SPORTING NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 156, 27 October 1896, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

'By Gipsy Grand.]

I.ur<r:lvdon is reported to be running - "t --t i.'iccai tr-n and according to Satur- (' .Lvttelton Times docs not move anyt' like so well as he did this time last I ..i.Ha heat Day Star in a five furlong i >•[ 'it o:i Saturday. The Shrew is goiiiK o» well in her work. Site arrived at liiccarton on Thursday. Quiltiri galloped n fast seven furlongs on Friday. Old Liberator is said to be going as well as ever. ** Silv»-r=pur." in the Mail, pieks Lady Zetland. Day Star, mid The Possible to s»)u>!y the winner of the Cup. The only gelding that ever won the N.Z. Cup was Impulse two years ngo. Lotion. V. Itiu". ur, and Quiltiri are the only representatives of that division remaining in the big rare. Only two mares—Spade Guinea and Rosefeklt—have won the Cup. Six of the sex remain in this year. Writes •• Javelin " in the Lender: — •* The jockey who sets out with the deliberate intention of having his horse burst up half a mile from home is distinctly as much a non-trier as he who pulls oil' at the distance or m erest po-t; yet the latter is punished, while the former is neverasked aquestion. One owner running to make pace for another, even if, as in this case, he so merely to improve tlie chances of the horse the public have hacked undertakes a great risk, though possibly actuated by motives which he may conscientiously consider to be justifiable. It is, however. ;t practice which e,-n be neither approved nor defended. The right of one man owning two horses in a race to declare with which he intends to win is a very diiTereut thing, and should never have been prohibited. The old rule protected the public, the existing one is hardly ever observed by the owner of two horses in one race, and its abrogation never being punished it can only be considered a farce."

At"STHAIJAN SroIJTING

Mkliioirnk, This day. Broken Hill this morning galloped a couple of miles in :!min 4"2 sec. Charge was sent the I'erby distance, but finished badly. Xewhaven rattled off a mile and a half in 2inin 44] see. Bloodshot put ina splendidperformanee. winding up a mile and three-quarters in :'min 1 l;.-i e. Tirf badly defeated Sabretache over a mile and o half in 2mm 49see, Aji appeal is to be made against the decision of the stewards of the Y.A.T.C., who disqualified Miss Tranter in the Hurdles. One of the gallops this season was performed by Hopscotch, who swept over a mile and a halt m 2min 4:slsec. Coil and I.e Var were associated in a good working gallop of a mile and three furlongs.