ROUND THE WORLD.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8781, 30 April 1894, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The unfairness of as&e-sing a ilra's merits according to the amount of bU orogeny's winnings is shown (says a SythW paper) by the fact that, so fur, NewmWer per aid of Tarcoola's Cup, is ahead ot Trenton. Leaving this out, there would be no comparison between the two. None of the bookies and only about 80 Of the knowing ones who backed the favourite, Cullodeu, at Maribyrnong (Vie,) last week (says the Bulletin of April 7th) were in the secret that his most dangerous opponent, Grangeburn, was carrying 201b overweight. The horses were half-way home before the declaration was made. The howls of the ring when Culloden walked in is a thing to be remembered for

a lifetime. What price Ladas now ? says an English writer. It is an old story, and has been often told, but it crops up again with singular significance, When Lord Rose, bery was at Eton he one day made a bet of a sovereign with another boy that he'd marry the richest heiress of her day, be* come Prime Minister of England, and win the Derby. There you are. Captain Mac hell's Bill, for whom he, I gave no less than 2500*8 hardly a year back, is now running in second clsss hurdle races and in them cannot gat near the front. Bill, who is Irish bred, is about the worst bargain the Captain ever made, , Rtid he attributes the non success of the. horse, who is very good looking, to the fact of his having a stain in his pedigree. At- the Adelaide Tattersall's meeting £10,000 was passed through the totalUator, being double the sum handled at the corresponding meeting last season. The executive of tho Onkaparlnga Steeplechase Meeting was also greatly pleased with the sum that accrued from the totalisator, the sum put through being £8000 greater than the previous year. The South Australian bookmakers have, according to all accounts, found fieir occupation gone. The most acceptable explanation of the falllng-off in Carnage's forui (lays a Sydney exchange) is the Btory that hht trainer was too kind to the horse after Melbourne Cup nieetine;. The same mistake waß made with Malvolio, who probably became fat inside when allowed to'take life easily, and has never recovered his old self. Carnage had a lot of indulgence shown him, they say. Not being a strong-constltutioned horse, the next course of hard training disagreed with his liver. Thus Man of the World on thebrasea effrontry of some of the English leading "gentlemeu" jockeys :—" One owner was explaining to his gentleman—"who bad never ridden for hire"—certain thing** about bis horses and the race he was about

to run. Said he—" It's his best distance, and as you will receive 51b. ——" He was not allowed to finish. "Five pound",' 4 exclaimed the gentleman jock; "what* the use of five pounds to mc ? If you don't put mc on the odds to a pony I'll pull hi? head off." "Then did that owner explain that he did not mean live pounds in money, but five pounds in weight, and the difficulty was settled."

The American correspondent of the Sydney News aays:—The president of the California Jockey Club called a meetiujtUat week, and proposed to take over to himself and his two racing confederates the whole of the buildings and Improvements of the club, alonac with Its 950.000 debt for erection of same. There was a feeble pto* test by some of the old members of the club, who assert that the-debt is only on paper and does not exist—and one of their number demanded an audit of the book*.' He was, however, promptly sat upon by a meeting devoted to Mr Williams, and a resolution was carried to hand everything over to the syndicate, so that practically the California Jockey Club, a mushroom Institution, composed of some three men,. at outside, have stepped In, and, to use tha k phrase of the Chronicle's sporting scribe, "gobbled up the Blood Horse Association."