SPORTING NOTES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 2, 7 July 1914, Page 6

SPORTING NOTES.

The success attending the New Brighton Derby Stakes has induced the \*<t Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Chib to institute a similar race, which will be decided at the November meeting in 1910. At its November meeting tho New Zealand Metropolitan Trottin" C-ub intends distributing 10,'OOOsovs." in stake money, a record cum for av trottin" club fouth of the line. " ° Steepk-chasers, a s is generally known remain longer on the turf than Hat racers, and of this there are numberless instances (state* the rx>ivn<r writer of the -Sydney Daily 1 Tel«Th!'n P ' I' nkln S case is the Dominion chaser Pantuui, who is within a short space of being 1C v CaK o:d If .acre were any old-age pensions for actcouKe cc!eurn.c Sj Pantutu would bo entmed to share in them, for it is remarkable how the old tellow has retained his form.

of'tin? " a T d MKK^] y rode a coup 0 at Perth'm* a / ccen , t trottin e meeting tu v ( " esk ™ Australia). «-Wi e f ° U ' Bri Shton Trotting Club which has asset* valued at £M79 ljg 10s only received £44 12s <sd j„ ne f K tV> M S ?fT- Thc Can e bu™ Park Trotting Club only received £l3 2? a me n „S. ,X ' re feC3 ' * Woh «P—ta ~.jOooo in stakes in Australia, in En^n Fr.n 'T* 'W* cf £96,032, and in franco ].« brilliant son Spearmint *iu,UUS It, addition there are winners of jumping races as well as on the ht Lt n , CoU " trie -\ and it reckoned tint after leaving Australia for JW xi iT ■ lno »»«l winners of £l2O 000° So, ? f P .° ltla " d 6on 'e vear offered Carbine'* skeleton to'theMef Spt'ed Im,BCUm and thc <>ffpr ™« ac-

riipro arc five. clul, s ; n the Auckland rnetror.ohtan area, ,nd their totaltato ■ investments for the present season worked out at follows: \uckland Jin, Club £cml-' J ?«kap«na Jcckev «••*',<4o. Ihe jr rdm l t<)ta j i6; , 4 ,„ 0 represent, an increase of over last season's figures The value of The Tetrareli even with hw breakdown is nrobablv so-Z- , •« between £40,000 ,nct £.30.000 Ca an McCalmont could have had £-30 000 for him In b everal places during his triumphant career as a . two-vear-old ers nho can claim to have won the whole of the English classic races" and £a» B Y«nr V" m of S ix Srt S' 3 , 1a - Vt ' st >: ] «I off bv winning the St Leger m 1908. Sunstar followed sutt by winning the Two Thoufjfo on e Thousand and The Oaks in 1913, and Princess Dorrie the last-men-tioned two races against this voa, the champion of all ages and sexes " A ™™f, tn \ ttin S and P a «"ng Uhw * ? ; o h Jf, cha ™I»»on stallion, The Harvester 2 01; the ehamnion mare! Lou Dillon 1.381; the champion two year-old trotter, Peter Volo 2.04* -the champion three-year-old trotter "Colorado E. 2.04J; the worlds champion 2av n, ?,: eam .' rWa » and! FoS ♦i * I cham P'«n sires of the world that have sired over 200 in 2.30 or betta T\:lk«, 232 performers-, Onward, 220 performed: the most popular sires of last year, Peter the Great 2.071 and Sxi- 061,all are ° ut of ™ de «S?

Seemingly the men who own undeveloped marcs have a chance to protruce a champion, as the majority of the greatest horses .have undeveloped mothers The foregoing article brought to mind "White's Tivo-Minute Farm and us end. bo manr sacrifices all for bpeed m mating their horses, never taking into consideration ruggedness bone, sinew, good leg and active responsive brain that thev are creatine m their mating. Let us keen to the idea of a good horse individually, knowing that a horse or mare to'produce world s champions must be exceptionally strong in many ways. In the davs tvnen the Merino sheen were the desideratum in Michigan, a" wealthr Quaker went to *ew York and brought homo a high-priced ram., who was small around the heart. A shrewd Michigander went down and bought a tatter one. The quaker visited the Yankee to see his ram. Finding a better one at hfs money than he paid, he inquired what strong point the Yankee looked for in Jus ram, and the reply came quick: "I tried to get one with no noor ones. The lwst is none too good for"the foreigner and so it should bo with us.''—American exchange. A Sydney trainer was oal W befoi« the stewards of the Xew South Wales Trotting Club this month for failing to observe the rules concerning disqualification. It was proved ttiat he had gono on to a metropolitan course while trotting horses were Wing trained there, and also attended a trottm" meeting at Sydney, although he was under disqualification for nix months. The trainer explained he was persuaded by friends to attend the races, and he had nothing to do with the training of the horses on the other course. The 6tewards pointed out that disqualified persons were not allowed on racecourses, and imposed an additional term of two months' disqualification. The receipts from the last Roval Agricultural Show of New South "Wales, at which most valuable prizes are given for all kinds of jumpers and trotters, T.^i; 24 ' 000 ' and the P lofi t was over £IO,OOO. Mr Charles Reed, who. at the dispereal of the late A. Belmont's stw'. purchased St. Kiai.se for 20 ; 000 govs , died a few weeks ago. The sale referred fo waa unique. Mr Heed had an idea that as several rich men were after St. Blaise he micht be out'vd unless he adopted a bold cource H? was a shrewd man, and when St. B'aiVe was offered, went, at one bound to 100 f- "• dollars. That was the only bid. and it had the desired effect—St. Blaise was knocked down asJ the pjronertv of Mr C Reed. At the Port Adelaide on Jimp. 13 a serious accident in the Franklin Hurdle Handicap spoilt that most interesting event. Canyanka and Reveller fell, and, in quick succession. Bucksey, The Amendment, and Thirty Lass tniipled over them. There was a struggling mass of horses and riders on the ground, and when relipf '•ame the jockeys were seriously injured.