SPORTING NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10627, 4 June 1897, Page 4

SPORTING NEWS.

At Ellerelie yesterday morning the course proper wag thrown open, Prince Cburlle and Rhino worked at top for one mile. Ilex worked over one mile. Retaliation baat Panoply over eevea farlongs. Tally Ho composed a oonple of ronnde at three-quarter pace. Pansy showed to advantage la a mile gallop with Bonnie Bine. St. Simon shaped really well in a gallop with Lady Marion, both having light weights np. Levanter and Eingawood did good work over a mile, Trenboola and Dentist worked in company at top. Mlbb Nelson, Sam, and Dromedary each did good work, Annabelle, the favorite for the Grand National Hardies, 1b being trained in private at Laka Takapnna, She is reported to be well, Betting or gambling (iay« an finglUh writer) is an inherent proclivity In hnman natnre. Its connection with home raolog i» pnrely fortuitous* and all that the AntlGambling League can da is to divert it from one channel into another. The most gambling country that I have any knowledge of Is Spain, and there horse" raoing li unknown, cards being the prevailing vice of the natives, whose best energies are belog sapped by it. Italy, tno, It a gambling country without) the smallest taste for horse- raolug, and everyone knows the besetting sin of the heathen Cbinee, who bas not a word for bookmaker or even for raoeooarse in his language. Suppose betting on the turf is made illegal wonld it not be well to ask ourselves, "What Is likely to take its place?" Something will assuredly, and It may not be a virtue,. The London SporUman says :-Qaite a novelty in the way of nomenolatnre li supplied by the Duke of Portland, who has given the name '450 to his oolt foal by Carbltie oat of Caithness, The appellation oan hardly be said to be lnuppropriate, but reference to the " decimal " will no donbt be more honored in the breach than the observance in mentioning the name of the yonngster, The name refers to tho calibre of a combined rifle and ahot gnn, the proportions of which are '450 rifle barrel and IG-bore shot barrel. An exchanga remarks that Narellan, by Chester from Princess Mand, who was bred and sent to EDgland by the late Mr James Whits, la doing stnd duty at the Mlohelstown Stnd, Cork, at a fee of three guineas. At the Cork Show in 1895 Narellan took second p;lz?, and a foul of bis shown at Mallow in the following year was awarded premier honort. A Sydney doctor is reported to have advanced the theory that Newbiwen's Inconsistent running la attributable to the laob that tho oolt bna heurt disease. Newhaveo'd trainer dteorcdits the idea.