SPORTING NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7380, 5 August 1889, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

By Spectator. The C.J.C. committee held a meeting on Monday but no business of importance was transacted. Mr Clifford has gone to Wellington to act as delegate for the C.J.C. at the conference.'

Mr Donald Fraeer's eh mare Laurel after doing a reason at the stud, has been put into work again. She was last seen at the Island Bay meeting, where she broke dpwn, The rest has done her good, and he I* going sound again. The victories of Chemist in the Grand National, and of Waitangi in the Opeji Steeplechase, at the recent meetings should be arguments sufficiently strong why hack-racing should be etfepuraged inatead of wiped out. Both, these horses came out first as hacks, and but for hackraces it i» certain that many of the very beet horses we have had would never have been raced.

Wh&t an unlucky mare Raupo has proved since falling into the hands of the New Zealand Stud and Pedigree Company. She cost them £600 tiut up to last' season she had only refiarned foroneflllyeold. The colt by St. Leger out of her,a real nice I looking Mr Drake for I Harry Haines, dfed from tne effects of castration according to the Australian papers. Mr Donald Frazer, the well known atudttiaster from the Rangitikel district, has .seldom'visited Canterbury without taking back some blood stock. Last week he was here and had a look at Sextant, Artillery, and other horses with a view to purchase, but no business resulted. Sextant is in work again and going sound. Mr Frazer thtofcse good deal of.St. George, the Middle Park sire, and says he ie surprised that there are so many Apremonts, and so few Sir Georges running, but of high-class mare 3. I understand that St. George will be more extensively used this season as a sire, j Gladiator is now doing stud duties oh ! the Maraekakabo station, the property of Mr Douglas McLean, who purchased him from Mr Allan McLean of Havelock, Hawkes' Bay. Gladiator is an old friend of mine, , who never had such opportunities, as so good a bred one deserved. Be should yet leave some good cross-country horsea. Macaroni was probably his best advertisement, and I think he could have •won the National with 12st 71b up. Taihaoa (?) a half-sieter to Waitangi, is now in the Napier district, and runs occasionally in hack races. She is by Patriarch. The Napier Park Company held their fourth annual meeting last Thursday. Mr J. McKay presiding The balancesheet showed the liabilities to amount to £988613s IQd, the chief items being:— "Capital paid up, £5820; mortgage, £3000.: and Colonial Bank, £989 14s. The chief assets were: Freehold land, buildings, and improvements, £7162 13s 4d; Napier Park Racing Club,- £163 7e 8d; depreciation account (amount struck off value of hind, ! buildings, and improvements), £2000. The balance against the Company was £33612s 10d. The profit and lose account showed receipts amounting %o £917 8s Bd, the chief •Item ueing rent, Napier Park Racing Club, £370, The chief items in expenditure were Interest, £242 Iβ 2d; accrued interest, £49 55 0d; and custodian's wages to 30th September, £46. The year commenced with ft debit balance of £502 13s 3d, and ended with one of £336 12s 10d. The, balance sheet was adopted. Fr.c»m Lower Rangitlkei, which has turned out some good horses in years gone by, I learn that the chestnut yearling filly by Tim Whiffler from Laurel, a daughter of young Gownsman, (a son of imported Gownsman., and Dejanir*, full sister to Dainty AffelXand the well-known Peter Flat mare .Bay Leaf, in a low set, long and strongly made one, and Indeed as big a boned yearling as can be found in the district. Speculation (late Hippodatnia, a name that should never have, been changed,) has a brown yearling filly \y Ascot. She has the appearance of; growing into a fine large mare, and frpm her movements is likely to have agood dash of foot. The mare is again in foal to Ascot. Mr Frazer has a number of fchreeparts bred mares. His Traducer mare Matilda had a nice filly to Dioinedes (son of Totara) which Mr Fraeer cold. He tried a cross with her and thei-nported trotting horse*Bm Allen, and the result was a fine colt, now rising three years old. Her two-year-old by The Premier is a big handsome and all quality animal, and my informant says he ha 3 seen nothing to beat her in the country, and her yearling by Randwick, a dark chestnut, is the finest he has seen in the country this season for a threeparts bred one. The mare Is In foal to the Ingomar —Aida colt, purchased by Mr Douglas, of Napier, in Auckland, sold to Mr Frazer, and resold by him to Mr W. Broughton, of Napier, last season. Flora McDonald, another Traducer mare* had a good colt to Sou'wester, but he got hurt. The mare is now in foal, to the Ingomar—Aida colt before mentioned. The Traducer mare' Reserve, dam of the hack racer Oaklands, who has been a most successful mare as a prize taker for mares best calculated to produce useful backs, has now a fine yearling colt by Rand wick. Mr Frazer has a nice lot of mares, and is a great stickler for the Traducer blood. Apropos of the subject of, breeding and racing, the following experience of a Worth Islander living in Palmerston, as related by himself, is worth noting:—" I had; as you remember, a mare called Waiwera by Ravensworth, dam Estelle by St. Patrick dam Venessa, owned by the late Mr Peter Imlay. of WanganuL Well, I put her to The Painter two yean in succession, afca cost of £10 each season. She had no foal. The following year I pufc her to Patriarch at the cost of£B. Result, a filly foaL Next season she had a foal to Puriri cost £6109, but ife'had to be destroyed, as it early met with an accident. Next season I sent her to-Hippocampus, £6, with the same Seethe Painter. I bad thus expended £40 10s in fees,, to . which acS » erooro fees and five_yeiars keep of ttbe mare, ear £25 a&d

you*%;iirhave .£65 10s as the cost of her i one foil. Some people have not sufficient sense to get in out of the rain, and I was a long time making up my mind before 1 decided on getting rid of Waiwera, who had with her first cosfc and Interest on money run mc into about £100. I at last exported her to another district, ana you -may depend on it, I did not get her first cost. lam not done with the breeding account. The filly by Patriarch I waited Cor with patience, in the hope of her pulling mc out on the right side. I sent her away to the best pasture, and paid M per year lot her grass for three years. I had riot seen her for a long time, and on going out to where she was running, when I thought of having her broken, I found her nearly dead with strangles, and so dis.gusted /was I that I took the earliest opportunity of closing accounts, and I jumped at an offer of £3 for her ; and then I reflected on the question of breeding the thoroughbred, and I concluded that it was not half the game It was represented, They are talking of going in for a stud company between Napier and Wanganui. Well, if they have to provide for possible failures, like Waiweia, they should make the capital more than £10,000, for it will all be required. So much for my breeding experience, but, will you credit it, I was soft enough after the lapse of a few months, to go and buy the Patriarch filly back for £10, and I started trying her to gallop and thought to make a racer of her. Roughly we will estimate my breeding losses after selling the old mare at say £100. Trying to get the money back at racing is a precarious came, but I tried. I ran the filly, finding that she had the gift of going, and in her first raco she ran last. Total cost, with totalisator investment, £22- Later on same day ehe ran away from a field of twelve. I rode her myself and scooped £57 machine money and stakes on a small investment. A month later, with a boy up, she wo»> another race in t>he same way, disappointing mc the first time and when I had my money on. When I had only £2 pa sjje won, paying £22 10a, dividend. I thus made a mare who was as uncertain at racing as her dam was at breeding, recoup my previous losses, and then I dropped my filly like a hot potato, selling her for the large sum of £14. So nitlch for breeding and racing."' [Note. Last December I saw old Waiwera running at the Thames races, in another name, however, and she ran a perfect duffer. How she got to the Thames I don't know, but if her present owner should chance to see these notes he will know more of the mare's history than he could tell mc before, when I wanted to know how he came by her, I may mention that the meaning of Waiwera is hot water, and that those who have owned the mare have been literally in hot water with her all the time. J