"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1900, Page 3

"HIPPONA'S" NOTE BOOK.

Ampler, winner of this year's Epsom Handicap, Is a Victorian-owned five-year-old gelding, trained at Caulfield. All along he was regarded as very favourably handicapped with 7.4, and so the result proved. He is described as a brilliant customer up to a mile, and he was never the horse he is this season. Ampler claims a Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup engagement, but he how incurs a penalty of 141b in the former race and 101b in the big event of Flemington. Last year he failed to win a single race. He was sired by Far Niente. an importedlhorse, bred in England in 1887, and got by Galllard out of Lotus, by Doncaster.

The Auckland-bred mare Korowai put up a good performance in the steeplechase at Randwlck yesterday. She Is by Hotchkiss—Mantilla, and was bred by Mr T. B. Bell. A few months back she was sold to a Sydney sportsman for something under £100. Korowai shaped very badly in her schooling work at Randwick, so that her win must have come as a surprise to her connections.

While at Mr J. G. Ralph's Sylvia Park Estate the other day. I had a look over a two-year-old colt named The General, sired by St. Hippo from First Love, by Nordenfeldt— Fishglrl. Pie is a well built and handsome juvenile and a free walker. Mr Ralph also has a big promising yearling sired by Ben Godfrey, his dam being Problem, a daughter of St. Hippo. Merry Kate's foal, sired by the American stallion Gilead, is of the neat order. First Love looked in capital condition, and is In foal to' Soult. Mr Ralph is mating a couple of his mares, with Hotchkiss this season.

The Victorian syndicate of sportsmen in which Mr C. L. - M'j_*nald has the responsibilities of management, and which recently . purchased a number, of racehorses at the dispersal of Mr W. R. Wilson's racing stud, has been early rewarded for its enterprise. Regained, for whom Mr M'Donald paid 280 guineas won the Heatherlie Handicap at Caulfield recently. He is half-brother to Hova, and is engaged in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

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I have long entertained the idea that the secret of St. Simon's stud success is not in any Blacklock combination (remarks an English breeding expert), but mainly from the nicking of Glencoe blood in St. Angela's sire, with Bay Middleton in Galopin's dam. Glencoe and Bay Middleton were not merely sons of the same sire, Sultan, but they both traced to Web (sister to Whalebone), Glencoe being a grandson, and Bay Middleton a great grandson of that mare.

"Better than Flying Fox" is the opinion of many racing men in England concerning Diamond Jubilee. The American trainer, Huggins, is one of the number, "I ought to know," he said to a London scribe, "for I have tackled them with the same horse." Marsh concurs in that view. "Not so good as Persimmon, but certainly better than Flying Fox," said Marsh, then adding, "but of course Persimmon was the best horse I ever had to do with."