SPORTING BREVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11152, 29 December 1896, Page 6

SPORTING BREVITIES.

Gipsy Grand has recommenced work. Irish Twist is to be tried over hurdles,

A. Quinn went Homo in charge of Merman.

Maramma has been taken up again, and M’ Guinness has now ten horses in work.

The South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting will he held on April 29 and 30. The 'Masterton Racing Club made a profit of about -£IOO over its summer meeting. The jumpers Prince Charlie and Eangipunehu will shortly recommence work at Hastings. Mr E. H. Waddington has resigned his position as secretary to the Masterton Racing Club. The jumping horses Marechal Neil and Ballyhooley have returned to Auckland from Sydney. The Christchurch Racing Club made a profit of rather more than T3O over its annua! race meeting.

The Duke of Westminster has sold his three-year-old filly Helm, hy Morion, to the German Government.

Mr W; Lyons, a well-known Auckland

bookmaker, ■who has been in Sydney for some years, is returning to New Zealand*. The well-known horse Young Cheviot died at Ashburton on Friday. Tho cause of death, was inflammation of the bowels. The hurdle racehorse Touch-it, while being schooled at Hawera on Friday, fell, and,'breaking his log, had to be destroyed. Sir George Clifford has sold his share in. Seashell, and the daughter of Chainshot now belongs exclusively to Mr J. B. Eeid.

Sabretache finished second, beaten by a head, in tho Summer Handicap, decided at the Eosehill (NIS.W.) Meeting on Saturday week.

Dante will bo put into work again shortly. If the son of Sou’-wester stands a strong preparation, ho will probably be sent to Australia.

Tho Quack, by Anteros, won the Park Stakes of GO sovs, six furlongs, decided at the Canterbury Park (Now South Wales) meeting on Dee. 5. Ocean, the two-year-old half-brother by Eiridspord to Newhaven, is in training at Bidls. He is not expected to be ready to race until the autumn.

The case against a bookmaker' for trespassing on the Feilding Jockey Club's course was given against the defendant. Notice of appeal has been given.

Tho death is announced of tho stallion Tattler, sire of Eumour and other good horses.

Mr Boylo last week received a cablegram to~tho effect that Chainshot has not been sold to the Russian Government. The sou of Musket will probably stand at Newmarket next season.

Bombshell made his first appearance in England in the Thundorfield Plate, of 100 sovs, ono mile, decided at the Gatwick meeting on Nov. 6, but, with Sst 131 b in the saddle, finished last. Paris, carrying 9st Gib, started favourite ■at 3 to 1 for the Castle Ashby Handicap, of 271 sovs, one railo and a half, decided, at tho Northampton and Pytchlcy Hunt Meeting' on Nov. 4, but finished sipctli. Fiely, tho lad who rode Chitchat into second position in the Cambridgeshire, hails from Ireland. Ho can go to scale under Cat, and yet he ’ often rides ’ his father’s steeplechasers in schooling work.

Alpine, 7st 81b, by St George—Escalade, ■won the Ballarat Cup of 110 sovs, one mile and a quarter, decided on Dec. 4. Ho defeated Wolf, 7st 71b, Straightfire Bst Sib, .and five other horses in a canter by three lengths. Kirkconnel, who won the Two Thousand Guineas of 1895, and Le Justicier, the French horse, who appropriated the Eclipse Stakes the same year, have both been purchased by the German Government for stud purposes. The Dowling Forest Handicap, of 75 sovs, one mile, the principal event on the second day of the Ballarat Turf Club’s, meeting on Dec. 5, was won by the New Zealand-bred Vagrant 7st 2lb, by Gipsy King—Barbara. A protest was entered against Rustic, who finished first in tha Maiden Plate and the Hack Race, decidecl-at the Christchurch Racing Club’s Meeting, on the grounds that his trainer was not licensed. The objection was, however, subsequently with-

drawn. The World estimates Mr Sullivan’s winnings over Yvinkfield’s Pride’s victory in tho Cambridg-eshiro at £40,000. Prince Francis of Teck is stated, to have lost a fourth of that amount by backing Bolleviii at the Curragh when Winkiield’s Pride beat him.

According to “Mazeppa,” Lasy Emmeline is to be sent to St Leger; it is tolerably certain that Bay Belle is in foal to Occident; and Lady Prioress, by St Clair—Lady Emma, tho first of tho progeny of St Clair and Lady Emma, has at this Hte stage in her career been put into training.

Coolgardio, by St Serf from Trentonia, a Trenton mare sent to England from St Albans a few years ago, is the name of a two-year-old which ran unplaced in a maiden race at Newmarket on October 28. He is owned by Mr W. Cooper, who has an interest in Newhavou, and is engaged in next year’s Derby. Corrigan, the full brother do Horton, who is stated to have grown into a fine-looking horse, made his debut in the Novices’ Steeplechase, of 43 sovs, two miles, decided at the Gatwick Meeting, on Nov. 2. With list 81b in the saddle, he was not mentioned in the betting, and he failed to complete the course. Summonses were recently issued, at .the instance of the New South Wales Government, against thirty-five bookmakers for betting in the Randwick saddling paddock, with the view of settling the question whether cash betting on a racecourse is illegal conduct within the meaning of the Betting Suppression Act. In two cases fines of <£s were inflicted. Notice of appeal was given. In connection with the Do whurst Plate a most curious coincidence is to he noted (says the London Sportsman), The number of subscribers to the race was the same as in 1895, the number of runners the same, and the stakes (no alteration having been made in the conditions) naturally amounted to the same value, vis., 1317 sovs. Last year St,Frusquin won by three lengths, and Vesuvian won by the same distance.