MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1899, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Nestor has not been entered for the A.R.C. Easter Handicap and Autumn Handicap. He is to be given a good spell and has therefore been thrown chit of training. 'H. franks, private trainer to the Hon. H. Mosman, has broken in the high-priced St. Leger—Hilda colt and Waiuku's yearling brother. Acceptances for all events of Otahuhti Trotting Club Meeting (first day) are due on Friday night next at the Metropolitan Hotel. The privileges Will be Sold by Messrs Churtonf and Co. on Friday next at noon. Mr J. C. Booth's mare Thelma got severely knocked about when she fell at the' T.J.C. Meeting. She will require a good rest. Antares is being treated to a thorough good rest at H. Frank's Greenlane training establishment. Mr E, D. Halstead has sent in his resignation as starter of the Avondale Jdekey Club. He intimates his intention of resigning all official positions in connection with horse-racing". Ben Godfrey, who has been doing stallion duty, appears among the nominations for the A.E.C. First Hurdles. Major George's fine colt Seahorse is doing well at Ellerslie. It is proposed to take him to Napier to fulfil his Hawke's Bay Stakes engagement. Geo. Wright takes a strong team to the Taranaki and Wanganui meetings. He leaves next week with Explosion, Acoh6j Miss Emmy, Rosella and Hastings. Melbourne advices state that .Stand Oft\ who won the Maiden Pl.ate at the Spring Meeting of the-V.E.C., and is an inmate of the astute I. Earhshaw's stable, in Sydney, is being well backed ill doubles for the Newmarket Handicap. The local horsenian J. Gallagher left oil Monday to ride Battleaxe in the EffraOUt Cup. It.is thought Liberator has run his last. race. A small bone in his fetlock has been broken. Colonel Eraser's yearling by St. Le-ger^-'Eve is to be added to the list pf geldings. The latest West Coast hack to gain distinction is Bata (by Puriri from Star Water), dam of the pony Bavaria, who won a mile race at the recent Wellington Sumtner Meeting. Eata rait his mile in lmin 42 3-sth sec, which'is the record for the distance on the Hutt course by either racehorse or hack. St. Conori (by St. Leger—Sapphire) who has been doing stud duty on the West Coast, has been returned from the lessee to his owner at Hastings, Ml* T.-H. Lpwry. The V.R.C. Derby winner Cocos is suffering1 from, a sprained pastern, This .account's for his defection from V.S.C. engagements. This year's Hobart Cup was won by Flintlpek, a son of Carbine and Dueftha, by Lecturer. He is owned and trained by Mr P. T. Heywood, of Gaulfield. Advices from India state that the Australian horse Mosstrooper has won the principal jumping event at Calcutta—'the Grand National Steeplechase. The statement that Mr G. G. Stead 'prdposed sending a team of horses to compete at the Australian Jockey Club's' Autumn Meeting is entirely without foundation. Mr. Stead is at a loss to discover on what authority ; the statement was made. In spite of all his high-priced purchases, the deceased Mr R. Cravens ■winnings on the Australian turf did not amount to more than £ 1,000. He Won rades with Balance, Royal Rose, Grand Belle, Oceanica, and Woodlark. New South Wales.iost its best hurdle rScer Recently, when Playboy died. He r^n in the Second Hurdle Race at the Sydney turf Club rtieeting, but :f m k&Wf at the las"t obstacle. The

horse returned to 1 lie saddling' paddock apparently only little the' worse of his adventure, but soon after reaching- his training' quarters, fell, and died without a struggle. He was probably injured internally.

Mr .). E. Sewell, of Oamaru, bought a yeai-ling1 filly by St. Legev—Katipo for £40 at the Hon. H. Mosman's clearing sale at Dunedin. The Onyx, winner of the Foxton Cup, is by Wapiti, Nelson's old companion in Major George's stable.

According to 'Weatherby,' 1680 obits and 1098 fillies were foaled in England in JS9B. Carbine sired 26 foals, of. which 11 were colts and 15 fillies, and his relative, Carnage, accounted for 9 tolls and :! fillies. Other colonial sires figuring' in the list are—• Trenton, with 8 colts and 3 fillies; Derringer, 4 colts and 2 fillies; Mousquetaire, .'S colts and 2 fillies. The Hawevn paper records that the hurdler Cairo who went amiss at Rllerslie just before the Summer Meetingl is pretty right again. The Duneclin Cup winner, Casket, is to be taken up again, to see if he will stand a preparation. The Sydney owned racehorse Merloolas, probably the best horse in training in Australia to-day, is in the private" sale list, A few months ago an offer of ITOOgs. was refused for him. Randwick promises to become as noted for fast time as some of the American tracks. Kirry's Imin 13sec for six. furlongs recently at the Sdyney Turf Club Meeting was an eyeopener. Another remarkable performance at the meeting from a time standpoint was that of Beachcomber in the Highweig'nt Handicap, as the chestnut won at his ease in Imin 14} see with Sst Tib in the saddle. Blair, too, with 13st 21b on his back was responsible for seven furlongs in Imin 3(Hsec. The ex-New Zealand steeplechaser Donald M'Kinnon, after enjoying a long- spell, which has done him a a great deal of good, has been put into easy work on Mr G. Sidney's private training track at Rock band, A'ietoria.. Mr H. G. Dan gar, chairman of the Australian .TockeV Club, has left on a visit to Egypt. , j The Victorian' scribe 'Asmodeous writes:—Hotchkiss has now firmly established his reputation as the most successful Musket sire in Australasia, and it remains with him to carry on the good work initiated by Trenton and Nordenfelt. 'What was the most valuable stake ever run for by horses?' is the nature of a question recently asked in an American journal, and in answer to it the following interesting information is given:—'At Natchez, in Missouri, Mr Claybourtie matched his more Susan Caudell against Mr Thurston's Eodolf for 2500 bales of cotton on each side. The cotton staked was worth about £50,000.' The much - talked -of Yigorons SB withdrawn from the Newmarket Handicap. The Hon. W. A. Long's Partisan won the Nursery Handicap at Bandwic*k recently. He is a bay colt, by the unbeaten Grand Flaneur from Archeress, by Trenton from Bay Archeress (imp.), by Toxopholite, and is highly spoken of. At the Sydney Turf Club meeting Blair, who'is fancied for the Newmarket Handicap, won the Corinthiar, Race, for which he "will not be penalised. Beachcomber, who won the High Weight Handicap, put up a good performance by downing Dozon, who is a horse of superior stamp. Beachcomber is a half brother to Merman, by Lochiel.