SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6018, 8 December 1890, Page 2

SPORTING.

NOTES BY "HIPPO." RACING CALEKDAB. December 26, Manawatu E.C. spring meeting. , December 31, Orraondville, Norsewood, and Makotuku Racing Club. December 26 and January 1 and 2, Auckland Racing Club's summer meeting. January 1, Napier Park Racing Club's summer meeting. ' . '":, January 22 • and 24, Wellington R.C. summer meeting. January 31, Canterbury Jockey Club's summer meeting. February 18 and 19, Egmorit Racing Club's summer meeting. « ■ February 25, 26, and 28, Dunedin Jockey Club. March 24 and 25, Napier Park, Racing Club's autumn meeting.' ' '■' j DECLARATION OF WEHHIfIS. December 16, Oraondvillo, Norsewood, and Makotnku Racing Club. December 27,.Napier Park Racing Club's summer meeting. January JO, Egmont Racing Club's summer meeting.

NOMINATIONS, ACCBPTANOBS, &O. December 9, nominations Ormondville, Norsewood, and Makotuku R.C. December 20, nominations Egmont Racing Club. December 23, acceptances and general entries Ormondville, Norsewood, and

Makotuku R.C. January 24,. nominations and acceptances Egmont Racing Club. February 20. nominations Napier Cap, Flying Handicap, City Stakes, and Waverley Stakes, Napier Park Racing , Club.

I have received a nicely got-up oatalogue of the inarcK, stallions, and yearlings to be sold at the Sylvia Park stud on Saturday, January 3rd, IS9I. The list comprises 41 mares, 4 stallions, 24 yoarlinga, and one foal, Aβ Mr J. D. Ormond,> Mr W. Douglas, Mr S. H. Gollan, nnd very likely Mr G. Hunter, will be BOtae of the lots will most l'kely , be purchased to come to Hawke's Bay. v.;»:;.i 'n The weights for ; the. Auckland Oup and Steeplechase are out. On * paper, the pick of the handicap for the Cup is Hilda, Cissy, Strephon, and Craokshot, the two former for choice. If Hilda is as well as she was last autumn, it will take a rare good one to beat her, for at Wanganui she won the Wanganui Stakes, 1| miles, with 8 stone, in 2min. 40seo. She then came to Hawke's Bay, where ehe won the Hawke'e Bay Cup, If miles, with Bst 91b, in 3min. 6 2-sthseo., and at Napier Park she won the Napier Park Cap, miles, with 9et 61b, in 2min. 41 l-6th sec. Afterwards, in Auckland, she won the Kaster Handicap, 1J miles, with Ost nib, in 2min. 39sec, and the Autumn Handicap, lj miles, with 10et, in 2min. l'isoo., and won all these raoes easily. Cissy proved herself a rare-brilliant mare last yer.r, and has run well thjs spring. On the first day of the Auckland meeting , she. won the Prinoe of Wales' Handicap, IJ miles, Bst list up, in 2min 43jsec,' and the Flying Handicap, of six furlongs, 9st 71b, in lmin lSseo ; and on the second day she won the Spring Handicap, 7 furlongs, 9st 10lb, in lmin 30 l-sthsee, and the City Handicap, 1 J miles, 9st 71b, in 2uiin and won them all ridiculously easily. Hilda,, we know, san stay, bat the furthest Oissyhas yet been tried is 1£ miles, and then she won as she liked hard held. A mare brfld as she is should stay. The following table shows the horses that started in the N.Z.. Cup, placed in the order in which they came in. their weights allotted them in the I Auckland Cup, and the difference in pounds: —

N.Z. Cop, A. Cnr, ' „.« 2 miloa. 2 miles! ''- Differences.

st ll> st lb It Wolverino .. 6 11 8 4 / 21 ovee Dudu.. ..8 9 bl3 4., Strepbon ..6 9 710 15 Whisper .. 712 7 9 i 3 under Crackshot .. 7 1 8 3 16 over Jet d'Eau .. 7 9 7 5. 4 under St. Andrew ..7 9 7 6: 3 „ —The acceptances are due on Friday next when I will more fully teview the horses left in. '

Hawke's Bay will be well represented at the Auckland meeting. Munn will take Strophon, Kapo, Eosefpldt, and- Waterfall. St. Andrew ia sure, to go, and perhaps Queon of Tramps. Mr. Gollan will be sending up a team,-and Whisper might go. Thie will strip us of the best horeea for o*rBoxing Day and New Year's Day meetings, and will give the others a better efcow. The nominations for our local meetingsshow a great falling off of horses trained outside of our principal stables. The number is lose, but the quality is better. Mr. Orraond, with St. Andrew, at theDunedin meeting, won in stakes £483 Us,, which brings this stable'e winningsjfor? this year to £1110 sa. The nominations received last week for the Napier Park New Year's Day meeting , are not an numerous an lose year, but every event has filled well, and the fields are likely to be good and the meeting a saecenful one. Hawke'a Bay may now be considered, if not the chief racing oentre ia New Zealand, in one point of view it is in another, for the stables here send more raoohoraea to compete in other districts than any other place. Thirteen were sent from here to the Ohrietcaurcli meeting, five to Wellington, one to* Dunedin, and we have sixteen already «a--gaged in Auckland, and some that era not yet nominated will go. And ye* theprincipal sporting papers of the colony havehardly any sporting notes respecting the,doings of the different stables, &ci, here!

The final match for Captain Russell'scup, which should have been played off last season, waa played at Hastings on Saturday, and, contrary to expectation, wae finished in one afternoon.' The result wa» a decided -win for.the IS apier Club by ten wickets. Both olabs were represented by strong teams. The wicket looked to be » good one, but on play being started, thebatsmen fonnd that it -was too much for them, especially as the bowling and fielding were very good. The County won the tose and eJeotedto bat first, but were dismissed for 21, of which Lowry got 15 by good play. Wolstinholme, for Napier, bowled ep'endidly. Napier replied with 44, ont cf which "White secured 16. The County team put together 42. in thair eeoond innings; no batsman got into double - figures. Napier requiring 20 runs to vrfjL , "' and with IS minutes to play, started their second and Percy and White obtained the required number without loeing thoir wickets; Percy got 12- and White 6. Xjowtv, Gore, and Studholmobowled well for the County, and Wolsten*holmo, Smith, and Fannin, for Napier;. Captaiu Russell's cup »6w becomes the absolute property of the Napier Club.

On the Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon a match was playod bet cceen the Napior juniors and a team from, the Comi bined Bands of Hope Club, The game I resulted in a draw slightly i» favor of the latter, who, at the call of time, had four wiekots to fall with 23 runs to win. The Napier juniors made 71 and 67 runs in the two innings, Hodgeon 14," Spence 13 Buck 19, Bear l'f, Williams 14, extras for both innings 35. For the Combined team B. Ashcroft scored 13, P. Bear 11, and extras 34, first innings 66, second with four - wickets to fall 50. The bowling average , was as follows :—Napier juniors—Buck,. 6 wickets for 21 runs ; Hodgson, 6 for 37.';; Jamieson, 2 for 18 ; White, 1 for 8. The. Combined team's be->t averages wore— R t . Ashoroft 9 wiokots for 27 runs ; Barton £ for 11; P. Ashcroft, 3 for 25 ;R. Aehcroft perforuipd the " hat triok." '-

At a bicycle carnival at Melbourne on Saturday the inter-olub plate of two miles was won by Kellow, after a splendid -**B<a with Twentyman second, and Fleming thirdk Time, 6min ll^sec Oα the bowling grooa on Saturday a few tournament matches wore played, and it was arranged that the remaining gamos must bo played by Thursday. A soratohi match betweon teams chosen by Messrs , Morrison and South waa won by toe formerScores: — MoßßieoN'e Team. Sooth's Team. Rink No. 1. Tuke \ Crorar \ Large ( ~., Shirley /' Gilberd (skip) ( P. Diawiddie i 27 ■ / (skip) J Rink No. 2. Aplin \ T. Sidey \ Bear f „,, Platford („. Cooper ("" > Waterworth ( 2& Cook (skip) J Balfour (skip) ) Rink No. 3. Churchward \ Williams Faullmor ( „ Oliver ( Morrison j* x Sweetepple { IG ' Guy (skip) ■) South (skip) } Rink No. i. Lyndon \ Beeoham i "Wundriim ( 0 . Miller I J. Dinwiddio 1 Dr. Hitohinge ( J3 Revans (skip) J Stubbs (skip) ) \ 120 IOQ'