Sporting News.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7924, 13 December 1887, Page 3

Sporting News.

NOTES BY "FETLOCK."

This is the general entry night for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's Boxing Day meeting. Nominations and acceptances for the following events close with the secretary at 10 p.m. at the Criterion Hotel. Nominations : Maiden Plate, 1 soy ; Two-year-old Plate, I .soy. AcceptancesChristmas Handicap, 2 soys ; Handicap Hurdles, 2 soys; Hastings Handicap, 4 soys. Mr George Cutts has taken charge of the Hon. \V. Robinson's horses Exchange, Engagement, and Torrent, which were under the care of E. Cutts while his brother was in Australia.

Sextant and Isaac have gone to Auckland to fulfil their engagement's at the summer meeting of the Auckland Racing Club. Mr Stead has announced his intention of sending Maxim up to compete for the Great Northern Derby and weight-

for-age races. With Nelson, Maxim, Sextant, and Isaac to do battle for them the South Island contingent should carry off most of the plums of the meeting, as the northern horses are very much below the form of tho Canterbury cracks.

English papers bring information of the death of the French horse Dollar, sire of Rupee, who has made a name for herself as the dam of Louis DOr, Florin, Spade Guiuea, Apropos, Silvermark, and Exchange. Dollar,- who was 28 years old at the time of his death, was one of the most successful sires iv France, and he was a son of the Flying Dutchman, one of the best racehorses of the century.

Wildrake, who won the Free Handicap at the recent Jockey Club's spring meeting, is a Victorian bred son of Argus, Scandal-Onid, and the race under notice was his first win in this colony.

Chic was bought by Messrs Stephenson and Hazlett, of Dunedin, for 225 guineas after winning the Two-year-old Selling Race at the D.J.C. meeting. As Mr Stead only paid 35 guineas for the filly as a yearling and has since won over £200 in stakes with her, he has made a good profit upon his outlay. Bard has been sold for £132 to Mr J.. Lefevre, an Otago sportsman, and if not run in first-class company, the plain chestnut, son of Izaak Walton, will* more

than pay his way. The Auckland mare Friendship, by Reprieve— Nydia, was sold recently with all her engagements for 112 guineas. As the mare is thoroughly sound, and one of the best handicap horses in Auckland, the buyer has all the best of the bargain. Although there is still nearly six months to run before the Epsom Derby will be decided, Friar's Balsam, the crack English two-year-old, is already backed at the low price of 5 to 2, in thousands. Kilwarlin, the winner of the St. Leger, won the Challenge Stakes at Newmarket. The Queen's Plate was won by Mr J. Hammond's Eurasian, while Reve dOr secured the Newmarket Oaks, and Erispord the Newmarket Derby. At the Bendigo Jockey Club's spring meeting on November 23rd and 24th, the Sandhurst Cup, of 250 soys, one mile and a quarter and a distance, was won by Mr J. Pile's five -year -old Affluence, by Winterlake (imp.) — Success, who carried 7st, and was ridden by Cracknell. Lesbia, 78t slb, was second, and King of the West, 9st 81b, third. There were nine other runners. Affluence won with a bit in

hand by half a length. He also annexed the Ladies' Bracelet, of 70 soys, one mile and a quarter, carrying Bst. Rouge et Noir, 6st 81b, was second, and Verbena, 7st 51b, 3rd. The Bendigo Handicap, of 175 soys, one mile and a distance, went to Mr S. Nathan's oh m Straight Shot, by Newminster — Bull's Eye, 6yrs, 7st 91b, with Bonnie Chester, 7st, second, and Lesbia, 7st 81b, third, eight others following them home. Affluence is half brother to the two-year-old colt Venture, who won a couple of races at the late V.R.C. spring meeting. It seems very probable that the dam of Affluence will prove a " success " at the stud.

London papers state the Pesth St. Leger of 5000 florins, added to a sweepstakes of 150 florins, 75 forfeit, distance 2800 metres, 84 subs. : was won by the Imperial Graditz Stud's Pimpernickel, by Charaant, brother to the Middlepark Apremont. This makes the third St. Leger success of Pimpernickel, probably an unprecedented performance, he having won the St. Leger Handicap for three-year-olds, carrying top weight, 62J kilos, at Baden-Baden, as well as the North German St. Leger at Hanover.

At the Paris autumn meeting on October 16th, the appropriately-named Prix Gladiateur, of 890 soys, with a work of art, value 400 soys, three miles and seven furlongs, was won by Upas, a son of the recently defunct Dollar. Acheron, by the same sire, won the Handicap Libre, of 459 soys. and four days later took the Prix de la Foret at the Chantilly meeting.