TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6144, 9 May 1891, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

StmscEißßE.—Tongarirn won the Wanganui Derby on the 7th March, 1887. Hβ paid £11 14s and £17 2s. WooßvniE.—Lochiel carried 7et 121b in the Auckland Cup in ISB6. The three placed horses were Nelson, Waitiri, and Clogs. .-. Mr W. Tathatn, of Hastings, has decided to -visit Australia, leaving Hastings in a week or so. He takes over Uranus, the well-known hurdler and steeplechaser, and will start him in TattersalPs Steepleohase in , Sydney on the Bth June. He will after- ' wards take the son of Southern Chief to the sister colony, and start him in the • V.R C. Grand National Steeplechase. The 3 cross-country horses in Australia are a very 1 poor lot, generally speaking, and Uranue should soon establish himself as a shining star at the illegitimate game over there, j The owner of the Caulfield and Auae tralian Cup winner, Vengeance, (Mr A. B. r Blackwood), paid a vi<it to Napier-last Saturday and was speedily introduced to L a few well-known local sports. He was taken out to Hastings and shown a number of racehorses, including Mr Gollan'e son of Mueket —Florence Macarthy. Mr Black* wood said he had heard a lot about Tirailleur, both m and out of New Zealand; he was not a horee that would impress one favorably at first sight, but he would like to j. see him race. Mr Blackwood has spent a very enjoyable time in New Zealand* H came over to attend the Middle Park sale, >- and secured the St. George—Escalade colt it foal, and the Apremont—Flattery yearling :d colt. Clanranald (St. Andrew's, full brother) ig has been cold by Mr Stead, and goes into th« stable of Mr H. Lunn. Patchwork and Quadrant have both been ot thrown out of work, and will be spelled 10 until next season. >" There was not the slightest truth in the jJV report that Swivel had been sold to an r Australian syndicate. * r The committee of the Waipawa County °" Racing Club have decided to effect a number of improvements on their property shortly. The course is to be top-dressed, j the grand stand steps, at present incon- , veniently situated, are to be altered, the °, weighing room is to be shifted and a' yard v laid off alongside it, and the representatives of that great institution the Press are to have a room to themselves. I congratulate the W.C.R.O. on the great progress they ,fa have made of late years. Mr Beresford, tobacconist, Emerson street, has been appointed agent for the "• Auckland Sporting Review. Mr Blackwood, the owner of Vengeance, vn told a Napier sport the other day that if we ise had any good croas-oountry horses here ■. Australia was the place to send them to. ■i The Danevirlce Hunt Club is, I hear, ■: progressing satisfactorily, from a monetary * point of view. Mr G. Hunter is to be ' thanked for a donation of five guineas. The Takapuna J.O. meeting takes place 0 | on the 25th inst, and a large number ;.bf >ra ent " es k ave Deen received for the various lis events. The weights for the principal j 8 events appeared in last night's Telkgbaph. ' Mr D. Munn has Kapoand The Peer in two races each, and they have not been overburdened with weight. At the last meeting of the Masterton3ft Opaki; Jockey Club it was resolved, in view gh of the reported satisfactory financial position n . of the club, to continue operations. | er The steeplecaser Kangaroo is in work again. ■ " ;.,.: Nominations for the Handicap Hurdle Race and the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase, to be run at the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's sat winter meetiug, close with the secretary at the Criterion Hotel next Tuesday night at 10 o'clock. The handicaps for the Town and Suburban Club's meeting appear in to-day's issue, and will afford local sports food for 81 " reflection between now and the 25th. The DV meeting should be a good one. Mr D Fraser, of Rangitifeei, has sold hie Ascot —Speculation oolt to a Hawera sport; for £100. - - ; Satyr, the Auckland jumper, has not yet been shipped to Sydney. At the last monthly meeting of the com* mittee of the Canterbury Jockey Club the handicapping question was left over till after the general meeting, when it was de>n > cided that the new committee should arre " range the appointment. «d Mimi, who won the Ona Thousand * v Guineas Stakes at Nawmarket the- other , ' le day, is owned by Mr. N. and :u " was sired by Barcaldine, dam by Lord ,a * Lyon—Sadie. The filly Melody, owned by e d jj r _ J). Cooper, the Australian sportsman, ' er was second. Her breeding is Tynedale— ' or Glee. The third horse turned up in Mr. D. ■ r y Baird's Siphonia, by St. Simon—Palmc y flower. Mimi, who is trained by Matthew 3e - Dawson, i's engaged in the Oaks, but not in ire the Derby, and the other two who finished a & behind her are engaged in neither, nd :