MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 301, 29 December 1897, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

One of the most improved horses in training at Ellerslie is Eton, and he won both the Trial Handicap and Railway Handicap on Monday in very hollow style. -The son of Castor- should ran a good-race in the Royal Stakes on Monday next. The Summer Meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club will be brought to a con: elusion at Epsom to-morrow (Thursday). Acceptances for the various events of the programme fall due to-night. Among the visitors to the A.R.C. Summer Meeting i 3 the well-informed scribe Mr W. Hutchison, of the "Weekly Press and Referee."

Let me remind my readers that on Friday afternoon next Messrs Nathan hold their yearling sale at Sylvia Park. At the conclusion, yearlings owned and bred by Messrs Alison Bros, and Mr W. Walters will be offered. No doubt there will be a good attendance round the sale ring, and probably keen competition for the various lots.

Supplejack, the hero of the Thames meeting, is owned by Mr W. H. Laycoek, of Tairua, and he was trained at Papakura by H. French. He is by Hippocampus— Empress, and was bred by Mr W. Walters. By-the-bye, Papakura-bred ones had a good innings on Boxing Day, for in addition to Supplejack, Swordfish, Crimson Streak and Papakura each scored winning honours for the stud at different centres.

The time for this year's Auckland Cup, viz., 3min 36sec, is among the slowest on record since the distance was made two miles.

While running well in the Christmas Handicap on Boxing Day, Porangi Potae broke a blood vessel in her head.

Mr C. Archibald states that Levanter was scratched for the Summer Steeplechase on account of the hard state of the ground.

The Wellington Park stallions Castor and Hotchkiss sired five winners out of the eight events decided at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. The promising local racehorse St. Pippin is in the sale list and can be seen at Mr T. D. O'Toole's stable at Kemuera. He is out of Atalanta, a mare who has earned for herself a place as one of the leading stud matrons of the colony through the deeds of her sons Teddy Yuille, Paddy (winner of many races in New Zealand and Australia), and Hippomenes, one of the greatest sprinters of his day. Starting at 20 to 1 the ex-New Zealand horse Whakawatea won the Christmas Handicap at the A.J.C. Meeting at Randwick on December 18th. Previous to this he had not won a race since 1596. Mr George Budge's mare Brown Mantle won her class race at Kensington Park, Sydney, on Thursday last, the first time of asking after a spell of over four months, beating the fast-finishing mare Netta by a head, and paying her supporters tens to one. The primrose jacket seems to catch the judge's eye oftener the other side of the Tasman 3 Sea than here.