MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Nominations for all events at the Takapuna Jockey Club Winter Meeting (.two days) close with Mr Wyiiyard on Friday night next. Mr S. H. Uollan's brood mares Tifaillerie, Freda and Bessie McCarthy, mated with St. Leger to English time, are to be shipped home in the liakaia on Thursday next along with the New Zealand Cup winner, Tirant d'Eau. The City and Suburban Handicap is the next big event of the English turf. It will be decided on Wednesday next. Newhaven (9st), Resolute (7st 111b), and Uniform (7st 81 b) are among those engaged. The A.ll.C' Great Northern Champagne Stakes, wou by Miss Delaval, was worth £247 to the winner.

The Australian racehorse Aurum has gone amiss in London and goes to the stud.

The gelding Acone has again changed hands, having been purchased by a local jockey named Weston.

The A.11.C. Easter Handicap and Autumn Handicap, won respectively by Eex and Coronet, were each worth £418 to the winner.

In the - early part of the week a wager of 400 to CO was taken locally about Tauhei for the Thompson Handicap.

At the New South Wales Agricultural Show Osculator (by Hotchkiss— Pungawerewere), bred at Wellington Park by Mr Thomas Morrin, was awarded the champion prize for the best blood stallion.

The Easter Handicap winner Rex was sent up to Hamilton this week for an extended spell. He is to be fired on both forelegs, so his owner tells me. •

H. Noble, who rode .Douglas in his engagements at the A.R.C. Autumn Meeting, leaves for London on Thursday next.

The Avondale Jockey Club Autumn Meeting privileges yesterday realised £252 10/, against £212 5/ last year.

Messrs R. and R. Duder's mare Miss Anna, who is supposed to have been poisoned at Paeroa last month, is still alive, but her owners tell me she will be useless for racing purposes.

Red Lancer is still located at Ellerslie.

It is now proposed to give Miss Emmv a. trial at the jumping business.

Fabulist is being1 spelled in Mr J. G. Ralph's beautiful paddocks at the Sylvia Park estate. '

The added, money for the next V.R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race will be £1000. Last year the added money was £600.

The thoroughbred stock forming the Grove stud, Tinwald (Canterbury), was offered by auction last week. The brood mare Miss Kate was knocked down to Mrs Carter at 25g5., the same buyer taking Lady Zetland at 260gs. - The other lots brought small prices.

That speedy hack, Dr. Bill, is said to have changed hands, the price being £200. The new owner is said to be a patron of Birkett's stable.

The Napier Park Club made a profit of £401 over its autumn meeting; the Manawatu Club a profit of £203.

Mr W. C. Hird intends appealing to iiie Trotting Conference in reference to the disputed start over the Autumn Handicap at the Auckland Trotting Club meeting. In England there are no fewer than 120 thoroughbred stallions advertised for 1899. Among those whose fees are highest are Isinglass, £300; Sheen and Common, £200; and Eoyal Hampton, £150. A notable absentee is St. Simon, who headed the list of winning sires for so many years in succession, as he is reserved for private services. Sydney writers consider that thq Hon. W. A. Long's colt Parthian is the best two-year-old seen out at the A.J.C. meeting., In the Easter Stakes, which he won it is stated he shaped like a stayer. Parthian is by Grand Flaneur from Archeress. by Trenton. The London 'Sportsman' says that ever since Merman's Cesarewiteh victory handicappers have generally been unduly hard upon Mr Jersey's (Mrs Langtry's") horses. In America last year there were 3000 trotters and pacers with records of 2min 30sec or better for a mile. The Sydney owner and trainer W. Kelso, junr./has recently been very successful with horses racing over hurdles. He bought Wongy for 48 guineas, Mist for 28 guineas, and The Echo for 20 guineas, and has won jumping races with each of them. ; Between them the brothers Flonzell 11. and Persimmon are earning £16,000 a year in stud fees for the Prince of Wales. " . It is given out that M. Trahan is the buyer of the Doncaster Handicap winner, Vigorous. The horse goes to India. Trahan was prominent as a iockey in Victoria some years ago. The racehorse Vivian, by Abercorn -Lady Vivian (imp.), who_ recently ended his career at Randwick by breaking a shoulder, was a good but still a disappointing horse, and his last owner, Mr W Brown, found him very costly. In May last that gentleman gaye^GOO guineas for him, and lost him without having won a race. ,

Captain Jackson Barry, one of _ the oldest of the pioneers, will leetupre here next Tuesday, April 18, when he will give one of his popular addresses in the Opera House. The Captain is the last but one of the survivors of the first pioneering party that arrived in Port Phillip in the year 1835, and one of the first overlanders to Adelaide with stock in the year 1/38. The Captain was the first man to shake hands with Buckley (better known as the <wild white man). It is due to the Captain to say that but for his earnest appeal on that occasion 'the wild white man' would have received his quietus from a rifle that had been brought to bear upon him by one of the Captain's companions. We feel which be deserves. Captain Barry is not an every-day man, but a very extraordinary character, whose name will live in the history of Sydney, Present and Men of the Times/ a thrilling account of-life in the colonies in the early days, which he is now selling in Auckland. • _ Our 'Trilby' kid gloves in black and nnlnnrs eive excellent wear, each pair g°uarantfed? A 2/6 per pair.-Smith and Caju rsT yop"ened 2500 yards of good ouality all-wool coating dress m all the newest shades, and special value, S 4id and is BJd per yard; also thousands of yards of Amazon ,n all shades marked exceptionally cheap is llld, 2s 6d, 2s Hd, to 3s lld.-Smith and Caughey.—(Ad.)