DUNEDIN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8999, 11 January 1895, Page 6

DUNEDIN.

Dunedix, December 81. Harry Jackson is now with M'Gtiness atßt.Clair. m _, Excuses are made for The Wlcchtnan s defeat iv the Invercargill Handicap. They say that hisrider under-estimated Dora. The Southland correspondent's report of the Southland RG'e. meeting will of coarse mention the death of Maribyrnong, the black son of Nulli Secundus and Dagtnar. The horse was not trained from Dunedin at the time. He had been sold, I believe, to A. M'Kenzie, of Wyndham. lam tola that the horse was galloping strongly in his race till the moment of the accident. Hβ probably trod on the edge of a hole, thus snapping a fetlock, and the sadden strain on the other leg caused that fetlock to go as well. Maribjrnong was a somewhat disappointlog horse. I well remember that Poble, who took charee of him when brought from Victoria, had a very high opinion of him when first put into training; but he seemed to be peculiarly susceptible to > colds, and it : was only on rare occasions that he was really fit to gallop. His successes include the TkierV Cup and the SI. Kilda Welter at Dunedin, and up to medium weights'he was reckoned a fair secondclass horse to a mile, though I think he preferredseven furlongs. Outpost is trainiog on satisfactorily The lengthy drought throughout Otago is making ■ all the courses frightfully bricky, and killing off the grass everywhere. We have not had any rain worth speaking of for the space of three months.; The money subscribed for the benefit of Mrs Poole, widow of the late John Pool*, is being used in buying her a little property at St. Kilda. Part of the section that Pool* occupied has been bought and a house is being put up on it, while arrangements are made to give her the use of a couple of loose boxes. It is estimated that there were 600 persons at the*Palmerston races on Boxing Day. Tasman's son, Comrade, made the running for half the distance in the Maidenandthen shut up, Toxa winning by a- neck from. Tommy Atkins. The' owner of the latter entered a protest* for' jestling, but was advised to withdraw it and did so. Vandyke bolted off the course in the Cup, and after an interesting contest Van Buren won rather easily at the finish. Sweep's post-: tion was quite a surprise. Telephone, ridden by M'Lareu, had his opponents in the Three Mile Trot beaten at the end of a couple of miles and he won by fifty yards iaßmin47sec Mr Longfellow secured the District Race with Toxa, this being the third win for the stable during the day. -Telephone's penalty put him back to scratch in the Two Mile Trot, and he made no show In it. The rider, M'Millan, was, thereupon, called up by the stewards and accused of-nob trying, i Hβ denied -the charge, adding that he was not very welL and the stewards let him off with a vote of censure. The stewards had another jot* set them in! the Flying, the owner of Parama objecting to Vanilla on the grounds of crossing and inconsistent running; but the evidence adduced was held to be dog strong enough and the protest was dismissed. Only £4 was invested on the Consolation Trot. . The public stood off it. Therein they showed" their sense. There was a little too much whispering going on in all these trots, and many of those who didn't know what it was all about, thought it wise to keep , their money in their pockets. So they: were. It's a very nice little game, that " Diliy-dilly deck, .won't you corns and be killed?" Nice, that is, for «ome parties ; but the dock don't always see it. January 2. At the Maori Calk meeting, held without the totalisator, Mr .Cowan's Diamond won the Maiden, Mr CballisV Cosmo the Maiden Trot, Mr North's Revenge the Flying and Kaik Plate, and Mr North's Meda the Two Mile Trot. Mr Stewart Waddell acted as ntarter.

Van Baren, by Vanguard, won the Wai-" kouaf U Cap Co-day, paying a dividead of £8 &.