SPORTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6868, 5 March 1883, Page 6

SPORTING.

tub; ooanr. FBt Sib LAOsciim-l 1 remind owners that acceptances and general entries for both the Wavericy and Xgmont Antumn meetings are das on Tuesday. Final payments lor the Napier Handicap and general cctrica for the Hawke’s Bay J.O. Autumn Meeting must also be mads the came evening. With the-exception of Bplgram, who sired Whsatear, Cknary, &c., St Albina, the sire of Tasman, is, il toy memory serves me right, the only son of the recently deemed Blair Athol ever imported to the Colonies. Buried in obwurily to Tasmania, he has nevertheless, with the lew opportunities afforded him, got soma right good ones, and Tasman, the first of hi* stock that ever ran in this Colony, has already earned tor himself a niche to the temple of tome. Another St Albans oolt, named Hyacinth, too •bowed himself no duffer at Dunedin last week, and particulars of the Hobart and Launceston races now to hand prove that to the land of their birth the St Albans* slock are quite capable of holding their own. At Launceston three of St Albans’ progeny filled the place# in the Twe-year-old Stakes, the rnnnor-up to the winner,Meteor, Being Prodigal, a full brother of Tasman,and the All aged Handicap was won by Blink Bonny, who Is by St Albans out of Medea, and is therefore half sister to Qaamby. At Hobart, Prodigal won both the Maiden Plate and Flying Handicap, winning the latter race easily by three lengths from four others, of whom another son of St Albans, named Miapah, was second bent. The Hon G. M'JLcall has named hi# youngsters ft* follows j—Filly by Perkin Warbeck— Pttlohra, Lady Evelyn; colt by See-saw— Fairyland, Bnbexahl j and colt by Koran— Malice, Mokok. Legerdemain recently met with a alight accident, which has riecesaiteted her being thrown out of training for a while. She ha# every appearance of being in foal to Gorton, by whom Gitana was served Iwt eoseon. Mr M'Jtoan informed me, when I was bidding him good-bye in Dunedin prior to his departure lot England, that Gorton would shortly be put to work again, and that the See-Saw—Fairyland colt had been turned out at Awamos, and would not run till he was a three-year old. ■ - - Hero, the winner of the Marlborough Cup and Racing Club Handicap, was piloted to victory in both of those events by W. Redwood, a nephew of the veteran sportsman, Mr Henry Redwood. In audition to the races the result# of which have been already telegraphed, the Blenheim Plate, a welter handicap for a piece of plain added to the amount accruing from the nominations and acceptance#, wae won by The Field (fiitlQlb), with The Painter (10#t 7ib) second, and Satellite (lo#t 41b) third. At the Rotorua (Auckland) Races on Feb. 10, Ouida won the Hurdle Race, with Gob second, and Tho Mate’s son Bewl carried off the doable of the Gup and the Tourist** Plate.

Ful! detail* bo hand of the inaugural gathering under the auspice* oftheOnehunga Haeiog Club show that the Maiden Plat# (one mils and a half), which oommeaeed proceeding#, vu woo by Fisherman (9rt2lb), basting Tinman, late Katipo (Oat #lb), wlefc (Sat 81b), and three other*. Fisherman pulled up lame, and wa* consequently scratched for the Publican*’ Handicap (one mile and a half), for which only Haranehoe (7*6 81b), Yatap* «, and Kenilworth (B*6 71b) rtarted. (•named vat a hot favourite, but he could only finish lasi, Bareushoe winning by f length from Yabapa, who heat Kenil* worth a couple of length*. YaUp*’* rider lost hi* whip during the raw, and was thu* unable to make at good a fioiih at he might have done, bub Baven*hoe*« rider wat in a ..•till worta plight, for hit ttirrup leather became detached from the saddle, and he had to bring it home in hi* hand. Chandler (lltl) who war favourite lor the Hurdle Handicap (oae mile and a half) came to grief, and Kaweaata (10*171b) got home flirt in front of Setter* (Set 181 b). Four weighed out for the Onthuuga Vm (as® mile and three-quarter*), hone Hand (pit) bring the favourite, but he could only get ttcond to Baventhoe (7*t 81b), who woa very earily. Fishermen (Brt 121 b) was third. There wat a curioua bungle over the CVuttolation Han* dimp, for which fire »Ur ted. The starter kept the horn* on the port for tome time, but at length dropped the dag. hone Hand etood at the portae the t tarter tacg out that it was no start, The other*, however, went on and daubed the court*, and TaUpw won by two length*. The alerter got them to the starting port again, and this time Lone Hand woo by two lengths There wa* a 'great outcry at the tetaisafor, invertor* on Yatapa ioiitting that they were entitled to the dividend, while thote who pinned their faith on lone Hand were equally clamorous, ud at one time it looked a* If the machine would be pulled down and Mr Adama mid hlt a*»l»tante »obb»d. At length, however, notwithstanding the protests of the *U»Ur who alUged that on the firrt occasion alt the horse* went inside the port, and that therefore, even it there was a start there vat no race, it waa decided to pay the money on Yatapa. The steward*,, however, met a few days afterward*, and declared I«ue Hand the winner.

Mr 0. 0. Boon, the BeoreWy 0 f u,* Tstapuno Club, has resigned bj ( oflw« m tbit Club. Mr D»o», *»«■ «inoe the subject of holdiM o ne*KMOs|toa J»a,S9 wm first mooted, has b«*n most MmstenUf opposed to the morement, «ontlderio«r it *2 uot fMr to tb» Auckland XnoUo cffi to S w * , o PPWfitloa to them, aud at lest, fttHne th»t bis semoss could aoi but b« iukswam in • mseUnjt 'with wbJch bo tad little ana* pothy, be dsemed it best to the Club to his resignation {g their bonds. The (Suh*a Autumn Mostte*!** taTIM f«I W Mcndey, March 2<>, and £295 W ti{ bo civon in added - auwer, prtndpol tana# on tbe Easter Handicap of ■ 100 sot*, uu! ♦>,» f taiplaotasebsl ?5 tor*.** lb# Woikonoiti (Sub tan

* credit balance of £4s odd, and have , to hald their »ft«tftlr«# msstia* m, There at* eavas * T «nti on e ® \ She Waikato Basing Club it jtated tc. w. for alt raringmmw, defunct, andit? com* DOUEDirS OiSKIViI BBVlkwb,. {TlySia I»ArjfcstOT.j Mr Sydney James, the hardworking tary of the Dunedin Jockey Club, muHh»»» b«»fi glad when lh» OJ.O. Autama finUbsd. With eight race* on the fim ,**»•! «»rd f seven on the sseond, and » e * tn 00 third, and accspiaoc## to be declared , n ib« evening, he had hie hands pretty full, and the lengthy hill of fare presented ©» eachd** should have mad* the most (mutant tml mm Seldom bat a % »,*„ is Ifew-Zeeiand proved inch » diaatteooi is®* for hackers of the favorite*. and those beta of the ring, who alack Ultimately u. tb* M fielding** game, mood a golden ha met. Adamant’# victory to the Cup—fluke though it undoubtedly wae—caused artni of theta to look jubilant, and had tha length nzutrj been the ether way and Salvage returned the winner, several W.ker» 1 know would bare been on- extra good Um* ».u, themselves. By pmeattog a w«}i.br«d year-old like Adamant, with 24Sb and * coapL* of years, and then running him lo a length ia tha fastest time on record for tbs Bureau Oaf, Salvage shewed himiell a« great a four-fear-old ae ever wae stripped in this Coboy. t it singular that hie sirs, , the now defect Castaway, who® many ware so quick to decry aa a failure, should bare gut laa h a good on* when unfed with a Towton m»rt ; and a* X have before painted out, then mu#t be ■one axtraordioary virtue in the nick of Indium and Melbourne which produced Darebia. After hia gmt effort to the Cup, bowavav, Salvage went right off. and thoegb, his stable aappoitsd Mm to a good taco for the Borbary asndk»p, h* failed to gals *, aitoatios, and aubaequentlr, whan odd* *m laid on him, followed lady £mma asd lai- : aroa home m tha paean's Plata. w while jacket and black and gold belt 1 ’ did not, however, com* oat of the meeting without a win, for the flbampogne was simply an exerosM canter for Cadets, sad Iris Ur.d«d the odis kid on her to the Stewarts’ Weiur Handicap- Oadeia was bleeding slightly at the mouth when he pulled up, and this probably accounts lor fan absence from Ike oth«? events to which he was engaged, ar.or.gst them being the Tramway Plate, to which t&e meeting of Kosaenie’s brother and Sir Modrad at weight for age over a six forloegi’ would have been regarded with errs smUr interest than was the contest between dissta and Btliiagigato to the same race kit year. It would have been interesting also to save sees Oudeia meet Hyacinth to the City cuia fiaodlmipj to which, however, he had no dght to have been asked to give Hyacinth %kt we%hte allotted being tot 61b and 7k 5,b. Ooustderiog that Hr Stepheaior-’i «i; bd never appeared to public, J» »« izIdled to a bit mar# weight, v-.: he alm{dy played with Water Jsyn-.:.-. sod Barnaby, vrho were giving him 14k and :-.b reapecHrely. He seemea to me to shirk his work a hit when asked ett the third day to fool it with Minerva la the Hopeful cukss over a furlong more ground, and, though the filly was goring him 191 b, he inifawd aa easy defeat. He is by St Abac* (imp) :ci of Black Bees, by Peter Wflktoa (imp) oat of Many Maid, by Jersey (imp) cut of Diana, by Peter Pin (imp), and is therefore closely related to Tasman, who is by St Aibaoa out of Zdlah, by Peter WitMns out of a Jewry mare, while Stockwell, who tm second to the kit Melbourne Cup, is by St Albans out of Edella, by Peter Wilkins out of Besklaoce, by Bay Middleton (son of Jersey) out of Diana. Mr Stephenson got a pair of cheap rolls when be bought him and Captain Webiter, another two-year-old ton of it Albioe, who made hk flrk and only appearance to public, wheat he ran unplaced in the Tramway Plate. 0! the other two* year-old* that ran at the meeting. Water Hymph finished second to the Champagne Stakes and City Stabs, unplaced to the Hopeful Stales, and third to the Tramway Plate. Grip’s half-brother Baroahy evidently only went to toe post for toe Ohampajn# to the interests t§ hu stable wjmpasioa Oudeit, but he might msussbly hava ben expected to show better form oa toe following day, when he altogether failed to go the pa® wuh Hyacinth and Water Kymph to the City Stakes. Of the three-ycttr-olda, Welcome Jack was decidedly first favourite for tbe JDunedut Guo at the fall of the Sag, bet hi# appearance and rimnisg, then and mb«qusntly, proved that he could not have been well. Bcarly all Ms contemporaries that m* were, like himself, tired by Traduce?, ud Minerva, The Jilt, and Iris helped to knee old hapie’s memory green, toe last uaaad being, like Salvage, an example of the cm* of Traduce? and Melbourne. The oth« winning three-yeaMlds were Javelin’s Jack, who carried of toe Hovel Ba«; Cusirelaunus’ unnimed daughter out of Mas King, who appropriated the Publican*’ Haadioap j and Dealinns* ton Decs, who, by winning the Suburban Welter H»»au»p. scored the fint victory fortune ha* faroand Mr Stead with for a good length of useMatanska was a lot ou the big Mil* when be failed to laud the odd* Md on him ia the Maiden Plate, bat when to this was aided a decided disparities lo eat it when arlrdte gallop, it ia little wander tost ** the peacock, a* I have heard him christened by more than one backer who had good eanae to regret ha fiwtappearance ia public, was mikd «* faint-hearted gsstkman. Hi# conqueror, Ihe Jilt, however, is so mean opponent, and certoraly - as was jokingly »ufg«*ted to one of Adamant’* owners—Mr '■ R*:e” deicrred «- proerst from then, for to the pace *et by the sister to Heur-de-tys for the first mile of the Gup may be maislT uicrib-jd Adamant’# victory- Though sot a winner at ‘he meeting, Jfmir Bey*# three-yrar-ol 1 brother l*i*ro* may well merit vp*cial mention for hi# capital aeooad to Lady Bmma in toe Queen’s PUt*, white he wae al«o the ruanej- up to In* in the Steward*’Walter Handicap. Next to Salvage, Tasman showed the best form of the foury#*M>ld«, for though ha failed to g*m * situation when well backed for the DJ DHandteap, he landed the second Jeg of the Porfeury and JRyiuff Handicap aoubk, tor which he had beta coupled with Udy Smma to win * good stake for bis owner. The only other winner among the four-ytar - oi«* was Sapid Bay’s daughter Oiran*. upset a pot on Tbs Pod m the Consolation Handicap, Tb® of was a dimppointiog hone »u through toe meeting, and of the other five YSW-oids Sir Modrad, though he won the Tramway P ll r*» and ran second In the Forbury and Fijwg Baodioaps, was not quite himunf, »ud iaay Bmma, though she suffered a length del by Kmg Qurit in the D.J.O. Handicap, followed up her last yew*# victory m the t bury Handicap, and lowered the colour* of Thiaroa and Salvage in the G u « n * Adamant was the only iii-yror-old that ran, and tha aged duiiion were repre#ented-w addition to the eroes-eountry anima whom I shall deal presently—by Q and Baca, the former of whom, riteMtrcg gliog home third ia the Cup. l“ded the D.J.U Handicap, tnn* epu d never fairly extend the Mies King filly to the Pub* Ucttos’ Handicap. Chrenee's performance in the SteeplechMJ nndor 13#t, wa* waeibuqr •» for esonvemtion among turfi dayf and it will be betow too*# hrliad •he element# do Saturday lait ** *»• Fdrbury will forget .the between him and hiuitelf when Milo showed bro ths way hM» to the Hurdle US* S'” the to *rid the .ires Sj r I?Sri3SSS ThV*dlC y iw*, Micerva, and Sir 9SA& "Xnts Srwi^eWherto W; don had threericlwrivspkced to £ieg Quafli and Udr Xaudsi St Ai’o«» atoek scored • couple of sneer* re* f Pap»pft, Snowden, Maroro, BavtM»««,

Ksottiogley claimed a winner each, the "stjfflLSr£ ztm, u» o!«» hem* that ran at to# D.J.U Awtumn ffiMttoo! 1883 were aupoiiutm*.iwto*. fint day’s racing was reported m »«* column* last week, while the sawnd and third day will fou ”J in this issue. B only remain, the D.J.O. haw tfTeoUKiwawdmWeimpww menu at the Forbnry, notably the {*“**£ rnento! the (addling peddwk. lion of a people’* stand. With tb derived from the totalwator, they o»n ftffora toWMd.weightrfor.ftfe «**», for *•«'« JS wBO »r. i. lino. I*"' Maetioc thii ye** hue »«n 6 , ltr^ cr ,um «MM*d through the toulisaton than h»» «w been the e»*e in New Zealand, and , .hown aneome magnificent racing* It to r jv.»ed.teo, that at the art of bringing them tegriher Messrs Dow*#, Taggart, and 8oub#»», the Haadica&picg Osmirnttreof toeD. J.O.,t»*« a lei of beating, and that aa a starter Mr po«* ton has my few, If any,equal* in toisOowoy, It has aim been the mean* of affording me ftwypleftmat holiday, for though twenty, two races in three day* work for the sporting reporter, toy tart w« coed by the ooaiteey of all the official* of the Dunedin Jockey dub. whom I hope win to meet when next my duties u a chronicler of racing events direct my footslepe towards Fwbaiy Park.