SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4734, 8 October 1886, Page 3

SPORTING.

At the recent A.J.C. meeting the Hon. James White won £2720 10s in stakes. Mr Jones, the owner of Bohemian, was next highest with £Uw

Nominations for the Oamaru spring races closed last night. Seven horses were entered for the Handicap Hurdles, ten for the Spring Handicap, six for the Spring Hurdle Handicap twelve for the Grand Stand Handicap, eight for the Trotting Eace, and eleven for the Flying* Handicap.

The Press room at Hastings might be better'attended to than is at present the case. Supplies of ink and pens might be placed in the room, and what is urgently wanted is the erection of a casualty room, on a somewhat similar plan to the weighing room. If en accident occurs on the course the Pies 3 room has at pnee tp be 'taken Sossossion 6i, and the reporters are allowed to shift as best they can. This is not the treatment that should be accorded by a leading club. A curious mistake occurred in one of Keuter's cablegrams a few days ago. It was stated that on the 13th, 14th, and 15th of last month the Australian cricketers played a match against a team selected by W. G. Grace, and that the gate money was to be given to W. L. Murdoch, the wellknown Australian batsman. The latter statement was incorrect, the proceeds being for the benefit of Murdoch, the ground bowler at Lords, and not for his Australian namesake, who is pretty well off as far as this weald's' goods i?o. "Vigilant," of the Melbourne Sportsman, who generally keeps a tight rein on himself 'when' his brother" scribes art, in-' Stjigiiik in' '''the bes| hpi'se, ttja} ?yer pr^ed.

a bridle," &c, also recognises the great claims Trident possesses to be considered a wonder, and ho delivers himself thus: — " I have not. the slightest hesitation in writing that Trident is a long way ahead of any three-year-old I have seen since my sojourn in Australia. Time I am no believer in (more especially when it is taken on tho Randwick courso), hut Trident's performance of Saturday last stamps him as undeniably the host Derby colt we have ever had. . . . It is rathor early just now to give a straight-out tip for the Derby and Cup, but Trident has always been a great favorite of mine (as my readers must have gleaned from my Cup analysis), and now, six weeks ahead of the race, I assert that— provided he strips as well as I saw him last Saturday—there is but one horse in the V.R.C. Derby ar.d Melbourne Cup and his name is Tridont.