SPORTING RBEVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11226, 25 March 1897, Page 2

SPORTING RBEVITIES.

St Clements is for sale. 1 Challenger is in work again at Riccarton. Dante will not go to Australia just yet. _ Victim has changed owners in Dunedin. Voltigeur is now the property of F. Tilly. Heather Bell has been turned out again. H. Jackson is now head lad with J. A. M’Ginness. Booties will not race in Sydney for some little time. “ Mazeppa ”• states that Goldspur’s dam is Eosespur, not Eoscleaf. A full sister to the steeplechaser Pastime has joined Stewart’s stable. Quiltiri has been blistered, and turned out for a spell of some mouths. Marion will visit Stepniak next season, not Gipsy Grand, as has been stated. Euroclydon will not run at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting. Gipsy Grand took up his quarters at the Elderslie stud during the week before last. Word comes from Auckland that Quicldire may win a race during the autumn. Gold spur will not fulfil his engagements at the Napner Park Eacing Club’s Autumn Meeting. Hews comes from Wanganui that the hack hurdle mare Madeline was destroyed recently. A yeai'ling colt, by Carbine, from Wilga, was sold at the Melbourne autumn sales for 400 gs. Marquis of Zetland, who pulled up lame at Dunedin, is now sound, and is doing good work. It is reported that Sir H. Craig is anxious to sell his share in Euroclydon and his other horses. Volume 111. of the Australian Racing Chronicle is to hand from the publisher, Mr J.J. Miller. The building of the stand oh the Dunedin Jockey Club’s new racecourse will be commenced shortly. The death of Empress, who Avon the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase of 1880, is announced. At the autumn sales in Melbourne yearling colt by Eiridspord, from Hova’s dam, went for 65gs. It is rumoured that the Auckland jumpers, Gipsy Prince and St Simon will be sent to Australia shortly. The Auckland-bred Valencia, by Derringer—Virginia, Avon the Pony Hurdle Race at Kensington (Sydney) on Feb. 25. The Auckland Racing Club has instructed the Takapuna Jockey Chib to make certain alterations to the turns on its course.

The yearling colt by Stepniak—Sincerity, belonging to Mr J. B. Eeid, has joined Lunn’s team. The youngster’s dam was killed recently. The next autumn meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club will probably extend over three days, and the value of the Wanganui Cup will be 1000 sovs. Carnage’s first foal in England was foaled on Jan. 26, when Bluette, by'Blue Ruin from Annette, produced a chestnut filly to the son of Nordenfoldt. T, Hales had one bet of 1000 to 40 about Carltou for the Newmarket Handicap, and with the sweep money laid him won rather less than £4OOO over the race. Mr J. F. Reid has a couple of yearling fillies by Stepniak unsold. One is out of Ranee Nuna, and the other is from Siren. Both are well-grown youngsters. Black and Red, Blazer and Belle Clair are expected at Eiccarton shortly to conclude their respective preparations for the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting. The “ Special Commissioner” of the Melbourne Sportsman learns from private information that Mr S. H. Gollan and Hickey are about to pay a flying visit to New Zealand. Conscript carried lOst 31b when he won the Steeplechase of 65 sovs, two miles and a half, at Eosehill (New South Wales) on Feb. 27. St Leonard carried 9st 121 b, and Ulysses list 51b. At the Melbourne autumn sales a halfsister by Robinson Crusoe to Trentalto fetched 145 gs, and was purchased by J. Payten. A two-year-old full-brother to the filly brought 50gs. Magazine was taken ill with colic a couple of days after Mr P. Campbell left for England. After giving his attendant a great fright the son of St George recovered, and is now quite well again. Hero, who won the District Maiden Hurdle Race at Little River, is by Bundoora, out of a pure-bred Arab mare. A five-year-old half-sister by Artillery to the winner is at present at Cheviot, but has not yet run in public. At the Gatwick meeting, held soon after the last mail left England, both Erl King and Pounamu were engaged. The former had list in a Maiden Hurdle Race of 250 sovs, two miles, and the latter 12st in the Ockley Hurdle Race of 100 sovs, two miles. C. Wood, the famous English rider, who has this season been relicensed after a period of disqualification extending over many years, received no less than six hundred letters and telegrams congratulating him on the fact. Wood can even now ride at 7st lllb. Paris is fifth on the list in the handicap for the Chester Cup with Bst 131 b. The Rush and Labrador are top weights with 9st 21b each. In the Great Northamptonshire Stakes, which he won so easily last year, Paris has received 9st 4lb, or 11b less than Dinna Forget, who is top weight. Bombshell has been handicapped at Tst 71b in the Great Metropolitan Handicap and at 6st 121 b in the City and Suburban Handicap. In the former race Labrador is top weight with 9st 101 b, and in the latter Clorane with 9st 10lb. Maluma has 7st 51b in the City and Suburban Handicap. Seven American-bred horses, the property of Mr A. Belmont, have arrived in England to race there. They are • Keenan (a five-year-old horse). Bridegroom and Kidnapper (two-year-old colts), Actinism, Souveraine and luvergold (two-year-old fillies), and an unnamed filly by Badge out of Semiramis. The following are the drawers of placed horses in TattersalTs consultation on the Newmarket Handicap:—First prize. Miss M. Belshaw, P. 0., Kogarah, New South Wales, ,£4500; second prize, A. J. Hanigan and Co., Town Hall, Redfern, £l3sothird prize, L. Grenside, Mail Office, Waipawa, New Zealand, ,£9OO. All net amounts. The Earl of Eosslyn has sold his family plate, included in which were several trophies which were won by the best horse his lordship ever owned, viz., Buccaneer. The Edinburgh Gold Cup, 1891, was sold for £150; the Caledonian Hunt Cup, 1891, brought £130; while the Ascot Gold Cup (of the nominal value of 1000 guineas), which Buccaneer won in 1892, fetched £453.