Sporting News.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10315, 29 May 1896, Page 3

Sporting News.

AnstraHa is now breediDg few jumpers

worth a cent. Hot one ia twenty is a "natural" ■jumper, and it Is piteona to see the old has-beenu taming np again and again. Australia wants another Panic badly.— Bulletin. A Victiotlan writer ia responsible for the following :— " A trainer working boraes on the Kyneton course had arranged with a lightweight rider to give tha horse a gallop, and Instrncted him, in racing parlance, ' to jump off nt> the halfmile post and let (be horse have Ms head '— meaning of course that he was to ride Bteadily for a certain distance and then hting the horse along ab top speed, The boy, however, waa not well np ia sporting phrases, and when he renohed the indicated spot he jumped off the horse, tied the reius to cbe saddle, and turned the animal adrift. Thia proceeding filled the onlookers with amazement, and when aßked tne lad replied, ' You told me to jump off at tba half-mile post, and led the lioroo have his head, and I did bo. 1 "

MrJ. H. Overbeck, in the Breeders' Gazette, says :— " Until I commenced to use linseed cake I did not know there was any food In existence that coald do 80 much goad for a horse. When properly need it produces the perfect health that makes a bone-yard a back, and a hack a roadster ; and In every case that has come to my knowledge id has added 25 per cent to the value of the horse in appearance and working qualities. It is the best health producer I know. I have been feeding one quart of cake, two qnarts of ground (crashed) feed, and a handfnl of salt, soaked one honr before usiug."

Keturned Melbourne sportsmen, flays the Age, who visited the meeting of the S.A. J.C. at Morphotfcvillp, are unsnlmonß in affirming tho healthy inflnepce which the totalisator exerts upon racing in that colony.

A fall slater of Moonrakei's n&rned Cora Creina won the Autamn Handicap over in Tasmania.

" The Chiel " : — The Wanewjni Steeplechase was first won In 18S6 by Gay Fawkes ; ISB7, Orient ; 188S, Kangaroo; 1889, Oddfellow ; 1890, Sir GarDeb ; 1891, Ingornngl ; 1892, Conrnnto ; 1893,l£m[)ire ; 1894, Booties and Nanakis (a dead heat); 1895, Tiritea ; and 1896 brings old Booties to the fore again as thn first horse that his won the Wangnnui Steepleehnaa twice.

There was a narrow escape of a sensational dividend at the Otakl races in the Stewards' Stakes, Mystical, the horse that was beaten by & nose, would have paid about £190, while Bona Fide, which finished third, would have paid £122; and the fourth horee. Springtime, would have paid nearly £60. As it was the winner retnrned hio bankers tha oubQten» tlal sum ot £20 19a.— Times.

Tnrf nomenclature la a botheration to many of those whose education has been somewhat neglected. One hears of many fanny mispronunciations, but probably the latest " takes the ct\ke." After the finish of the Hunters' Steep'eohase at the Wangannl meeting, one well-known racecourse habitue, speaking oa to the defeat of Seddon and the victory of Ulysses, but particularly referring to tbe latter, said with characteristic warmth — " Well, if you ask me, I always did like the look of that there Useless,"