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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7930, 20 December 1887, Page 2

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Acceptances and general entries for the Takapau Jockey Club's meeting on December 29th close f witli the secretary tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. The following are the events and amounts to be paid': —Handicap Hurdle Race, acceptance, 1 soy; Takapau ■ Handicap, acceptance, 2 soys; Flying Handicap, acceptance, 15s; Welter Handicap, acceptance, 1 soy; Maiden Race, entrance, 1 soy.; Hack Hurdle Race, entrance, 10s; and Hack Race, entrance, 10s. - General entries and lot the Waipawa .County Racing Club's meeting , on January 2nd, 1888, close with the secretary on Saturday next, the 24th xnst. The events and fees payable on each are as follows :—Handicap Hurdle Race, acceptance, 1 soy; Waipawa County Racing Club Handicap, acceptance, 2 soys; Flying Handicap, acceptance, 1 soy; Sellingllaee, entrance, 1 soy; Hack Hurdle Race, entrance, 10s; Hack Race, entrance, 10s; and Selling Hack Race, enhance, 15s.' , „ • With the purchase of Sextant and Gipsy King, Mr G. G. Stead has got together 'one of the strongest, if not' the strongest, team of racehorses ever in the, possession of one owner in Ne^v Zealand. Mr Stead has already received a large. Miare of fortune's favors this season, \bnt with. such a string of horses-as Maxim, Lbchiel, Russley, Gipsy King, Sextant, and Beresford; to say nothing of Seeurus, Enid, . Rainb6^v, and lesser lights, the yellow and black colors should beliorne to victory in more than one great contest during the present racing season. The success achieved by the.owner.of Lochiel is fully deserved, as'no man in the.colony'has displayed more enterprise in his endeavors to improve the quality of _our racing stock than lias Mr Stead. His horses had a ■ good innings at tho rodent TattersaU's ;. -v "... Club meeting at' Christchurch, as Russley.-: ;. appropriated -the .two, principal events,' '"j::. while -Chaiitilly;, annexed the Corinthian" >"%, Handicap,'with the welter .weight of 13st ■v^ 51b in the saddle.. , " : . v .->>;* It isexpeoted that Clifford will have the., :-p:^mouht on Maxim in :the Auck land Derby. ■ Uranus-lefUiere for Auckland on Saturday last, and as ho is a' most piohcient * juniper ho should give a. good account of

himself witb. only lOst to carry, though ] ■ fancy Silvio, lOst 101 b, .will about win. "The best laid schemes o' mice and men "gang aft a-gley" is a quotation which was, well exemplified in the Plnmpton Cup Handicap, run at Christchurch on the Bth instant. There we're two horses running in the same ' interest, Leeston and Oliver Cromwell, of -which pair the former was started to cut out the running for his stable companion, who was backed by his party. Leeston, however, iiot only cut ont the running, l>»t stayed in front to the finish, winning by three lengths from Oliver Cromwell, who was unable to get near enough to pull the irons out of the fire. Captain Webster, the winner of the Great Autumn Handicap of 1886, has been Sold, to; go. to the stud. : From Melbourne files I learn of the .y deathtif The Diver, a good racehorse, and ' fine who prouiise'd to he fairly successful at the stud, as most of his stock were gcjbd useful^animals, while Grace Darling, who won the Canlfield Cup and ran Sefcond in Sheet Anchor's Melbourne Cup, was a cut above the ordinary run of vaceWrses. The Div.er was third in the Mel--bourne Cup won by Haricot (with Protos second) in the year that Goldsborough started, a hot favorite, while the New Zealand mare Lurline was amongst the , competitors'. .Timothy, by Hermit— Lady Mashapi, Vvho ran third in the last English St. ■Leger, and is ojvn . brother to the erratic Peter, was purchased recently by Captain . Machell for 4000 guineas at the. annual weeding-out sale ofthe Duchess of Mont- . i-ose's (" Mr Manton's ") horses. Cablegrams to "the American papers convey the intelligence that the Lincoln Autumn Handicap, one mile and a half, run for on November 4/ was won by Mr ■ T. Valentine's St. Helen, 'who acted as runner up to R6ve dOr in the last Oaks. She earned 7st 61b Nightcap, syrs, 7st 61b, who started favorite, was second. Horton, 3yrs, 6st 3lb. and Valentine, 3yrs, sst 101 b, ran a dead heat for third place. Lord Falmouth's three-year-old colt Blanchland, by Macaroon— Syringa, has been sold to go to India, the price being 1000 guineas. Blanchland was a fair performer as a two-year-old, and ke was the last winner ridden by the late Fred Archer prior to tha^ jockey's death. Ossony, a full brother to the great Ormonde, made his debut recently in the Criterion Stakes at the NewmarketHoughton meeting, and won rather easily. However; as Friar's Balsam, the crack two-year-old colt, is said to be a stone and a hall better than Ossory, the latter is not likely to emulate the splendid performances of his renowned brother. ' Quicksand, who ran third for the Cambridgeshire, started at the remunerative price of 25 to 1 for a place and the Jubilee . plunger, Mr Benzoni, is said to have taken £8000 at those odds. . ' I have received from the auctioneers, Messrs Hunter and Nolan, of Auckland, a catalogue of the yearlings bred by the New Zealand Stud Company which are to be sold on' Wednesday, the 4th of 1888. The youngsters to be 'I^^Kfrtedi comprise the last of the stock TP^?','good horse Musket, who has left behmdf him such good horses as MartiniHenry, Nqrdenfeldt, Trenton, Brigadier, Waitiri, Maxim, and Matchlock, as monuments of his fame. The New* Zealand Stud Company have displayed great energy and discrimination in the pnrchase and selection of, good thoroughbreds. The success which has attended their efforts is attested by the fact that almost all the '. animals reared in the company V paddocks have been, returned as winners. The sales have always attracted buyers from all parts of the colony, and some really first-class animals have been brought under the hammer, among which 'is Maxim, perhaps the noblest Koman of ■ them all.' The Jots to be sold include ahalf brother to those speedy animals Mitrail- . leuse, Kicohet, Lady AHqe, and Braemar, , a full. sister. to Wliakawai, winner of the ■Maiden Plate at the V.X.C. spring meeting, half sister to Sardonyx and Nordenfeidt, full sister to Necklace, Thunderbolt and Bangle, half sister to Clogs- and Fardihgale, fnll sister to Escutcheon, half ' brother,, td Louie and Tres Sec, half, brother fo Patrician, tull brother to Krapp and Soudan. Besides these there 'are a number of exceedingly well-bred juveniles from some of the best racing families in 'England, and there is little doubt that, '- unless the present depressed state of commerce has paralysed speculation in horseflesh, the forthcoming sale will' be quite as successful as previous auctions, if not more so.