MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 175, 26 July 1893, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

With regard to Wright's pair of New Zealand Cup candidates, Royal Rose and Stanmoor, I am given to understand that *ne first-named nearly always has tho best Ji hid companion when they are associated together in their work. It is stated in Auckland that the speedy Jit lias got under the 14 hands standard in bytltiey! Mr W. R. Wilson's eh g Eureka, by from Primrose (and full brother to Churchill and Wild Rose) won the Lawn »•*" Heap at Flemington on the second day J 1 V.R.C. Steeplechase Meeting. He " . psedln the V.R.C. Derby,

From Caulfield braining grounds there is word to the effect bhab Malvolio and Correze are among the horses which are doing good work, but the latter being a gross animal causes the sweaters to be called frequently into requisition. Ascot Vale is said to have furnished into a fine horse, and Malolo looks bebter perhapß than he ever did.

John Rae had Marechal Neil and Marquis of Tewkesbury at Ellerslie on Saturday last. The last-named had his legs encased in bandages. Mr Harry Ellison, the Queen - street tobacconist, has senb me a copy of his ''Centaur" for 1893, containing the performances of the horses engaged in the New Zealand Cup, and a lot of other useful information to followers of the turf. The little volume is well worth tho Is charged for it.

The Workman and Pegasus are both doing good work at Ellerslie. On Saturday morning last the pair wero sent a •strong once round the tan, and although i The Workman is looking very big ; it is stated that he had a bib the best of ib. 1 The struggle for the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase is stated to have been a greab one. The much-fancied Alberb was right in the first flighb all through the trying journey, and was one of tho first to tackle the last fence. Although he is said to havo been going well within himself, and with the result apparently ab his mercy, he struck the obstacle with such force as to extinguish what seemed to havo been a tirsb-class winning chance.

W. McManemin is breaking a colt by Brigadier out of Lady Lonsdale, at Ellerslie. He is the property of Mr Chapman. The local quotations on the New Zealand Cup are :—8 to 1, St. Hippo (off), 10 to 1 wanted ; 100 to 6, Skirmisher and Saracen ; 100 to 5, St. Anthony (taken); 100 to 3, Lochneaa (taken). Hopetoun has been sold to £.0 to India, and has accordingly been withdrawn from the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups and the Toorak Handicap.

Private advices from San Francisco confirm tho cable message which* announced the safe arrival of the thoroughbred stallions Sfcromboli and Clieveden by the steamship Alameda. The horses are located about 15 miles from the city, and Stromboli has been put to alow work on the track, with bhe view of measuring strides with the cracka of the Pacific Slope. When the weights first appeared for the Melbourne Cup I selected the trio of Malolo, Donizetti and Swordbearer as the likely winner. Thia is what a Sydney scribe saya of Donizetti: — " The exQueenslander, Donizetti, is nicely handicapped for the Melbourne Cup, and he ia one of the finest animals anyone need look over, This son of Marvellous and Gertrude haa nob deno anything of note since he joined Mr W. Forrester's string, bub that there are a couple of good handicaps wrapped up in Donizetti I feel perfectly sure, and even if he cannot be trained to go the Cup distance—two miles—he may be handy in the shorter races. He _3 bred the righb way for speed, and his performances at three yeara' old were above the average. Like Ronda and Penance, Donizetti ia in good health, and goes well." New Zealand Cup acceptances are due on bhe 4th of August. Tha death of the thoroughbred stallion Melbourne (by Panic from Myth) is reported from Brisbane. Melbonrne carried the colours of the late Mr John Tait to victory in the V.R.C. Derby and Loger, 1875, and the Geelong Cup of the same year. Melbourne has been fairly successful at the etud, the A.J.C. Metropolitan Stakes winner Yowi claiming him as sire.

The Auckland-bred Tresfeldt (by Nordenfeldt—Trea Deuce) appears to be one of the best poniea running in Sydney. She won the Flying Handicap at Moorefield the other day, Antic being among the unplaced division.

On the second day of the V.R.C. Steeplechase Meeting Jolii} S. secured tho July Handicap. lie is a lliverina-bred horse, by Guinea from Ol^a, and is engaged in tho Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. In the first-named event ho has been allotted 7s_ 81b, bub the penalty incurred by hia victory brings his impost up to Bst lib ; whilo with 7sfc 31b for the Melbourne Cup, he will have to bo re-handicapped by Mr Dakin. Now that it appears to be an open secret (says the "Sydney Telegraph") that tho bulk of the money taken about; Cremorne for the Melborne Cup was either for " the stable " or its connections, it is fair to suppose that the champion gelding's owner and trainer are well satisfied with Mr Dakin's allotment of 9st 71b. It is also right, under the circumstances, to regard Crernorne's chance of winning the Caulfield Cup as a veryo'i-side one indeed, unless in the interim he displays his inability to get tiro miles. Mr Mitchell's flyer haa now been backed right out for the Melbourne Cup to win more money than anything else engaged in it—Mr Oxenham . representative alone laid £s,ooo—and he has boen coupled in doubles with several Caultield Cup candidates, notably Jeweller, Beverley, Donation, and Sundial to win upwards of £20,000. He promises to bocomo a very strong order. A singular dream story has been related to the representative of tho " New Zealand Mail" in connection with Halicore'a win in the United Hunt Steeplechase. It appears that on tho day before the race a Mr J. Bills told a friend that he wanted someone to take a ticket with him on Halicore. He stated that a nighb or two before the Auckland Greab Northern Steeplechase was run he had dreamt that Despised won ib. Ho took do notice of the dream, and waa greatly disgusted to hear that the horse had won and paid a dividend "of £93. He added that he had had another dream, which waa that Halicore would win ab tho United Hunb Meeting, and ho was determined this time not to lot him go unbacked. A friend went shares in a tickot with him, and the pair received £25 odd Tho steeplechaser Shylock, who ran Becond for tho V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, is credited with having lumped thirty-three feet at Caulfield, and had J. E. Brewer in the saddle. Dondi is also said to have put up a decont iump—3lft.—bub both distances seem small when placed alongside Chandler's leap of 37fb., which was done as far back aa 1847 at Warwick, England. Tho well-performed maro Polly Mohr carried 9st 61b to victory in the July Handicap *1 mile, ab the winter meebing of the Den-iiqain Jockey Club, and with the thumping weight of 13sb 21b in the saddle eho afterwards took parb in the Ladies Bracelet, 6 furlongs, in which she suffered defeab by half a length from Welcome Homo, to whom she was conceding 3st -lb. Polly Mohr, who is by M'Callum Mohr (winner of the Goelong Cup, 1874) from Moasles, is engaged in the Melbourne Cup a IsinP.oß3 was No. 7 on the card for the Epsom Dorby. It is curious to note that on several previous occasions thab has been the number of tho winner of the race. Common waa No. 7 in 1891, in 1881, Bend Or in 1880, Kuber in 1876, Bluegown in 1868, and Macaroni in 1863. The Canterbury Jockey Club has fixed unon the following dates for its various race meetings during the ensuing season : -Spring Meeting, November 7th, 9t.i nnd llth: Summer Meeting, January 2nd ; Autumn Meeting, March 26th and 27th. The added money during the coming season will be tho samo as lasb 'year, but in he programme for the Autumn Meeting theKildare Steeplechase has been reduced from 2008OV8 to 150SOVS, and the Sarewell Handicap has been increased from 50sovs to lOOsovs. • _ .. , ~ ~ The Geraldine Racing Club will hold its Spring Meeting en September 28th. The meeting will be confined to one day, aa the Club find, it impossible iritji the present

restricbions placed on the use of the totalizator to continue to hold a fixture extending over two days. Writes " Sef ton ": Some people say that Melinite is a good thing for the New Zealand Cup. If bo, and if she can jump—two big ifs—she should be able to win the Hurdle Race.

Mr M'Calmonb, according to an English writer, had a bet of 5,000 to 100 aboub Isinglass, which he " stood oub," and the Derby stake waa £5,500. He took this wager about fifteen months ago, and at a more recent period he was laid a big bet about his horse winning the' treble eventTwo Thousand, Derby and Leger. The well-known English horseman T. Loates was asked the secret of success in a rider. _ "Sticking to it," said Loates, " practice — watching whab others are doing, and you learn a lot by being beaten. When I losb a race, if I had been anywhere near, I used to argue ib oub with myself, think where I had made any mistake— whether I should have done better if I had ridden differently. Nearly all boys make bhe same blunder—they can'b sib still. Ib seems simple enough, bub bhoy can't do ib," "In too much of a hurry to geb home," observed the interviewer. " Yes, that's it. They won't give bho horse a chance." "And bhe whip loses a lob of races?" " Yes, it does, indeed. Most of the boys when they begin would do better if they had no whip. If they would only let a horse run his own raco they would often win where they are beaten." Loates also remarked that observation had a great deal to do with knowledge of pace, bub some boys never learn.

Clanranald is bad in the near hock (says the Riccarton correspondent of the " Referee "), but I do not think he is oub of the New Zealand Cup now. Viscount is going very well, and his backers for tho Cup may have a very good run for their money. . My opinion is thab he will remain in New Zealand beyond the spring. In England ib has been decided that being in the forfeit list shall nob proven b the nomination of the aires or mares for Produce Stake?. The 17th May was the date of this decision.

A rhyming tipster in the "Sporting Standard " names The Possible as likely to win the Melbourne Cup. Weighted in the Caulfield Cup ab 7st 51b, and in the Melbourne Cup at?sb lib (writes " Free Lance ") Tim Swiveller would appear to have an outside" chance in each of the handicaps; but when ono reads his recent records of unplaced performances, one would be rash to accord him a thousand to one chance of. winning either evenb with a postage stamp on his back.

Mr O'Brien has obtained an injunction from the Christchurch Supreme Court to prevent the stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club considering tho objection which has been sent in by Major Goorgo againsb Loyalby, winner of the Challenge Stakes.