AUCKLAND NOTES.

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

AUCKLAND NOTES.

v May 19. I understand that Mr Thos. Holstead has decided to proceed no further with reference to hie request to the. Onehunßa Racing Club for the rebate of £42 10au the amount he paid for Iron Bark after the Selling Race at Otahuhu, If all I hcve heard concerning the patting of heads together over this now notorious selling race is true, the details would supply v nice chapter of turf history. Ib seeme a pity the case is not brought into court, so that full revelations could be heard. Satyr was shipped to Sydney on Thursday evening lost, Geo. Wright •coompany-

ing the son of Leolinue. The horse will ■probably run at the Sydney Turf Olnh Birthday meetiug, Cor he is entered in both hurdle race*. *

Mr T. Hedgerhasplaoed the well-kno% thoroughbred mare Antelope in thoprlvati sale litife. She is unmistakably fa fad to Nordenfeldt. Raglan, who has been spelled for the last six mouths, is also In the private sale list. "> Now that the Official Assignee hag don* his work the fire fiend has commenced t» take his part in destroying Sylvia Park On Sunday morning last the stallion boxei where old Musket and his son Nordenfeldt spent a number of their days were totalfr destroyed. The stable was iron, and con eisted of ten loose boxes, tw > feed rooms and harness roo:u with hayloft, contain' ing at the time of the fire gome wheat straw covering part of the building. An entire belonging to Mr McNicoll of the Waikato was in one of tho loose boxes In the stable, and was with dlillculty savet There is no reason to suspect inceudlarism The stable was insured for £>50.

" Mazeppa " stated the other week that Erin-go-Brftgh's record of thirty-six races in one season ia the highest ever obtained by any horse on the N.Z. turf. T n j 9 X,; been beaten this season by ihe local mam Leorina, who has started up to the present time in thirty-nine races. All of the brood muree at the 'Wellins ton Park stud are thought to be in foal this season. Frailty (dam of Trantnni Ouida (dam of Artillery and Hilda) mSh of Athol (dam of Scots Grey), j&d PtinM werewere (dam of Crackshot) were fii mated with Nordonfeldt. re m at Wanganui on Monday. "^^Wte In addition to Satyr, George Wrinhfc *««». to Sydney MUs Le'tty, a ?w^SsStS St. Leger Necklace. k a ™