"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1900, Page 3

"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

.'.- A. commodious space, has been reserved for' Seahorse on the s.s. Mararoa- and on Tuesday next the colt will .be I conveyed to Sydney, . where he goes into the .hands of the well-known trainer,.'.!. Monag'-han, who will prepare him for Y.R.C. engagements. Major George will also be a passenger by the s.s. Mararoa. ..Seahorse-has been striding along.in his best style at Ellerslie this week. .. •

.-An addition was made to the Wellington.park Stud tlhis week, the brood mare Sunningdale having been brought up from Christchurch in the 5.5..F10ra...t0. join the famous, collection of. matrons-which-roam over tlie rich paddocks of the estate. In looking aip the Australian "Stud Book" I find that Sunningdale is a bay mare bred in-England in 1885. She is by Hampton (son of Lord Clifton), her dam Sally-port, by. Theobald from For^ tress; The mare has a fine foal sired by, the Musket ■ stallion Musketry at .her,side. After being landed Sunningdale was-located "at- Messrs Hunter and Nolan's .yard for-a few hours, where she., waOQ.pJk-ed...Q.ye.rJp4:_a. number, of equine, experts.

The Wellington Racing Club appear to^ have had a successful Summer Meeting. During the two days £ 29,743 was passed through the totalisators. A pleasing feature of the second day's x-acing was the success of Sir George Clifford's colours in the Wellington Stakes by the aid of Cannie Chiel, and in the Metropolitan Handicap with Glenog-le. Both of these colts have evidently returned to form again. The*pair are trained by E. Cu'tts, and as the veteran, also prepared Djin Djin, the Cup winner, he had altogether a goody time at the meeting.

Mr Fercival must be a proud man at the' 'heavy lists of nominations received for classic events to be contested at future meetings of the Auckland Racing Club. A hearty response has been made from owners" all over the colony, while local entries in all > races are heavy. With regard to the discussion as to what Seahorse's penalty in the A.R.C. Century Stakes to be run in the autumn really is, "Spectator" has gone into the matter. He writes: —The • special conditions referring to penalties might certainly have been made more clear, but how people ' can construe the conditions to mean that, in addition to a 141b penalty for '[ winning the Canterbury Derby and Canterbury Cup, Seahorse, for having ' won other races collectively of over lOOOsovs, must carry an additional 101b penalty, I cannot see. According to that contention, Seahorse would be penalised to the extent'of 241b, while an older horse, no matter whether he won the New Zealand Cup, Canterbury Cup, Auckland Cup, and all the big ] handicap races, weight-for-age, and • available classic events, would be ex- : peeted, by such a reading of the conditions, to carry 71b for winning the Canterbury Cup, and "101b for the handicap- race—altogether 171b as a maximum, 'as' against 241b on the : three-year-old. According to the Rules' Of Racing, the penalties to be cumulative Would require to be so stated in the conditions of the race. According to my reading the following is the scale of weights to be carrie.d:r— . " r y - .stlb ,stlb Explosion (101b Labourer ... 8 4 penalty) .... 910 Dayntree 8 4 Bluejacket (101b '■ ' Cadiz ......... 8 4 - . penalty) ...... 910 Swif tfoot (51b Blazer (51bpen) 9 5 allowance) .. 8 4 Seahorse (141b „ ... Jim Kean ...... 8> 4 penalty) .... 9 4 Rbsella ........ 8 2 Day5tar,........ 9 3Temeraire ..... 8 2 Dundas -.. 811 La Gloria 8 2 Medallius ...... 811 Lady Dundas.. 8 2 .' Miss" ~ Delaval '""-' ' Sant Ilario'(slb . (71b -penalty) 8 9- allowance) ..7 13 Advance ....... -8 ..4 Maybird (51b al-. I St. Peter :...., 84 lowancej .... 711 ' ": "The Otahuhu. Trotting Club received : splendid 'nominations' last night, for- ) their three "days' Summer Meeting, ! and t]hey must form a record list for i this popular Club. Both the trotting ■• i antninipiitian'-events;have filled won-:, derfully Well, and the Class Trot ,(2.45 •> Or better to the mile) on the third day . has- secured fifteen "nominations. Mr , ■Knight declares the starts for the first : -day-on February '2. "