DATES OF COMING EVENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 289, 6 December 1893, Page 3

DATES OF COMING EVENTS.

Decomber.26—Auckland Cup January I—Great Northern Derby January 2—Auckland Steeplechas3 February 21—Dunedin Cup Mardt-B—Wanganui Cup

The recently-formed Onehunga and Obabubu Racing Club hold their inaugural meeting on the Otahuhu racecourse on Saturday nexb. Mr Evett has acquibted himself well in framing the handicaps, and a successful meeting should be tbe result. Acceptances for the various events close with Mr Mark to-night. Mr Evett will not issue the weights for the South Auckland Meeting until Monday next. Acceptances for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase are due on Friday night nexb. This will rid the lists of the great majority of non-starbers for the two events. Since the publication of the weights for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase, the only line worthy of mention is 200 to 28 booked againsb Brigand. Mr D. A. McLeod was the layer, aud a Gisbornite the taker. ' The Christchurcb Challenge Stakes case came before the Supremo Court the other day, when, on the application of Mr Loughrey, the dato of the trial was fixed for December 11th. It is stated that Mr W. Douglas will send a strong team of jumpers to Australia during next winter, and that Norton and Kulnine will bo sent over during the autumn. Fiske, the four-year-old son of Nordenfeldt and Nelson's dam, My Idea, has changed hands, Mr J. Murphy, of Spring Creek, Blenheim, having leased him from liis'owner. T;H6dson returned from Sydney in the early part of the present week. "A,t a' meeting of the Committee of the Auckland Racing Club hald on Monday afternoon the following programmes were passed:—Rotorua Jockey Club, 15th Febrnary, 1894; Bay of Plenty Jockey Club, 29th February, 1894; Te Kuiti races, 20th December; Drury Racing Club, 28th December. The following jockeys licenses were granted :—J, Whibelaw, H. Weal, ThOB. Moore, A. Hayden, H. Cusdin, John E. Parsons. Suspensions were removed from R. Wright and Pennell. Mr. F.W-. Edwards was appointed starter for the rest of the 'season. A Met of country clubs with proposed voting power for election of delegates to conference was submitted and approved ot. ' Voting papers to be returnable on 15bh January. The following is the voting power of the different clubs :—Takapuna, 4 votes; Poverty Bay Trobting Club, 3; Gisborne Racing Club, 3 ; South Auckland, 3 ; Waerengaehika, 2 ; Avondale, 2 ; Thames Jockey Club, 2 ; Pakuranga ttunb Club, 2 ; Papakura Racing Club, 2; Gisborne Steeplechase Club, 2; Turanganui J.C., 2; Drury Racing Club, 2; Te Arnha, 2 ; Obinemuri, 2; Waihi, 2 ; N^aruawahia, 2; Bay of Plenby, 2* Ormond, 2 ; Waikftto Hunt Club, 2 ; To Puki, 1-; Opobiki, 1 : Rotorua, 1 ; MataBiaba, 1; Oxford, 1; Huntly, 1; Rangiriri, 1; Kapunga, 1 ; Whabawhata, ] ; Alexandra, 1 ; Oborohanga, 1 ; Rangatea, 1; •Awhitu, 1 : total, 57 votes. "Terlinga," in the "Australasian," writes:—"Anyone asked to selecb the hero of the late meeting mighb^ for a .moment be puzzled ac to naming Carnage or jforbsea or Loyalby. After Saturday the partisans of Loyalty mush admit bhab those who say Carnage is the better of the two colts over a distance of ground have all the beffc of bhe argumenb. To begin with, both mob Patron ab oven Weight?. Carnage tackled him fresh and beab him, whereas wibh n race out of him Mr Purches'colb beab Loyalty. Collateral form perhaps makes the difference between the chestnut and the bay seem greater than it really U. There is no doubt about Patron having stolen a march in the Canterbury Plate, bub Loyalty was near enough to the leader at the home turn to catch him if he had boon n Carnage. In the last two hundred yards Patron was able to go ju3t as fast, as Loyalby. With all the results of the meeting before them mosb people concluded on calm reflection that at present Loyalty ia not a champion over a distance. When the colb went up for sale on Monday Mr Archie Yallle pleaded his cause mosb eloquently, bub the big re en round the rin^, such as Mr Hordern, Mr Oollan and Mr Crozier, Were not to be convinced. His last running, they argued, put him behind Carnage, nnd whab ia the u<;o of giving 3.000gs for a colb to play Progress to Carnages Grand Flaneur? Beforo ho ran in bhe Canterbury plate, I believe Mr O'Brian could {lave had 4,000gs for Loyalby. His defeat to that race may have'been a fluke, but it **s brought aboub by a borpo which Car"age'liad beaten rnoab decisively, and the honoura are with the St. Albann colb. ■•At. the conclusion of an article on the Victoria' Racing Club's Spring Meebing, "Old 'Qij," of bhe Sydney "Referee," Writes:—"ln picking oub horses likely to "Wiutfuish themselves between now and n W Cno- ;»;ontion may be made of CarJjstej rounnmu, Loyaicy, The Sailor f^ce,- Patron, Light Artillery, Vakeel, Newman, Forward, Cobbitty, Pulvil, Divi--8l?"i Lannceabon, Donation, Dreamland ami Dryden. lb is n far cry* to the next Jiofcoria Racine Club's Spring Meeting, butforthe Derby nothing I have seen ab Pfescnt can boab Dreamland, Cobbitty, f^rite and Dryden. When Mr Dakin p(J!n<( the next Cup weighbs, we may exJ1. 601- to see Carnage and Loyalby high up on ™c Hat, and bhe former, if all goes on well, S°?y repeab Carbine's feat) of a second and