SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 232, 8 December 1888, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

NOTES BY “ WILLOW. ” A valued correspondent complains about my remarks in connection with the handicapping, esp=cially those re the weights in the Frying Stakes. In his letter he urges “ that in the present instance, although Dancing Master has rereived 2«t 6ha for a win Deceiver has received Ist 121hs f >r a lose at the P B.J. Club’s meeting ” This at first sight may appear to be right enough, but bears a different complexion if termed dif ferenily as all judges of weights may see for themselves. I thank my correspondent, however, for mentioning the matter and might here take the opportunity of soliciting ot v ers to m ike corrections when they think I have erred.

Yesterday morning at the Matawhero track Luna, the handsome daughter of Herculaneum and M,y Moon, d d a big sweat with rugs on. She has grea’ly improved since her last appearance in public, having grown and thickened. Rhodes sent Assignee a couple of miles at half pace and gave Off Color some fencing. This latter is a horse which may yet be heard of at the illegitimate g .me, but is at present somewhat green. Bit o' Blue did about three miles at three-quarter speed, going throughout well and strong. He will be dange ous in either the Hurdle Race or tha Handicap, but I fail to see how he can be ex ected to pull off the double. The Moor want about a mile and a half fast. Buinand indulged his mare in walking exercise only. There was one gentleman exercising a roan hack which will no doubt be carefully watched on Boxing Day. The. horse with a big weight up, and with rugs on, was cer'ainly put to hard work, the rider not. content with passing Bit o’ Blue, sailed after Luna, but the latter pulled up, apparently not willing to try conclusions. A correspondent writes :—“All the jumping horses are doing well, bar Nancy—the m-re not seeming to be anything over sticks like she formerly was. On Wednesday last she and Off Color did a quiet trial together, but the mare refused several times and thebay gelding onlyonce.”—l am etc., Onlooker. 8.4 i ving th's to be a bonafiite contr bution it is published, although it is scarcely home out by information I thoroughly re’y upon. At the Hapara course Mr Hepburn’, home,, under care of Billy Harrison, were worked on tha sand track. That they will come to the peat fit almost goes without laying.