MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 142, 17 June 1899, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Although the well known trainer and rider J. Rae has not yet got the use of one of bis arms, he is mating a good recovery from the mishap he met with while riding in the Pony Hurdle Race at the National Meeting at. Ellerslie.

Weights for the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup are due on 2Gth June.

Nestor is being walked about the roads out Ellerslie way.

The Hon. H. Mosman's yearlings Hengist, Montrose and Formula were practised under the starting barrier at Ellerslie this week.

In local circles Tim and Nor'-west are the favourite selection for the Hawke's Bay J.C. Hurdle Race and Steeplechase. Yesterday a waker of 150 to 6 was laid about the two Hangfires.

M. Ryan, the well-known horseman, leaves here on Monday next in the s.s. Mararoa. He intends paying Sydney and Brisbane a visit, and he proposes to return here for the racing in the spring.

Lord Ranfurly "looked over Mr L. P. Nathan's team of racers at Ellerslie on Wednesday last.

The Mangere and Suburban Trotting Club, with Mr W. L. Lock-hart as secretary, announce a meeting at Potter's Paddock on or about Saturday, July 22. The programme appears elsewhere.

In Napier Nor'-west, for the double of Hurdles and Steeplechase, is the popular selection, while Nor'-west and Kanaka is another double that finds favour.

The St. Albans failure, Manfred, is engaged in the G.N. Hurdle Bace. The programme of the Australian Jockey Club for the season 1899-1900 provides for an increase of 650 soys. in the added money apportioned to the spring meeting, while the autumn meeting has been endowed with 400 soys. additional. The summer meeting is reduced from two days to one. The 'chaser Mangere has been returned to his owner, Mr W. Paul, the well-known farmer, of Mangere. Mr W. R. Wilson 'has nominated five yearlings for the next Maribyrnong Plate, amongst them being a chestnut half-sister to Aurum, by Wallace.

The jumper Puriri, got by Puriri from Lady Gorton, and described as a half-brother to Pokomoko, was put up to auction yesterday at Messrs Hunter and Nolan's. He was knocked down to the well-known livery stable proprietor, Mr Benjamin Armitage, for 17| guineas, so it is safe to assume the future career of the gelding will be between the shafts. From Melbourne papers I gather that Damocles, who ran second to Flying Fox in the Epsom Derby, is by Suspender— Revelry. He ran in the nomination of Mr W. R. Marshall. The new owner of Canopus, Mr Geo. Smith, is a well-known 'hairdresser at Gisborne. The Castor horse was shipped to his new home last Saturday. The two-year-old Hastings, who was lately gelded, once more occupies a box at George Wright's training establishment. Among the nominations for the Taraiiaki Hack Guineas of 1900 is Mr J. J. Russell's bay colt by WaiukuLady Onslow.. Melbourne advices state that Lancaster (by Hotchkiss-Frailty) is losing his aldermanic appearance, and he does his work in a tradesman like manner. He may be seen in public during the winter. The 'Australasian' says taken as a whole the entrants for the Melbourne Cup this year look to be a moderate lot, and the handicapper will not need to start as high as usual. Mr R. J- Piatt's pair, Castashore and First Blood, are doing good work on the Hastings track.

At the Newmarket Craven meeting, 'Tod' Sloan won four races off the reel, these being the only four mounts the American champion had. Of the four, three of his mounts were favourites. Waiuku, the New Zealand horse in F. W. Day's stable, had dropped out of the training reports for a fortnight prior to the departure of the last Euglisli mail. The New Zealand-Grand National Meeting lias, owing to the postponement' of the Wellington Steeplechase Meeting, been postponed till August 13. Mr .1. 'Rowen' has entered the Wel-

linglon Park bred colt St. Austral (by St. Leger—Ouida) for the Maribyrnong I'late. Puller-ton, whose death Is by cablegram, was one of the most famous greyhounds in the history of coursing in Great Britain. After dividing the Waterloo Cup in 188!) he won three years in succession, and retiring to the stud was in great demand, the late Colonel North having received big sums for the services of the dog, which, however, proved of no avail. The next best performances to Fullerton's in the Waterloo Cup were those of Master McGrath, who won in 1808, ISO.) and 1871, and Cerito (late Lucy Long), who carried off the prize in 18.30, 1852 and 1853.