MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11053, 3 September 1896, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

ADDINGTON. With such miserable weather, the attendance at Addington yesterday was confined to those who were obliged to be there. The entries of stock were not very large, comprising 6803 sheep, 351 cattle and 224 pigs.

Pat Cattle. —About 160 head of fat cattle were yarded, the quality on the whole being good. Bidding was pretty brisk, and the prices realised were.Steers £5 5s to £8 15s, heifers £4 to £8 ss, cows £4 2s 6d to £7 17s 6d. A line of steers sent in by Mr J. Crawford, Kaiapoi, brought from £6 to £8 7s 6d, and some sent in by Mr G. Gould from £7ssto£Blss. Beef was much about the same per 1001 b as it was the previous week, from 19s to 21s for best and from l7sto 18s for secondary. Dairy Cattle. —A small entry of dairy cattle, and rather dull business. Prices ranged from £2 10s to £6 15s. Store Cattle.—As usual the bulk of the business done in store cattle was done privately. Calves brought 365; yearlings 40s, and eighteen-month-old cattle 645. Fat Lambs. —The entry of fat lambs consisted of some thirty-five, which sold at from 10s to 17s.

Pat Sheep. —The entry of fat sheep comprised a good proportion of merinoes. Prime freezers sold well up to last rates. Second quality and half-fat’ sheep suffered considerably, graziers declining to operate, as the smallness of the entry would not allow them to purchase enough to make a “drive.” Butchers’ sheep of all qualities more than held their own, realising the values of a few weeks back. The range of prices was—For best freezers from 17s 6d to 20s 6d, and up to 21s 3d for extra, lighter sorts 15s 6d to 16s 9d, butchers’ ewes 13s 6d to 17s 6d, merino wethers Ss 6d to 12s 2d, and <up to 13s 7d. Among the sales were the following:— Messrs Wilson Bros., Teddington, crossbred wethers at 13s 3d to 15s 4d; Mr James Findlay, Temuka, cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes 14s to 18s 3d ; Mr F. J. Million, Lauriston, merino wethers at 11s 9d to 13s 7d ; Messrs Copland and Stringfellow, Chertsey, half-bred wethers at 16s Id to 18s sd; Messrs J. and A. D. M’llraitb, Barr Hill,'quarter-back wethers at 15s Id to. 18s 3d ; Mr J. Copland, Chertsey, cross-bred ewes at 15s 5d to 16s 7d ; Mr J. S.; Boag,

Dunsandel, cross-bred wethers at 18s 9d to 21s 3d; Mr J. Holmes, Viewmount, halfbred ewes at 13s lid to 14<s lid; Mr A. St G, Ryder, Hamilton South, Otago, halfbred wethers and maiden owes at 13s to 17s id; Mr J. Fleming, Amberley, crossbred wethers at 15s 4d, merino wethers at 7s 4d to 12s 2d; Mr M. Friedlander, Ashburton, cross-bred ewes at 14s to 16s 4d; Mr J. R. Gorton, View Hill, cross - bred wethers at 15s 9d to 18s, merino wethers at 10s lid to 12s Id; Mr J. Geddes, Oamaru, cross-bred wethers at 15s 6d to 19s 9d, half-bred wethers at 16s od to 18s 7d ; a Dunedin client, cross-bred wethers at 16s to 19s lid, maiden ewes at 17s; Mr J. S. Smyth, Killinchy, cross-bred wethers at 14s to 17s 6d; Messrs A. and J. W. Irvine, Dunsandel, cross-bred wethers at 17s Id to 19s 6d; Mr G. M’Millan, Mesopotamia, cross-bred wethers at 16s (id to ISs, merino wethers at 11s to;'.l2s;-.a southern .client mixed three-quarter-breds at. ; l7s: ld; Mr ;G T. Newton, Stoke Grange, cross-bred wethers at 17s to 17s. 9cl, half-bred •do at 15s to 17s ; Mr D. Pihl, Ohoka, cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes at los; Mr D. Blayne, Broomfield, cross - bred ewes at 14s 9d to 16s 4d; a North Canterbury client, merino wethers at 9s 7d to 9s 9d ; Mr W. P. Buckley, Dunsandel, cross-bred wethers at 17s to 19s fid ; wethers and maiden ewes Ifis od to 17s 9d ; Mr T. White, Gust, cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes at 13s fid to 16s fid ; a southern client, cross-bred wethers at Ifis lid to 19s fid ; a client, cross-bred ewes at 15s fid to 17s lid; Mr F. Jackson, Irwell, cross-bred wethers and ewes at 16s, ewes at 13s fid ; Mr J. R. Campbell, Southbridge, cross-bred wethers at 15s to 17s fid ; Mr Brown, Coalgate, cross-bred wethers at 13s ; Mr T. Miles, Cust, crossbred wethers at 14s to 14s fid ; a Cheviot client, cross-bred wethers at 14s lOd to 20s ; Mr 6. Watson, Yaldhurst, cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes at 17s 4d; merino wethers at 10s to 1 Os 2d.

Store Sheep.— Store sheep were also poorly represented as regards numbers. Hoggets, ewes and lambs, and forward turnipers met with a good demand. Hoggets brought from Ils 4cl to 11s 7d, ewes and lambs 15s, turnip sheep (mixed sexes) up to 14s Bd. -

Pigs. —A medium entry of pigs came under the hammer. Baconers brought from 25s (3d to 45s 6d, porkers 15s 6d to 24s Cd, stores 9s to 14s.

AUSTRALIAN AND FOREIGN SPORTING.

The report and balance-sheet of the Australian Jockey Club are very satisfactory. The financial statement shows a substantial credit balance for the year’s transactions. The report foreshadowed a restriction in the racing of two-year-olds similar to that adopted by the Victoria Racing Club, and it also intimated that the committee proposed to summon a special general meeting at an early date to consider the desirableness of initiating an effort to obtain legislative sarfetion for the introduction of the totalisator in Few South Wales.

The American turf possesses a phenomenon in the form of a rider named Bobby Hathersall, aged fifteen, and who weighs 3st 131 b. On two occasions, viz., May 23 on Rubberneck (3yrs) and June 6 on Redskin (aged) he won the Owners’ Handicaps, riding at 4st 21b, so called because the owner names the weight at which he has a boy to ride. This boy, since May 2 up to June 13, has had 65 mounts, winning 27, second 11 times, third 8 times, and unplaced on 19 occasions. The average weight at which he has been riding is about 7st. Recently he won a two-year-old race, riding at Bst 41b, exactly twice his weight, and it was as much as the little fellow could do to carry the saddle and dead weight to weigh in.

The victories of Newhaven and Resolute at the Victoria Amateur Turf Club’s Grand National Meeting must have been very gratifying to Mr John Crozier (says [the Adelaide Register), as their respective dams were purchased by him for breeding purposes at St Albans when he was proprietor of the famous Geelong estate. He sent to Sydney for Oceana, the dam of Newhaven, and secured her for lOOgs, subsequently mating her with Newminster, while he purchased Umilta, from which Resolute is descended, at Mr Chirnside’s sale for 73gs. It was due to Mr Crozier, too, that Melodious over came to St Albans, as he gave the late Mr E. Weekes .£6O and Childe Harold in exchange for her. Setting the value of Childe Harold down at 50gs it will thus be seen that he secured for under SOOgs three mares who have produced such performers as Wallace, Newhaven and Resolute.

The National Derby for 1896 is the only real Derby run in America this season. It was decided for the first time in St Louis last month. It was a contest between the East and West, and when the quarrelling factions in Chicago killed racing, it was feared that this event would be lost to the turf world. But the St Louis Fair Association came to the front, and offered to perpetuate the race, and put up a .£IOOO purse. The contest was a sweepstake for three-year-olds, foals of 1893, £2O each, half forfeit. The winner to receive £3OOO, the second horse £SOO, the third £3OO and the fourth £2OO. There were 228 nominations, and while the field narrowed down in the number of starters, it was composed of the best horses in the country. The race was won by Prince Zief by a head from Ben Brush; Ben Eder, five lengths away, third. Time for mile and a half, 2min 34sec. Prince Zief isiby King Eric (King Ernest—Cyclone) from Elemi, by Asteroid, and is owned by Mr Byron McClelland, who, in 1894,- had the celebrated Henry of Navarre, and in 1895, Halma and The Commoner.

On the subject of the largest field that has ever competed in a race in England, a contemporary says : —One of the largest was for the Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood, in 1861, when forty-five horses started, and the race was won by Mr Murphy’s Croagh Patrick, H. Taylor being the rider. For the Chester Cup, in 1852, won by Mr Farrance’s Joe Miller, there were forty-three starters. Forty-three horses also ran for the Cambridgeshire in 1862, when Bathilde won ; while there were forty-two starters for the Cambridgeshire in 1870, won by Adonis, and in 1874, when Peut-etre won. For the Cambridgeshire, in 1863, won by Catch-’em-Alive, forty horses started. The largest number of runners for the Derby has hitherto been thirty-four, in 1862; there were thirty-three in 1851; and the smallest, four, in 1794. For the Oaks the greatest number of runners has been twenty-six, and the smallest four, in 1799. For the Two Thousand, the greatest number has been nineteen, and the smallest two, in 1829 and 1830. - The largest number for the One Thousand has been nineteen, in 1877, the smallest in 1825, when the Duke of Grafton’s Tontine walked over. For the St Leger there were thirty in 1825, and the smallest, four, in 1783 and 1785.