"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 18 November 1899, Page 3

"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

Mr Evett leaves for Wellington on Monday to fulfil his handicapping duties at The spring meeting to be held in the Empire city next week. He will wire the weights for the Auckland Cup on the due date.

Sir Geors-e Clifford evidently possesses a very smart colt in Cannie Chiei. winner of the Spring Nursery HanrHonp nt the C.J.C. meeting. He put down both Renown mid Beddington. Cannie Chiel is by Clanranald and it is stated that he will be broii-rht to Auckland' for the Auckland Racing Club Summer Meeting.

Mr -Knight's handicaps for the St. Andrew's Handicap and Handicap Steeplechase, run at the Takapuna Jockey Club Spring Meeting, are framed on attractive lines. With 8.7 Coronet reads well enough, but he cannot be depended upon. Crusade (7.2) bears an attractive appearance. In the Steeplechase Opou (10.12) is nicely handicapped, and Evening Wonder (10.0) is nicely placed, but he is only a beginner at the 'chasing game. The latter was' schooled over the Ellerslie country during the week, when he fell at one of the obstacles.

Seahorse further demonstrated in the Canterbury Cup what a great three-year-old he is. He got to" the end of the 2-} miles in 3.56 l-sth sees., a fresh colonial record for the distance. Explosion ran a good race, but he could not get near the winner. Seahorse claims engagements in the Auckland Cup, Great Northern Derby. Royal Stakes, and A.R.C. Century Stakes, all of which are within his grasp, providing he keeps sound.

Merriwee, the V.E.C. Derby and Melbourne Cup winner, had his escutcheon stained on Saturday last when he met with defeat at the hands of the Hon. VY. A. Long's colt Parthian. However, there is every reason to think that the defeat was due to a collision in the race between Merriwee and Tremarden, for later in the afternoon the Cup hero came out and easily won the C.E. Fisher Plate, two miles', run under weight-for-age conditions, from Dewey, Wait-a-Bit, and Australian Star, and who had not started earlier in the day.

Tremarden, the Caulfield Guineas winner of 1899, soon had his career •ended. The cable tells us that while the colt, was .contesting the Spring Stakes at the V.R.C. Spring Meeting on Saturday last he broke his shoulder and had to be destroyed. Merriwee it appears cannoned against the colt, Tremarden was got by Trenton from Lady Marden by Marden, and it means a loss to his popular owners, Messrs W. and C. Wilson, of Ballarat.

Mr S. H. Gollan's three-year-old mare Clack-na-Cuddin (by ' Dreadnought—Fair Nell)' and a two-year-old gelding by Captain Webb from Violet (dam of Jadoo and Daphne) have been shipped from Napier to Melbourne en route for England. Stairmand went over to the other colony in charge of the pair, who will join Australian Star in Melbourne. Clack-na-Cuddin is to be mated with a sire in the Old Country, but it is more than likely that she will be given a chance on the racing path ere she retires to the stud.

On the running of Miss Delaval and Rosella in the C..T.C. Oaks there is not much difference between the pair. They appear to have fought out an exciting finish all the way home. Mr Dan McLeod's filly placing the race to the credit of Seaton Delaval.

A hack club has been formed at Waitekauri, and officers appointed. Mr G. Davey is president, and Mr R. Walker chairman. The committee consists of Messrs G. Archer, E. Clarke, Darrow, Cotter, John Gordon, McLennan, Ryan, Hunt, Rogers, Farrelly, R. .Walker, W. Morgan, jun., and Davidson.

Horses from the St. Albans stable appear to have a special liking for the Williamstown Ciiip. Mr W. R. Wilson had left his mark previously on several occasions in that race, and on Prince of Wales' Birthday he won with Delusive, a mare which failed in the Coburg Stakes and Van Yean Stakes at the V.R.C. spring meeting.

A full brother to Flying Fox is at . present at the Eaton stud. He is described as a great strapping colt, but is said to be a bit on the leg and light of bone, faults which in his illustrious relative are wanting. His quarters also are said to slioav no signs of being such models of propelling power as are this year's triple crown winner's.

Mr H. C. White's Form was among the winners at Nottingham' races on the 3rd lilt. He carried 5.7 and won the Welbeck Stakes of 220sovs, one mile, beating eight runners. Form, who was ridden by the American jockey Eeiff, started second favourite at 5 to 1.

The result of the Melbourne Cup for the Press Association, was known

in Wellington this year within a minute after the "placed" horses passed the judge's box. Special arrangements as usual were made itov this rapid transaction.

It was a Bill of Portland and Sappho day on V.R.C. Derby day. Both Maribyrnong Plate and Derby fell to sons of Bill of Portland, while Wigelmar, Merriwee, Mora and Miss Carbine all descend from Sappho on. the dam's side. Dewey, too, has Sappho blood, Savannka being the sire of Dona.