MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 85, 12 April 1899, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

From Sydney comes word that a syndicate over there intend going in for racing on an extensive scale and that the ye&rlings bought by I. Earnshaw at the blood stock sales will ftrm a part of the collection to be trained. Earnshaw will act _, as trS?s e sr'Emmy has run her last race and she is to be relegated to stud duties at Messrs Nathan's breeding establishment at Sylvia Park. Acceptances for the Avqndale J.C. M _S (first day) close on Friday 'iSotover, who won the Two. Thousand Guineas and the Derby m 1882, dfed a few weeks ago in England. _ - ■ The Sydney Cup was worth £2280 to Mr H. Power, the owner of DiffideitCis said that the seat of Bobadil's +T-n-nKl<» is the stifle. * Lord Roslyn. the Dunedin Cup wmner, is to be put into training again.

Messrs E. W. Alison, H. H. Hayr and W. H. Herries, M.H.R., are the nominations for Auckland country club' delegates. There are only two vacant seats, so a contest will take place. Battleaxe, Okoari, Sylvia- Park, Faugh-a-Ballagh and Cairo were taken back to the West Coast by last' Sunday's steamer from the Manukau. It is said that Diffidence made hacks ;of her opponents in the last two furlongs of the Sydney Cup. The Hon. H. Mosman has bestowed the name of Formula on the full sister to Multiform, which H. Franks has under his care at Greenlane. There was a report current in England in the middle of February that the Jockey Club had refused F. W. Day, who is well known in Australia, and trains for the Australian sportsman, Mr Spencer Gollan, permission to train horses at Newmarket. Day, however, has got his license, and the journal which published the incorrect information has tendered him an unreserved apology.

Lord William Beresford has taken a Mr Agnes into equal partnership with him in all the horses now trained at Heath House by Huggins. They number thirty-seven. The new confederacy started the season unluckily by running second for the Lincolnshire Handicap with Knight of the Thistle.

Reviver, who won the A.J.C. Champagne Stakes at Randwick, is a bay colt, the property of Mr W. R. Hall, by Clan Stuart ' (imported, sire of Georgie). from Melissa (dam of Survivor) by Marvellous from Mavourneen by Grandmaster, and was bred in New South Wales by Mr R. Rouse, junr.. of Birigambih and spld as a A-earling at Randwick for 135 guineas. He is engaged in the V.R.C. Derby, A.J.C. Deroy, and other important events.

The A.J.C. Doneaster Handicap winner, Vigorous, who has been sold to a buyer for India, isa hardy stamp of a horse, with plenty of racing in him. being now only three years old. and he will probably do.well in the East. It would not be surprising to learn that the intention is to have him prepared for the Viceroy's Cup—the most valuable race in India—to be run at Calcutta at the end of the year.

A writer in London 'Truth' Says: — I mentioned recently that the Duke of Portland's two-year-olds, by Carbine, at King-sclere, clo not compare favourably with the Duke of Westminster's team in the same stable. I am told, however, that there is a remarkably promising and racing . likeson of the Australian horse at Newmarket in Mr Rose's Durbar, and he is a splendid galloper.. This colt is by Carbine out of the famous Distant Shore, and nearly everything produced by this mare can race. During the three seasons, he -has been racing Multiform has won £6319 8s in stakes. . Waiuku is being trained by F. W. Day. at Newmarket, England. . The Government receive £383 15s lOd as totalisator tax oyer the A.RyC. Autumn Meeting. At Christchurch on Wednesday last the three- year-old colt Conqueror, was bought by Mr J. Grigg for 55g5.; Nantes went to Mr C. Dalgety for 135gs.,'and Benzoin fell to the bid of M. M. Lagan at 130 .s. Tolstoi and Courtier were not offered.