SPORTING NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 5

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Peeping Tom]

The sum of £2i*,052 waa put through the totalisator at the Fielding meeting. This beats the figures at the Canterbury J.C. meeting by no toss than £5560. Up-to date was submitted to auction in .Sydney after the late meeting, but, Strango to say, he did not elicit a single bid. .Sir George Clifford« cheque at the C..T.C. Autumn mooting was exactly LIOOO. Mr G. G. Stead .secured live seconds, for which he realised L2US. Only L 35 place monoycarne Dunodin way. At Hurst Park on March lOt.b the Selling Hurdle Handicap, of LIOIJ, two miles, was won by Mr Spencer Gollan's five-year-old horse Macarthy More, by Kendal—Bessi" Macarthy. When put up to auction, Macarty More changed bauds at 220gs.

A cable says :—Machine Gun has boon sold to Charles Baldwin, of Durham Park, Now South Wales for 950 guineas. It is expected that he will go to the stud. Tho Asian, in publishing a return showing tho difference between the bookmaker's and Totalisator odds throughout tho Calcutta season, says that, as usual, tho advantage was with the machine, which [>aid tho better odds in 6-t events as against 45 by tho Ring, whilo in one caso tho price laid by both was identical. As of yore it paid better to back an outsider with the Tote, and a favorite with tho books.

Ascotic Silvo-% who, wo havo since learned by cable, won the Liverpool Grand National, was successful in a three miles steoplochaso at Hurst Park on March 9. Ho wont out at 10 to 1 and scored easily. This victory did not bring him into any prominonce in tho Grand National betting as he was quoted at 25 to 1 a week before tho race.

Lillystone, who ran second to Apprentice in tho Final Handicap at Ri*>crton, had spont the previous night in the pound, and a few who had heard of this took it as the " oflico" to back hor. Had she obtained a bettor passage in her run sho mio;ht have won.—Win ton Record. Mr J. B. Zander, of Melbourne, owner of Emulator, is desirous of making a match for LIOOO aside (says the Melbourno Argus) with tho crack trotter Ribbonwood, no.v in New South Wales, and owned byMr A. W. Playfair. To show that he means business, Mr Zander has deposited a cheque for Ll-000 with Mr M. P. Considiuo, secretary of the Sandown-park Racing Club (Melbourne). Mr Zander is agreeable that the proposed match should bo run on the Sandown-park course, at any time during tho next six months, and stimulates that tho contest should be mile heats, tho best two out of three or three out of five, owners driving. Ribbonwood put up somo remarkablo good performances in Now Zealand, and if his owner can be induced to make a match groat interest would bo taken in the affair, not only in trotting circles, but in sporting circleß generally. If the match is arranged Ribbonwood will bo placed in tho hands of his former trainer, D. J. Price.