MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

. goes to the atud •■■■■ ■i&r" c?p"Sl & th, tr .^ nly i" 5 gaineia were offered fr.-r ■ when pat up to auction Gri P . 8 "ad E 'x mounts and onlv n-„ Uawkesbury Meeting Dirk Hatteraick's victory ia th" e S A r „ Not a few fingliah enthusiasts v, pheaied that lacrosse is th« e.pfs- - . ' ° <•: the The members ot the Paper Hunt n-» to-day,, near St. Joan'sColle-e. p.m. ■ ' "* tarte

. A ladies' cricket match was D ' avw , , v n . ling Green, England, between two-v*" seven each. ° iCe3 ' cf The result of Adam Bede's Ko « rv. , tation on the Melbourne Can .another column. Hippodamia, Welcome Jack, and r - are now equal, favpuritiea foFtheV^'f- 3 land Cup, at 10 to I each. £a* in the Metropolitan Handicap, T>» r was ridden who l°™ tOTy m Hawkesbaay Mr. Mundy, owner of Fir-t n the largest sinner at the rccent Egs? s ch^ue sssn In England 1150 guineas was ei 7en r„ colt by Spnngneld—P ar io Sa {r £* brother was. Sold the day before •dw gnineas. lor sixteen Amonri the equine visftom t rir i.- . " A;ugur' : ) Malua (late Bifrot) (S3yi derfnlly well, havina filleH n 1' every way. ° " Ed out a M impmrd yelloua b«,k ot loos, conjuSg 5 irom baulk and 354 spots. winner Mr. De Mestre's colt bv i Cocoannt (a full brother in blood v - 0!a tor) has been backed for th» \r, s, v,ga " Plate to win over £10,000 " - vr[J ° E S Old. Lara has been purchased hv ■, irngarei resident, who. intends tn A ?" that district during th'„ n in Lara is by Towton out of seasoD * Ad Valorem, who was rJ?J t j broken down a few weeks ago atR, turned np at the Gymnie Where he P won the JaJKd f Ihe full programme for ti\P , Racing Club's Spring Meeting aslj« tw ipr the Cambridge Jockey Meeting, will be found in another colu^T 2 Major George's more Florence g^" ta |srs^s?'r^v f ?s ESTit? " Helene, King's Own, Bonne Fortune, j-i Honey Dew, the winners of the two events at Adelaide, Sydney, Canlfield, S a Pkte' re edgaged in the Olga, whose name cropped up once' iir twice m connection with the recent AJC eet x! ng '„ turDa ontto three v ta r.flld' ".Augur" says that Lurline'a son, bv , will be almost a second edition of uarebin, though not quite so big, ncrWsand Calumny's filly, by the same sire, is as lull of quality as a sprig of nobility. Lord William. Bedford has been holdiae his own on. the I ndian turf, but this dots not appear good enough for him, as he has rivea 2000 guineas for Reputation and 700 gi«nea& for Little Charlie, two English racehorses For the Metropolitan Stakes The" Gem was almost a3 friendless in Melbourne as he was" ia Sydney, and in one totalisator here £73 to 5s for a win, and £29 to tie same amount for a place, were advertised as payable about him. '* Warrior," the Melbourne correspondent, ■of the Otago Witness, who has on more than one occasion put his readere on to a good thing, says that Dirk Hatteraick is a colt that will require a good deal of licking both in the Melbourne Cup and Champion Kaee. A curious coincidence in connection with the Sydney Derby this year is, that the names of the owner, horse, and jockey contain 18 letters—J. P. J o st, Le Grand, Colley—and this was the 19th A. j.C. Derb;.

At the sale of. Mr. G-.. Bate's racing in Christchurch, on the Ist September, oniytsa lota were quitted,, viz., Minerva and The Jilt. The former brought 650 guinea?, and the latter 450 guineas. Both were purchased by a gentleman giving the name of Mr.. Hamilton..

The weight carried in the Hawkesbury Handicap by First Demon, namely, 6st 41bs, is rather a lucky impost, as Kinsman, carried it to victory in the H'awkesbury Handicap; in '79, The Pontiff in ISBO in the Metropolitan, and Briseis in the Melbonrne Cut) in '76.

Allander fa half brother to Major George's filly Tcnambra), recorded a rather good performance io the Balaclava Stakes, run at the Victoria Amateur Turf Club's meeting recently, In the race in question he had thasteadier of 9st 51bs in the saddle, and with a field of be.hirfd him hesecured a victory. Allander was gold after the raccfor 250 guineas.

On the night previous to the runcirg of the Metropolitan (.Sydney) Stakes, the owner of Cuijnamulla offered to bet 4000 to 1000 that his horse won. , Luckily for him no fine was on, for ere the horse 3 had gone a quarter of a mile in the race, the eon Of MaribyrEOSg had his ears back, and refused to try a yard, notwithstanding that his jockey (Colly) naed all his persuasive powers to induce him to do so.

Le Grand had a very ea'y victory in tie A J. C. Derby. The Sportsman says the son of G.emma-di-Vergy and Lillian, with wide-open mouth, lay in third position for a mile, and then smothered the two leaders •with speed when the reins were a little loosened. Kingsdale had not a ghost ol a show of racing with him under a height which, nearly crushed the One, bat was * plaything to the other.

It is rumoured in Melbonrne thit ilr. Dakin, who has for some yeara pa«t had tire management of Sir T. E/der's Morpethrille stud, intends to resign the position, on tho ground that Sir Thomas's horses have not been well treated by the handicappers. It is also said., that if Mr. Dakin catties out hi? intention, Sir Thomas Elder will break up the stnd and retire fropri the turf. This circumstance would be much regretted, for Sir Thomas Elder has. well earned' the reputation of being "the Falmouth of Australasia."

By scratching Despot for the Metropolitan Stakes, the Hon. James White prevented a nice, little game from being worked. It appears that after the horse ran third at Hawkeabury, he was rather mysteriously backed in Melbourne for the Sydney event to win something like £20,000, which of course had the effect Qt bringing him into a promineut place in the betting. The alTair coming to ilr,. White's eats, he immediately ordered his withdrawal from the racs,. 2nd SO prevented the public from being milked. The "sharp 'una" were terribly chagrined when they saw the horse's nains disappear from the list.

The sporting lawsuit, brought by Mr- J* S. Agnew against the Tasmanian Tur£ Clubj his been brought to a happy conclusion. The plaintiff has withdrawn aii imputation he might have made on the stewards; to? latter have removed the disqualification, ana each party have agreed to pay their own costs. The action arose from Mr- neW having Said, in the course of an after-dinner speech sit Hobart, one day in February > that he had been robbed of the Lannceaton Cup, through the stewards having disallowed his protest against Rhesus, for having run inside the post. Some time afterwards the stewards met and disqualified him, on the ground of improper behaviour towards some of the stewards.

The Melbourne Herald has entered upon s new line, having, it appears, employed a private detective for the past three months to ferret out the various questionable sweeps, and to expose them in a series of articles under tiie somewhat sensational heading Ot " Melbourne Turf Frauds,, by the derail Detective: Swindling Sweeps, and the Sweeps who Swindle." The first one wnflin the detective takes to task is " Orient, in very plain language tells the public toa the sweeps promoted by that person ar nothing sliort of swindles. This season tn subject, of this, eulogistic little sketch has done wonderfully well, as a result of the nounuemeafc printed on the back of his pro * ' pectuses to the effect that he disbursed £14,122 over the la>t Cup. The detective, in the course of his remarks, state 3 that has. made the acquaintance of no, less t . fourteen swindling sweep promo.ers. . Herald, in its preliminary, notice ot tnese articles, expresses the. opinion that the e ploratiohs of its detective will be of m interest to the public than the explorations in New Guineaor farnunginAnierica^