SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10243, 19 February 1897, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

FORBURY TRAINING NOTKS. »

Cutte was the first to work this mora, ing ; he sent Choroid, Weary, and GoldleaJl for a canter and half a mile gallop fast. The first-named .seems to have improved! since the spring. M'Ginness pat Le& King on Musketry and sent the big horse twice, round at a fair pace, a decent six furlong* being recorded in the early part of tha gallop. Campbell merely cantered, bui Lord Roßßlyn was driven along in the last i •▼* furlongs of bU " twice - round » journey and oame home *«*• displaying more brightness In bit abtion than ha* been usually teen. Ibis colt is doing a lot ot work, being sometimes brought oat twice a day without causing signs of unsoundness in his feet. Plotter was not given hie head, the junior Pine keeping him well in hand despite the colt's struggles to get going, which raised on him a bit of a lather, the morning being warm. False Impression was restricted to steady exercise. That also was the portion served out to Fulmen and Maremms. Mr Hobbs arrived last night with Marquis of Zetland and Bloomer, the , latter a sister to Prime Warden, whom she resembles in color and otherwise. These horses were simply cantered. Gold Medallist and Multiform were kept to slow work, also Decoy and Edelweiss. Hippomenes and Martin ran six furlongs at nearly top pace, shaping exceedingly well. Nothing at the Forbury is going better than this pair. Seqnin, Black and Red, Blazer, and Belle Clair did half pace work, and Ulster galloped about seven furlongs with marked freedom.

TURF CHIT CHAT.

[By Thb Admiral.]

The Ilium case was finally disposed of on the Bth inst. In this matter the Caulfield stewards, in the first instance, disqualified " during their pleasure " Ilium, her owner, and jockey for the mare's suspicious running in the Selling Race at Caulfield on January 16. An appeal was made to the V.R.C. Committee, who referred the case back to the Caulfield steward?, with an intimation that under the rules of racing it was necessary that in all cases of disqualification a term should be Btated. The Caulfield stewards having considered the addi* tional evidence taken by the V.R.C. Com. mittee, decided that Mitchell (the jockey), Marshall (the owner), and the mare should be disqualified for five years, a decision which the V.R C. Committee have now endorsed.

When the last mail left Bloodshot was favorite for the Australian Chip at 5 to 1. Reports that Resolute was not progressing quite as well in bis training as could be wished caused him to recede to B'a without takers.

The representation of Australasian horses in the big jumping races to be held under the auspices of the Warwick Club in England in 1900 will not be as numerous as was expected. Entries for Australia were to be made at the V.R.C. office, but the nominations of Jlr W. Douglas, of Napier—viz, Toriki, Penrose, Waterstone, The Brook (winner of the Egmont Cup), and Sarda for the Britannia Hurdle Rice and Britannia Steeplechase—were received too late for acceptance. The nominations of Mr 8. H. Gollan's Mousqueton (by MouKjuetaire Miss Dargon) and Wakelyn (by Dreadnought Lady Florin) for both events were in time, and were duly cabled to England. Wakawatea has reached Flemington to fulfil his engagements there next month. That the totahsator has become a popular institution in Tasmania goes without saying (writesthe Hobart 'Mercury'). With the pencilled excluded, the T.R.C. authorities anticipated an increased amount through the machines, but the result of the three days' racing just over has far exceeded even the most sanguine of expectations. The aggregate sum passed over the counters reached in round numbers £10,350, which would produce in percentage something short of £l,lOO, or about £IOO less than was paid away in stakes. The result is a decided victory for the Tasmanian Racing Club, inasmuch as the meeting is the most successful yet held under those auspices, and; the prime factor of success was the revenue derived from the profit upon specu.

kUoli which dia not enrich as ittdfadijal or i&djttidnals; but In effect formed i fund to provide stake* for horse owners, at the same time furnishing sport for votaries of the godd old pastime.

The trotihy gives to the Regatta Com* ffciktee by Lady Braasey is to be raced for on Saturday, 27th February, Entries close with Mr Myers, Mr Bannister, Mr Sligo, or Mr Hay ward on Thursday next The conditions on which the trophy is to be won will be found in the programme in connection with to-morrow's regatta. The bow man in eabh racing skiff will hate a number on his back, so that the public can easily distinguish the boats belonging to the 'different clubs. The first race—Maiden Double Sculls —will be started punctually at 2 p.m.' The torpedo boat will be at the Victoria wharf at two o'clock shaip.