J. Forth'a employment, has also been engaged as head lad by the same sportsmen. The Wellington Cup is run on Friday. According to a telegram to hand, Paliiser, bring been bought by Mr T. W. Hungerford, trill run in thab gentleman's colours. Prime Warden and Boulanger are favourites iorthe Cup at 4 to 1. It appcat'3 that Morion was scratched turn two months ago for bhe Takapuna Siakes, one of the "classic" events to bo inn ab the forthcoming Takapuna Summer liertidg.' Mr Bobbett has thus thrown way lOOsovs, for on paper the race would bva been at the mercy of Morion. Lady Belle, Tulloch, Resentment and Ida are among tbe best at present left in the Kent.

Mr F.F. Dakin, the new handicapper to Wiotbria Racing Club, has been by no Stins lenient to the New Zealand-owned m entered for the Newmarket llandijjpwd Australian Cup. I should scarcely tttokllr O'Brien will take Freedom and wrioover for those events. Impulse is Jty harshly treated in the Newmarket Handicap, but Reprisal is fairly handi"PN. Mr W. R. Wilson's pair, SbrafchJDoreand Zalinski, are favourably weighted '». the Australian Cup, but Tirailleur has Wore than his deserts. Welaon--lorence colt that Mr John %*al] bought at Major George's salo for Wwfigure of 80 guineas has met with Kflhelj, It appears that the colb was grated one day last week, and some m tlrao afterwards he showed signs of P>S «nd gradually gob worse. Yesterday ™ wit was destroyed at Mr Marshall's

J*&s annual races at Tauran_a on the n>. . ln 7s nt ''"pro have been seven entries for the handicap hurdles, and nine «Wfor the big handicap. «ator'' :-'< I hear that a H««wn Sportsman whose colours were (U reg L in the North ' Islan d. but i 7 ™?n absent some time in England, ' Biiortlybe ou. .his way to this colony ac of-blood stock. Feve. «_ a ?'., L 9 cket ' ffl ay be remembered as ttatu 9 6 P l ' evi ous importations of the pieman referred to." fc&ft, V' 6 " Weßkl y Prc?3 and cka_u. ,% he m ]E) ''eamer, which was pur-jJrtby-MrT. W. Hungerford in Auck•nirfW aine ' Jone3 > the forraei " "fi?* 8 m SVV Zealand Cu P winner, tknu, w ' Tne Sflme authority says ttfordenfeldt-Maid of Athol filly, W&b_ le , flon - J - D - ormo »d at the •WmuJ? »" the South at the *nt il ,?° Sb^ lr Dowse has » awarded Oc°«ito 9 Dunedi » Cup. Kulnine and ttce ' m l Uot6d favourites for the

li «i? r ri„t r8 r invited fa y the Papakura •N til •' tllo erecti o» of a grand oat V.9tUa atlOnS f ° r the meetln _ close •»t&J an J 0 «: k ey R. Bafctye, who 'MriPr. while ridin X Ma y Be in a l d National Steeplechase, Wd-snrin t ßu , fflcien "y to leave Mr Fitz«reZ a tehoß P ital in Melbourne, but ,^EV° rUt . che3in about. oaer ' the well-known Adetri NfeT ail ' returned from a European kalian, y l ag ?' and ' Kke many other """llittlo have visited England, ?«r««o "° comfort at the different dUf »mfort.* aoinK - In facfc > he sa ys the. *<"«WV ?ere 80 man y bhat ho was VH wgo a-vacing but very rarely.

The Captain's time, lmin 2fsee, for the V.R.C. Normanbv Stakes on JSew Year's Day, stands as the record for thatinvent. Monte Christo's lmin 3|seo was the previous best. , T T The American trotting mare, IMora _,cc, 18 years old, after raising a large family, was put into work and trotted a mile in 2min 32isec, which she is expected to considerably lower shortly. It " estimated that there are 48 two-year-olds in America which have trotted 2min 30sec or better, the greatest performer of the lot being Arion, with a record of 2min lOJsec, done on a trying day and in the face of a disagreeable wind. This latter is the most startling event recorded in trotting.