SPORTING BREVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10717, 30 July 1895, Page 3

SPORTING BREVITIES.

" Centaur’s Index ” for 1895 is to hand. Dunluce has been taken up again after a long spell. Both Ascot and Derringer are stated to he looking really well. Mannlicher is a very late foal. He was not bora until Nov. 25. Mason has no lots than seventeen horses in training at Yaldhurst. La Sagesse, the winner of the Oaks, is not engaged in the St Leger, Silvormark will probably stand in the Cromwell district next season.

The death is announced of Mrs D. Munn, wife of the well-known trainer. The death is announced of the Auckland Steeplechase winner, King Don. Emmalea is the first mare that has won the Victorian Grand National Hurdle Race.

The famous American sprinter. Dr Hashrouck, by Sir Modred, has broken down.

A Victorian critic considers J. E. Brewer “ the hurdle race horseman of the century.” Racing is making great strides in Canada and a Canadian Jockey Club is about to be organised. Chesterman, who has proved a failure over hurdles, has returned from Melbourne to Sydney. Mr S. Hordern has sold Cannon, by Nordenfeldfc —Sister Agnes, for IOOOgs to go to Prance. An application from C. Moore to ride work has been refused by tho Victoria Racing Club. The will of the late P. Barrett, the well--known English horseman, has been proved at under £15,520; Culloden is not after all hopelessly broken down. The son of Nellie Moore is doing gentle work. Piscatorious, who never really recovered from an accident which he met with last year, was recently shot. Patron has resumed work at Fleinington. The eon of Grand Flaneur may stand another preparation. Webley, by Hotchkiss, finished fourth in the Pace Welter Handicap at Warwick Farm, New South Wales; bn July 6. Magazine maybe taken across to Sydney to run in some of the minor events at the Australian Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting.

It is stated that if J. Hayes is again refused a license by the Victoria Racing Club he will try his luck in South Africa. Mr G. G. Stead and Mr P. Campbell will probably visit Sydney at the time of the Australian Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting. The connections of Emmalea are stated to have won £IO,OOO by the mare’s victory in the Victorian Grand National Hurdle Race,

The Martoa Jockey Club wjll hold a two days’ spring meeting on Sept. 11 and 12, The sum of £350 will be given away in stakes.

On the day after the Derby Sir Visto was, it is stated, photographed with the well-known racing man Sir F. Johnstone on bis back.

The New Zealand ponies Brown Mantle and Lady Thornton, who are in Sydney, have gained an unenviable notoriety for bad temper. The starting machine which is to receive a trial at Sandown Park has been sent to England. It is one of Grsy’s manufacture.

In the Brooklyn (American) Derby, decided on May 30, Sir Galahad, by Sir Modred, finished third to Keenan and Counter Tenor.

Forms, after a rest at Wellington Park, has resumed work. The daughter of Formo is ■ stated to have improved considerably in looks. A private message from Melbourne, dated July 19, states that Mr N. Nathan, the well-known Wellington bookmaker, died there last night. I News comes from America to the effect . that Cheviot’s famous son Eey El Septa Anita, the winner of last year’s American i Derby, has broken down. The sum of £64,120 was passed through 'the “ mufcuels ” on the race for the Grand Prix de Pans. Nearly £16,000 was paid for admission to see the race. Two horses fell at the Moonee Valley race meeting on July 18, One rider named Toohig, was killed, and another, named iWalhan, is unlikely to recover. At the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting, on Sept. 12 and 13, the sum of £615 will be given away in stakes. The Timaru Cup is worth £IOO. The proposal to introduce a race for two-year-olds into the programme for the Dunedin Jockey Club's Hunt Club gathering was, we are glad to state, lost. The Napier correspondent of the Auckland Sporting Review remembers years ago being told by the then owner of Liberator’s dam that the mare was by Malton. The London Sporting Times states that Carbine is on a small scale as compared with most English horses. Good gracious! what size are the English animals P By his victory in the Winter Handicap at the Victoria Racing Club’s Grand National Meeting The Admiral has incurred a penalty for in Caulfield Cup.

When the. last mail left England, the hard ground was affecting Throstle so much that it appeared doubtful if tho Leger winner would start for the Ascot Cup. Ladas’ forelegs had bean giving so much trouble that it was, acocording to the latest reports, considered doubtful if the son of Hampton would race before the autumn.

The first of the American progeny of Idalium won a race at Chicago early in June. The youngster in question is named Miss Pollard, and she started at odds of 100 to 1.

Of the Yaldhurst representatives engaged in the New Zealand Cup, Bellicent may, if she is good enough, be dangerous, but Misfire is hardly likely to fulfil his engagement, . ■■■■-- The most forward of the rising two-year-olds at Yaldhurst are Uniform, by Hotchkiss—-Formo; Bombshell, by Chainshot—Nautilus ; and Grand Cross, by Medallion—Marion. Curassow, the colt by Cuirassier, from Albatross, has not yet been broken in. He takes after some of the other members of the Albatross family, and will require a good deal of time to mature. A number of colts by Ormonde will make their d6but as two-year-olds in the Argentine this season. There are the of Ormonde while he was in South America, and are out of well-bred mares. The celebrated American race, the Suburban Handicap, decided on June 15, was won by Lazzerone, who is a full brother in blood to Montank, the American two-year-old now in England. Florizel 11., who, on June 7, won the Manchester Cup for the Prince of Wales, covered the distance—one mile and threequarters—in 2mia 59£aec. This time, which is official, is a world’s record; Neither Musketry nor Bloodshot has altered much during tho winter. Mauser, on the other hand, has lightened a good deal since he won the Eussley Stakes, and this has not improved his appearance.

Awarua was galloped on in the Open Steeplechase at the United Hunt Club’s Meeting. This may account for tho fact that the son of Ahua has not continued his engagement in the Grand National Steeplechase. Axiom, the two-year-old daughter of Maxim, still continues to win in America. On May 23 she wan tho Clover Stakes, of 400 sovs, at the Brooklyn Meeting, and a week later she secured a private sweepstakes of 100 sovs each.

Mannlicher has grown and lengthened a little since April. The son of Maxim looks well, and with the exception that one of his forelegs has been slightly chafed by an ilifitting boot, he appears likely to stand a thorough preparation. My Lady, a filly by Trenton—Pardon, and therefore half-sister to; Lady Betty

ajad Pigeontoe, has been supported to win £lo£oo for the double, V.E.C. Derby and Melbourne Cup. My Lady is trained at Caulfield by J. Eedfearn. In the Queensland Assembly, last week, a protracted debate occurred on the Totalisator Bill. An amendment to make betting in all cases criminal, and bazaars and lotteries in the interests of charitable institutions illegal, was defeated. To celebrate the victory of his horse Styrax in the Grand Steeplechase de Paris on June 2, M. E. Lebaudy, the well-known Anglo-French racing man, distributed .£4OOO amongst the poor. The French Hospital in London benefited to the extent of £IOOO,

Mr D. Scott, of Eangitikei, has purchased from Mr Hayward the two-year-old colt by Tormenter, which the latter gentleman acquired in Sydney last autumn. The colt, who is stated to be a beauty, will return to Mr Hayward after the conclusion of his career on the turf.

Mr T. Uphill, the Indian trader, left Melbourne for India recently with La Gloria, Eink, Ito, Beekeeper, The Indian, and several other horses. J. Campbell, who won the last Viceroy Cup on Metallic, and Mr W. S. Cox, Eedleap’s old rider, accompanied Mr Uphill. It is stated that a bet of £2O to .£5 was recently laid that a son or daughter of Silvermark will not win the next Cromwell Derby. Considering that of the thirteen horses engaged in the race eight are by the son of Eupee, the layer seems to have made a rash wager. After the first of her succession of six victories Emmalea was, it is stated, nearly sold to an Indian buyer for £l5O. The Indian gentleman, however, took too long to make up his mind, and thus lost a mare which critics now describe as the best of her sex ever seen over hurdles in V iotoria.

Immediately after the conclusion of the Epsom Summer Meeting, Baron Hirsch purchased from T. Cannon the City and Suburban Handicap winner Eeminder and Curzon, who finished second in the .Derby. The price paid for Curzon has not transpired, hut Eeminder coat £5500 with a contingency about future winnings. Hew Zealand horses and owners of a certain type have established a pretty reputation in' Sydney, if the following paragraph, taken from a contemporary, can be relied upon:—"You can’t beatNew Zealand names when a swindle is on. A turf job wouldn’t go off properly without something ‘ cronk ’ from New Zealand being in it.” The death is announced from New South Wales of the imported brood mare Dame Agnes, who was foaled in England in 1882. She was by Hermit from Belle Agnes, by King Tom from Little Agnes, by The Cure from Miss Agnes, by Birdoatcher from Agnes. She was the dam of Little Agnes, who has run well in Sydney during the past season.