SPORTING BREVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10596, 4 March 1895, Page 2

SPORTING BREVITIES.

(Canterbury Times.) Earmby is a much improved horse. Outpost is rapidly coming back to form. Musketry will win a good race some fifty- , ’ Waterbury is in work again at Eandwick. Lupus should make a capital steeplechaser. Bsrmby has a chance in the Third Challenge Stakes. The Sporting Review ia now an illustrated paper. Mr J. Stephenson was taken seriously ill on Saturday night. Silver Spec disappointed her connections at Dunedin last week. Royal Salute, by Artillery, has been turned out at Elderslie. The handicapping at Dunedin did not please northern owners. Skirmisher was by no means himself last week. Ho requires a rest. Musketry was not quite ready last week. Ha will do better later on. Carbine will not reach England in time for stud service this season. Bloodshot did not run up to bis best form in Dunedin last week, Turrettleld (S.A.) yearling sale takes place in Melbourne on March 6. Golden Vale ia the only two-year-old by Stonyhurst running this season. Prime Warden was not looking so well last week as he did in the spring. In Dunedin last week -Silver Spec was supported for the New Zealand Cup. ‘‘Torliuga” says that no race meeting is complete without a starting machine. A had lot of horses are running at Melbourne suburban race meetings just now.

Many of the January race meetings at Homo were postponed, owing to the severe frost.

Light Artillery is for private sale ; particulars received from Messrs W, C. Yuille and Co.

Sir George Clifford’s horses did not remain ia Dunedin for the third day of the meeting. Mikado 11., half brother to Lady Zetland, is in training again in South Australia.

Trade, a four-year-old’ brother to Tradition, has commenced to win in South Australia.

With the exception, perhaps, of Gipsy Grand, our two-year-olda this season are moderate.

The starter at Tasa (Victoria), Mr Commins, had his shoulder broken by a kick at the post. Petsonel’a list was full when the mail left Home, and bookings for 1896 were being made. Wild Peer is a nice colt, but be will probably not have a very lengthy career on the turf.

Lady Zetland lay too far out of her ground in the earlier portion of the Dunedin Cup. About sixty starting machines have bean patented in the Australasian colonies during the last few months.

Gipsy Grand’s defeat in the 'Marshall Memorial Stakes on Saturday was a great surprise to moat noople. After Gipsy Grand won the Dunedin Champagne Stakes an offer of IOOOga for the sou of Grandmaster was refused. lolanthus, by Abarcorn—lolanthe, in the Australian Cup at Gst lllh, is spokea of as a really good-looking three-year-old.

In the Dunedin Cup Casket ran very straight, bub ia the For bury Handicap on Saturday he hung out almost as badly aa ever.

Tradition was sold for SOSOgs at the same sale at which Carbine realised SOOOgs. The former has never won a race since.

The Kumnra Racing Club proposes to hold a race meeting at Easter, with £253 in stakes. The Metropolitan Club disposes. The suggestion is l made that Carbine should be exhibited for the benefit of tho Melbourne charities before leaving Victoria,

Tho protest against Empire in the Tallyho Hurdle Race at Dunedin was only dismissed on the casting vote of the chairman.

"Terliaga” says that the Tasmanian colt Orpheus, by Mozart, from Betrayed, by Betrayer, was the best two-year-old

seen at the recent Tasmanian Racing Club’s meeting. Cloister did not frighten nominators for the ensuing Liverpool Grand National; tho entries number 67, as against last year’s 62. It was said that some speculators at Lloyd’s laid 500 to 30 against the postponement of the Lingfiejd meeting in January. They lost. It is possible, says “ T.T.” to win .£IOOO to £ISOO in shilling doubles in Melbourne at present. The prices run from £ls to Is to £SO to Is.

Bloodshot displayed a great deal of temper when at the post for the Hopeful Stakes at Dunedin last week. He got into the ditch once.

Ginger (late Aglaos) ran a dead beat for the Plying Handicap and won the Disposal Stakes at Mentone (Victoria) races on Feb. 12,

Lord Dunravea, Lord Dudley and Sir J. Blundell Maple, are candidates for the London County Council. -The election takes place in March, Mr A. S. Chirnside’a Newminster Park yearlings, by Newminster, Vengeance and Malua, will be sold by Mr Yuille onMarch 6, Catalogue received. The filly by Artillery—Fairymaid purchased at the sale of the Elderslie yearlings lest week by E. Cutts was, it is stated, bought for Mr G. G. Stead.

There was only one winner from tho ring amongst the visitors to the recant Tasmanian Racing Club's meeting, and £250 would cover his profit. Four persona were caught laying totalisator odds at the Forbury, and were promptly turned off the course. They are to be dealt with by the committee. The English Derby colt, Kirkconell, now belongs to a man who can spell; Sir Blundell Maple has registered the colt’s “ change of name ” to Kirkconnel. Lady Emeline,- who won the Maiden Two-year-old Handicap a.t Dunedin Inst week, is only a pony, and Maximilian, who finished second, is not much bigger. Mr W. Lamonby, for some time of the Australasian, has gone Home to join the staff of The Field, on which his father, Mr W. F. Lamonby, holds a responsible position. Iu Australia this season, up to Feb. 9, Grand Flaucur had to his credit eight winners, of thirteen races, value £5283 ; Trenton eleven winners, of nighteen and a half races, value £3950. Messrs W. C. Yuille and Co. send catalogue of yearlings, two-year-olds, &0., for sale at Newmarket, Melbourne, on Match 4. Several South Australian breeders’ lots, including Sir Thomas Elder’s, are to be offered.

At tho sales cf yearlings at Dunedin last week a nice colt by St Clair, from Lady Emms, was purchased for the Hon G. M’Lean, who* has decided to race the youngster, and one by St Clair, from Mistral, himself.

Australian racing men who saw Seaton Delaval on board the Thermopylre are loud in praise of the horse. He ia on the small side, not standing over 15.2 or 15.3, but very stylish. He is a bay with white spots on his ribs. The Indian Planters’ Gazette is responsible for the statement that a hoard of veterinary surgeons will hold a consultation on Highborn’s leg, and that his trainer believes that it may be poesible to put it as right as ever it was. Colonel North’s brood mare Thuringian Queen foaled, on Jan. 9, a fine bay filly to Simonian. This is the first gat of that stallion, and it is worthy of note that the youngster was walking round the box when it was thirty-two minutes old. , The Spirit of the Times records the arrival cf the well-known Australian jockey, C. Moore, at San Francisco, and predicts that ha will probably get good mounts there. The racing mare Utter and a couple of brood mares also arrived in good condition.

The Priest, a two-year-old full brother to the Victorian Aquarius, by Niagara from Rosary, by Monmouth from Vesper, by Panic, injured his back so severely while running in tho Trial Stakes at Mentone op Feb* 12, that he had to be destroyed. Tho Victoria Amateur. Turf,. Club authorities' aka contemplating the advisableueas of increasing the stake for tbe Caulfield Cup, which hitherto has been worth £2OOO, and the matter will probably be considered at the next meeting of the committee.

A correspondent, writing to " Phaeton,” points out that in Seaton Delaval’s pedigree there are no less than seven crosses of Touchstone* too many, he thinks, for crossing with Musket or Nordenfelt mares, but he ought to do very well with St Leger mares. Minor Owen, the well-known crosscountry rider, has received from her Majesty the appointment to the Distinguished Ssrvice Order, in recognition of his services in tho expedition against tho Jabus ia 1892, and daring the recent operations ia Central Africa.

M. Max Lebaudy, tbe young millionaire and well-known racehorse owner, who has only very recently entered upon his three years’ term of military service, has, a Paris telegram says, been placed under arrest for four days for having overstayed his leave in the capital. At Perth (West Australia) races last month an outsider called Plutus, in a five furlong Selling Race, got a flying start of about three lengths, and won by a quarter of a length, paying dividends of £96 15s and £94 Is for investments' of 10b. This is the largest dividend yet paid in West Australia.

The well-bred Rosary (dam of Aquarius and Calculus) has returned to "Warwick Farm after visiting Carbine. When Highborn ran cecondto Carbine in the Melbourne Cup, the latter’s victory cub Mr Forrester out of a stake of £28,000, and Mr D. S. Wallace, remembering this, allowed Mr Forrester the privilege of sending any mare he bad to Carbine free. The msra sent was Rosary.