SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2397, 8 December 1881, Page 3

SPORTING.

OAMABU J. 0. BA.aBB. [PRBBS ASfIOOIATION TBLEOBAM.I OAMARU, December 7. The races to-day were poorly attended, bat the racing was good. The following are the results : Maiden Plate of 30 sovs. li miles. Mr W. Sutherland's Wild Boy, 9at 1 Mr O. McLean's Oitana, 7st 111 b 2 Mr A. F. Hall's Adalgisa, 9st 21b 3 Oamaru Handicap of 100 sovs. Distance, If miles. Mr H. Goodman's Chancellor, 9afc 31b ... 1 Mr D. O'Brien's Tasraan, 7st 51b 2 Mr P. Butler's Luna, Bat 61b 3 The Hack .Race was won by Mr Cairns'. Belle. Counties Plate. Bryan O'Lynn ... 1 Wild Boy 2 Sultana 3 Handicap Time Tbot.

Darkie 1 Little Wonder 2 Charlie 3 Publicans' Handicap. Coldstream 1 Legerdemain ... ... ... ... . ... 2 Uunknown ... ... ... ... ... 3 In 1792 the wall of Hyde Park was jumped for a bet of 500 guineas. A Boyal personage laid this sum that an Irish-bred mare belonging to a Mr Bingham would not dear the wall opposite Grosvenor Place, the height being 6k feet inside with a drop of 8 feet. Before the bet was made, however, Mr Bingham had sold his mare, but he took the wager that he would find a horse to do it, and at the appointed time arrived with the steed seleotcd. By reason of the drop un the hard road the ground was prepared on the landing side, and the horse did handsomely all that was required of him. A question constantly asked by correspondents ia the precise measurement of the highest jump that a horse has oleared. Ido not fancy that a leap made in the Phoenix Park a good many—forty or fifty—years ago, by a son of that stupidly named but good horse Potßoo's has ever been surpassed. The animal in question was called Turnip, and belonged to Sir B. Orofton, who had acoepted a bet of £SOO, offered by the Duke of Bichmond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that Turnip would not jump seven feet in fair Irish sporting style—just touching with the hind hoofs. A gate and wall of the requisite height were built up, Turnip meantime being walked quietly about. When all was ready the horse was a short distance from the wall, but as soon as the hint was given him he went for the jump and oleared it. So quickly was this accomplished that the Duke, who was looking round to speak to someone at the moment (imagining that the horse would be turned and taken at it with a longer run) missed the sight, and Turnip therefore repeated the performance.