SPORTING.
3V the home from Auckland Olf 1 *■'"*• , W a i nc,ra this morning. y. Q . A VsX'andiero has proved herself a 11 matron. She was put to jha -IjfcJ-j j n I gg^ > anf j nas on iy missed on tN¥O <yjr,asicns. The foals opposite her na.-yj number I*--eight colts and six fttt\ea. An Auckland scribe states that Explosion, who is looking well, is to be given a trial over hurdles. The following were the Auckland Cup quotations after the acceptances were known ,-—IOO to 20 Tortulla, 100 to 18 La Gloria*, 100 to 16 Fulmen, 100 to 12 Miss Delaval, 100 to 11 Coronet, 100 to 10 Malatua, 100 to 8 Bluejacket, 100 to 8 Ideal, 100 to 7 Beddington, 100 to 6 Skobeloff, 100 to 6 Military, 100 to 6 Dayntree, 100 to 8 Hengist, 100 to 3 Knight of Athol, 100 to 3 Motor, 100 to 4 Paphos, 100 to 3 Paul Seaton, 100 to 5 Hohoro. Apropos of senseless nomenclatures the Spirit of The Time*, New York, says :— " ' Huitzitopochtle ' is one of the latest freaks. Down in the ring, being a horribly wet day.thebookies compromised on 'hot bottles,'and everyone understood. Who remembers Comedian Charles Corlett's Crypto - conehoidphysostigmata, whom the English bookies shortened to •Cripples'about twenty years ago?"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9939, 10 December 1900, Page 8
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212SPORTING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9939, 10 December 1900, Page 8
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