SPORTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9285, 12 February 1889, Page 5

SPORTING.

Me. D. S. Wallacb (the owner of Mentor, Carbine, and other horses), and Mr. C. M. Lloyd, who have been making a short tour of New Zealand, were passengers to Auckland by the s.s. Mararoa, which arrived yesterday morning. During the afternoon both gentlemen paid a visit to the New Zealand Stud Company/s breeding establishment at Sylvia Park, being accompanied by Mr. T. Morrin and Mr. J. M. Clark. Mr. Wallace and Mr. Lloyd go on to Sydney by the Mararoa. which leaves this afternoon. Mr. J. Marshall and Mr. W. W. Robinson leave by the same steamer. The firstnamed gentleman goes over to attend the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting, while the latter intends making a voyage to England. Mr. Marshall's three-year-old colt Braemar, a full brother to Mitrailleuse, will be taken over to Sydney by the same steamer. ' By the G-airloch, which left for Waitara yesterday, the racehorses Lady Norah, Patchwork, and Quadrant were snipped to fulfil their engagements at the Egmont Meeting. Mr. Bobbett was also a passenger by the same steamer. The stallion Woolbroker (by Goldsbroupch —Corisande) is to be offered by auction at the Haymarket on Friday next. Southern papers to hand state that there is very little prospect of either Maxim or Gipsy King being taken over to Australia.