SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 2

SPORTING.

(RENTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MELBOURNE, October 12.

Rnfus has been scratched for the Canfield Cup. The latest betting is 6 to 1 against Silvermine, 7 to 1 Volcano, 18 to 1 Pasba ; others unchanged.

. B. Derrett, the well-known jockey,.has returned to New Zealand from Australia.

The betting on the New Zealand Cap U dull. Maxim is favorite at 100 to 15 (taken) ; Sextant, 100 to 15 (off) ; Artillery, 100 to 12 ; Nelson and Beresford, 100 to •10 ; Lochiel and Gipsy King, 100 to 8. The Wangatini Club has ' Motived very good nominations for the meeting on the -9th November, there being; 84; for the Trial Stakes, 22 for the Wanganui Han* dicap, and 11 for the Handicap Hnrdla*. The Hat includes some very fair) honm* and, if the handicapper only sacceedf in. Ms allotment of the weights, there is evsiy probability of it being a successful meeting, t An English paper Bays that there if a great falling off in the number of entries. for the Derby and the, Oaks. Not a shilling is added to either of these two races. The entries for the Derby, whioh used to be about 250, have fallen to 167, "while those for thr Oaks, whioh not long since used always to be over 200, have dropped to 111. , ■ The unbeaten (American) colt Hanover, who it is reported is to be sent over to England, has won a good many dollar* for his owners. It is estimated that he baa already won this season over 60,000 dollars. Last year he won the Hopeful, vJnlv, and Sapling. Stakes, worth in all 14,635 dollars. His total winnings amonat to fully 65,000 dollars in stakes, and possibly his owners have won folly aji. mn«h as this in backing the colt. As % two-year-old he won. the July Stake* fcl-mile), carrying Bst Blb, in lmin. 15}seo> As a. three-year-old he wont the Tidal Stakes, carrying Bst 61bs, in-lnu 41}*.; and in the Coney Island. Derby, with 9st 21b, 1£ miles, he did the distance in Sinin. 35|sec.

;• Three-Qaarter-Btok," in the Canfer* bury Press, in a review of the past season's raatqhes, thus writes of the Taranaki team :— " Taranaki won a very oreditable victory over Auckland, bat that vii their only match ; and I doubt if they oonld have repeated their win. That they are s> pbwerfal lot is undoubted ; but they laok science, and can' hardly claim as yet to be placed along with the leading teams/ The Auckland verdict was to the reverse effect, and they ought to be better able to judge as to, the merits of the Taranaki team. ' '' : • >