SPORTING ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 4

SPORTING ITEMS.

** Weekly Press and Referee."

NEWS OF THK WEEK;

Anniversary is in foal to Castor.

The Wair.irapt hunter, Cyrus 11., "9 dead. The old steeplechaser Shillelagh ia in work again. Eitroclydon will start work again this week. A new plough gallop is to put down at J-llerslie. The Auckland R.C have suspended Uuffi" rider's lic«iise. Paris lit. was struck outof all his engagements on April 7th. Heather Hell, who is not to be raced any more, is in foal to Apreinont. Loyalty wou a race on the third day of the South Australian Jockey Club's meeting". .£7OO represents the profit made over the Autumn meeting by the Auckland R.C. The license of the Sydney jockey, Perry, has been cancelled by Hie Auckland R.C. Bu'roclydon may be nominated for the Melbourne as well as the New Zealand Cup. Judging by her form at Takapuna there could not have been much amiss with Annabelle. Mr K. D. Browne has named his four-year-old gelding by Hike—-Phoenix Record Reign. The sum of £100 is to be spent on the Taratahi -Carterton course. The club has a credit of £321. Bracelet has been turned out at Mr H. Caasrdy's place, Springiield, and is to have two months at grass. A clock to chime the quarters is to be placed in the tower of the grand stand at the Kllei-slic course. Ebor was t-iven top weight (-—t 81b) for the Criterion Steeplechase, to be run at Sandovvii Park on May Ist. A new scratching board, which will cost £200 when erected, has been ordered from England by the Auckland P..C. Air'lfimgerford has great hopes that his colt by ApVfinont—Becky Sharp, now being broken by Ttoden, will turn out a good one. Peter Simple, winner of the Rivertou Steeplechase, will likely be nominated for and run at the '"-rand National Meeting. The name of the five-year-old gelding Wanganui, by Petroleum, has been changed by Mrs Bahner, hin owner, to Exchange. 'The Epsom .Derby will be run for Wednesday next, Juno 2nd. The Irish colt GaUc« More in sure to start a hot favourite. Hiikater* was omitted from the list of -ccepior.s that appeared in the daily papers for the Great Northern Steeplechase. He has since been scratched. The Wellington Racing Club have made »n offer to purchase ninety acres of the Miramar. estate on which to lay out a new course. Mr P. Troy has changed the name of his black gelding by Wilbcrfcrce from Raeby to Cadet, and in future he will be known as _Wlet (late Raeby). The Hon. .T. D. Ormond has leased from Mr D. Mcliinnon the stud horse Flintlock, flintlock ia by Musket from Agate by Rapid Bay_Onyx, so is closely related to Nordenfeldt.

1 The running at the Takapuna J.C.s Steeplechase Meeting seems to have thrown a different complexion on likely results at the forthcoming " National" meeting of the Auckland R.C.

The programme for tho Nelson Jockey Club's meeting on June 23rd is to be found in the Calendar this week. In all, £200 is offered in stakes, the leading event being the Jubilee Handicap £60, one mile. Mr D. S. Wallace's filly Moonlyong, who is from the Apremont mare Sierra, is aaid to be the be*t of the progeny of Mentor. Moonlyong won the Mile Handicap at the Melbourne Hunt Club Meeting on May Bth. Record Reign race meetioga seem to be the fashion just now. Any excuse with some people it thoy can only have a gamble; We hope the Colonial Secretary will not re-open his totalisator permit book again this season.

Panoply is turning put as lucky a horse for his -("resent owner, Mr H. Hayr, as he was unlucky for his previous oue, Mr Q. Wright. After being beaten by Cast. Ashore in the Britannia Handicap at Takapuna on Monday he got the race on a protest for inconsistent running. , I»i-th» Calendar this week will be found

the conditions, for the classic event* oi the Australian. Jockey Club, which close oni, Monday, June 7tb. New Zealand is generally represented in the entry list, and no doubt wi}l be again this time. Stevens,, who was prevented from riding at the Patea J.C. Autumn Meeting, has written demanding £25 from that crabby way of damages. The stewards replied that his demand could not be- entertained, and it is said will defend the case should one be brought. "Mr J. B. \Reid recently disposed of ljiia Stepniak—Sincerity colt to a patron of J. McGtnnesa's stable, and the youngster will receive his racing education at the Forbury. A remarkably nice colt, his advent as the ■first of the progeny of the C.J.C. Derby winner ef 1892 is looked forward to with inter-Sst.

The last has been seen of the Great Autumn Handicap winner, Belliceut, on a racecourse, and she is to be mated with Gipsy, Grand. Other of the _ak—urst mares that will go to EldersUe on a visit to Gipsy Grand are Corolla, Manon, Ich Dien and Siesta. As before stated Blue Fire goes to St. Leger.

An alteration has been made in the dates for the Hawke's Bay J.C. Winter meeting, June 22nd and 24th being now the days on which it will be held. The prc*gramnie too, haa been revised, so as to-be made additionally attractive. * The programme appears in this week's Calendar, and the fixture is now styled the Hawke's Bay J.C.s Diamond Jubilee Winter Meetiug. '

The Sydney Mail says:—D. O'Brien has once more got together a string of racehorses. The half-dozen now undergoing preparation. at his hands comprise the Splendor mare Volador, a yearling half brother to Gipsy Grand' (by the Australian Peer from Namoi), another yearling by Malua from Faithful, the two-year-old cok Heritas, and a two-year-old filly by Gossoon trom Leonie, the dam of Litigant. The bay i—are-<-Gef—n, by Carbine from Loyal Peeress, concludes the batch. -