SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2701, 4 December 1882, Page 3

SPORTING.

[press association telegram.]

WELLINGTON CUP

WELLINGTON, December 2. The Poet has been scratched for the Wellington Gup. ISLAND BAY RACES. WELLINGTON, December 2. The races at Island Bay took place today : Maiden Plate. Hercules... ... ... ... 1 Stella 2 District Plate. Dynamite 1 1 Bell 2 Pair Queen 3 Island Bat Cdp. Nikau 1 Rore ... 2 Camelia 3

The Field, ridden by Wattie, was the favorite, but ran off the course and fell into a ditch. Wattie escaped injury, as also did the horse.

Ladies’ Purse. Rore 1 Dan O’Connell 2 Pair Queen 3 The Consolation was won by Camelia. DUNEDIN SPRING MEETING. [press association telegram.] DUNEDIN, December 2. The second day’s racing of the D.J.C. Spring Meeting took place to-day. There was a poor attendance, in consequence of the counter attraction in the carnival sports and the costume cricket match, which attracted five or six thousand people. The following were the results : Hunters’ Plate Handicap, of 60 sovs. Mr Sutherland’s Wild Boy. lOst 21b ... 1 Mr Jones’ Gang Awa, 9st 31b 2 Mr Slier win’s Mokarakara, lOst 101 b ... 3 Wild Boy scored an unexpected win from his two competitors of two lengths. President’s Handicap, a sweepstakes of

3 sovs. with 130 sovs added. Messrs Mason and VaUance’s Turquoise, 7st 101 b 1 Mr Little’s Maribyrnong, sst 71b ... 2 These were the only starters, and Turquoise played with Maribyrnong, winning with a lot in hand by a neck. Novel Race, of 60 sovs. This was a walk over for Mr Mackay’s Aurora.

Grand Stand Handicap, of GO sovs. Six furlongs. Mr Dodson’s Miss King filly, Gst 21b ... X Mr Cutts’Nautilus, 7st 121 b ... ... 2 Violin 7st 101 b, Gitana Bst, and Stockflower ost 101 b, also ran. There was a magnificent race between the filly. Nautilus, and Violin, the filly winning by a head. Time, Imin 20sec. Gitana and Nautilus were the favorites. Members’ Plate Welter Handicap, a sweepstakes of 3 sovs, with 100 sovs added. Seven furlongs. Messrs Mason and Vallauce’s Turquoise, Ost 41b 1

Hon. G. McLean’s Gitana, Bst Gib Mr Goodman’s Somnus, Ost Gib .. Rangatira also ran.

Turquoise was the favorite, and won by a length. Time, Imin 32sec.

SPORTING NOTES. [From the “ Weekly Press.”] Nominations for the Marlborough Cup close on Thursday next, December 7th. The three great Gup handicaps, published recently, have boon almost the only sporting topic during the week. The unanimous verdict on the Wellington production is that it is the worst handicap ever seen in the eolony,!and that is saying a good deal. The only animals, known performers, that appear to have the least show with Bundoora are Louie 7st fUbs, and St. George 7st 121bs. Of those that less is known of, Matanaka with 6st 71bs stands out very conspicuous, and is most assuredly, for so well bred and untried a youngster, ridiculously lightly chucked in. The pen has already boon busy at work, and we fancy very few will bo left in after the IStb proximo, when the acceptances are due.

AUSTRALIAN

Messrs Finlay, of Victoria, have had the misfortune to lose Saucepan, dam of Haricot, Irish Stew, Fryingpan, Ac. A filly foal by Bolton Green, out of Saucepan, will be reared on cow’s milk. The Melbourne Cup winner. The Assyrian, has been purchased by Mr S. Agnew, of Tasmania. Mr Lowe, who is still in England, has made further purchases of blood stock for some of the New South Wales studmasters. Among others he has secured a mare named Fair Alice, by Bel Demonio, from Flora by Knight of Kars, from Florence by Velocipede, with a filly at foot by Exminster, at 210 guineas; Bromine, by Wild Oats from Thorwater,by Thormanby, at 55 guineas; Gondola, by Paul Jones from Matchless, by Stockwell, at ICO guineas ; a yearling filly by Wisdom from Quicksilver, by Trumpeter, at 50 guineas. Mr Long has also secured another well bred yearling filly by Beauclerc from Bluelight, by Rataplan from Borealis, by Newminstor, at 220 guineas. The latter filly is intended to remain in England for some time to come, and will most probably be trained for her two-year-old engagements.

At the Bendigo J.C. Spring Meeting, on November 15th, the Sandhurst Cup was won by Mr T. Coffey’s b h Lord of Clyde, by Bonnie Carlisle, aged, 6st 71b, beating a field of six others. Cassiopeia, a five-year-old daughter of St. Albans, won two of the minor events of the meeting. In noticing the programme of the Hawke’s Bay March Meeting, “ Augur ” directs the attention of Australians to the many rich prizes now in New Zealand, and “ thinks it would pay some of the Victorian racing men to make a tour to the land, of the Maori.”

Sir Thomas Elder on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday, at the Morphetville Mooting in Adelaide, won the two-year-old plate and flutter with Land League, a daughter of Gang Forward from Irish Queen by Irish King. Mark Adderley, once known as one of the must successful steeplechase jockeys in Victoria, is dead. His wife and family are loft almost destitute.

Mr D. S. Wallace, owner of Napper Tandy, Sir Joseph, Calma, &c., was dangerously ill when the mail left Melbourne.

FOREIGN.

•‘Eobin Hood,” the English correspondent of the “ Australasian,” says, rarely has any trainer been in such a mess on the eve of a great event as was John Porter in the matter of jockeys for the Leger favorites. It had all along been quite generally understood that Lord Falmouth would not run Dutch Oven, and that Archer would have the mount on Shotover, while Tom Cannon would ride Geheimncss, as he had done in all her races. But at the last moment both these calculations were upset, for Lord Falmouth determined to run his mare, and Mr Keene wired from America to Mr Day—“ Run Romeo, Cannon must ride.” Now Mr Keene gives Tom Cannon a very heavy retaining fee for first call on his services, and there was, of course, no getting away from these orders. It was, of course, very annoying to find oneself doomed to ride an animal against which the extreme odds of 1000 to 5 were on offer, and to be at the last minute taken off the back of the first favorite, but Cannon felt there was no hope for it, and doubtless consoled himself with the fact that he was well paid (I think .£2OOO a year) for the very little work he is called upon to do by his liberal American master. Of course. Porter made every effort to get the best available talent, but Wood was wanted for Battlefield, and Fordham for Sweetbread, and so it came about that Geheimniss, the crack, with odds of 11 to 8 laid on her, was ultimately ridden in the groat Doncaster St. Leger by a jockey named Loates, who until recently has been best known on selling platers at Alexandra Park or Croydon. For Shotover ultimately Eossitor was retained —a by no means bad jockey, although there can be little doubt that he lost his head when, on Robert the Devil, in the Derby, he found that terrible Archer come sweeping down upon him on Bend Or. I do not think, however, that all this trouble about the jockeys much affected the market status of the two mares, for although Shotover receded considerable, it was because Porter assured his friends that she had no chance whatever with the Oaks winner, Geheimniss.

After describing the great race, the same authority goes on to say:—There was very little cheering—how could there be—for such a reversal of form does not go down well, even if owner, jockey, and trainer be above suspicion. How can the running be accounted for, when only a fortnight before the mare went down as dead as a atone before such goods as Peppermint, who later on in the Cup at Doncaster could not get a place in five runners. There can be no doubt if the the mare, had been less fashionably owned, trained, and ridden, there would have been a storm of indignation at the result. There were a gooc[ many large winners, and these were the lucky men who backed the mare before Goodwood, and who could not hedge, and so won, as it were, against their will. Still it seems that Archer himself must have fancied his mount, for I believe Lord Falmouth would have allowed him to ride Shotover for the Duke of Westminster had he felt so disposed. One gentleman who stood to win a lot of money by the winner’s success put Archeron .£IOOO to nothing, and another .£250 if he got a place. Unto him that hath shall be given is indeed a true saying in Archer’s case, and I should like to have a cheque for all ho is worth over .£IOO,OOO. The value of the St. Leger Stakes this year was £ISOO. Dutch Oven during her racing career has woe for Lord Falmouth £16.000.

Mr Stead’s colt Splendour ran unplaced in the Middle Park Plate, won by Macheath.

The appended extract from “ Sporting Life ” -will give some idea of the expensive tariff in vogue at Newmarket: —“ A gentleman wishes to go down and see the races—perhaps his first visit to the ‘ glorious ’ Heath of Newmarket. Driving from the station his carriage is stopped at the Cambridgeshire Stand, and 10s demanded for entrance on the Heath. A drive of less than half a mile brings the visitor to the Rowley Milo Stand, and to enter Tattersail’s Ring a further fee of 2 sovs is necessary, the ‘ open, sesame/ to the saddling paddock is XOs more. The visitor then thinks ho is now free of the forest, and after witnessing a race finishing at the Rowley Milo winning post leaves the edifice to see one which finishes at either the T.Y.C., Abingdon Milo, or Bushes. Barely has he driven 100 yards before there appears a barrier guarded by Jockey Club officials, who demand ‘ 1 sov.’ So to see racing on the Cosarewitch day at Newmarket the cost for admission to the Heath is exactly 4 sovs. Of course there are cheaper ways of seeing racing on Newmarket Heath, but not any materially so, as no one with any selfrespect would care to be seen in the New Ring, or the Happy Hunting Ground for welshers, as it is called, the ‘ open, sesame/ to which is 2s Gd, while for admittance to the Outer Ring, another enclosure, the fee is just one-half that to Tattersall’s.” Walton, the American plunger, has again been distinguishing himself by his big betting. In America, in a race between Barrett, Bootjack and Girofle, he backed the latter for big money. He took 14,000d01. to 10,000dol. in one bet, but declined the “twice?’: of a big English bookmaker who had visited America. However, he came again, and took an oven bet of 10,000dol. Girofle won, and Walton pocketed JMSOO. It took just about half that to pay his losses on the English St. Legor, for which he was standing Geheimniss and Shotover to be one, two, and got put out by the surprise of the y»ar.

Death of the Archbishop of Canterbury.—As announced through Reuter's telegrams Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait expired last night, at the age of seventyone. The Bankruptcy Law. —ln the Appeal Court at Wellington this morning a decision was given to the effect that “ a person cannot be adjudicated a bankrupt on the application of a person who purchased the debts for the purpose of adjudicating him a bankrupt.”