SPORTING.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1890, Page 2

SPORTING.

♦ KIRKHAM'S RUNNING. DEATH OF HERMIT. [united pbsbs association. l " London, 29th April. In the Hastings Plate Kirkham, who rw third, was many lengths behind the winner, He started at 33 to 1 against. It is Narellan, and not Kirkham, who runs in the Two Thousand Guineas to-morrow. 30th April. Hermit, the well-known thoroughbred Btallion, is dead. Auckland. 30th April. The brood mare Yattorina, dam of Libeller and Matohlook, died to-day Yattenna was the property of Mr. H. W. Waltors. THE TWO THOUSAND. MR. WHITE'S HOESES SCRATCHED. (Reooived May 1, 12.40 p m.) London, 30th April. The following is the result of tbe " Two Thousand,'* whioh was run at the Newmarket First Spring Meeting to-day :— The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100 soys eaoh, h ft , for tbree* ysar olda : colts, 9at ; fil ieR, Bst 91b ; tho owner ot the second horse to receive 200 soys, out of the stake, and tbe third to save his stake. Rowley mile. Eighty-ono subs. Mr. A. W. Merry's b o Surefoot, by lyja, dom, dam by Galopin— Miss Footo ... \ Baron de Rothschild's oh o U Nord, by Tristan— La Nooo (bred in Franoe)... 2 Duke of Westminster's br o Blue Greon, by Coerulcue— Angelioa 3 Kirkham and Narellan were aoratohod. Sporting writers, commontin^ on Kirkham's running in the Hastings Plate, express surpriao at the form be showed.