SPORTING BREVITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11235, 5 April 1897, Page 3

SPORTING BREVITIES.

It is rumoured that Airnim may be sent to England, The great English mare Laodamia has been sent to the stud. Antares was lame after a gallop at Ellerslie on Saturday. It is stated authoritatively that MartiniHenry is going to America. Mr Gollan rode Norton in some of his work on the flat in February. The Auckland hurdle race horse Gipsy Prince is reported to be amiss. D. O’Brien has sold Patriot privately to a patron of W, Filgate’s stable. A colt by Carbine, from O’Trigger’s dam, has joined Hickenbotham’s team. Chainsbot is located at the same stud as Florizel 11., Worcester and Bushey Park. Farewell, the dam of the English horse Regret, has visited Best Man this season. The Otago country clubs have not nominated any delegates to the Racing Conference. Wellington trainers are complaining of the condition of the training tracks ati the Hutt. ' The arrival in Melbourne of the New Zealand-bred Garrick, by Tim Whiffler, is announced. Mr Boyle has received word that Bombshell is giving his trainer the greatest possible satisfaction. On Feb. 4 a son and heir was born to Lord William Beresford, the well-known Anglo-Indian racing man. •Utica, a very well-performed daughter of St Simon and Biserta, has gone to the stud this season and has visited Newton. Wakawatea and Lady Margaret Botrcaux, the latter a filly by Chainsbot from La Rose, have returned from Australia. Illuminata, the dam of Ladas, has visited Royal Hampton this season. Royal Hampton, like Ladas, is by Hampton.

The Hon J. D. Ormond’s horses Daunt, Dauntless, Trentalto, Mars and Defiance have all been thrown out-of training. Mr S. H. Gollan has leased Mousquetaire to Mr L. W. Humby, and the brother to

Zfilinski has joined the Iwerno Minster stud.

Certain persons have been tampering with riders in Auckland, and the matter is now before the Auckland Racing Club. Coolalta, the elder brother to Coil, who has been enjoying a rest for more than a year, is about to resume work at Randwick.

Private watches made the time in the Waverloy Stakes, decided on the second day of the Napier Park meeting, Imin / 14sec. The celebrated English brood mare Atillanta, dam of the Derby winner Ayrshire, Melanion, Kilmarnock and Troon, is dead. The London Sportsman states that Mr W. E. Wilson intends to organise a regular campaign of the best Australian horseo K in England. i. Mr G. Hunter has purchased vv ikitona from Mr F. Moeller for 30gs. The daughter of Hotchkiss is believed to be in foal to Spinfeldt. S. Haynes, trainer to Mr E l . TV. Delamaui in the good old days, is at present at Riccarton. He has been in Australia for many years. The Sydney papers are agitating to get the Australian Jockey Club to prohibit Rolling races at all meetings held under its jurisdiction. It is reported that Mr B. Cave, the North Island racing man, who is returning from a visit to England, is bringing a stallion back witli him. Mr 11. C. White’s horses Georgia and Form have been shipped from to England, and will be put into training immediately on arrival there. It has not yet been _ finally decided whether or not St Paul will come south to fulfil his engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting. Raconteur, the disappointing son of bt Simon and Plaisantene, who has done nothing since he won the Dewhurst Plate of 1894, has gone to the stud in Prance. At the Moonee Valley (Victoria) race meeting on March 11, The Hero, 9st 13jb, by Gipsy King, won the Hurdle Race, of 40 sovs, one mile four and a half furlongs. The New Zealand steeplechasers Belle and St Leonards, and the pony Fidget, were to have been offered for sale in Sydney on March 22. Their owner is returning to New Zealand. Bessie, M’.Carthv, Freda, Blfiock, Princess Royal, 'Kotuku, Pursestring, Queensborough, Wairuareka, Whisper, and Ihe Maid were among the mares which visited Robinson Crusoe last season. _ Yclasnuozwi.il bo ridden in the Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St Lcgor by J. Watts, who, by the way, has not retired, and will again act as first horseman to the Prince of Wales this season. In a recent seven-furlong race in California, no less than .seven false starts were made with a field of four starters, and at the eighth attempt two of the four horses engaged were left at the post. C. Wood, the famous English horseman, who has been re-licensed this season, was riding work at Newmarket when the last mail loft. He is not likely to accept a retainer from any owner this season. Old Mikado'll., by Apremont—Forget-mc-Not, carried 10st 121 b into second position behind Tremolo 9st slb in-the Steeplechase decided at the Victoria Amateur Turf Club’s March meeting on March 13, Erl King, list, started favourite for the Maiden Hurdle Race, of _ 192 soys, two miles, decided at the Gatwick meeting on Feb. 4; but after being second at th.e last fence, only finished fourth behind Pardalo list 31b. D. Boase, onco well-known as _ second horseman to the late Mr James White, was recently suspended by the South Australian Jockey Club until July 31, for failing to keep an engagement to ride V akeol in a recent race in Adelaide. At the Victoria Amateur Turf Club s March meeting on March 13 Majestic Sst, by Trenton—Bonnie Rosette, won the Federal Stakes of 200 sovs, six furlongs. 'Vindictive Sst 10lb was second and Strathjoy 7st 91b, by Strathmore, third. Gn Feb. 3 an English writer remarked that it was absurd to see Daimio quoted at 20 to 1 for the Grand National Steeplechase, adding that it was long odds against bis being sent to the post in condition good enough to do himself credit.

The death is announced of Mr W. W. Fulton, the owner of the celebrated mares Comedy and Laodamia. Comedy won the Cambridgeshire of 1891, and Laodamia, besides winning the Doncaster Cup_ last season, was third in both the Cambridgeshire and Cesarewitch.

Shortly before the mail left England an offer was made to take 5000 to 4000 that neither Velasquez nor Galtee More won the Derby. This move no doubt arose from the fact that a lot of money was in the market for Vesuvian, 6 to 1 being asked for about the Kingsclere colt. Majestic, the gigantic two-year-old son of Trenton and the Barcaldine. mare Bonnie Rosette will probably not race again until he is a four-year-old. It is considered wise to allow him to mature, and Mr W. E. Wilson has so many two-year-olds that he can well afford to adopt this plan. There is a very earnest parson in England who would undoubtedly have held a higher place in the estimation of his flock if he had not been, photographed with a copy of the Winter Edition of “Ruff’s Guide,” which chanced to be the only book lying on the studio table, in his hand.

Cremorne 9st 91b is one of the most fancied among the top weights for the Doncaster Handicap, and despite his substantial impost is pretty sure to give a good account of himself. An exchange states that it is doubtful whether he overlooked or moved much better than at the present time. Mr S. Miller’s stable was in great form at the Victoria Amateur Turf Club’s March meeting on March 13. Miss Gladstone 7st 71b won the St Hilda Cup of 115 sovs, one mile. Borderer 12st 2lb the Hurdle Race of 100 sovs, one mile four and a half furlongs, while Triangle list finished third in the Steeplechase. Funny Boat, who finished second in the Lincolnshire Handicap, is owned by a brother of Mr F. Courage, the owner of the lovely Seadown estate, near Amberlcy, on which the North Canterbury Steeplechase Meeting used to be held, and he was bred by Captain Fife, brother-in-law to Mr A. Boyle. The French Government buys some of the best racehorses to send to its studs. The consequence is that Ragotsky, who won the French Derby and Grand Prize of Baris, is covering in that country at a fee of £4, whereas’ Eaveusbury, who finished behind him in the Grand Prix, is quoted in England at lOOgs, and Callistrate, who was third, at 80gs. Sir J. Blundell Maple’s well-known mare Mazurka, winner of the Coronation Stakes and Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood in 1881, has at last produced a colt foal, having previously been responsible for no 'fewer than ten, fillies, among which were Polka (dam of Court Ball), Galop (dam of Ella Tweed), Simons Bay, Barndance and Barndoor. This colt foal is by Royal Hampton, to whom the mare threw a filly last year. The following programme has been arranged for the North Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting on May 6District Welter Handicap, 20 sovs, one mile; Ashley Handicap Time Trot, 25 sovs. Wo miles; N.C.J.C. Handicap, 45 sovs, one mile and a quarter; Novel Race, 25 sovs, six furlongs; Rangiora Welter Handicap, 25 sovs, seven furlongs; Loburn Handicap Trot, 20 sovs, one mile; Flying Handicap, 30 sovs, five furlongs. That the calibre of the jockey now riding on the American -turf must be raised, no one having the interest of the sport at heart can deny (says the Horseman). There is but one way to do this—by raising the weights to such an extent that men, not boys, can have a chance of obtaining daily mounts. There can be no hardship in doing this, for any horse who cannot cayy a man’s weight in short cuts has no business on a race track. The Australian horses that are over hero are being so much boomed just now (says a London paper) as to almost shut out our medium lot. It is a boom that will make great headway, or soon die out. It will get itsbeaLliftj.of course,if.lift there be.

from the Duke of Portland, who has sent his best mares to Carbine, and never had a horse such a good chance given him. Should a few winners be the result, there will be a rare run on the lot now stationed at Cobham, especially as Carnage enjoyed such a great reputation. The imported three-year-old colt, Grafton, by Galopin from Maid Marian, by Hampton from'Quiver, by Toxophilite (sire of Musket), who goes to join Lochiel and Melos at the Widdin Stud (N.S.W.), has arrived at Kandwick, prior to being forwarded to his destination. Grafton, who as a yearling cost the late Baron de Hirsch 3800 gs, and was purchased at the disposal of that gentleman’s stud by Mr Wynne, of Victoria, for 500 gs, stands about 16 hands, is a well-proportioned and shapely youngster, whose conformation bears evidence of his close blood relationship to the Musket family.