MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 190, 10 August 1895, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Weights for tho A.J.C. Epsom Handicap and Greab Metropolitan Stakes bo be run at bhe A.J.C. Spring Meeting at Randwick next month, came to hand by cable this week, In both races Sb. Hippo is weighted tip to his full deserts, bub his stable companion, Doris, is awarded a bandy weight in the Epsom Haudicap, viz., 7sb 71b. I should say that with Ssb 51b, Preston reads as well as anything engaged in bhe Metropolitan Stakes. Royal Rose (Bsb) is by no - "JMins overburdened, and Mr Sbead's colb Maunlicher ia nob harshly used with an wnpoßt of 7st 51b.

the »iS t0 res o!_ d bhab ln up Clvb P f ft ? am fe me of th* Auckland Racing dro£,Lri 90*' th 6 Committee have mSES. * the race framed in m«»°'y of name ont to altogether eliminate the «,£!• Jl o! J the bll,a ot far« must be an ovQrs,ghb, and as it is not too late to have the matter rectified, I hope the loyal Auck H ei ß°V t hQ Com«^e will £ £ J!t omission before the book programme il

, ft JS nB continues to give the fcrtititQtih satisfaction In his work at EllarsUe, and CX mfty expect to see bim in pnbiio mJS kK Fl"6' Sprin« Meeting hoxt month. St. Regol and Deadshot also continue to progress well. Armilla is shaping best among the juveniles. Lottie who was brought down from Qhaupo during the present week looks in blooming health.

The firsb payments for tho Cattlfield arid Melbourne Cups show that 36 horses were struck out of tho mile and a-half evenb, and 6i oub of the greab Flemington race. Matron ia a noteworthy absentee from the Melbourne Cup. Bruin remains in both eveats.

The Committee of the Auckland Raoing Uub yesterday decided thab when racing takes place two days in succession at kllerslia, acceptances will be due on the second day at noon at the racecourse. Mr Ihomas Morrin was re-elected Chairman of Committee for the year. Other officers were appointed as follows : — President, Lieutenant- Colonel Dawson ; Vice-Presi-dent, Mr T. Morrin; Treasurer, Mr J. Dickey ; judge, Major Banks ; handicapper, Mr J. O. Evettr starter, Mr «. Cutbs ; clerk of the scales, Mr F. W. Marks ; clerk of the course, Mr J, Selby. Mannlicher, Musketry and Mauser were shipped to Sydney on Tuesday last. Tho Anckland-owned Doris started first favourite for the Holiday Handicap at Moorefietd Races on August Ist, bub was never in bhe hunb. The field was a poor

From Sydney comes news thab Oscnlabot has left G, Wright's stable, and gone into thab presided over by bhe Sydney trainer, VV. J. Miller.

TheNordenfeldt-Bianca mare Friendship, runin the nomination of Mr V. McGrath.was heavily backedforFourteenHandsHandicap at Kensington on August 2nd, but though extravagant odds were offered on her as she entered the straight, both Peggy and Warross beat her home. The betting was 6to 4 on Friendship. The Dancer meb with a mishap while running in the Brush Hurdle Race at the Moorefield Races last Saturday. Ho di3located one of his shoulders, bub he was afterwards put in slings, and the injured member put right. '

The ex-Auckland gelding Waltzer is in a winning vein just now. He scored another win on Saturday last in the Auction Stakes at Moorefield.

The first two-year-old race of the season in Australia was run at Flemingbon on Saturday last, and was won by Mr S. Miller's Raak, by Glorious—Eva. Dreamland, the Melbourne Cup favourite, waß among the unplaced division in the Balaclava Stakes run at Flemington last Saturday. He went to the post unbacked.