MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1897, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Nomination? for tlio classic erents of the Auckland Racing Club Summer Meeting of IS9B 99 have been made up. For the Greab Northern Derby thero are 52 nominations from ail over the colony. For the Foal Stakes eighty juveniles hava been entered, Mr Thomas Alorrin, ef course, being the largest nominator. ' For the Royal Stakes there are forty entries.

Nominations for all events (both days) of iho Otahahu Trotting Club Summer Meeting are due with Mr W. L. Lockbart on Friday, sth February.

I netiee that Strathbraan, the Wellington Cup winner, is advertised for sale. He vraa bought by his' presenb owner for 47 guineas-, big former owner, Mr P. Campbell, being disgusted with the way in which the hor#e hud run in his colours, and for a time used him as a leader in a dog-cart He is highly bred enough for anything, seeing that he is by Apremonb from Engagement), by Musket —Sylvia, by Fisherman.

F. MacManemin returned from Wellington in the h.b. Takapuna, but he was enable to bring St. Clements with him, tho horse having broken down, and he could nob be got to the steamer.

Messrs Hunter and Nolan have disposed of a couple of Major George's yearlings passed in at the rocenb sale to Mr John Bond, of Te Awamutu, viz.. fiily by NeUon—Vendetta and filly by Nolson—The Maid. I am pleased to record that J. Gallagher, the local horseman, is almost as good at new again, having recovered from the accident which befel him at Wellington. Daystar is being kept going at Ellerslie. Word from Napier states that Kapua has recovered from the mishap thafc befell him at the C.J.C. meeting in November, and is now in work again. The last has nob yet been Been of that wonderfully constituted horse Oxide. The aon of Sardonyx has boen put into work again at Kaud wick. Mr W. R. Wilson intends to leave Melbourne on a visib to England after the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting.

Tho weil-known Victorian racehorse Malula changed hands recently, Mr J. E. Brewer taking him ab 75 guineas.

The death is announced at Napier of the well known mare Virginia Water, who one year was a fancy for khe Auckland Cup, beiug trained by Mr W. Proffitt. Alone has been scratched for the Australian Cup. Muivolio's brother, Marusa, who twice went wrong when some of his admirera were expacting him to do something sensational, and who has been spelling since the last V.R.C. spring meeting, has been put into work again at Caulfiold. Ho is said to have a alight string-halt. AJ r F. W. Day, who came to the colonies as V.B. to Lord Carrington, and eubee•quentlv trained a racehorse or two for him, afterwards acting as private trainer to AJr S. Hordern, had charge, ab latest dates, of Acmena, the Australian mure, which reached England a few weeks ago, and Stemchaser. Mr Day is practising hie profepeion ab Nowmarkeb, as well ac doing a Htble horse-training. Vindictive, a tsvo-year-old son of Vengeance and Duster, won two races in Melbourne the other day. _ He is evidently it emarb youngster, as in the Holiday Stakes ab £aulfield he carried 7h 131b and won in a cantor by six lengths from Noraeman Safe 2lb and Oi pah Bst Gib:

The Newmarket sales were in progress when last) tiles left England, bub priced generally ruled lower than the previous year's. Among the biggest; figures realised were the following:—RmiKhride, 3yre, by Hagioscope— Disruption. 1, 150 kb ; Devono, 3vrs by Sheen — Devotion, 1,700ga; Gazetteer, syrs, by Gallinulo — Award, 1 450gs ; Rampion, 3yrs, by Arapliion — Rvdal 1,400ga; Conroy, 3yre, by Bend Or -Grace Coaroy, l,osot's; Omladir.a, 3yrs, by Royal Hampton—Geheimniss, 2,300^8 ; and eh m (1S89) by Hermit - Nydia, 1 500^e The Cambridgeshire btukes winner, Marco, wan passed ab the reierve, sCOoifs. and Shaddock at 3,900ee. The winter edition for 1896 of "Ruff" contains some very interesting etatiabics for the English turf of last season. Thoy show thab during the year 635 thoroughbred foals and yearlings were sold for a total of 166 758ge, aa againsb 636 for 167.016J«8 for 1895 "The guide also states thab the amount run for under Jockey Club rules in 1896 was £488,351 12», being about £2,000 mor e fchaa in 1«(J5. This refers to only tho money won by the winning horses, and doGB nob include the prize? taken by the secoad and third. . Carriagton (Gang Forward—Josephine) who ran third to Carbine in the Flying Stakes at Flemingbon in Mentors Cup Y ear and afterwards turned out a sore disappointment, has ended his career in West) Australia by falling down a well in °The Committee of the Victoria Racing Club have passed the following relative to prepayment of jockeys' fees :—" No jockey will ba weighed out for any race unless the amount of hi* riding fee, na for a losing mount in isuch race, shall have been previously deposited with the clerk of the scales ; and tho balance of the fee to which the jockey will be entitled, as for a winning mount, shall be deducted from stake and paid to such jockey." A similar rale has been in existence in England for years past. ' '.•.... Wire fences are constantly earning mischief. Mr J.B. Clark had 6he miefortnne to lose in New South Wales the eerviceß of the A. J.C. and V.R.C. Derbies and Champion Stakes winner, Camoola, through a collision With a wire fence while being treated to a spell, and the latest to meet

with ub .accident is the New South Wales horae, Aberfoylo, by Maribyrnong—Aipaca, who was located at Pine Ridge, and belongs to Mr J. Keehan. It ia feared the injuries wilt necessitate his destruction. What) ia known aa the Patricia racing scandal, and which hai been agitating the Australian turf world of late, is concluded. Ihe Committee of the Victoria Racing Club have passed a resolution warning Benjamin Nathan off all racecourses where the V.R.C. rules apply. The whole trouble aroae in connection wibfc the racing arieing out of the circumstance as fco the pulling of Patricia in th« Jumper*' Flab Race at Aapendale Park on sth May, 1896. The Sydney "Telegraph" remarks : — The man Benjamin Nathan will be missed from Victorian racecoureos by no one so much aa the membora of the betting ring. Nathan was indeed a royal plunger, doing business regularly ohaprincely scale, and for some time paßb was unquestionably the biggest bettor by fair among the whole army of Australian backers. And taking hia mode of doinjr business into account, it is not certain that the colonies ever had a bettor whose operations wore in the same magnificent style. Ah a cash bettor he was unique. I* was a very common thing for him to take the odds to a couple ot hundred* of pounds on a race, always post' ing bis tnoney, and it is said that he b&s had ad odd time* as much as £500 cash torested on a selling race. Messrs Weatherly bare refused to insert Newhaven's name in the English stndbook, and as matters Btand at present, New-haven will have to run in England as halfbred. Ib ia understood that Jas. Cough has accepted an engagement as Crab mount to Mr D. O'Brien. For a long time Mr VV. R. Wilson had first call on the services of this one of the brothers Gough, whom not a few regard a« Australia's premier horseman.

The jockey Jae. Hayes, whoa year or two ago had the renewal of his license refused by the V.R.C, and subsequently took action for libel against tho " Australasian," has gone into retirement strain, the stewards of the V.A.T.C. having diequalified him at their meeting rocenbly until May Ist, owing to the running of his mounb, Key, in the Holiday Stakei.

Ab the last Caultiald meeting the name of each horse was pouted on the stall occupied by the anitnii in tho saddling paddock.

Mr O'Brien was bo busy in Sydney (says the "Canterbury Times ") that ha was unable to pay u<i a visit, bub Mrs O'Brien and har adopted daughter arrived here on Saturday last. All Mr O'Brien's property in Canterbury—Lonsdale Lodge, a farm ab Yttldhuret, and lome property in the city— is to be pus up for sale on Saturday, January 30, and I beliare ho is determined to sell, as he bas finally made up hie mind to make Sydney bia homo.