MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 174, 28 July 1897, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Gisborno Racing Ulub made a loss of £157 193 3d during the pas* season.

A Napier writer predicts that tha New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Raco candidate Penrose will turn oub another Mutiny.

Mangere, winner of the A.R.K, Summer Steeplechase of 1893, wa? amoog the horses who followed the hounds at the "meets" of the Pakuranga Hunt Giub on Saturday latto.

Mr Stead has no rising yearlings at) Yaldhursb this year. The other day he had the bad luck to loee a filly of this a^e by Medallion—Corolla (full sister to Gold Medallist.)

According to a Napier authority Mars, ono of the Hon. J. D. Ormond's New Zealand Cup candidates, has gone amiss.

Mr Robinson, of To Aufce (Hawks'a Bay), has ioaßed Orion's Belt from R. Gooseman, and will use him for stud purposes.

R. Mason, tbe well-known Canterbury trainer, met with an accident recantly. Ono of his wrists was badly sprained, and two ribs were fractured.

■"Vigilant," of the London "Sportsman," thinks that Galtee More alone saves 1897 from being the worst year for three-year-olds that he can remember. Muscatel and Dummy are jumping well at Riccarton. A Chri3tchurch writer thinks thab Dummy looks a 141 b better horse than he did this time last year.

Senior Wrangler (by Medallion — Flattery) has again changed hands, the buyer being Mr Simpson, of Gore (Otago). It is stated that Mutiny never looked better in hia life than ho does this year.

The following nominations havo been received for the office of coramittoe men of the Auckland Racing Club :—Messrs Alfred Nathan, John Kirkwood, Alfred Buckland, W, McLaughlnn, R. Duder, A. Kidd, D. McLeod, and VV. D. Holgate.

St. Elmo has returned from Wellington to Auckland, the lease having terminated.

J. Rao left on Monday afternoon for Cbristchurck, with Levanter, Kingswood, and Dentist.

Captain J. Ellis, an old-time Auckland sportsm&n, is lying in the Hospital in a precarious condition. Thero are five horees in work at Mr J. Lennard's farm at Mangore, viz., Fabulist, Brilliant (by Regal— Mystery) 3yrs, Favona (by Regel —Friendship), 3yrs, and a couple of rising two-year-olds, one being a filly by Cuirassier —Vieui Rose, and the other a colt by Fabulist. The Waikato Hunt Club hold a Hunt Club race meeting on September 15th.

" Spectator " is very sweet on Voltigeur'e chance in the New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Race. The Southern scribe writes: —Voltigeur i*3 to my naind very kindly dealt with, looking at his flat performances, and the fact of him being in good form recent doings indicate. He is just the right sorb to jump woll. and I confess that lam very sv/eot oa his chance. I should question very much whether any horae ever seen in the colonies could concede him 501b and a beating over a two mile course with but eight 316 6in hurdles to negotiate. Voltigeur haa done a little schooling work, and if his connections are satisfied to make the journoy I shall be satisfied to have him as one of my main-; stays. ! Cash betting is in full swing again ab race meetitags held in and about Sydney. Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary ! of racing ab Wanganui, the first race meeting having been held tl)6re in 1848. The Wanganui Jockey Club will hold a Jubilee meeting in March next, when in commemoration ef that event tho Club intends to increase the stakes by a sum of at least £1,000. Two Uaulfield Cup candidates, in Foliage, 7ab 121b, and Newman, Bat, were' among the winners recently, the former at Adelaide Tattersall'g races, aad the latter' ab Rosehill, each doing what was asked in ; easy faehion. Ditto started in a Steeplechase ab Rosehill the other day. A Sydney paper saya he crossed the treble once in good style, but refused the next jump, taking the boundary rail instead, and landing on the training brack. Almost anything could havo won the Two Thousand Guineas, Newmarket Shakes, and Darby this eeason (says the Special Commissioner of the London " Sports man"), for Velasquez, the only one of Galtee More's opponents with real pretensions to class, is a rank non-stayer.

Misfire ia well treated in tho Grand National Hurdle Race, and will in all probability maxa his debut at Riccarton over the little sticks (says a Dunedin writer). The son of Maxim is being well supported in doubles with Mutiny, and his chance is highly thought) of by his connections. Ulster is also beine nibbled ab. The daughter of Sou-wester is in capital condition.

A descendant of the imported horae Far Nienfce turned up a winner at Sydney recently, Lhe two year-old fitly Frawney, by than horse frotu Amourette, by Grand Flaneur from Petrea (imp.), by Hermit, winning the Telegraph Handicap at Cantorbury Park. At tho Hobartvillo sale of yearlings last year Frawney wan knocked down to Mr K. W. Pearce for 25 guineas.

Mr H. A, Thompson, owing to continued ill-health, baa resigned his position as handicapper to the Australian JoekeyClub. Ib ia stated the adjustments for the Epsom Handicap and The Metropolitan will be framed by Mr John Daly, but in any case they are advertising for a handicapper. Word comas from Sydney that there is a probability of Osculator, who ran Wallace to a head in the V.R.C. Derby, standing another preparation. He has been in work tor some weeks past at tho Hawkesbury, and it is reported that his bad leg has npb shown any signs of giving way. Up to June 8 last Kendal (sire of Galtee More, who won £12,145) was at the head of the winning sires in England, his descendants having credited him bo far duriner the soason with a total in stakes of £16,254. When Kendni changed handa in 1593 he was bought for £18,000 for the Brunt.wooci Stud, wher& he now stand*.

Aurum has been backed in Melbourne for the V.R.C. Derby ab as litble as 7 to 4, while 5 to 1 is occasionally taken about the South Australian colt Fleet Admiral, which is the only other candidate at [jic»siit mnrkefcable.

The brood mare Sunbeam, the dam of Beverey and Linburn, died recently at Mr A. Chinmde's Newminster Park stud farm after slipping a teal to the Aucklandbred Zalinski.

M. Cannon had a substantial lead of his brother jockeys when last files left England, and had won 44 of the 195 race* he had rHdeo in. F. Allsopp won 31 times for 196 mounts, and C. Wood 28 races in 129.

Latest English file 3 record the death from enteritis of the thoroughbred stallion Retreat, by Hermit from Quick March, by Rataplan. At tha stud lie sired the Grand National Steeplechase winner, Father O'Flynn. and many other good porforiners.

Mr VV. R. Wilson, at present in London, is expected to return to Melbourne early in October.

A London cablegram to the Sydney papers, under date Juiy 18th, st.iUes that Mr H. White, of New South Wales, and Mr Winter Irving, M.L.C., of Victoria, purchased several horsea at the sale of the Brookfield Stud.

After reviewing the Caulfiold Cup weights, a writer in the "Sydney Mail selects:—-True Bluo, Battalion, Preaton, The Chevalier, O'Trigger, Wait-a-bib, Woodford, Foliage, Hindoo. Homespun, Key, Pivot.

A small syndicate at Waratah, in Tasmania, had a stroke of luck over the V.X.C Grand National Meeting (gays the " Argue ")• , They senb over £5 to a wellknown member of the ring iv Melbourne for Buzzi for the Hurdle Race, with inabruelione, if lie won, co place the winnings, \oa# the £5 staked, on Hayseed for the Steeplechase. They [rot £100 to £5 about Buzzi, and £800 to £100 Hayseed for the Steeplac^aso, and a draft for £900 was forwarded to them.

Word from Sydney stakes that Woodnymph (by Musket—Sylvia) has been purchased by a sportsman overbhore. The exAuckland mare in ab present in Tasmania, and is said to be in foal to imported Bill of Portland.

At Kensington poDy races the other day Markinch ran third in a mile and a quarter galloway race. There were 15 starters, and it is seated tho result was in doubt until 50yds from the winning posb, when Grand Clogs, by Grand Flaneur from Clogs, shot oub from Maybe and Markinch. The time was 2aain 14«ec.

A race won by Galtee More which was nob cabled was the Prince of Wales Stakes, for three-year-olds, at Ascot, He only had three moderates to beat, ami the long odds of 33 to 1 were laid on him. He won comfortably by v length and a half from Ovando. The value of the stake was £1,775.

Eric, the Vicfcorian champion 13ab 21b pony, has been sold to Messrs Rrcrouse and Madden, to go to Madras. His record is said to include 17 wine, 10 seconds, and 7 thirda, and in his own class he has woo carrying 103t 71b.

Tho return to the saddle of tho late Fred. Archer's great rival, C. VVood, this season has boon signalized in the happiest manner, and ha can now boast of baring ridden the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, Newmarket Stakes, and the Derby. Ho had previously achieved honors in the race for the "blue ribbon," having won the raco on St. Blaise in 1883, and the following voar was on tho back of St. Gatien, when that colt ran a dead heat with Haryeater. Wood was in geod form at Epgom on Derby Day, as, beside steering Galtee More to victory, he scored on The Nipper in the Effingbam Plate, and on Galinthia in the Stanley Stakei.

" Asmodeoue," who recently looked over Droarnland at Ballarat, writes :—Dream land doss nob seem to have grown a bib since ho won fche Maribyrnong Plate, and is too deficient in heart room and depth ot back ribs to give him serious consideration for the next Melbourne Cup. He will have a much better chance at Caulfield than at Flemington, butl very much doubt whether ho would ever accomplish anything big over a distance of ground. Owing to an error, Fleeb Admiral appearod amongst fche nominations for the A.J.C. Epsom Handicap and Metropolitan, whereas it should have been Royal Admiral.