SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5650, 8 October 1889, Page 3

SPORTING.

In the race at the A.J.C. meeting in which he finished last, tho Australian Peer burst another blood vessel in the head, and Ellis at once eased him.

Tho sporting writer of tho Tost discusses the Jockey Club's meeting at length, but falls into ono or two errors. He credits Mr Willis with winning a race ; this should have been Mr Ellis. Then ho speaks of that speedy marc Cyclone; Cyclone is a gelding. In the Hurdle Race, on the first day, ho says four only started ; there were five starters.

The £10,000 yearling book which Sir I John Willoughby mado hist summer on next year's Derby begins to look the reverse of a promising investment. Amongst tho youngsters against whom he has laid the conventional £10,000 to £100 are, it seems, Surefoot, Heaume, Semolina, and Riviera. He can scarcely, however, be in a worse position (John Corlett reminds us) than the maker of the yearling book on the Derby of tSOU, who openod it by laying £10,000 to £100 each to Mr. Sutton against Lord Lyon and Rustic. Th . noble lord in question got frightened at his position early in tho autumn of '05, aud induced Mr. Sutton to lay him back 4.500 to 1,000 against the pair, which loft him a loser of £0,000 it" either horse won, and £SOO if they lust. Bad business as this seemed at the time, the amateur bookmaker scored, for Lord Lyon started with odds of 6 to 5 on him, and won, and Rustic (sold to the Duke j of Beaufort) saw as littlo as 5 to - and ran third.