MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 292, 8 December 1900, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

La Gloria is a pronounced favourite for the Auckland Cup. Bluejacket put up a good gallop over the Auckland Cup distance at Eilersiie this morning. Miss Delaval easily defeated La Gloria and Beddington over 1* mile this morning at Eilersiie.

Scotty looks a picture of condition. English breeding experts express the opinion that Persimmon will make a grand stud horse. It is to be observed that he is as near as possible a perfect blend of all the merits of the Galopin—St. Simon tribe, with the power, bone and equable temperament of the stock of Melbourne, and of the three famous sons of Pocahontas, all of whom, viz., Stockwell, Rataplan and King Tom, are brought together in Persimmon's pedigree, while

there are two crosses of Melbourne through his dam.

Battleaxe is suffering' from inflammation of the lungs. Of the remainder of Mr "Watson's team, Dummy has a poisoned leg, Okoari was galloped on at Ellerslie, Tukapa has a filled leg, and Dartmoor has an enlarged fetlock. The stallion Nunthorpe, winner of the City and Suburban and the Jubilee Stakes, in IS9I, for Colonel North, is going back to England from South Africa, where he has been standing for some years, Mr A. Bailey having- sold him to Mr Robertson. One of the most level-headed racing men I have ever met (says "Javelin in the Sydney "Leader") invariably 'inculcates what he—rightly, I think—calls his golden rule:—"Never lay odds on a bad 'un, because you think he's the best of a bad lot. Trying to classify riff-raff 'd break Baron Rothschild." "Javelin" states that the Medallion two-year-old colt Oblivion has been put into active work. Oblivion is a very • handsome chestnut-out of Ta Ta, by Segenhoe. and at the last yearling sales many good judges regarded him as one of the handsomest youngsters offered, and certainly one of the cheapest lots sold. i The death is announced of Count Mokronoski, so well known as the owner of Carlton (England). The Count gave a tenner for the .Torse when he was sent up to Tattersall's as a foal, that being the reserve, and at the same time 30gs was set upon his dam, Bonny Spec. In after years Carlton was sold for £0000, and Bonny Spec for £2100. Pony racing at local meetings has a great hold on the racegoing public. At the Takapuna J.C. Meeting £912 was invested in the race won by .Lena, and £133S in the lilliptitian event which fell to Mamoa. b Lancaster is in work at Caulfiold. Brilliant always runs like a moderate, and Mr S. Coombes must be sick, and tired of him. Goldspur must be our champion sprinter. At the D.J.C. meeting he won the Salisbury Plate.