ROUND THe WORLD.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8071, 14 January 1892, Page 2

ROUND THe WORLD.

By Observer.

The will of the lnte Mr G. Glaescock, of Kirk's Bazaar, Melbourne, has been at £39,992. The celebrated Beadigo claimed his first winner at the Levr.es Autumn Meeting, a eon of his named Benefice carrying off the Selling Plate from, a dozen opponents. Mr D. Cooper's filly Melody (7st 51b) was among the sixteen starters for the Liverpool Autumu Clip of 100056v3, one mile and three furlongs, but she was beaten oat of place behind Madame a'Albany. The Duke of Hamilton and Lord Cadogan are both about to retire from the turf. The vacankplaces of two such real pood sportsmen will, indeed, be hard to fill. ■

The death is announced at the age of 82 of Mr John Gesden, the owner of the celebrated brood mare Laura, dam of Protomartyr, Fraulein, Demnos, Botherhill, Pefcrarch and' Laureate. Laura, who proved a mine of wealth to her owner, was originally purchased by him for £25. The trophy which accompanied the first prize in Sydney Tattersall's Cup, run on the 2nd iast, consisted of a tea and coffee service and liquor frame. The service is of solid silver,, nicely chased and relieved with gold settings, while the other is nickel plated and contains four cut-glass decanters. , -

We wonder, says the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, whether in the history ot the turf, 2Co i was ever before accepted about a horse for the Derby no less that seven months before the decision of the contest. Yefc such is the case this year. On November 7feh, at the leading London Club a bet of £1000 to 500 against Orme was booked. ..Th.e list of winning owners in France for the past year has just been publfehed. The list is headed by Moris E. Blanc with £22,000. Mbns Michael Euphrussi is second with .£17,000, Baron de Soubreyau third with .£12,000 and M. Aumont next with £11,500. Lust year Baron de Scbickjer, who now; stands eleventh, was first with eloefl on £20,000. Curiously enough he has exactly changed places with M. Blanc, who was eleventh In .1890.

If common talk is reliable, says a Sydney exchange, the year 1892 will bring with it many .much needed alterations in the ways of the turf. The Committee of the A.J.C. are reported toJhave under consideration changes which are likely to be of great benefit, while several of the smaller club* witi try the experiment of handing the management of their race meetings over to a/btidj of paid stewards—fqur at moat —in place of Che long list ot Influential gentleman who now figure in the race

A controversy has been going an in England between a Mr Charles Maddock and the Sporting Life on the subject of Au»traliau sire*. The latter gives the palm to Musket, while Mr MadUock maintains St. Albans has at least a right to be br&eketed ; with the sire of Carbine, Martini-Henry and others, And instances the doings olMalua, Sheet Anchor, Tasraa, Ring wood, Coronet,' Blink Bonny and Mβ grandson Malvolio in support of hla coatention.

The American Derby of 1888 closed with the big entry of 825; Among th|e homes entered are nine by Sir Modred/ four by Darebin, and two by Cheviot. The English subscribers are Lord .Durham, the Dakeof Beaufort, Colonel North, Mr E. Tattereell, and Mr~Kob'ert Fowler. One of Colonel North's nominations is a grandson of Musket r named Son 61, tk Gun;, by Bagimunde'e sire Petronel. MirW. T. Jones's horses, Dreadnought, Utio&hfe, Westminster, Chudleigh, The Golden King, Buttons, and a colt by Newminster, hare been removed from Dowlinj? Forest, Ballarat, to their new quarter* at MordiaJldc, where tliey will iij Jature be trained" by CharleH Wilson, a son of the veteran, Thomas Wilson, whoha» hitherto had charge pf the horses. J w An win has been retained to ride Mr Jones's hordes In tbeir engagement*. There is that an effort wijl be made to have the evidence af> enquiries by the Victoria Kacing Club taken ia oath as in a court of law. Under the presenjb system the evidence is frequently hi* coflictinj? that the members of the V.B.C. committee find it extremely difllculc to determine which side is telling the truth. It is thought; fey some members of the committee that if evidence couldlie taken in a wayi "which would render it possible to any one giving false testimony there would bo nm;h kea risk of the committee being deceived. The necessary power will, of coarse, have to be obtained from Parliament. Those most interested Iα the racing clubs of TA»nwoi& have at last decided taifc it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the " sport of kin«s " up to a proper level, and do away with the existing diseatißfaction to have a supreme racing tribunal, and one will shortly be upon. It was at first intended to appoint only an equal number of gentlemen frotn the Racing CJub and Turf Club, but since then a decision has been come to to wa|e the controlling body thoroughly representative by giving all country clubs a voice in it. This ia just as it should b|j» i i '~J '!"?*':''■ j' ; -■ " < ■ r .' . The question at including fbtoi id programmes. In which only apprentices are eligible to ride, will shortly be brought

la England, jX? twßs should ba «« apprc Q tic e Tr^ that «>«8 meeting and that the E s ffl- ** eve?! jockeys on even terms." Balnat Other Ilorerrlntc to the electric timu fcua at Plemington '<vU& a PP«a. ..London aWsman says „1 B ' sportsmeni Wβ much b«li e t in »W a a test, and horses arc f rcqueSl lV h ? *>« win many thousands whoKh.?*' 4 * factorily • cloelced" o ,i t !* c ! n "»U* ground. In England w* « t v fcraln *ng alight linportaucelo the tlm 9 X£* b «* bie races. It is of no nrn^Lii pI whatever seeing that caW 5 ? may afford good, aouna mil VS Or «* next bo soft or holding The KtL £ d th « Derby seemed to be run atVX?' E P**>t& yet. with the truck Uta"S,"SSB i rain. Common took nearly 12aeM» d accomplish the distance than,iMf *> craft id IS7O, and with oue hap, that first of Lord KSgfefi* riband heroes was probabto th« J*" , horse that ever triumphed aSuTS* Surrey Downs. I remember R O f^li he few yearn ago to sco HiugmaaC >Z t e final gallop on Knavewnlreth?!,** f»« before Uβ ran for the El>or HandiS »® carried more weight, I think by Tib'■«, was hie impost in the race, end cmX the course in quicker time than the had ever been run In. Yet the acte»W f test occupied considerably more tim»Vh. MrSavill'a horse had takqn to can»H* the distance, and I need readers that the Australian wa» bH before ho got to the bend for home "^ decided to give up ridiug, and a tesS monlal is being got up for him amant English racine people, which DromUaeiS be the biggest thing of the klndiwS known. Stewards of the Jockey Club an£ a number of other influential, nablemw, and gentlemen have voluntarily nkeM themselves on the committee fot'rSaW the fund, such names as thole J Prince SoltykoiY, Lord Durham Lorf Bradford, Captain Machell, the J&™s? of Hartingtou. Sir Charles Russell-6n the Duke of St. Albans, MrW.VS , Sirß. .Tardine, the Earl of RosoberrVl' Leopold de Rothschild, Sir F, Messrs E. and J. Weatberley, Sir ffiS Hawkins, and Mr J. H. HoulfliwortS being prominent in the list. Subscriptitas aro pouring in, Sir X, .lardiua BtwE them with a cheque for 300 guineas. a«3 Mr Henry Steel following with John Osborno'e brilliant career and hOßaanhk reputation are too well known to reemfra lengthy comment. Sufilco it tosaytbsl since he had hia first mount la iSffi-. forty-five long years ago-ia the'Wtltoa Cup at Ratcliffe, be has borne a-nm* tarnished name for honesty, eteadiaesi, coolness, and judgment of pace. Messrs D. S. Wallace andß. G,o««y'a Normanby (Queensland) stnfl was disposed of at Breakfast Creek on December 11th and the sale, though nothing very big ia the way of figures was realised, U »ald : t« have been the most successful held in the banana producing country. Iq all 38 \ a fa changed hands for a total ot JBf?Ef Hj, The Wghest pried paid was Soap. WMsO. Fairbalrn for tho staUlon %feteEfeo (1877), by Epigram—Wheatsheat i aoaa§£fc to him was the bfood mfire (1880),. by Yattendon—Marie iStuart, stinted to Waterloo, and for which 'Mr Lumley Hill gave 205 a*. Th<s Cauldfleld Cup winner Grace Darling C 1879), by The Diver from Zqe, wa3 purchased by Mr G. Alarkwell for 190Ks.i ftbd'shehaejafllls , by Waterloo and is also stinted to him. Among tho yearlings *!p, vraa the highest price paid, Mr Markwell Retting the illly by Waterloo from Grace Darling at! that-figure. A browu fllly, 2 yrs., bf Waterloo from Empress, went to Mr S, Murphy for 80gsi., und a gelding, e&me age. by goldflnder—Georgto .(ioip), vw*a knocked down for Blgs. to Mr Siooney, The .grey hurdle racer Lucilla, by Minister, with a fllly foal by Waterloo, feU to Mr Fnirbairn'B bid of 42gs. The V.A.T.C. committee has decided ta institute a two-mile handlcnp, of 6(K%ofa, in place of tho St. Kilda Cup on Umh 19th ; also, during the year, two moos Ja which apprentices only Will bo allowed lo ridb. The committee also intend holding a 400sovs race at the June meeting on the same lines as the Moonee Valley Cup, divided, into, two events, called the Cambria Purse and the Cambria Plate. At the recent adjourned annual general meeting of the Club the statement (A accounts showed that during the year eruV; ing September Ist last a profit of nearly £5,000. Among the Inuov&tlew determined upon for the current aessea are races to bo ridden by jockeya who era serving an apprenticeship, one being 'set down for the 23rd January meeting ansitt* other at the April gathering. The pr&a will be lOOsovs in each caae, distance oise mile, and the conditions provide that the jockeys who rido must be bouns a? .apprentices for a period of not leas tb&n three years from a date prior to August) last. Jockeys who have never won & raw will receive an allowance of 121b. thoss who have been successful once 71b, end others with two wins to their credit Slfy provided always that tho lowest weighs carried shall not be leas than 6s£ /lb. Jockeys &ho have ridden at Unregistered meetings will not be eligible to.csjropete, One of the most miraculous accident* that ever took place on & racecourse ®&z thac which befelthe chesnut mare Carita, by Grandmaster—Sunbeam, in the Mow* field Handicap, (Sydney) on Dec. 12. Afcot going a quarter of a mile, the Held closed Into a dunch, and the knocking of ilie horses' legs together could be heard qmvt plainly, Just at this critical junctare Vespasia galloped on to Carita'a near hina leg and snapped ie asunder abota the feltlock joint. The mishap nearly brought the Newacastle mare down, artdfear* were entertained both for her and her w»r» At this moment nobody thought L&tM was Injured, but aa Khe fell back at owr? stride the fact that something serloSU fIM happened soon dawned unon the pflwo and the boy on her back. Anticspatiaj?, however, that ra&ttera were not senoaj Tierney chased his fleld, bu6 lost all the way. bcrahge as it may seem we mare covered the distance wifchwtsafone being the wiser of her broken kg as l " passing the stand... Even then pot a, »v believed the fractured member to be • im bandage, as no perceptible dUß»Mßcejn her movements was diacerntble. W PJ" ing up Tierney quickly diemoootea *g led her into a paddock close by, »** *™f come deliberations a gun was P«W»:S and an end put to the mare. .Tj»«>***SS it ie safe to cay w*»-on*, of «w» »JJ j astonishing ever seen, and feoff j galloped the mile without eomNr«™ wUI remala a mystery toe aU time wcom* i