SPORTING NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7872, 25 May 1891, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

By Spbotatob.

Derritfc rode two winners at Amberley. Alex Taylor, trainer of Vengeance is having twenty boxps built. Jimmy Brown, entered for the Heathcote races, in as blind as the proverbial bat.

Three hundred and thirfcy-three nominations have been received for the Sydney Hunt Club races.

Lord Jersey is playing cricket in New South Wales.

Lord William Beresford is reported to be oomiricr from India purposely to see the nexb Melbourne Cup run. JMr Duncan Rutherford will probably nominate Anna and Irish King for the Victoria Gmnd National Meeting, entries for which are due on June. Bth. I Mr Byron-Moore, secretary of the V.R.C., denies the report that he intend* going on a visit to England. The number of Birthday meetings to be rubbftd off the calendar during the coming week will make a great hole in the Hat.

• Tornado went lame after the hurdle race at Amberley. The hard going was too trying for his "game " leg. Bothwell, a horse whose name has been mentioned In connection with big races in Australia, is to be put over hurdles, and in schooling recently he is reported to have eh aped very well. : At Bowe'e Tattersall's (Victoria) Meeting on May sth, Quilp won the Hurdle Race, carrying 9et 91b home in 3min 9&sec. Buzzard, the favourite, however, fell at the first fence, and two others ran off. I The sale of the Bundoora Park stud of? Mr Gardener (Victoria), takes place on Tuesday. The whole of his racing stock, as well as yearlings, stallions, and brood mares will be disposed of. Mr Mike Curmody is reported to have purchased a successful up-country performer in Victoria called Glenloth by Glenmarkie, who has, according to an Australian paper, won fourteen times out of seventeen starts.

It is thought that Mr Bob Phillips, the South Melbourne penciller, has secured Iα a colt called Golden King, by King of the Ring from Manuka's daughter Naomi, a bargain at £500. The new totalieator arrangements of the 0. J.C. will, it ie thought, be the means of an increase of business; but on. this head I have heard some doubt expressed by experts. We shall see. "The Blsternwick Park racecourse will not be re-let for racing purposes After September, when the presents lease expires, the Minister of Lands in Victoria having decided against allowing for proprietary & St. ives, who has not raced fornome considerable time, and who was doing stud duties last season, was hacked about for a time by a well-known penciller, and is now looking very well. Mr Torn Hill, the Wellington trainer in charge of Retina, arrived iv Christchurch on Friday, and worked the daughter of Apreraont—lris at RlccartOn several days before going on to Dunedin with her. How they do things in Australia. At a race meeting at Mentone lately the programme commenced at 1.80 p.m., and though fair-sized fields were dealt with, and seven races got off, the meeting was over before five o'clock. They don't wait for the totalisator there.

" Asmodeus" thinks there is little prospect Of the new grand stand at Caulneld, to cost £20,000, being proceeded with. He says there is some talk of extending the old stand, which is a much more sensible plan than wantonly wasting so much money in a new building. Present structures are, he contends, quite large enough Mr John Josephs, bookmaker of Ballarat, was fined for plying his vocation at Newstead races without paying his fee, the defence being that the coarse was a " free " one; but the Bench held that the regulations imposed by the club were a safeguard to the public, and fined him £2 with £310s 6d costs, the defendant having again refused the opportunity to register himself. Epigram, the imported Blair Athol horse, who was one of the lords of the harem at the Hobartville (N.S. W.) stud for some years, died early .in the present month at the age of nineteen years. Lβ Grand was perhaps his best son, but others that may be mentioned axe Wheatear, Legerdemain, Waterloo, Rioter, Canary, La Grange, Sir Anthony, Quicksilver, Cadmus, Saturn, Ormond, and in more recent years My Lord, Town Talk, Wilgia, Yarran, and others. There were thirty competitors for the best design for the next Melbourne Cup trophy, and the committee of the V.R.C. have decided in favour of a very striking and bold one. The design represents a. female classical figure < standing on a pedestal holding a wreath of victory over the hea& of the victorious jockey, who is mounted on the winning horse. The gentleman who sent in this design competed under the norn de plume of Fitvia Vi, and takes the first prize of. £10. His identity is not yet known. Mr T. B. Way. of Bourke street, took the eecondprize of £s. Mr Broadribb is reported to have purchased through Mr J. Carter at a recent sale at Rand wick, a filly by Giand Flanenr—Utopia for 65gn», jwsfc 75gjns less than she was sold for some time back. If this is correct, we may assume that Mr Broadribb has not quite given up turf pursuits. The following names have been selected byS. H. GolTan for his yearling*-.—Filly by Artillery—Escalade, Forlorn Hope; colt, by Nordimfeldt—Florence McCarthy, Tireur; cole, by* Leolinus—Woodnymph, Leoatlne ; colt, by Nordenfeldt —Nelly Moore, Cnlloden; colt, by Nordenfeldt— Frailty, Moueqaetaire.

My Wanganoi correspondent makes selections for the Wanganui events in another colnmn, and, being on the scene, he should be best able to form an opinion how matter* will go, bat I moat indulge in a tip on my own account, , In the Hunters' Steeplechase, I like Piako; Trial Christmas Flying, St. Malo or Fleta; Wanganui Steeplechase, Ivalj "Winter Oats Handicap, St. Malo or Pyramue,

Harkaway ha* ebont paid his way this season, I should imagine, and last .Week at Amber ley ad£dd another Cup to his list of victories. He nboold make a aeefal

hurdler. He is very much after the style | of D maid in point of construction, but *.l very much better gelding on the flat. I have some doubt a* to the reliability of ihe report, that Mr W. R Wilson he* bought and intends converting, fcbe Pah farm, Auckland, into a stud farm. Theposltion is eminently suitable, I should say, for i tho purpose. I have ridden over it in wet weather, and it is nicely sheltered, and a mo»t picturesque spot. ■ Mr V. Harris informs mc that he wrote tn Mr H. M. Lyon, secretary of the Wellington Racing Club, shortly after the Wellington meeting, asking for an explanation as to why his mare, Inez, was not handicapped for engagements he had made for her on the second day, and demanding a refund of nominations for the races for which no weights had been declared. Not receiving any answer, he again wrote, demanding what he conceives to be his rights, and threatening proceedings. This second letter was the first Mr Lyon received, for that gentleman wrote < asking what the second letter deferred to, and asking Mr Harris to explain, which he has since done, and there the matter rests ' for thepreaent. Mr Wanklyn, secretary to the Canter-' bury Jockey Club, has been deputed to ■ receive entries for the Melbourne Cup and other events for the Victoria Racing Club, which clone on June Ist. Entries for the ■ Victoria Grand National Hurdle and Steeplechase close on June Bth, bub for the convenience of Intending nominators Mr Wanklyn will receive nominations for those events at the same time and include them in the cable free of cost to owners, but after that date they will have to bear the expense of cabling themselves, so that intending nominators must consider for themselves which is the best course to pursue. The weights for the Lower Heathcote Meeting appeared on Saturday, and acceptances close too late for this issue. The already small entry for the first day's events—a total of twenty-three for five races—will be still farther reduced, ac Tornado was decidedly crooked after bis running in the hurdle race at Amberley, and helβ unlikely to start in any of the races in which he is engaged. Chester Lad has only to jump proficiently to Win the hurdle race, and 1 am told that he has had some schooling since he went into Mr Murray-Aynsley's hands. I fancied Lady Sockburn would run forward in the Amberley Cup last week, but she was not started for that event, and nhe did not run well in the Teviotdale Plate later in the day, and perhaps she is not so well aa she was wheu she ran into a place in the Ternpleton Stakes at the Autumn Meeting of the C.J.C., in which she finished in front of Air Busch'e filly, Adieu, at level weights. Perhaps she cannot stay, but I should not be surprised to see bet run well under the lighter imposts, and go neat *inning one or other of the events iv which he is engaged, but liegiuu appears t<> mc to have been best treated on paper. Drift should win the Flying Handicap, and if ChesteiLad .starts in the Hurdle race, I shall cxpftct to see Markuway win the Welter, wfch all his weight. The trottjng races at the Heathcol-e Meeting should furnish some good eoatesrs. Iα ttia. Maiden Handicap, a mile and a-tmlf. race, the limit is ZOhcc, equal to about 26sec fo* two miles. Bedale, who had 2aec start is» the Maiden Haudicap at the Canterbury Trotting Club's Meeting, is now on scratch., his oinin Sinec in the Addiugton Plata being responsible for the starts he is conceding all the competitors ; bat Mr White has not handicapped Ringwood, Madeline, and others on their two-mile time at the Show Grounds, and is quite right in aieuming them to be capable of going faster than they did there, ami both those mentioned should have a chance of winnlpg. Prom tho way in which Lltttle Duck wie backed for the Pony Trot the other day her party must have fancied her chanoe, bat Dorothy and the scratch mare Farewell look as well in my eyes as any of the others in the Potty Harness Race for the meeting on Monday. Emerson. Madeline, and Nellie 111. are fairly in the Maiden Harness. Three on the same mark in the Birthday Handicap that I like are Pau-kaα-che, Sapphire, and Cygnet, and should we see the trio in their beet forra, the son of Victor might win. . I should not be surprised to see Joe get home in the Heathcote Three Mile Harness Handicap from scratch. It I« not often that I compare the work of baudicappers of trotters, but Mr White since seeing the Association Ground's Cup over four miles trotted,. has issued his handicaps, and I place some of the names of norses and their handicaps in opposite columns by way of showing how handlcappers sometimes differ :—

Aflaoolation Heathcote ••' Cup. H'cap. • ■ - ' 1 wiles. 3 miles. Joe .. .. Sor .. Bor Kitty .. .. I7eeo .. Iseeo 2 less ElaieOay.. .. 38seo .. ' 258e0131es 3 Lady Warbeok .. 31seo .. 30soo 4 less Pan-kan-che .. 40seo .. 38aeo 21eBg Nellie 111. .. CSaoo .. 4Q3e0281©s fl

It is evident that Mr White thinks Nellie lIL capabJe of doing better than she did at the Show Grounds, for in the race under notice she has 7sec in the mile the worst of the handicap from Jpe, who nearly, if not quite, distanced her. Joe also meets Elsie Gay on better terms than when he finished first, and Mr Walker's mare finished outside a place, and if Kitty could give Elsie Gay 218608 in four miles she ehould manage to give her lOsecs in three, and, by the same rule, as she badly beat Nellie 111., giving her 51seca in four miles, sne should have no difficulty In conceding 25secs over 3 miles, but of course Mr White may know more than I do about these animals. And all I shall pretend to do is to notice how the handicapping doctors agree to differ. In the Pony Saddle Race 1 like Captain Eueaell, the scratch well as any of them, and I like Lady Warbeck, Sunlight, and Kentucky best in the Two Mile Harness. While Linda, Remnant, and Sapphire are my present selections for the Mile. As I shall know more about the horses before the week is ouc, my finale in Monday's Press may be l>etter worth following.

The Dunedin meeting claims attention. George Laing took the jumper Wairua thither on Saturday last, and he will probably fulfil both his engagements there. The touts at Riccarton are not taken with his style of moving in his work,.and so far as the Riccarton contingent are concerned he will have few if any followers from that .quarter in either race he may start for, as the impression they have almost to a man formed is that he can neither go fast nor jump well enough. He is certainly not a taking goer in. any, of hia paces, but he has improved very much "in his appearance, showing more development of muscle, and looks brighter in his coat, and haa fed well since he came South, and I think done a fair amount of work for a jumper, so that the North Islanders who chink so much of this "hack" may be satisfied that so far as condition goei he will atrip very wellquite ac well, perhaps, if not better, than he has done up North. If he is as good as numbers of my correspondents believe, be ehould wln.the hurdle race on Monday at Jtorbury, but while I do not think he is as good ac his Northern friends would have us believe, nor as bad as his Riccarton detractors would make him out, I think it will take him all his time to beat the top weight if the eolng is at all good/notwithstanding that there is 601b difference between him and an acknowledged good one in the matter of weight to be carried. The Painter's were very deceiving horses in private,and as Wairua is by Somnue from a Painqer mare that posseaeed a good dash 6t pace, and ran very well as a twq-year>old in public, I shall not be earprised it he does show some ot the characteristics of the family. I leave the issue Of toe hurdle race to be fought oat between Ahua and Wairua, both of which horses, it may be mentioned, come from the same locality—Rantjitikei—for many years the acknowledged home of the Northers jumper, but with Little Arthur on the spot, and in as good buckle as he has so often stripped in at Dunedin, we may expect him to make things quite interesting, if no more of the others, which includes Trimolite, stay the journey out. My Dunedin special correspondent deals with the, coming meeting in another column," and all I shall say further about it id that I fancy Kultnine, Inez, and. Yon Tetnpsky in order for the Tradesman's Handicap, and accepting the information to hand that Occident has not been doing as well as hia friends could wish, I take Blizzard to be the hardest to beat, and Hazel and Palliser are, I think, likely to fill che vacancies in the Birthday Cup.