ROUND THE WORLD.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8476, 6 May 1893, Page 8

ROUND THE WORLD.

The well-known hurdle ia«"er, Coryttius, has been fiuully retired from the turf. T. Pay ten has put into work a full sister to Dreadnought, and a si3ter to Acme. According to advices received in Melbourne, Joe Thompson is doing very well in England, the results up to the time the mail left having been iv favour of the ring. Tattersall's of New York, limited, pay over ten thousand pounds a year in the way of salaries, and something like £20.000 a year in advertising, whereas at the start Yankee prejudice was so strong they could nor. sell a horse. Deadlock, dani of Isinglass (the present favourite for the English Derby) died after giving birth to a colt by Satiety. The foal will be brought up by hand, as Breadalbane was after the death ot Blink B mny. The A.J.C.'s programme for 1893 4 U not bo be cub down in any way. The various items are now under consideration, and as soon as approved of will be pub in the printer's hands. The V.A.T.C. committee have decided upon reducing the prize money for the next Caulfield Cup meeting. Tne Toorak Handicap will fall from 1000*ovs to TODsovs and the Debutante Stakes Loin lOOOsovs to 80D-<ovs. The Caulfield Cup will remain at -OOOsovs. The oldest Derby winner alive (the next being Galopln, who is a year younger) is George Frederick, bought „t the late Mr Hume Webster's snle for sixty-five guineas by Mr Guy Bethcll, and, as stated last week, sold by the latter at three hundred guineas for exportation to Canada. George Frederick is twenty-two years of age. In the above connection one of our English exchmges, in referring to the death of Lejlinun, nays:—Leolinus finished fourth to George Frederick in the ab_venamed race nineteen years since, and it is not a little remarkable that one should just now die at the Antipodes, while the other, in his twenty second year, is also ou the point of embarking upon a long ocean voyage. A London sporting paper gives a few interesting particulars of owners benefiting by insuring valuable horses against death. Th« MarquU was insured for £2030, Mr Miln«r insured Inonomy for i.10,000 and'got his money after paying one premiuo, and Barcaldiiie was insured for v si niiiar amount.

Lord Randolph, the full brother to Wild Rose, who cost Mr A. Chirnslde 2300g5. as a yearling, was recently transferred from Mr CUim-dde's Koorrkoortnong Station, near Camp-irdown,; toßurrumb-bt, where Alec Taylor has him in hand. Though rising four years old, Lord Randolph has not yeb raced In public. Two Chester fillies bred to English time by the late Mr James White, aud which, had he lived, would have competed hi due course in the classic event* at home, have been taken iv hand by T. Payten, the Sydney trainer. One is a sister to Dreadnought and Wenbworbh, and the other a sister to Acme.

The V_,__.T.C. stewards have decided that sec >nd money in the Caullield Hurdle Race, won ■ by' Impostor, should go to Westminster. The owner of Impostor, ib will be remembered, entered a pro. est against second place being awarded to Westminster, on the ground that the gelding was remounted by two persons other than the original jockey, though he only fell once, but the stewards held that the objection wis notn valid one. Returning from bhe Maribyrnong races, David Etteridge, a boDkmaker, was stuck up by three masked men, nil armed, and robbed of all the money he po-sessed, which fortunately only amounted to £810.4, together wi< h a scurf pin and a ring valued at £.5. This is the first case of robbery under arms that has occurred for some time. It may be said thab the bookmnker had only jusb previously given £800 bo his partner to bank. "Craubrook" states that the V.R.C. committee lasb week started bo build on bhe high ground over looking the Flemington training ground close to Rigby's hotel a seven-roomed cottage, for the benefit of convalescent, jockeys on leaving the hospital. The building will be looked after by one of th«'ir employees, probably Sim Forster, who has charge of the training tracks. The money expended on this most praiseworthy object is, we understand, bo be derived from bhe "Distressed •Tockey'i* Fund," which must now be one of huge proportions. The London Sportsman boomed L. L. Smith on his arrival in London as a representative Australian sportsman. The member for Morn ing ton is thus described : *-" The Hon. L. L. Smith, M.P. for Melbourne (?), has just arrived in London, having been appointed by the Victorian Government as representative of the colony. Mr Smith is known as * Father of the Victoriau L"gislature,' and has identified himse'f with the various economic products and manufactures of the colony. He is also a thorough sportsman, and besides owning a large sjtud of horses, is chairman of the Victorian Club, which regulates betting matters not only iv Victoria but all the Australian colonies."

A most peculiar case—of much importance to breeders and owners—has Just been adjudicated upon in England. Two mares were sent to the fashionable sire, Petrarch, whose stud fee is one hundred guineas per mare. Neither of the mares was covered at all, they not being in use, and kicking every morning when tried. A dispute arose as to the payment of the two hundred guineas, the owners of the mare 3 declining to pay, as the contract had nob been consummated. The proprietor of the stallion contended that the failure to carry out the contract was not the fault of his horse, it being admitted that the result, or rather non-result, was due to the fractiousuess of the mares; further, ib was contended, that if these mares had not been subscribed for, he would have had other two, which, of course, meant other two hundred guineas. The court ultimately decided iv favour of the owner of the stallion.

Perhaps the most obvious moral f'om this case (says an exchange) is that, considering the great expenses owners incur for stallion fees, etc., and the risks run of mares proving barren or slipping their foals, the necessity of employing a stud groom who is not only competent, but also thoroughly trustworthy and careful, is not fully enough appreciated. Tbe groom has to "watch with unceasing vigilance at the time of foaling for the coming-in season of the mares, for though it ia an acknowledged fact that mares scarcely ever miss when covered at the bloom, this wilt in many cases wear off In the course of two or three hours. A remarkable record has been made In this respect by Tom Castle, who la Sir John Blundell Maple's stud groom at the Childwick Stud, the home of Royal Hampton and Common. In 1891, out of twenty mares, nineteen had foals ; in 1892. twenty-one mares had twenty foals, and this year all the mares, thirty-three in number, are either in foal or have foaled.. Such a result as the amove is, of course, seldom attained. Roughly speaking, it is probably about correct to say thab Io England some seventy per cent, of the brood-mares produced foals, while in this country the average is probably nearer sixty per cent, In the years 1890 and 1891, through the epidemic of slipping that prevailed, scarcely more than fifty per cent, were producers.