ODDS AND ENDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 6

ODDS AND ENDS.

Fred Archer received £500 for winning the Leger on Iroquois. The Mauku Races take place on Boxingday, December 20. Clarence and Director arrived on Monday ' last by the Te Anau. ( Messrs. Walters aud Pilbrow were passengers by the Te A nan. Darebin and Wellington have been treated 1 to a slight spell since the late meeting. { Vanus Transit has dropped a filly foal to : Hippocampus. She will be put to Musket. Zulu, the winner of the Melbourne Cup, broke down badly in tho Handicap. ; Sardonyx, having wrenched the sinews of i one of his legs, has been struck out of all en- ; " Horse owners must ic-member that Friday i next is general entry night for the Auckland races. 'Tiic advertisement appears in another column. Tha victory of Iroquois in the last Epsom Derby was known by telegraph in New York, before Archer," the jockey, had dismounted. » 100 to S is the best price to be obtained about Foul Play, Libeller, Peeress colt, or Badsworth for the Cup, and Clureuce for the Steeplechase. An American advertising agent olFered the owner of the celebrated American racer, Criekinore, £1000 to re-christen the animal "St. Jacob's Oil." It is reported that Joe Thompson intends to retire from the turf. The Sydney Bulletin asks "Shall we never hear thy itrinniinj voice again, Joseph ?" Walton, an mericau speculator, won £4:>,000 on the Yankee horse Foxhall, in the Cesarewitch. Maria Therese, dam of Dauphin, the winner of the Canterbury Derby, dropped a dead colt foal to Kiuc;of Clubs. F. Archer, the jockey, according to Conservative organs, expects soon to be knighted. He scored all the big wins at the Newmarket, continuing the brilliant successes ot the Doneaster meeting. An offer of £500 to nothing was made to Mr. McDonnell if he would allow Gough, the rider of Zulu, to ride The Duchess, but the offer was refused. Three policemen had charge of the American horse Iroquois, for one month prior to his run for the St. Leger. His trainer, Pincus, always slept with him. Old Strathearu, who has probably ran into a '' place " on more occasions than any other horse in Australia, pulled up lame in a gallop recently, and has been relegated to the stud. Mr. Wentworth has, it is said, been a loser over the late V.R.C. Meeting, to the extent of £24,000, he having backed Waxy and Sardonyx pretty heavily for their various flie late V.R.C. Derby winner Darebin is now tho sole property of Mr. \V. A. Gucsdon, Mr. R. G. Talbot having disposed of his in:crest in the colt to that gentleman for 500 guineas. Lurline's sister. Naiad, has foaled a chestnut filly to Leolinus, and Calumny's sister, Tres Deuce, has produced a chestnut colt to the same horse. In my notes on Saturday an error crept in. Tho date of the closing of the entries for the Takapuna Jockey Club races was given as the 6th of December; it should have been the 13th. Progress and Wellington are occasionally mentioned in connection with the Champion Race, but there is hardly any betting on it, and it may be regarded for the time being as virtually a. dead letter. Messrs. J. J. Miller, P.. E. Jones, and O'Brien, who won over £30,000 on their Melbourne Cup book, intend to give £100 each to Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, to be divided amongst the various charities. The Waiukn annual races take place on December ."0. Entries for Handicap Hurdle Race and Waiuku Handicap close on Saturday, 17th inst., at 3 p.m. Acceptances and general entries are due on the following Saturday at the same hour. The Sydney Bulletin asks the question : " How much longer is New South Wales or Australia to be unrepresented on the English tui-f'r America has now one or two horses running in every big event in England. How Long, we say '■"' The Sporting Times is answerable for the following, but one can hardly believe it to be strictly correct, although it is, of course, quite possible : —"There is an old gentleman living at Don castor who, this year, saw his 70th St. Leger, and has every year walked from Doneaster to the Town Moor.' , Prior to the acceptances, " Sir Launcelot" wrote as follows of the Auckland Cup :— "There seems nothing in it fit and well but Grip, aud, failing him, those from whom most danger may be apprehended are King Quail. Badsworth, and Tim Whiiller." Paddy Ryan, who whipped Joe Goss, and John Sullivan are about to sign articles to ti-lit for £1000 a-side and the championship of America. Mr. Richard K. Fox, of the New York Police Gazette, is finding tbe "pieces" for Ryan, and has already posted £200 as forfeit. The proprietress of Tattersall's Hotel, Orange (who is a widow), held Zulu in the Sydney Tattersall's big Cup Sweep, and clears l"3S00 by tho spec. A brother of Mr. Buist, a Sydney tobacconist, had the Czar, and landed £1000. A poor man in a Sydney hard ware house got£SOO with Sweetmeat. At Sir Thomas Elder's stables. Morphetville, S.A., a £2000 mare recently died from obstinate diarrhcea, which tho utmost skill of the veterinary surgeon failed to alleviate. A jiott mortem examination disclosed the cause of death to bo a peculiar kind of worm with which the intestines were literally swarming. Whcatear's accident seems to have spoilt many chances. Duchess, Sweetmeat, and Whoatear were gaining on their horses, but the dog bowled Wheatear over, and Duchess and Sweetmeat were knocked out of their stride. But could either have won, considering the very fast time and Zulu's easy win ? The English correspondent of the Leader, writing on the Doneaster Meeting, says that Archer was the hero of the week, the important event on each day, in addition to several minor affairs, falling to his share. It cannot all be luck, and it is gradually beginning to dawn upon others than myself that Mat Dawson is right in saying that his favourite " can ride 71b. lighter than any jockey he ever knew." " Ueacon" says that Wheatear is a very doubtful starter for the Champion Race. The fall he met with in the Melbourne Cup race has shaken him considerably, and it is tli ought that such a preparation as it would be necessary for him to undergo to run for that race might seriously afiect his future, therefore it is as well to be prepared to see him withdrawn. Some interest has been excited in racing circles by J. Robertson, a trainer at Hamilton, Sydney, backing a horse, bred by himself, to beat any horse Messrs. Chirnside can find in all Victoria. The challenge has been accepted, and the race will be run in December, at the Hamilton race 3. It is probable tho Messrs. Chirnside will send Spinningdale. Archer, the celebrated jockey, scored three great wins at Doneaster ; the Great Yorkshire Handicap, the St. Leger, and the Portland Plate. His horsemanship is described as marvellous, his races all being won in the last furlong. The sums of money he received as presents represented several thousand pounds. Lord Arlington gave him £2000 to ride Bend Or in the Cambridgeshire and win. Betting on the next V.R.C. Derby and Cup has already commenced in Melbourne, 100 to 25 to 30 having been accepted many times over, that Segenhoe, the wiunerof the Maribyrnong Plate, pulls oif the double. Segenhoe is by Maribyrnong out of the Fawn, by the Premier, and is therefore an own brother to those sterling good horses Richmond and Bosworth. 1000 to 12 Segenhoe for the Derby aud Darebin for the Cup, was laid by an Auckland bookmaker last week. The colours of America were lowered at Newmarket on October 12. The winner of the Derby and St. Leger, Iroquois, met Bend Or in the Champion Stakes of England, of about 1500 guineas, and was defeated. Archer, who piloted the American to victory for the Derby and St. Leger, now steered the Duke of Westminster's horse, Bend Or, who, carrying 9st. 41bs., gave his opponent a stone. The betting was on Iroquois, but Bend Or held him all the way, and won easily. Scobell was second. The American sportsman lost £SO,OOO on the event. The rivalry on the English turf between Knglisli and American horses continues. The London Times took up tho matter of the great wins of Iroquois and Foxhall, aud solaced English sportsmen by saying that, though bred in America, neither the one nor the other was of American breed. "They belong to the line of English racehorses, aud they were in competition with members of their own iamily. The trainer of one was an Englishman, and t 1 - •;.-• V — in each instance, was r---. Lunan.' 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