SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7614, 17 May 1888, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Mitrailleuse keeps on improving, her latest performance consisting in winning the Plying Handicap at the Sydney Canterbury Park races with the top weight of iGst lib Up. Nine horses started, and tlm New Zealand mare won easily. She is weighted at 10st 51b for the Royal Stakes, to be run at Sydney on the 24th inst. She will probably return to New Zealand at the end of the present season. Believers in dreams will be interested in the following:—Before the start for the Autumn Handicap—a flat race, be it noticed at the Canterbury Park meeting, Mr Hardie (a well-known amateur rider) entreated Mr Fielder not to start his horse Fleeto, as two nights previous he had dreamt that Fleet© fell, and that young Fielder, who was riding the mare, was seriously hurt. Mr Hardie also told Mr Andrew Town of his dream, but bis story only brought forth a smile, and the mare was sent to the starting-post. The sequel is singular, for at the back of the course she stumbled and fell, throwing young Fielder, breaking his collar-bone, and giving him a severe shock. Dr Slade, of Sydney, has been disqualified for life for entering Mr S. Strettle’a trotting pony Creole for the Sydney Driving Park Trot without his consent. It was at the game time stated that Crnole had a record which he never made, R. Batty lias taken an hotel at Sydney. Mr Mitchelson's bad luck at racing still continues. In the Oleu ffuntly Handicap at Caulfield hia colt (S.2)

started at a good outside price. Towards the finish Dividend came up the straight with a moat decided lead of Whakawai. The son of Leolinus, however, speedily made up his leeway, and his rider, seeing an opening next the rails, got up on the inside. Bales, on Dividend, then brought his whip into play, with the result that the halfbrother to Wellington swerved right on to Whakawai, and interfered with the New Zealander, who suffered defeat by a neck. Mr W. E. Dakin, the trainer of Whakawai, entered a protest against Dividend for having interfered with his horse, which was, after a protracted sitting (which, as is usually the case, was closed to members of the Press), dismissed. A writer in the ‘Sportsman,’ in commenting on the matter, says : “ The judge—and who, may I ask, is more likely to watch a race closely, intently, and give an independent opinion ?—stated in evidence that Whakawai was decidedly interfered with by Dividend ; that Dividend swerved from the whip, closed on Whakawai, and hugged him against the rails. Bales, Dividend’s jockey, also admitted that his horse hung in and touched Whakawai. Woffatt, the rider of Whakawai, clearly stated that when he came up on the inside there was plenty of room, but that about 100 yards from the finish, as he was drawing up to Dividend, the latter swerved from the whip, jammed Whakawai against the rails, and thereby prevented his getting through. Again, Campbell, the rider of the fourth horse—Master Jack—stated that he was right behind, and saw the whole occurrence. Surely direct evidence of this kind amply justified the protest, and is preferable to the extraneous aid of spectators.” The New Zealand horse Pasha is again in work, and looks well after his spell. Since the sale of the colt M.P. by Mr John Walsh to Mr Harry Walsh, it has transpired that the horse while he has been racing as a threo-year-old is in reality only two years old until August next. The mistake appears to have been made by Mr Williams, who is said to have been under the impression that the dam foaled a chestnut the season after M.P’s. birth. However, writes “ Rattler” in the ‘Queenslander,’ there is little doubt remaining that a mistake was made by some one or other, and Mr Harry Walsh has been very fortunate in securing at a low figure a horse which, instead of being a second-class three■ year-old, must, according to the work he has done, be an exceptionally good two-year-old, if not absolutely the best in the colony. That he is a good one he has proved beyond doubt by weight to, and easily beating, some very fair three-year-olds. Had he run as a two-year-old for the Champagne Stakes at the Brisbane Tattersall’s last meeting, even with the top weight, what sort of a game could he have played with his field ? I would advise his presort owner to at once obtain a certificate from a vetei in • surgeon as to the horse’s age, and forward it the Q.T.C. Committee. If this is done he will be able to run him at the next meeting as a two-year-old, and have a pretty gay time of it, A jockey named Gardiner, at Thargomindah, Queensland, has committed suicide. He was wasting to ride the horse Friendless, and took a fever, which brought on delirium, during which he walked into the river, where his body was picked up. The Kiplin Cotes Race, one of the oldestestablished races in the Kingdom, was run on Thursday, the 15th March, The stake is derivable from the interest of L4GS invested in the 3 per cent, consols, which realises about Ll4, the winner taking Ll3, the remainder being absorbed by expenses. The money was subscribed nearly two hundred years ago by a body of ardent sportsmen who had an intense love for the wolds of Yorkshire. The conditions of the race are— For all ages to carry lOst each, exclusive of saddle ; to be run on the third Thursday in March ; distance, four miles ; entrance, 4 guineas, to go to the second horse ; the entry to take place before eleven in the forenoon, and the race to be run before two o’clock. Result: Mr Harper’s bay colt (G. Poster), 1 ; Mr Hatfield’s bay filly (Owner), 2; Mr Harper’s Mliss (Owner), 3. Won by ten lengths, same distance between second and third.

A sensational match against time took place at Newmarket (England), on 29th March, on the Fordham road. Mr C. W. L. Bulpett (late of Oxford University) had taken LSOO to L2OO that he walked, run, and rode a mile in sixteen minutes and a-half, and, as the result showed, he defeated the scythe-bearer with a balance in hand, as he accomplished the task in IGmin 7 4-sth sec. The walking was accomplished in Bmin 12 2-sth sec, the running in smm 52sec, and the riding—for which Mr \V. Gardner, the well-known gentleman rider and patron of Green Lodge, kindly lent him the three-year-old Epornoja—in 2min 8 2 sth sec. Mr B dpett was enthusiastically cheered by the immense crowd who had assembled, but in accomplishing the task he unfortunately sustained a nasty sprain. Pegascs.