MISCELLANEOUS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Avondalo Cup will be run on Saturday next.

The 124 th contest for the Doncaster St, Leger takes place to-day.

An exchange says that Crusoe has started bleeding at the nose.

H. Goodman, the well-known trainer, has left Dunedin and thrown in his lot at Christchurch.

A Dunedin authority says that Blazer was never looking better than he is at

present,

The Tasmanian horse Eiridsdale, by Eiridspord—Aorere, and Massinissa ran a dead-heat for the Memsie Stakes, run under weight-for-age conditions, at Caulfield recently.

The Dunedin Jockey Club have reduced their stakes this season by £3851.

The Hon. J. Carroll was elected President of the Gisborne Racing Club at the annual meeting.

Mr J. McArtin, of Hawera, has purchased Day Star (by Castor—Cissy). The price paid, It is stated, Is £350. The result of the foalings at Wellington Park so far are six colts and four Allies. That good horseman C. Jenkins will ride Mr E. J. Watt's horses in their classic engagements. The Australian sires represented in the English Derby and Oaks of 1902 are Trenton, Carbine, Carnage and Artillery. The stewards of the English Jockey Club have appointed a committee, consisting of Mr T. F. Dawkins, Mr A. Keyser, and Mr W. F. Lee, to handicap at Newmarket for the remainder of the season 1900. Australian racmg.men in England seem to be getting themselves disliked. The victory of Mr H. C. White's horse Skopos in the Liverpool Cup, It Is stated, was received with "ley silence." Writing before the A.J.C. Spring Meeting, "Martlndale" wrote:—The most improved horse that I have seen for some time is Lancaster. Foulsham has done wonders with him since last spring, and if he continues to improve and do well, then what beats him will win the Melbourne Cup. , _, The defeat of Diamond Jubilee by Merry Gal at Newmarket caused a break in the remarkable series of St. Simon's successes this season, and left the question still open as to whether the famous Welbeck sire is going to cut Stockwell's 1866 record or not. In 1866 Stockwell's sons and daughters won £61,391 In stakes, and the St Simons for the current season, even after Diamond Jubilee's victory in the Eclipse Stakes, were still a long way short of that amount. The New York correspondent of the "Sportsman" writes that the question of the superiority of the American two and three-year-olds has been settled, and that he doubts very much whether there is a better two-year-old anywhere than Commando, who is by Domino from Emma C, by Darebin. This colt is engaged in next year's English St. Leger and several of the big £10,000 stakes. The brown gelding 'Frisco, who defeated Kitawa, Tom Brown, Nelson, The Jewel, Ringmaster, Myall King, and other cracks of the past in the Sydney Cup of 1887 was amongst some horses sold at the Nowra saleyards recently, and he brought sgs. Sorella lost her rider and Major George's Nelson fell In the Sydney Cup alluded to. The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club has refused to grant trainers' licenses to Con Boyle T. Quinlivan, sen., and Geo. Cudd. The following were refused on account of being owners of racehorses :-A. Raynor, Thfis Connop, W. G. Bauer. A case is to be brought by Wellington bookmakers hr the Supreme Court to decide whether the Wellington Racing Club has power to refuse admission t° pencillers at Its meetings on the Hutt course.