VICTORIAN R.C. SPRING MEETING.

Bruce Herald, Volume x, Issue 957, 13 November 1877, Page 7

VICTORIAN R.C. SPRING MEETING.

; Melbourne, November 10. The racecourse waa in splendid order, and there was a great attendance and a brilliant assemblage. ALL AGED STAKES. Boaworth... ... ... ... I Kmiiy ... .. ... ... 2 ; - ....Tim, Whistle ....... .... ... 3 „, A good race. Tiine^ lmin. 4£sec; " ' f MAR7CS' PBODUCB ; SIAB;B8. Chester ... ... ... ... 1 -. : -.King; - .... „; ■„...:■ ;/...., ...:• 2- \,_ r ijockley 1 .;; ... ... ■•?•.. '3'.'.' "Vi^on oasily. Time, 2mip, -12 sjec. ; ' VB.O. HANDICAP. L Woodlands - ' ..^= -rh> ... 1 - Whisperer "•> ... : „.; '■: ••• 2 ; Vagabond ...... ■>„.. ,;3Won by two lengths. Time, 3nrin. 4£sec.

.^iyingißeajityi a ; chestnut foal by towton, who has figured in some events on Canterbury and Otago courses, and-whol died lately, was a; speedy mare over a short cpureej but her temper was none of ! the beß|. She will be remembered by the potf&ie 7 up^e't Vm: t^Aih burton Bate some three yeare ago, when Bob Roy, also defunct, waß the greatest moral out. Mrs Seabright'a well f- known mare liacenfeed has a colt foal by Castaway, and visits -him again. " ' / :f f All New Zealand sportsmen will be glad to hear that Lurline has afine^ chestnut edit foal with the inevitable white face to the^grand old horsaTbJe Peer.' Calumny 'b colt js>a bay, ; a white » streak like Manuka's down the face.^ Being .some days younger than his chestnut relative, he suffered by comparison in point of size, but not in symmetry, and coming from a mare whose deeds astonished the^ Australians, so promising a; youngster is bound to have a large number of friends. New Zeaianders will look forward with no small interest to the performances of these two youngsters, bred as jtbey are by a horse whoj in Peeress and Manuka, has left his mark in New Zealand, and their dams being our old favourites Lurline and Calumny.

Mr Webb's mare, Ada, has dropped a beautiful chestnut foal to Albany.

The Beefton people will shortly issue a capital programme, the only unsatisfactory part of tbe intelligence being that it is probable .that the meeting will clash with Hokitika.

The "Wellington club have accepted tenders for the erection of permanent publicans', and confectioners' stalls on the courßei ano* the" scheme of bringing theiS railway to the course is being pushed forward. .

"sTHe Auatralaßian Turf Register " for 1877 has been published and contains as usual a irifts's of useful information, and has evidently, been compiled with the editor's usual care.

Mr C. Edwards has purchased Gap-a^ pie from Mr A. Town. \ A few Auckland, i tems.;- Messrs T and ,S/r jMorrin have imported from Sydney a very nice filly by Maribyrnong from Paraguay. Kootiingly has arrived safely. in Auckland. Major Walmesley's eh m Moonbeam has dropped a colt fbal to Fevre> and this Beason will visit Hippo^ campus, to whom also Tatterina, Slander, and Boro are booked. Peeress, lam sorry to say, is not in foal this year. Mr Ferguaohjj who im ported Fe vrej is shipping half a dozen thoroughbred marea frbin; England;: Mr; /Walters has ' got Venus Transit and Isaac Waltoo in work.

The Ashburton fiacerwere not a very great success, for although the attendance was considerably larger than last year, aud the weather fine, the sport was anything but good. The first race was a surprise. Onlyj; two can^e to the post, and it w§B £ m;oral certainty for Piirthenopceus, but not caring to face the crowd bel o w the ropes he bolted, leaving the. other, a piebald, to cantor, for he could not rjiise a gallop, in by himself. The great event of the; meetiug was next on the card, but only attracted two starters, both beiqg in the same stable, and the owner declaring to win with Banebury, Danebury won without the semblance of a race, the second going to save his stakes. - The Hurdle Bace promigecl ta be a good one, which en^ed, however, in a -very easy wjn for orey Momus, who! hit every hurdle, but managed to keep on his legs. ; .

At : tbe; late Canterbury meeting, eight competitors appeared upon the cSrd for the Railway Plate. - Mr Delan^ain was againto the fore with Temple--ton"' and ( Par then bpoeu?, Bob JSay;, too, accepted with^;■;Pa'nebu^y > ■,;Mc'-!F^:aß■er^.i|» p '^th Fallacy, Mr O'Brien 'Wit-h/liiniAJ'.iandr'Jyir Malloch with Tell Tale turning up. Bribery wae backed at three to one on her. She' had .a lpcg Way the best of the start, with Lima in close attendaoce for Home way past the turn.*, Here Parthenppoßus, wh.3. had been Tying back, came ■up on the Mneidi and woo easily. Thfe mare was thought; by ttjany: tfl hftve been pulled, and sinister oomnftents were very freely cireul^ted upon the transaction. It B.ubs>guently transpired that Mathews, the jockey' who rode the'- mare, said that be was under the impression that Mr Delainain's,; colt, had run inside a. ppst during an early period Qftha »ace. Srbm tbe evidepc^ adduced, however, dpe^ not appear to hive been thelllight, est TounHat ion for the eta teqjeptv and. the stewards very rightly disallpwiia the profest, cQDßequeDtly iKe stakes $e\\ to Parthenopaus j and Matb^ws, the rider of Bribery, can priije hiuaßelf on being qne of the first jockeys is Canterbury at least who, wh,en occasion requires, wears his eyea in the back of bis head, _