MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1900, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Screw Gun has not yet tasted defeat except by a stable companion. Record Eeign is looking nice and mellow.

Miss Delaval, Hengist and Formula are reported to be doing well at Man-

g-ere. The Wellington Park stud claimed winners at- the Hawke's Bay meeting —the brilliant Screw Gun and Three Star.

During his country tour Admiral Hawke has won seven races and met with one defeat. Previous to these wins he did not catch the judge's eye for a period of eighteen months.

Mr Stead has won the Hawke's Bay Stakes three times in five years with Bloodshot, Multiform and Screw Gun.

The Napier Park Meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

Waiuku's brother, Wellstock, recently struck himself in a gallop at Mangere. He is not likely to be seen out again this season.

Tortulla's name was omitted from the Hawke's Bay Cup acceptances wired to Auckland.

At the Whakatane Racing1 Club meeting on St. Patrick's Day Clyde won the Hurdle Race and Arapeta the Cup.

The sum of £ 2,070 was paid away in stakes over the Wanganui J.C. Meeting. Mr Douglas Gordon headed the list of winning owners with £835.

Parthian's performance in the V.R.C. Loch Plate did not please the crowd, who indulged in a demonstration against the colt when the horses returned to weigh in.

A Melbourne paper says that Seahorse was very sore after the Australian Cup. Major George thinks that the colt must have got cast in his box after his arrival in Australia.

The Hotchkiss—AVeazel filly, Impati, which Mr S. Griffiths bought at Wellington Park as a yearling, won a small race at Lancefield (Victoria) recently.

It is stated that the V.R.C. Handicapper, Mr F. Dakin, contemplates resigning. He is tired of the abuse attached to the position. Amourette, who ran fourth in the last Newmarket Handicap, has been purchased by Mr S. F. Reynolds, and will °-o into G. P. Brewer's stable at Caolfleld.

f Nelson's daughter, Corvette, won the 1 Autumn Handicap at Dargaville on St. Patrick's Day, with Laddie second and Uegalia 11. third. Subsequently the latter was sold for £40. \era annexed the Steeplechase, and Sallelite the Hurdle ltace, with Jack second and old ika Vuka third. A cablegram wus received in Melbourne the other week by Mr H. Oxeuhani stating that his horse Sailov ;Boy, trained and ridden by J. £. Brewer in England, had won a hurdle race. ! This would probably be a maiden i hurdle race.

At a recent sale of thoroughbreds in Melbourne Stand Oir wus purchased by Mr K. Mctvenna for S7sgs. The same buyer took the disappointing Scorn at 400gs and Henry for 400gs. . It is said the trio will be sent to India.

The New Zealand sportsman Mr S. 11. Uolla,n, now in England, contributed £1000 to the fund being- raised at Home for equipping a colonial contingent of rough riders for South Africa.

A wet Australian Cup day was partly responsible for the Victoria .Racing Club losing neajrfy £3500 on the autumn meeting.

The champion English colt, Flying Fox, who was soJd last week to Mons. E. Blanc for 37,500 guineas, is said by the "Field" to be not only tilie best looking thoroughbred in training in any part of the world, but was regarded by that line judge, his late owner ami breeder, as the best horse ever tried at Kingselere.

The Musket and St. Simon blood was very successful at the V.Ii.C. Autumn Meeting". Four of tlie two-year-old winners were g"ot by sires oi' St. Simon. This strain of blood, more especially when fused with the Musket strain, promises to have an important bearing on the future of t\h© Australian thoroughbred.

Wait-a-Bit commenced racing as a two-year-old, and though now a, six-yeiar-old, has only won four races, so he must have cost his owners, Messrs YV. and C. Wilson, a tidy sum during his career, as he has been heavily backed several times when he has failed.

Primrose Day, who won the Cesarewich Stakes with great tmse, has been mated with Auritm, whose subscription is limited to twenty mares.