Sporting Notes.

Lake County Press, Issue 704, 16 April 1896, Page 7

Sporting Notes.

[By Peeping Tom-1 Miss Lucy, by Silvcrmark out of a Duntroou mare, has grown and improved very much since last Frankton races. Her principal performances last season were: Second in the Cromwell Derby, and firat in the Maiden Plate at same meeting, and second in Lake County Trial Stakes. Her owner informs me that Miss Lucy’s full brother will shortly be broken in. Ho is not so lengthy as the filly, but is a compact little horse that ought to be able to “ get ” a bit, as the Yankees say. Mr D. O’Fee’s pair have both grown and thicken d a great deal during the summer. Of the two I prefer the unnamed four-year-old colt by Amulet. Lady Elizabeth, however, is growing fast, and ought to win a race or two for her owner next season. lam told that Mr A. Jopp has a very piomising candidate for this year’s Cromwell Derby. It is to be hoped that the youngster will see the post fit and well.

Wallace and Quiver ran their dead heat at Flemington for this year’s champion race in smin. 23£ sec. for tho three miles. In the A.J.C. Plate, over the same distance, Wallace could only get third, yet it took The Harvester 6min. ITJsec. to complete the journey.

Newhaven was badly licked at Randwick in Imin. 19see. for the Champagne Stakes, run on the first day, distance, 6 furlongs. On the second day, when in the humor, he romps home in Imin. 16sec., his first day’s conquerors not having a chance with him. Further instances of the glorious uncertainty of the turf! Tire, a son of Medallion and Florence M'Carthy, won a mile race easily at Randwiok in Imin. The Hying Courallie only managing to get third. I take the following items from the Bulletin ; A Sydney bookie remarked the other day that the names of people who owed him, and the little amounts they owed, “ would shook a parson.” Betting on the nod would go under if the tote came along. Tiie metallician would bo practically eradicated —if people wanted to gamble they’d have to pay cash over the counter as in buying postage-stamps. George Martin, son of the late N.S.W. Chief Justice, after rowing so well last year at Oxford and Henley, failed to get a seat in the ’Varsity crew this year, as he shaped so badly in the trials. A resident of Wellington has had the good fortune to draw the third horse in the Sydney Cup in Tattersall’s sweep. The Queensland Union has decided to send a football team to New Zealand during the coming season. An Auckland telegram states that a wrestling match came off at Coromandel between Donald Dinnie and Sutherland for £25 a-side, no holds barred. The conditions were that Dinnie was to throw Sutherland six times in one hoar. ’ The first fall occupied 18 minutes, and in the second Dinnie got on the strangle hold with such effect that Sutherland could not come to scratch. Dinnie was declared the winner.