SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Sydney Morning Herald—July 14.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1318, 3 August 1860, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Sydney Morning Herald — July 14.)

Apropos of the Champion Race, we may mention that one of the New Zealand candidates (Sister to Zoe) arrived from Nelson on Tuesday, in company ■with 10, another of Mr. H. Redwood's stud. Both animals reached Sydney in excellent condition, the voyage having proved a remaikably favourable one. Sister to Zoe is a fine-looking three-year old chestnut filly, possessing many of those points of excellence for which the Sir Hercules stock are famed. Whether she will be able to live in * three-mile race, however, with the many first-class horses that she will have to meet, is a Question at present very difficult to decide. As a breeder, Mr. Redwood is known td be a man of sonnd judgment, and having an extensive experience of the charaoter of the stock of the different colonies, it must be presumed that he regards his beautiful filly with some degree of confidence. The old notion that aged horses alone can contend successfully at long distances, has been in a great measure dispelled by the running of Flying Buck at Melbourne last year, and by the general success which has characterised the performances of the three-year-olds recently in England. Most of our aged horses, moreover, are a, little stale ; so that the chances of the young stock are not so very poor, after all — that is, supposing them possessed of the requisite blood and breeding. Sisters to Zoe and Io have since taken up their quarters at Homebush. They will be put into training work immediately — the former of course for the champion race, and the latter for the Randwick spring meeting. The only candidate for Champion honours now to arrive is the Melbourne. Most of the training stables being situated at a long distance from Sydney, nothing definite has transpired relative to the changes of condition of the various animals, and business in the betting line has necessarily been rather dull. Flyjng Buck still holds the position of first favourite at 3 to I— Deception, Zoe, Veno, and Gratis standing next in succession on the list at 8 and 10 to 1. The Buck is located at Richmond, and is said to be improving daily. Young Morgan is likewise doing his work in the same neighbourhood, and rumour has it that he, too, has wonderfully improved in speed and condition. The old veteran Strop is stated to be all the other way, however, and in all probability his name will not be found in the list of acceptances on the Ist proximo. Zoe (who so well upheld the reputation of our stook at Melbourne last year) is training at Bungarribbee, under the superintendence of Ashworth ; and Thomas Willis has been entrusted with the care and management of the Auckland mare, Deception.

Crinoline and Hooped Petticoats. — The farthingale of the time of Elizabeth answers to the hooped petticoat of the days of Queen Anne and to the criaoline of Queen Victoria. Against the farthingales the great master, Philip Stubbes, inveighed with thundering eloquence. " When they have all their goodly robe 3 upon them," says he, "women seem to be the smallest part of themselves, not natural women, but artificial women ; not women of_ flesh and blood, but rather puppets, or mawmeti, consisting of rags and clouts compact together. The queen herself condemned the fashion, and passed laws to put down such extrava gance. The wits assailed it, and what was the result ' the farthingale expanded, and under James 1. became as remarkable for ugliness as for discomfort. Hooped petticoats came into fashion again in the time of Queen Anne; and Addisons keen satire' was directed against them. In th« " Spectator," No. 272, appears an advertisement, dated ftom the parish vestry, January 9, 1711-12 :—"All: — "All ladies who come to church in the new-fashioned hoops, are desired to be there before Divine service begins, lest they divert the attention of the congregation'" Gay took up the subject, and handled it very roughly : moie polite wits averred that the3e hoops only kept the men at a pioper distance ; the caricaturists represented a fashionably-attired lady as a donkey carrying two panniers ; and Hogarth pictured the inconvenience of a full-dressed belle entering a sedan-chair. What the wits and caricaturists did in Queen Bess's time and Queen Anne's, has been done over again in Queen Victoria's.— Ladies' Treasw y,