COURSING.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7125, 23 July 1888, Page 5

COURSING.

THE VICTORIAN WATERLOO CUP. [from ottk correspondent.] (By Telegeaph fkoh the Blcit.) MELBOURNE, July IS. The Waterloo Cup ended on Friday last after a three days' meeting. Two New Zealand dogs, John Drumni and Rhodanthe, played a good part in the running, but the very hard ground affected their chance badly, as it did that of many other good dogs. The following quotations from the Argus report show the performance of the two dogs:—Of the first dog's running it says, " The New Zealand doS John Drumm ran in a trial against Reve dOr, aud the marvel is that so big a dog should possess so much cleverness. Last night the New Zealand bitch Khodanthe 11. was persistently supported by her party to beat Oughterside, and although the latter led to the hare he was subsequently out coursed by a cleverer and better greyhound." This was the re-sult of the draw and the first ties, the report says, "Triumph and John Drumm won. Each won their second courses like honest persevering greyhounds, but the decided feature of the day was the defeat of Nordeufeldt, with odds of 5 to 2 on him by the New Zealand puppy Rhodanthe 11., who repeatedly came round her opponent on the outer circle, and finished with a racing kill. It may be news to Victorian coursers that Ri'.bdanthe 11. is as yet unbeaten, she having won four slakes in New Zealand before coming here. The second day saw both dogs, and particularly the bitch, considerably knocked about by the hard ground, and the reporter says the New Zealand dogs, John Drumm and Rhodanthe. 11. were then pitted together, aud the dog was outraced, but the feature of the course was the loose style in which the puppy ran the trial as compared with her brilliancy on the opening day and her downfall next time. It seemed a foregone conclusion. Backers sustained another reverse when they piled 2 to 1 and 5 to 2on Rhodanthe 11. to beat the Giaour. There was really no reason in it when the different performance of the bitch in her defeat of John Drumni was borne in mind. She then ran a stale and settled greyhound, while the Gippslander (her opponent) was comparatively fresh. All things considered, however, the New Zealand division made a bold bid for the chief coursing prize of Australia, and neither Rhodanthe 11. nor John Drumm was disgraced. The Giaour who thus beat Rhodanthe 11. was runner up to the winner Lincoln. The odds of 400 to 1 were laid against him at the draw, and 100 to 1 after he had won his first two courses. Lincoln, the winner, who is a puppy, having made his first appearance in the Moonee Valley Derby, which he won, started at the long odds of 50 to 1. The Giaour's preparation for the Waterloo Cup was of the simplest and most primitive character. On the previous Monday he followed a trap nine miles to the nearest station to Melbourne, and sighting a hare, ran a promiscuous trial by way of preliminary for the great event.