SPORTING NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7524, 14 April 1890, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

By Spectaxob. The successes achieved by Mr McKinnon recently with hie colt Lochness have been i well deserved, for he has been one of the 'most constant supporters of the turf up North, and every one knows" Donald " as a good sport. If the time test could be accepted as a guide, Hilda's easy victory Iα the Easter Handicap in Auckland, viz., 3min 39sec, I quite eclipses the running of Dndu, 9st 71b, in the Autumn Stakes, bver the same distance,, when she was easily beaten ia 3min 39isec. Yet at Wanganui she conceded HudaUlb and a beating in the Cup, one mile and three-quarters, and ran agoodi second to Hilda in the Wanganui Stakes,. a mile and a half, conceding her 251b, and 1 the time on that course, which is muchslower than either theEllerslie orßiccar-; ton courses, was 2tnin. 4Qse"c." time test gives us some wonderful contradict tions >Jonald, the winner of the Hurdle Race lat the Anckland Meeting, held on Easter j Monday, is a Wanganui hack... Heis perhaps In his. riuht place as a hurdler, but; will never carry a big weight in anything like company. He .won the Waverleyj Handicap on the 17th March, and the Marton Handicap on the 20th. under light imposts, but there are better hacks on the west coast than he is. , Mr D. Rutherford, owner, of Anna, mi tends asking the CJ.O.to ask the handicapping committee how they arrived at the conclusion that 12st was a reasonable impost to ask Ahua to carry in the Epsom Welter Handicap. A very reasonable request. My Wellington correspondent informs mc that F. Cochrane, the well-known jockey, rode his first winning race ori March 14th, 1884, being then sst 101b. This was on Molly Bawn at Oamaru, in the Sd. Patrick's Handicap.. , , A correspondent reminds mc that the mare Onepu> now owned by Mr Utiku Marama of Rangitikei, won the Hurdle race and District race at the Inaugural Meeting of the Kai Iwi* (Maori) Jockey Club held In March, 188$. Onepa won several other events over hurdles, if I remember rich t. , _ . ~• Carbine has once. more covered 1 himself with glory by winning the Sydney Cup under the top weight—9st 91b. A most consistent performer this horse, , and as straight a goer as his worthy owner. He has won a good round sum for.Mr "Wallace, noweomething over £6,000, and the wish of every good sportsman is that the figures may be doubled. ' . The rice for the Autumn Stakes at the Australian Jockey Club's meeting must have been a truly grand contest between Carbine, Melos, and Dreadnought, but it could not have been much better than the battle between Helmsman, Alcinou?, and Alsace in the Easter Handicap at Riccarton on Tuesday. Some money would, change hands over the first named'event, and the meeting of such giants in the equina j world would make the race most ezcicing. The time was only equal to that done by LeinsterattheCJ.C. meeting when he put down Count d'Orsay;and Leinster was sold : after a selling race at the summer meeting lor £10. He carried Bst 71b, being 4lb more than Dreadnought, who is the name age, so that if the time test could settle the question of superiority things would : be a bit mixed. Merrie England's time for the mile and a half, in the. Autumn Handicap, has not - been beaten by a three-year-old .in this country under a similar impost. The Patea Jockey Club appear to have r sad a successful meeting, judging by the information sent by my Wanganui correspondent. The Ciub are likely to have money in hand for improving their course. ; ■ • All arrangements for shipping the Hon. Jae. Whites' two-yeaisolas Werifcworth, Nepean, and Mons Meg, by the Damaa-: cus, were carefully made, the fittings and' boxes used lor bringing out Castor and jffiiridispord for Mr W. R. Wilson being brought into requisition. • ;i Ahua was not paid up for in the Epsom Welter Handicap, because the owner was not satisfied with the fiatteninsr impost put; on the little son of Fainter, and Cornelia. : Sir Robert, the winner of the: Mile Trot at Lancaster Park, is a good sort. His owner informed mc that; he was off the ! urass and had never been trained. Visiting owners won three of the races !at the Lancaster Park Meeting on Satur* day. Miss Cave, Home Kule and Sir Robert came from the Ashbarton side. Security, a gelding that came from the Bays in August last, and who started firafc at Heathcote in a maiden in which only one ticket was on him in the machine, ancU In another event In which so little wais thought of his chance that be cartied njo, public money at all, has improved so much J with training as to be thought goojd* enough to take to New South Wales, and* he accompanied Lamplighter there last week. I learn that Mr Joe Paul has purchased a fine upstanding three-year-old gelding by Poriri—Peeress, Ton*rariro'sk dam, very like old ' Tong, says my correspondent;, and likely to make a " lepper." \ Writes a Wanganui correspondent:—Dr., Earle has sold his handsome filly She. She~ Ie a very handsome mare, and oeing half sister to Mirabelle, ought to pay her oat, bill by next season, by which time she will have mastered the rudiments of her racing; education. •