AUCKLAND SPORTING NOTES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8898, 14 September 1894, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPORTING NOTES.

Weekly Press and Referee." September 3. About seventy horses are at present in training at Kllerslie, and every opportunity is now taken by trainer* to give their charges fast work. / N.o horae is looking better than St. Kilda, Respite that he has done little on the track. He is a light-fleshed horse and does not require a great deal of galloping to get him " cherry ripe," while he had the benefit of racing late Iα the season. Another horse in Byers* stable in good condition is Ingorina. The New Zealand Cap candidate, Pegasus, has gob through some stroug work, lie i% fining down and promises to be well forward for our - Fire 6 Spring Meeting. Another N.Z. Cup candidate is Lottie, and she has also been responsible for good work. , M'Hugh is not sparing Grenadier, who appears a hit on the big Side. A race or two should benefit this colt before he fulfils hie Huwke'e Bay Guineas engagement!, as he ia a very gross horse. ,

St. Clements has done useful work, but not of an order to warrant him appearing at our First Spring Meeting. Sc. .Patrick, another inmate of Frank M'Mlnafniu's stable, pulled up lame one day list week and has not been on the track since.

Chaafe's long string are all doing well. The three-year-olds Forma, Stepfeldt, Campania and Webley are fast losing their superfluous flesh and should be ready by the time our Second Spring Meeting comes round. Forma has been doing some small tilings over three and 'four furlongs. Should this daughter of Hotchkiss keep in her present form it will take a very good one to clip her wioge. ; Williamson has twenty-two horses in work, the biggest string ia training al» head-quarters. Nap and Spectator are the latest additions. Eve looks well after her spell, while Ivy shapes in her work with great freedom. Williamson has also bnilb up Marechal Ntel a bit lately. The New Zealand Cup candidate, Scot Free, ia ou the big side. He has been regularly on the track since beihjz .brought down from Waikato. Mr M'Klnnpn's other Cup candidate is a fine looking coir; At a meeting of the committee of the Auckland Racing Cldb thh afternoon, Mr W. Bloom field's tender' for working the totalisator at the meetings of the club during: tlie ensutug seanou was accepted. There were no outside tenders.

I had a letter from a well known watcher of horses at Ruhdw.iek fco-day. Hβ eaye that Three Star and Royal Hose promise to be very fit by the day of the decision of the New Zealand Cap. The weather Iβ simply splendid for training purpose*, and this means a lof in getting, boraes ready for the»r early,spring engagements. My inIficaa rain all night and horses cau be galloped fast at Randwick next morning without any danger. Thin, of coarse, will give Wright's pair a pull over the New Zealand Cup candidates trained in thin colony. My Informant further writes that Bungebah aud Paris are the fittest horses at Hand wick. Loyalty is pretty well.- The Sydney Derby colt, Nobleman, ha? a bad cold, and promises uofc to be at lit* beet this month. * Mr B. Thompson's, mare, Phantom, by Musket—Atlamis, has produced a filly to Nelson. The Auckland Racing Club's committee have raised bookmakers' license fees from £21 to twenty-five guineas for the coming season. I understand the, Club intend to be pretty strict with vfoitlag book* who may come here, and if they, wish to bet on the course at any meeting they will be required to, pay the full fee of twenty-fire guineas. ■*, . .September 5. The racing season of 1894 '95 opens in Auckland on t September lath, with the Auckland Racing Club's First Spring Meeting. Nominations were received 6a Friday night for all events except the Juvenile race, the September Staked, and were posted yesterday afternoon. With the exception of-the Soring Handicap, the leading events have filled upy-well. Out of tbe r nine entries for tha-Spring Handicap six are in three stabler However, thefrfCc of the N.Z.€up~e«ndidates Pegasus, Lottie, and Grenadier. being engaged, will surround the event with interest throughout the coldnv. Mr Even's handicaps have not satisfied seme owners, for to-day the following scratching • were poeted :—SreepTecu *>c -t?at*hJiate; Hurdle»-Mareetiar Neil: Trial Stakes—Abet; Spring HanoUcap-Ew. Tα enable readers to identtfv che new horses eritered, I may say H. Peters is the nominator of Bouquet, engaged in the,. Hurdle Race. and.Hakia Iβ a- three-year-old colt by Flintlock—Nlkau, entered by D. M'&innon. This afternoon I visited Major George's establishment at Wapiti. The New Zealand Cnp candidate, Pegasue, iettae picture of health, and jneC in nlcKcqnditlon for the time of year. The Auckland Cup winner has furnished out ana improved all round, and he should worthily uphold bin sire's fame during the now jgesorii Anniversary is aho looking weltprat carries a gooj bit of flesh. Major G£er«6 has fdw yearliuge sired by fain favourite bhamnion, Nelson, three are colts and one, by N hon —Sister Agnes, a fillvj'a fine powerful juvenile she is, too, -A colt by Nelson out of Vendetta is particularly fine; he is weli-growa and evenly made, and gives one the idea, by his appearance, that he is 'a g.ime one. The Master, by Nelson, out ot The Maid, dam. of The Workman, is equally a good looking colt. There are *ix mare* at Wapiti. The Maid is empty. ! but- Florence, Memphis, Sister Agues, Vendetta, and Fiesole, are each in Nelson. The Workman now bears qujte a stallion appearance; he is to «er?sseme of Major George's mares. Old Nelida also look» in blooming health, aad «•«joctßtc as ever. Major George is via' Frisco next week. - : ; I looked over Mr Lopes's stallions at Bosom today: JDrivijx; fit; harqeee La Bae, Antrim, AUandelei%»ii Pieaaanton are a quartettejthat woo! 4 take beating anywhere. Tjjjey po»««» siz3 and substance, with splendid acUoas and are the beau ideal of as American trotter. A. W. Anther ia in, a bad way, having contractedlangfever 6a the voyage from 'Frisco. It has gone through hie body and he now has fever in hjts feet. . . - Bet tine Iβ qoiet on the N-2& Cup this week. One of our peacUler€:tbronticte» laving 200 to 10 against Rangipahi to '»< Went Const backer. - ,-..-. ; Melbourne Cup betting ihii year is a dead lerter, all interest beings centred fa the N.Z. Cnp, which is unuauol toe Atjeltland, as iv past years public Injwrest centred on the big Australian Spring rates;, The brood mares Steel All mum ot Sti Patrick and Torori (dam of KiebTwietK have arrived, at Wellington Pjark from Waogauui. Both jto to S6. Leg«r. Morrison hashed Lady Walamley served by Castor again, the colt foal< tbla year twine such a splendid one. Forma has again gone to Hotebklaa. , \ The lateet foalinea at the Weiitogten Park are —Hon* G. M'Lean's Lady Evelyn, a cbsstnat filly to £r. Leger,. she vfeits him ' again; end Vivandtere (danv of Three Star), who has dropped * brown filly to Castor. Altogether of Mr Morrin*» own mares three nave dropped fillies and three colts. ' 1 So far this season €he committee of the A.R.C. have -passed the following proswmmes: —Poverty B%j Tar£Ctab, October 16lh and 17th: P&traranga Hanfc €lptb» October 20th. The were also fixed:—A yon dale, November 24toj Takaponaj Decembesr Ist, Jaaeary set%'

hoar to pass a given point* This man** death was not only the cause of deep regret in sporting circles, but in all sections of society among right-thinking people. And why? Not because of his skilled and fearless horsemanship, nor his repeatedly brilliant successes on the turf, but rather because of his unimpeachable integrity and whole-souled devotion to the c*uae of right and the service of other*. He was truly (to express It in a colonial way) ' a white man.* And when it was remembered that by the sacrifice of principle be had it in his power to amass an immense fortune in a comparatively short time, such a life was fairly entitled to our admiration, whether -it.be lived on the turf or ia the church." „_,. 2Sfch and May 18th; Pakakura, March 17th. A number of trainers and joekeye licenses were also passed. _ *The ponies Cupid, N-mnie, Brown Mantle, Mantle 11.. Queen of S orytelier, t ul>t Maid, Silkworm, My Sweetheart (by Hjtcbkiss), have passed under the standard at Bllerslie in view of Coming

events. • • ■ , Mr Jas. & Cooke has been appointed secretary of the Onslow Trotting Clob, and Mr ffm, Adams re-elected chairman of the Auckland Trotting Club. The trotting stallion, Judge Belden, the property of Mr Sam Hofdern, was brought over from Sydney yesterday In charge of Hughes in the Rotomahaaa. He was taken on by steamer, having been leased far the season to stand at Hawera acd Wellington. September^ The Lower Valley Jockey Club has issued the programme for. Jt* Annual Meeting, to be held on Boxing Day. There are eight events, including a Hunters* Hurdles Handicap. The principal race, the Lower Valley Jockey Club Handicap, is worth 63soVs. Mr A. R. M'Farlane is handicaoper, Mr A. Palmer starter, and Mr P. M'Leod secretary. With Potentate and Fright in the field the Auckland Steeplechase cannot be much clans, bat Austral appears badly need Iα being asked to give weight to*uctl performers as Union Jack and Crazy iß*fce. His best performance is winning the Wairarapa Steeplechase; with the minimum weight in very moderate company. Bouquet last season failed to win hack races on the flat and Iβ yet asked to give away weight to Warrior and Skittles, and is put within 21b of Marechal Neil. I fail to see how Mr Evett arrived at the adjustment and shall be surprised to hear of either of the pair going north.