MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1894, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

There will bo three vacant scats this month on the Committee of tho Auckland Racing Club. Mr L. D. Nathan and Mr Herbert Thompson are bound for London, and the other seat is vacant through the death of Mr Robert Garrett.

Nominations for tho different events to be run at the Garrett benefit race meeting close with Mr 11. H. Hayr to-night.

With an impost of Sst 21b Lottie is considered so favourably handicapped for the Thompson Handicap, of one milo, run at tho approaching Wellington llacing Club Meeting, that the other Auckland horses entered havo been frightened out of tho race. Jas. Kenn leaves tor tha Empire City on Monday next with Lottie. The pick of the handicap I take to bo Lady Zetland (Bst 61b) and Lottie, and of the others Au Revoir (9sfc) and Rangipuhi (Bat lllb) do not read badly.

I am very pleased to chronicle that Mr Frank Norman (" Borderer") has left the Hospital, and is now fast recovering from the severe accident ho mot with. He was in town for a short time yesterday.

Brown Mantle, the winner of the Pony Handicap ab the Avondale races, was trained by John Chaafe. Everybody was pleased afc the veteran trainer leading in a winner. Brown Manblo ia owned' by Mr George S. Budge, of the City Club Hotel, and f may mention that Antelope (tho dam of the filly) is located at Wellington Park, having been leased to Mr T. Morrin. Antelope is in foal to Castor. Mr Harry Ellison publishes a preliminary announcement) in reference to the £100 coupon he intends issuing in tho Turf Club cigarettes. Frnncotto, the last of the Mnskefca to perform in New Zealand, broke down while racing at Timaru recently. The first of Musket's stock to race was Waewaehapi, a brown filly from Aconite, who ran for Mr G. P. Donnelly in the Trial Plate at Hawke's Bay on October 3rd, 1882. Musket's sons and daughters, however, are keeping up his name, and New Zealand turfifce3 will ever keep 'a spot green in their memory for the old horse. Local racegoers will remember Adelaide, the daughter of Nordenfeldb and Victoria, who won the Welcoma Stakes at the Auckland Racing Club Meeting ot 1801, and wtissold and taken to Melbourne. I see by a Sydney paper that she wim the Pony Handicap (13.3 class) at Moorefiold races thia mouth. Adelaida was picked up in Melbourne by Ike Earnahaw, and is now trained by his successor in pony training, D. Malono, having been successfully patched up between them and gob into form. _ .

The stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club had Leforo them the applicationsof the suspended jockeys—Matthows, Derribt and White—for a reconsideration of their case, but bha sbewarda declined to disturb their previous decision and sentences. Word comes from Christchurch thab Mr D. O'Brien will be back from Sydney before tho end of this month for the hearing of his appeal case in connection with the Challenge Stakos. He will bring with him the yearlings which he bought at the Sydnoy sales. The Now Soubh Wales branch of the Australian Bookmakers' Association i 3 said to be dying a natural death, owing to internal dissensions. Mr H. Oxenham and several other prominent penciliers have seceded.

The first horee in the next Melbourne Cup is t° get £3,500, second £1,000 and third £500. Mr S. H. Gollan's colt Bonnie Scotland was kicked while on his way to the post to run. in the Australian Jockey Club's Champagne Stakes. Thia accounts for the colb's

poor display in the race. " Asmodeus " remarks that Bonnie Scotland is undeniably one of the finest-looking two-year-olds seen in public this season, and he has only to winter well in order to possoss claims second to none for the classic honours of next year.

It is said thab representatives of the New South Wales Pony and Galloway Association will shortly confer with the Australian Jockey Club on the question of limiting the number of race meetings held within the metropolitan district, and bringing them all under the control of one body. The well-known sportsman, Mr Daniel Cooper, formerly of Sydney, bub for some years resident in England, has mated his mare Lonely (winner of the Oaks) with Common, who won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and Sb. Leger. Tho result should be an excepbionally valuable foal. From Shoalhaven (N.S. W.) comes word of bhe death of tho stallion Pisuator, which wa3 brought about by drowning in tho neighbourhood of Bolong Creek. Piscator was a very highly bred horse, and among his progeny may be mentioned Patchwork, formerly owned by Mr Wm. Bobbett. In connection with the death of the racehorse Titan it appears thab it suddenly occurred while doing a trial preparatory to being sent to Adelaido to fulfil engagemonta in the Goodwood Handicap and Adelaide Cup. Ib is supposed that the death of the animal was caused by heart disease. Mr William Bailey states that for a long while past he has been of opinion that Titan suffered from some organic affection, as in his trials and races ho "shivered " and was ab times irregular in his stride. At tho conclusion of the Sydney meeting Mr Wallace refusod £2,000 for the gelding, and bad tho offer been accopted, he would have been sent to India.

Tho Tasmanians seora to think they have got hold of a suitable candidate for V.R.C. Grand National honours in Favor, by Mr J. Whittingham's old horse Larpent defunct) from Satanella. Favor has shown good form on the flab, and T. Keating is now schooling him over hurdles with a view of bringing him over to Flemington in July.