SPORTING BREVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11164, 12 January 1897, Page 6

SPORTING BREVITIES.

[“ Canterbury Times.”] Lady Zetland is supposed to be stinted to Phaethon.

The yearling full brother to Marquis of Zetland has been gelded. Auraria is doing good steady 1701']!, and may race in the autumn. Adventuress, dam of Telemeter, has missed to Phaethon this season.

Marvellous, the winner of the Ashurst Guineas, is a full sister to Plying Shot. It is probable that the Wanganui exhack Carrick will be sent to Australia shortly. The yearling filly by Phaethon from Miss Kate is reported to be a nice-looking youngster. Toa, the two-year-old by Dreadnought, from Murewai, is stated to have grown into a fine looking colt. It is reported that the Manawatu Racing Club made a profit of something like -CSOO over its Summer Meeting. It is stated that Newhaven has already been entered for a huge stake to be decided in England in 1898. A good-looking gelding by the defunct Sultan, from Helen (dam of Division), has joined Brewer's stable in Melbourne. The Dunedin Jockey Club has disqualified Alfred New, Edward Hamar and William Pollock for laying totalisator odds at its spring meeting. On Nov. 21, M. Cannon was at the head of the list of winning riders in England, with 159 victories to his credit. T. Loates, who had, on account of his accident, not

ridden for some days, was second, with 15(> wins.

Thais, the winner of the One Thousand Guineas for the I’rinco of Wales, has finished her racing career, and has joined the Sandringham stud. “Vigilant,” of the London Sportsman, thinks that next year’s three-year-olds, with the exception of Gal tee More, Velasquez and Vesuvian, will be weak. The champion Irish stallion Balliol, by Blair Athol, has joined Carnage, Trenton, and Musquetaire at the Cobham stud. An offer of =£Bo was made for Ormo, the winner of the two pony races at the Taranaki meeting last week, but .£IOO was required for the daughter of St Leger. Ebor carried list 31b in the Great Midland Steeplechase, which the cable informed us he won. The value of the race was 500 sovs and the distance two miles.

Alicante, by Hermit, who finished second in the Cesarewitch and won the Cambridgeshire of 1830, has a foal by Galopin, which is stated to be the finest of the year. Mr J. Ellis tells “Mazeppa”. that he will send Emmeline to Auckland in February and allow.'her to winter there, and then go to St Leger early in the spring. - ’ Order, by Bend Or—Angelica (dam of Orme), sire of Ornament, probably the best two-year-old in America., was to have been offered for sale in New York last mouth.

Owing to legislation adverse to racing in the United States, racing men and breeders in that country are selling off their horses at a great rate and at alarming sacrifices. M. Hobbs purchased Admiralty, the winner of the Novel Eace at the Tinwald Meeting, and the son of First Lord ran in his new owner’s colours at the.Ashburton, Meeting next day. When the last mail left England (3-alteo More and Velasquez were equal favourites for the Derby at 3 to 1, and Vesuvian figured in third demand at 6 to 1. Bar three 1000 to 70 was offered.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury has marked his elevation' to the high office by assisting the agitation .to suppress the Alexandra ParkTacecourseand the Queen’s buckhounds. Tn neither instance has ho been successful..* , ,/v .»•. „ •

An effort to train Vakeel,, ; the wellknown Adelaide horse, is., again, .being made, but under peculiar methods. He is in the hands of a doctor, 1 who' thinks he can train horses by medicinal treatment, instead of galloping. . , A two-year-old colt by the Australianbred Eirkham, who .has previously been mentioned in these columns as running in England this season, finished second in the Spa Nursery Handicap, decided at the Warwick November Meeting on Nov. 23. The Derby Cup, of 1660 sovs, one mile, decided on Nov. 20, was won by La Sagesse 7st 01b, beating Lord William Beresford’s pair, Ghislaiuo 7st 101 b and Diakka7st4lb, and a large field. La Sagesse, who is by Wisdom from St Mary, won the Oats of; 1895.

Writing to a friend in England, Mr W. E. Wilson, who mated six mares with Carnage before that horse was sent to England, says:—“My young Carnages are very fine foals and you need have no fear about his stock.” The subscription to Carnage for 1537 is full.

Eii King made his first appearance in England at the Aldershot Meeting on Nov. 17, when, with top weight (12st 91h) in the saddle, he was unplaced in the November Hurdle Race, of 62 sovs, two miles, won by Oregon 12st 4lb, with the American Banquet 11. 12st 71b second. During the Clermont (Queensland) y Meeting, on Dee. 30, four horses fell. Hanon, rider of one, sustained dreadful injuries, and -was killed almost . instantly. Three others, named Quinlan, Jennings and Swient -were also injured, the first-named being in a critical condition. At a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club, on Dec. 30, a complaint was received from H. Goodman against W. Pine for interfering with The Winehman in the Farewell Handicap, decided at the club’s spring meeting. After hearing evidence Pine was severely cautioned.