DATES OF COMING EVENTS

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 236, 3 October 1894, Page 3

DATES OF COMING EVENTS

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Pegasus was shipped to Cbristchurch in the ~s . Mararoa to-day to fulfil his New Zealand Cup engagement Nominations for the Pakuranga Hunt Club annual race meeting close on Friday night nexb With Mr H. H. Hayr. Weightß for the A.R.C. Prince of Wales Handicap and Hurdle Race are due on Friday noxb. , Mr R. H. Nolan's Torori (by Musket— Peeress), who is at Wellington Park on a Jjsib to St. Leger, has produced a filly foal to Gipsy King. : Impulse and the trotter Rosebud were shipped to Christchurch on Monday lasb. The sum. of £1,626 10s was passed tbroogb ■ the totalisators at tho Auckland Trotting Club Spring Meeting on Saturday last. Last year Mr Blomfield and staff handled ■ £1,199 10s at tho corresponding meeting. ' ... Mr George Ellis, who has been on a visib to Sydney, Is working in the interests of Gray's "starting machine," with a view to having, it tried in Auckland. Gray's machine ia said to have been a success ab the 4.J.C. Meeting. However, before finally adopting any machine, the A.J.C. committee will give a trial all round. Royal Rosa and The Dancer started at Tattersall's meeting at Randwick on Saturday last, but both horses failed to gain a place. The Dancer also sported silk in the Suburban Handicap at tho Warwick Farm races on Monday lasb. He ran third. The ruliug prices in Auckland on the Nevr Zealand Cup are as follows : 8 to 1, Außevoir j 10 to 1, Royal Rose and Skirmisher ; 12 to 1, Lottie and Saracen ; 14 to 1 Impulse; 16 to 1, Pegasus; 100 to 7, Prime Warden.

Bonnie Scotland, whose engagements include the Melbourne Cup, will now have to pud up lib 61b instead of his handicap weight 7st 51b. Word come 3 from Melbourne that Tarcoola has been doing famously on the Flemington track, and he is likely to run well a bit later on. Bruin is also improving every day, and ib ia thought he may win the Caultield Cup. It is believed that The Dauphin's broken leg, which necessitated his destroyal, was caused by the horso attempting to rise in Jiia box after lying down.

The Committee of the A. J.C. wero called together on the third day of the meeting, atßandwick, to investigate the running of Patron in Craven Plato, as compared with his display in Spring Stakes, and of JSlobleman iii'Sixth-Biennial Stakes, which so contradicted what ho was responsible for in the Derby. ■ After duly inquiring, the Committee found that the explanations tendered were perfectly satisfactory, and in Nobleman's caße acquitted the rider from blame, that joefcey having carried out; his instructions

A week or bwo prior to the English St. Legerbeing run, Throstle waa introduced into the betting, and backed to win £4,000 at 40 to 1, all of which was said to bo for Ihe stable.

"Aemodeous " writes : " The third day's racing at Kandwick was mainly notable for

reversal of form and consequent surprises ; iiheCraven Plate and Biennial Stakes had most to answer for in this respect. Patron and BrockJeigh were two offenders in the Craven Plato. Anything more inconsistent than the performances of these horses could nob very well be imagined, yeb within an boar Nobleman and Bonnie Scotland were guilty of similar discrepancies in form." '■-~

The Dunedin Jockey Club's programme .shows a reduction in stakes all round of £380, and it haa been decided that for each meeting the sweepstakes shall be abolished for races of £100 and under. The Spring Meeting is to be held on November 28th, :20th, and December lsb; the Aubumn Meeting on February 20th, 21sb and 23rd ; the Anuiversary Meeting on March 23rd a> usual, and the Birthday Meeting on May 24bh and 25th. The distance for the Duiiedin Cup haa been reduced to one mile and three-quarters and one hundred and thirty-two yards—Sb. Loger distance. Ruenalf pulled up lame after finishing «econd in the Spring Stakes ab the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting. The trouble is in his shoulder,. - Soobia hopes to run Dreamland either in ' ( ths Caulfield Guineas race or the Caulfield 'Stakes. The colb might, his trainsr says, ■he doing better in tho stables ; bat he is • working regularly, and is thoroughly re--1 covered frcru bis recent attack of strangles.

Sir George Clifford has given notice to move at a special meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club to be hold next.week. "That the Canterbury Jockey Club having ia view the promotion of true and honest apbrb, heartily concurs in the proposal to ■establish a New Zealand Jockey Club for the regulation of horse racing, and as a court of appeal in all important) questions of dispute or disqualification. Advices from South Africa state that Arquebus, by Martini-Henry from Acme, yon the double—the Frying Handicap and tbeGoidfielda Handicap—at the Johannesburg August meeting, the former after a dead heab with Empty Chair, beating his 'Opponent by a neck, and the latter from ' <snd to end. At Jloonee Valley (Melbourne) races recently, Mr Robertson's Osterly tried to tooafc the 2-mile record (4min 57sec), but failed,. the time occupied, with a flying start and a running horse, being smin 3sec. Tho firati mile was trotted in 2min 31sec. The benefit race meeting held ab Caulfielii in aid of the widow of the late Mr T. Uorrigan yielded £850 neb. /Grand Flaneur heads the list of winning sirea in connection with the late four daya' racing afc Rand wick. His winning representatives were Gingham, Patron, Reconstruction and Hopscotch, the amount of Money won by Grand Flaneur's stock at the Meeting being £1,429. ; ; Discussing the A.J.C. Meeting, "Msir- ■- Hndale " writes: — •' Had Nobleman not been suffering from dental troubles there is 'Htlo doubt bub what he would havq won the Derby, in fact he might ha*e done so as it was, had Gainsford been allowed to I let the colt sail along as he did in the Biennial Stakes. Nobleman is a very nice galloper, with no end of pace, bub will not *$and pulling and hauling about. ::< The Sydney colt Nobleman is described «8 a very handsome bay, and said by ganfclemen who saw Ladas win the English Derby to be the dead spit of Illuminata's

According to Sydney papers the A.J.C. meeting has been a very disastrous one to backers ot horses, for of 24 races only one absolute firsb favourite won, and every bookmaker who followed hia calling and " fielded fairly" knocked off a good winner. The losses incurred by one noted punter total several thousand pounds. The solibary firsb favouribe to win was Brockleigh. The prize winners .ab the moating were headed by "Mr J. B. Clark," whose cheque, thanks to Reconstruction, Chester-* man, and Projectile, amounts to £2,204; Uabba won Mr J. Dykes £1,542.: .and Bonnie Scotland and The Possible credited MrS. H. Gollan wich £988.

There is very little difference between the value of Epsom Handicap and The Metropolitan prizes, and the former has a little the besb of ib. The stake was worth £1,842, and The Metropolitan £22 less. First place in the latter is worth £1,520 to Projectile's owner. YVord comes from Melbourne thab bub Caulfield way nothing continues to do better than Straighttire and Malvolio. Theodore is kept up to the collar and ib very well.' Tullamore goes nicely in his work, and will yet win a good race for Foulsham, who has also gob Glenhuntly in good buckle. Mr D. S. Wallace's Precedence, by Muekeb— Maid of Honor, has thrown a filly foal to the imported horse Pilgrim's Progress, whose haras has this season been visited by another Mu3keb representative in the ex-Auckland owned sprinter Mitrailleuse. ■ •

A cablegram of yesterday's date states that Ruenalf now shares favouritism with Carnage for the-Melbourne Cup, and is an equal favourite with Bruin for the (Jaulfield Cup. Referring to the son of Grand Flaneur and Olga, a. " Sportsman " writer sa.ys :—" Ruenalf's meritorious second to Brockleigh in the A.J.t). Spring Stakes conclusively proves thab Mr 'Teddy' Keys has had another Sir William ' up his sleeve,' so to speak, for the Cups. I can hardly believe that that astute trainer could have made such a mistake as show his hand with the brother to Patron-in that weight-for-age event before the son of Olga had been backed by the f stable for either of the big spring races to be run in the spring on this side of the Murray. Possibly Ruenalf rather better than was expected of him. As a tliree-yoor-old Ruonalf had a bad shoulder, and, judging from the reports of Saturday's races, ho has nob quite got the better of that ailment, for we are told that he pulled up lame." The V.R.C. Derby colt Atlas, is described as a gigantic horse, wonderfully developed. A cheatnpb, with vfhite foot. His development is*said to be extraordinary, and he should make a champion over country. Cranbrook, the sire of this colb, stood over 17 hands high*. •' Martendale " thuß writes of Atlas :—I shall be more than surprised if Atlas does nob turn out a racehorse. If hia lega stand the wear and tear necessary to get such a strapping fine colt as be in condition, the one that beats him in the St. Leger will have to be well. It is stated that Whakawatea is to be brought back to New Zealand. According to a Sydney scribe, two such grand steeplechases as those won by Mutiny have never been seen at Rand wick. The winner of the A.J.U. Randwick Plate has never succeeded in carrying off the Melbourne Cup in the some season. In fact, Chester and Calamih are the only horses who proved successful in both events, as the former won the great twomile handicap as a three-year-old, and in the following year annexed the three-mile w.f.a. race at Randwick : whilstl Calamia won the latter race in 1876, and the Melbourne Cup in 1878. Now, when wo remember that such equine celebrities aa Dagworth (twice), Richmond, Sweetmeat, Wellington, Le Grand, OfF Colour, Norde'nfeldb, Trident, The Australian Peer, Abercorn, Melos, Megaphone, and Camoola each placed a Randwick Plate to thoir' owner's credit, failed in the Melbourne Cup, we must not run away with the idea that Chesterman is bound to do the trick.'" Certainly none of them, like the latest victor in that w.f.a, event, had the luck to only have 6st Blb opposite his name in tho two mile race, for the simple reason that they were all far and away bettor two-year-old performers than Ohesterman proved himself to be. Tom Pay ten, the colt's trainer, and his owner, Mr J. B. "Clark," may have better luck in the Melbourne Cup with this son of Chester than thoy had last year with Camoola, who also carried off the Handwick Plate. —So writes the Melbourne scribe " Cranbrook."

Cheßfcerman, who astonished his most immediate connections by establishing a record for fchreo miles in Now South Wales, winning Rand wick Plate in smin 25sec, ought, on that running, to be in strong evidence for one or other, or perhaps both, of the "Cups," hia baedicap at Caulliold being 6st 71b, and afc Fiemington'Gab 81b. A few weeks ago both hi 3 private and public form was as bad as could bo, but his trainer, Tom Payterf, was by no means deterred,- and stuck to him, to meet with tho reward his patience merited. Had Chesterman been oub of tho way, Patron's time would have broken badly the New South Wales record—smin 31$ sec, by Trident—so would Light Artillery's, and therefore, though defeated, each proved himself a great horse. Tho Australian record for three miles i 3 smin 23Jsoc in Champion Stakes, by Portsea. Five additions to the blood stock of New South Wales purchased in England by Mr H. C. White, were recently landed from the steamer Thermopylae. They were all in excellent condition, and were sent to the quarantine ground. The following ia the breeding of tho four youngsters :—Muta is a filly by Bendigo—Mutina, by Wenlock from Modena, by Parmesan from Archeress. Impetus (colt), by Salisbury-Impetus, by Voltigeur—lt's Curious, is related both on the sire and dam's side through Irish Birdcatcher. Salisbury;' the sire of Impetus, ia by Camballo—True Blue, by Oxford out of Smilax, by Wondhound. Lady Randolph is a bay filly, by Prince Eudolph—The Lady, by Chariberb out of Select, by Thunderbolt. Prince Eudolph is by Prince Charlie—Hester, byThormanby from Tomyris. Felucca ia a bay filly by Hazelhatch — Galleon, by Sterling from Typolite, by Toxophilifce. Hazelhatch ia by Hermit from Hazledean, by Cathedral from Nubbrush, by Filbert. It is said that Mr White will send homo some blood stock with the ship on her return journey. Mr M'Donald was so dissatisfied with the handicapping of Mr W. K. Wilson's horses, Steadfast, Havoc, Argent, Moth and Warfare, for the Toorak Handicap, that he scratched tho whole five immediately he saw the weights. Some vory fast trotting and pacing was done recently in America* and fresh records came very near being established. Robert) J., by Hartford, paced a mile in 2min Sfsec, which was the third of five single mile heats, and be also beat Marcob three one-mile heats in 2min Bsec, 2min 8 sec, and 2min 6iaec. Ryland T., by Ledger Jr., trotted three one mile heats in 2miu Bjßec, 2min 7i|s6c, and 2min Bfsec ; and b m Alix, by Patronage, gob down to 2min

Gsec. , * Cobbitty, if he keeps all right, I {" Cranbrook") expect to see win the Caulfield Guineas. In carrying 9st 21b in the Members' Handicap the son of Abercorn and Copra performed in a mosb brilliant manner, for he gave the winner: no less than 281b, and ran him to a neck in the record time, for nine furlongs, of lmin 55£boc.

Up to July 23rd lasb Sir Modred was the mosb successful stallion in America, Jiis descendants having won a total of 110,770 dollars in stakes. American breeders still continue to liberally augment their studs with English bred horses, and recently a shipment of between SQandGQaniroala arrived for distribution

to various parts of the States. \A large portion of the consignment was for bhe wellknown Californian breeder, Mr J. B. Haggin, who recenbly had the misfortune to lose Maxim. Mr Haggin's lob includes some well known recent performers on tlfe Eng.r liah turf in Qrmuz, Watercress, Goldfinch (half brother to' Common and Throstle), Golden Garter, together with bhe 2-year-old, Star Ruby, a filly- by. Donovan, filly by Springfield and ditto by Carlton; truly, a valuable collection. Mr Foxhall Keen outdid'"Mr'Hasrgin in poinb of numbers, as hia shipment coasistod of no less than 24 mares and 15 foals. Mr J. Marcus' Daly imported 7 yearlings, sired respectively by St. Gatien, Hampton, Breadknife, Friar' 3 Balsam, Galliard, Ketidal and Fernandez. Verily, our American friends are going in for what they would term 'big licks' for the English article.

Castor is proving his ability to sire racehorses. Ab the Rangitikei meeting last week, Castor's son Orion won the Flying Handicap. Yesterday, at the Hawke's Bay meeting, another of his progeny, proved successful, his son Orion's Belt, who cost 270 guineas ab the laab ■.Wellington Park sale, winning the Nursery Handicap. George Wright bought the well-known racehorse Danton (by Grand Flaneur— Egalite) for 40 guineas aba recent aalo in Sydney.