SPORTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8222, 5 April 1890, Page 6

SPORTING.

TO. RACING CLUBS. The Attckland Weekly News has been appointthe Official Calendar for the publication of all programmes in the Provincial District of Auckland, in terms of the new rules of racing. In order to secure advertisements being inserted in the page allotted to " The Sportsman " it is necessary that they be sent in by Wednesday afternoon. [Extract.] Rule 17.—The programme of each meeting in which tho added money is £100 or upwards, must be advertised in full once at least in the Ofhcial Calendar. The advertisement shall show that tho programme has been approved by the Jockey Club, shall state the days on which the meeting is to begin and end, and the names of the stewards, udge, starter, clerk of the scales, and haudicappor. RACING FIXTURES. NEW Zealand. April Mauku Races. April 7— Waiuku Races. April 7, S—Auckland Racing Club. April 7, B—Canterbury Jockey Club. April South Auckland Racing Club. April Avoudalo Jockey Club. May 14— Egmont Racing Club. June Auckland Racing Club June Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. July 12—Wellington Racing Club. Australia. April 5, 7, 0, Australian Jockey Club. July 12, 10— Victoria Racing Club. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. IiRAVO.—The horse's scratching was not cabled to Mew Zealand, and we cannot therefore supply the information. You had better write to tho Australasian on the matter. BRITISHER.—The highest weight carried to victory in the Liverpool Grand National was by Cortolvhl (list IMb). The largest field that wont to the post for that nice was in ISSO, on which occasion 32 horses competed. S.J.C, Hamilton.— ln 1886, Cerise and Blue (7st 131b) won the Sydney Cup in 3m. 'M\s. Last year Carbine carried Ost, and ran the distance in 3m. 31s. Dispute, Thames.-— Leorina carried "st in tho Auckland Easter Handicap last year. The distance was a mile and threequarters, but this year it is only a mile and a-half. J. 11., Alexandra,—The Sydney Jockey Club's Consultation has long since been pronounced a rank fraud. We know nothing of the bona fides of the other sweep you mention.

AUCKLAND RACING CLUB'S AUTUMN MEETING. [BY PHAKTOX.] Prior to the acceptances and general entiies there seemed to be a very general impression that our autumn meeting this year was to be one of the tamest gatherings that has been brought off at Ellerslie; but the various events have filled so remarkably well, that instead of the meeting being likely to savour of tamencss, it now gives every promise of taking rank amongst the most successful and enjoyable gatherings that the A.R.C. has brought off at Ellcrslie. The absence of Mr. Sommerville's beautiful filly Mary from the Champagne Stakes has robbed that lace of a deal of interest, and with such a capital performer as Aronoel to do battle with on his behalf against a crowd of moderates, Captain Russell would appear to have a bit of a mortgage on that event, as the daughter of Aproniont and Leonora has escaped a penalty. The big' event of the first day— Easter Handicap —promises to draw a capital field, as 11 out of the 17 originally entered have paid up, while the jumping races give every promise of being especially interesting, and in each case there will be a capital field. In the HERALD of Monday I shall have a further opportunity of dealing with the various races, and I shall therefore on this occasion confine my remarks to the two principal events of the programme.

THE FASTER HANDICAP. st lb st 11) Hilda - _*9 11 Cynical _ _17 1 Raglan _ ~ S 7 Montrose — ..7 0 Leorina — _ 8 4 Rataplan _ _ OVI Cissy .. _ S 0 Vendor .. _ <; 10 Patchwork.. .. 8 0 Cartridge _ _ C 0 Tetford .. .. 7 12 •Including slb penalty, flncluding 31b penalty.

Hilda is in such great buckle, that, even with the f)ll> penalty which she has incurred, tacked on to the »st 61b allotted to her by Mr. Evitt, she cannot bv any means be left out of calculations. I have never previously seen the daughter of Musket look so well as she does at the present time ; and if she should turn out to be the stable representative for tins race, those who support her may rely upon getting a great run. Raglan (Sst 71b) has a weight that lie is thoroughly master of; but the son of Cap-a-pie is by no means himself, and may, I think, safely be written out. Leorina (Sst 4lb) lias, 1 fancy, a little too much weight for the company she will have to contend against; and I cannot say that I estimate Patchwork's abilities high enough to warrant me iu saying he can win with the impost of Sst on the present occasion. Cissy (Sst) should have a great say in the race if started. .She seems to be pretty well, but as she has an engagement in the St. Lexer, she may be reserved for that race. Tetford (7st 12ib) I will not stolid, as I know absolutely nothing regarding his condition. Cynical (7st lib) has a most favourable impost to assist him in distinguishing himself; and as he showed a good bit of form at the Napier Park meeting last week, he should have a say. Cynical has, it is said, become the property of George Wright, and as he is located in the same stable as Hilda and Cissy, it will be interesting to note what his errand on Monday will be. Montrose (7st) is a horse that I had at one time a bit of a respect for ; but the son of Ingomar has run so unkindly on several occasions of late that I hesitate to say anything in his favour. Rataplan (fist 121b) showed a bit of form at Tattcrsalls' meeting last month, but he has yet to show his ability to win in good company, and much as I should like to see him carry the colours of his popular owner to victory, I cannot at present recommend the half-brother to Nelson to my readers. Cartridge showed herself to be a clever little mare by the manner in which she won the Henderson's Mill Cup, and with only fist 91b to carry in the race under review, not a few good judges consider her equal to the task of winning. If the going should be heavy I should certainly think seriously of giving the daughter of Musket my vote ; but with the course firm, I think that (leorge Wright will supply the winner with either Hilda or Cissy.

THE STEEPLECHASE. On the second day the Steeplechase will be the principal event on the programme, for which the following horses still remain in :— st lb st 11. Volcano „ ... 11 0 Seaweed „ ... '.) 7 Recruit .. .. 10 12 Diavolo .. ..0 7 Messenger.. ..ID 7 I'.irnell ... .. i) 7 Jenny .. ... 012 Larrikin .. .. 0 7 JMriiloy .. ..9 10 Tawhiao .. ... 9 7 Dick Turpin .. 9 8

Volcano (list) can I think safely be left ont of calculations, as he is reported to have broken down. Recruit (lOst l'Jlbs) has a little more weight than he. likes; but he knows the course so thoroughly that he must be treated with great respect. Messenger (10st71bs) is a capital fencer, and that he is endowed with a good dash of pace he lias on several occasions amply demonstrated ; and the fact of his being thoroughly acquainted with the country over which the race is run invests his chance with more than any outside show. In Darnlcy (Ost 101b) the visiting division have a real nice horse to do battle on their behalf. His performances at the recent Napier meetings showed that he possesses a good supply of pace, and as he seems to be a beautifully tempered horse, I shall be surprised if ho does not render a good account of himself. These three horses will, I think, bar accidents, supply the placed division, and of the trio I have the most fancy for Darnley.

NOTES BY PHAETON. AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB'S MEETING. To-day the curtain will be raised on the autumn carnival held under the auspices of the Australian Jockey Club at Randwiek. The principal event of to-day's programme is the Doncaster Handicap (one mile), which is endowed with lOOOsovs, but to us New Zeala.nders most interest will be attached to the Autumn Stakes, the distance of which is a mile-and-a-quarter, and the conditions weigh t-for-ago, in which Carbine, Melos, and Dreadnought will probably meet to fight their battles o'er again. Most of the experts who saw the race decline to believe that the recent Champion Stakes, in which Melos achieved a victory over Carbine and Dread nought, was a true run race, and it will be interesting to note the positions the two " cracks" will occupy in to-day's contest. On Monday the Sydney Cup will be brought up for consideration, for which race the following horses remained in at last advices :— st. II). St. lb. Carbine .. ..9 9 Bonnie Spec ... 6 9 Melos .. .. 9 6 Lancer .. .- 6 9 Dreadnought .. 8 11 Swing .. ..6 7 Sir William ..7 9 Hop Bitters ..0 7 Antaeus .. ..7 9 Tyranna .. «. C 7 Chintz .. ..7 7 Yellowstone _ C 4 Rudolph .. ..7 7 Golden Crown ... 0 4 Fernanito .. ..7 0 Eveline .. ... 6 2 Insignia .. ..7 0 Grandson .. ... 0 2 Mane .. ..7 0 Eclipse .. ..GO Muriel .. .. 6 11 Ever since the weights made their appearance, Carbine (9st 91b) has held the post of honour in the quotations, and when we come to consider that he has 51b less to carry than when he got second to Bravo (Bst 71b) in the last Melbourne Cup, it is fitting that he should occupy the position. Last year in this same race he carried 9st to victory in front of Melos (Bst 21b), Abercorn (9st 41b), and others in the brilliant time of 3.31, and should he be landed in the same condition at the post on Monday next as when he recorded that doughty performance, he will take some overthrowing to prevent him scoring a victory ior the second year in succession. Melos (9st

51b) is, however, entitled to very great respect tfor his performance in the Australian Cup in which he was onlv beaten a short head by Dreadnought (Bst 61b) under the heavy burden of 9st 31b, demonstrated what a truly great horse he is, for the pace throughout that contest was most severe. Dreadnought (Sst 111b) has 91b over weight-for-age, but as in the Australian Cup (the distance of which is a quarter of a mile longer thau the race under review) he got home under 31b less in clipping time, his chance cannot be lightly treated. The three-year-olds, Sir William and Antasus, who have each the nice impost of 7st 91b, are a pair that should certainly have a show. Of the two, Sir William has proved himself the best stayer, but still Anuv.us may show a great improvement in that respect to what he did at the opening of the season. Chintz (7st 71b) may have a show, but I fail to detect anything lower down the list likely to turn out dangerous. To sum the matter up, I fancy that the placed division will consist of Carbine, Melos, and Sir William, and should the course not be too heavy they will, I think,' finish in that order. On the same day as the Cup is run, the Champagne Stakes will be brought up for decision, and as the Auckland-bred colt Gatling will probably carry the popular "rose and black" of Mr. D. O'Brien in that event, great interest will attach to his meeting with the Hon. Mr. White's doughty representative Titan. Trior to being shipped from Christchurch, Catling is said to have shown his owner an excellent trial, in which he beat both Freedom and Hazel, and we may be quite sure that if the son of Nordcnfeldt runs up to the form which he revealed to his astute owner, he will finish in the first flight.

the autumn STAKES. The following are the horses engaged in the Autumn Stakes (one mile and a-half), to be run at Raudwick to-day— st. lb. St. lb. Aristocrat „ _ 9 3 Anttcua — _ 8 4 Carbine -. — 0 0 Federation — 8 4 Molos.. .. _ 9 0 (iolibnaster - 8 4 Dreadnought „ 8 4 Chintz ... - 8 2 The absence of Abercorn from the list, robs the race of a deal of interest;; but with three such warriors as Carbino, and Dreadnought engaged, wo may' be quite sure that the battle will be a great one. CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB'S MEETING. As with Auckland, Canterbury turfites will next week be in the thick of their' Autumn gathering, the prospects of which seem to be first-class. The big event of the mooting is the Great Autumn Stakes, the distance of which is a mile and a-half, and for which the following horses have paid up :— st. lb. St. lb. Dudu - -98 St. .lames - _ 7 0 Occident .. -94 Alsace _ - 7 0 Monie England _ 0 1 Quibble .. — 612 Hose Argent - 8 0 Helmsman., —60 Wolverine .. „ 7 10 Dudu and Merrie England read the best on paper, and should they not bo hampered by having to contest the race in heavy going, they will I think finish first anil second.

AN INTERESTING CONTEST. The Champagne Stakes, to be run at the Canterbury Jockey Clubs meeting on Monday next, promises to attract a capital field, as amongst the acceptors are Pygmalion (by Apremont—Nautilus), Medallion (by Nordenfoldt— Locket), Thackeray (by Aprcmont—Becky Sharp), Freedom (by Cnptivator— of Honour), Moraine, by Apremont— Miss Flat), Carronade (by Nordenfeldt — Rosarina). As no penalties are attached to the race, the contest should furnish a true test as to whether Pygmalion is entitled to the first place amongst the two-year-olds seen out this season on the New Zealand turf. METROPOLITAN RULE. The absurdity of the Metopolitan Clubs' ruling pony racing outside their jurisdiction, while at the same time allowing clubs registered under their rules to introduce this class of races into their programmes, receives an apt illustration in the disqualification passed by the stewards of Auckland Tatter-sail's Club on the pony Locket, her owner (O'Callaghan) and the jockey (Reid), for crooked running at their meeting last month. The matter was officially notified to the committee of the Auckland Racing Club, and at a meeting of that body on Monday last, it was decided that as pony racing was not recognised by tho Club, no action could be. taken in the matter: so that we are presented with the incongruous picture of a disqualified pony being still eligible to compete at a gathering held under Metropolitan rules. Some alteration is certainly required on this subject, and the remedy is ready to hand by laying it strictly down that clubs racing under Metropolitan rules arc prohibited from having pony races on their programmes ; or that, as in Sydney, once a horse has started in galloway races he shall be considered ineligible to compete with racehorses. j

AUCKLAND JUMPERS IN SYDNEY. Mr. Scarr has treated the Auckland representatives, Guy Fawkes and Titokowarn, very fairly in the jumping races to be decided at the Australian Jockey Club's meeting. In the Hurdle Race (two miles and a-half), to be run to-day, Titokowaru has been allotted lOst Sib; while in the Steeplechase (about three miles), which comes up for decision on Saturday next, Guy Fawkes has the nice impost of 10.it Sib ; while Titokowaru figures in the handicap at 31b less. If Titokowaru is at his best, he will certainly take a deal of beating in both of these events, especially if J. Rae can get down to the weight to ride him.

APPLYING TUP IKON HANI). The stringent code of rules passed recently by the committee of the Australian Jockey Club dealing with pony racing, prohibiting both trainers and joekies from owning horses, etc., have, it is needless to say, come in for much criticism ; and a special meeting of the members of tire Club was held last week, for the purpose of endeavouring to have them repealed, but without avail, a sweeping majority being in favour of tire committee action in training the rules. In the course of a most sensible speech, the Hon. W. A. Long read the following letter, which he. had received from the lion. J. White on the subject :—" i see by the papers that a special general meeting of the club has been called for the purpose of asking for the repeal of the regulations recently made by the committee in respect to trainers and jockeys who own and ride ponies, and though I am unable to be present to take part in the discussion of the question, I take an interest in the endeavour to prevent the degeneration of racing. lint I cannot, help expressing my opinion on the subject, in the hope that it may strengthen the bauds of the committee in resisting any attempt to override the rules they have recently agreed upon. That the pony racing which is carried on in and around Sydney is demoralising, and opposed to the best interest of the turf, I am firmly convinced, and I think all true friends of legitimate sport must hold the same opinion. When we sec pony racing reduced to the level of foot racing, by being carried on by gaslight, I think it is time for the committee to step in and put a stop to the evils in connection with the turf proper. In doing this they have certainly gone to the root of the evil, but no moans short of those adopted would have the desired effect, and I sincerely hope that the action of the committee will l>e'supported by tire great majority of the members of this club.'' In concluding his remarks Mr. Long said he had read an article in the Sydney Morning Herald as to the complaints that were continually made of irregular practices taking place on the turf, stating, m effect, that something must be wrong when these complaints were so regular, and calling upon the Jockey Club to take the matter in hand, so as to bring about a better state of things. That was a true reflex of thciipini'riri of the general public. It was clear to his mind that the mainspring of these complaints arose from the pony and galloway race meetings. They could only be regarded as the pits of turf immorality. Jockeys were sent there to ride in races where no supervision, or very lax supervision, was kept of their conduct, and they were instilled with those practices that would remain with them always. He thought that pony racing had done more to demoralise the turf than any other form of sport. The rules which are now in force read as follows :—

1. Any trainer owning or having an interest in, or having in his stable any pony or galloway for racing purposes shall have his license cancelled. 2. No licensed jockey shall own or have any interest or share in any racehorse. 4. No licensed jockey shall ho permitted to ride in any race for ponies or galloways. 5. Any licensed jockey offending against these rules shall have his license cancelled, or be suspended from riding for any period the committee may determine. 6. Apprentices and stable boys shall be employed under written agreement only ; such agreement .shall be in a form to be prescribed by the committee, and shall when signed be registered at the offices of the Australian Jockey Club. 7. No licensed trainer shall employ any lad without having first received from the secretary of the Australian Jockey Club a certificate that such lad may be employed by him, subject to the provisions prescribed by rule 83 of the Rules of Racing. A PEDIGREE CHALLENGED. The breeding of the stallion Galopin has many times been challenged, and an old English sportsman who is now settled in Australia writes as follows on the subject :— "Inotice that Galopin's pedigree was doubted in a recent article that appeared in your columns. This has always been so in England. The horse was bred by Mr. Simpson, at Diss, in Norfolk. He had a large quantity of mares and several stallions. The stud groom could neither read nor write, and so the entries were made when Mr. Simpson came, or were never made at all, and so pedigrees were invented tor them. I see the papers says the horse was supposed to be by Delight, who was by Ellington, winner of the IHffl Derby. In 1882 I spent a day with Prince Soltykoff at his place, the Kremlin Paddocks, Newmarket, and he told me he

had been at some trouble to ascertain who was the sire of Galopin, and he had come to the conclusion that Victorious was. This horse was by Newminster out of the Jeremy Diddler mare, and was also bred by Mr. Simpson." THE VICTORIA EACING CLUB. The Australasian of a recent date publishes an interesting statement, setting forth the progress made by the Victoria Racing Club. From the year 1864 to the close of the present season, the club gave away in stakes £307,705. The amount of added money given away during the season of 1864-65 was £3205, and each season since then showed _a steady increase. The amount given away in 1875-76 was £10,100; and in 1885-86 it had got up to £17,325. In 18S9-90 the sum was £36,000, and in 1890-91 the amount to be given away is set down as £40,800.

a "shining light" in disgrace. By cable wo heard recently that the wealthy Mr. Abington" had been called upon to resign his membership of the Pelican Club owing to his connection with the disgraceful melee that took place •at the battle between Slavin and Smith. The English correspondent of the Melbourne Leader, commenting on the matter, says :— " To Abington, the consequence of his expulsion from the Pelican Club may be extremely serious. Society may go hang for him. He can always get as much of the society he wants by paving for it, and as for rank or that sort of thing, ho does not care a brass farthing. But he does not want to be shunted from the sporting or racing clubs, because that must stop most of his riding, and his heart is in that—in fact, his only aim in life is to ride winners. I more than expect that he will be turned out of all such clubs as Kemp ton, Samlown, the South Down, and many others, and behind these vexations there looms the final catastrophe— warning off by the Jockey Club. If he does not heed the Pelicans the Jockey Club will watch him, so that they will be sure to find satisfactory reasons (to them) for the most serious step." •• -■. »

i. PLUNGER BENZON. : t I" Robin Hood," the English correspondent of the Australasian, writes as "follows : — "Poor Benzon, the 'Jubilee Plunger,' has come to awful grief at last. As Mr. G. R. Sims writes in hist week's Referee, he must bo; called,, the 'Jubilee Stone-juggins'now— which means neither more nor less than that the poor silly young fellow is locked up in a French prison. In my last I mentioned that Bcuzon had failed to turn up for his examination at the London Bankruptcy Court, and that he was stated to be at Monte Carlo. It now seems that he was seized by the French police whilst playing cards in a club at Nice. The charge against him was that he had signed someone else's name to a £1090 cheque on England which he had cashed through a bank at Nice. The extraordinary folly of the proceeding may be gathered from the fact that, after obtaining the money in this way, lie did not attempt to clear out, but calmly lived on in Nice, although one would think even he must have known that the fraud would be discovered as soon as the cheque reached England. However, lie was arrested as 1 have said, but event hen looked like getting out of the mess, as Captain llargreaves, whose name he had forged, declined to prosecute, and the French bank having been repaid the money by Benzon's friends in England were also prepared to withdraw the charge. Meanwhile, however, other tradesmen and hotelkecpers in the south of France had laid charges against him of having paid his accounts with cheques which 'came back,' and in some of these cases it seems Beiizon had drawn a cash balance, having made out .the cheque for more money than the sums owing. All this, too, it was tried hard 'to square.' The tradesmen and publicans were being paid in full, and would not have appeared. The matter, however, then took a serious turn for the unhappy prisoner. The public prosecutor stepped m, and the officials of the Republic took the matter up, which ended in ' the plunger' being provided with apartments by the State for a period of three months."

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. By cable we have the result of the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, and from what I can gather from late English papers to hand it would seem that the brothers Nightingall have brought off a big coup with their representative Ilex, who had the nice impost of lOst 51b allotted to him. When the last mail left London Ilex was all the rage for the great Aintree event, and if he hold his place in the quotations all through the "ring" will have caught it hot and strong over his victory.

Commenting on the fact of £10,000 being offered and refused for Abercorn and £3001) for Boz, the Melbourne Sportsman says : — " How strange it seems that as soon as these oilers of high prices were refused each of these horses should come to grief. Yet this is so frequently the case when .any exceptional price is offered for a racehorse that many of our racing men are positively superstitious on this head, and dread an oiler for a horse they do not desire to sell." Coming to our own doors, we know that £2500 was offered last spring for Corunna; and it was not very long before we heard of him being /ior,< de combat, and as if the offer and refusal of that tempting price for the son of Musket and Nelly Moore had been the signal to wind up his winning record the colt lias not once been seen home in front this season.

" Rapier," in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of February last, has the following paragraph in his notes : —"1 have before me an instantaneous photograph taken by Lord Onslow, the Governor of New Zealand, and representing a girl on a pony jumping a simple wire fence, the top strand being, I suppose, well over four feet high. I believe that his lordship, while on a visit to the young lady's father, casually said something as to the surprise felt on the part of English sportsmen when first they heard that wire was habitually jumped in New Zealand, but father and daughter laughed at the idea of there being anything in the least unusual about such a thing, and the girl getting on her pony, took him over half-a-dozen wire fences, his lordship just 'shooting' her with his camera as she was actually topping one of these ' fences.'" The South Auckland Racing Club have received capital acceptances in connection with their autumn meeting, which is to take place at Claudelauds, Hamilton, on Saturday next, and should the weather prove line, a large number of visitors from town may be anticipated, as the railway department will lay on a special train at excursion fares. Mr. Robert Is'orfolk, for many years connected with the sporting department of the Melbourne Argus and Australasian, and a well-known figure in sporting circles, died suddenly on the 20th ult. from heart disease. When leaving the train at the Kensington Station, Mr. Norfolk became suddenly ill, and died soon after reaching home. He had been connected with racing from his boyhood. He came to Australia in 1850 with the racehorses Maga and Mew Warrior for Judge Cheeke and Mr. John Tait. He afterwards owned and ran horses in New South Wales. He was 02 years of age.

Mr. D. O'Brien's colours were seen home in the van at the Victoria Amateur Turf Club's meeting on the 22nd ult., when his two-year-old colt Whimberel carried 9st3lb to victory in the Federal Stakes, beating five others. i ; . ; ' The pony Ihumata, who was recently taken to Australia by J. Rao, was, I notice, a starter at the Sydney Driving Park meeting on the 22nd ult., -when she finished second in the Flying Handicap. J. Huxtable has, it is said, been engaged to ride Cissy in the Easter Handicap. Huxtable, I may remark, rude Friendship, the winner of this race in 1888. ~f " Mazeppa" statos :—Thirty-one sires are represented in the New Zealand Cup. Of these 21 have one representative each; Aprcmont has 8; Lcolinus and Musket 5 each ; Nordenfcldt, 4 ; Albany, Cadogan, Le Loup, Gorton, and St. Leger, 3 each; and St. George, 2. Of the 60 nominations, there are 17 mares, 2 geldings, and 41 stallions. Thirty-one will be three-year-olds, 11 four years, 11 five years, 0 six years, and one aged. The Melbourne Sportsman of last week says :—" It is an open secret that our breeders are not satisfied with the prices they obtain for the yearlings they breed, and that an impression is beginning to prevail among many of them that the supply has overtaken the demand." Mr. T. Morrin returned to Auckland on Thursday last after a two months' trip to Australia. * Nominations for the principal events of the Avondale Jockey Club's meeting are due on Friday next. '1 he programme will be found in another column. The World says that the Duke of Portland will have a very crack two-year-old again this coming season. This is a colt by St. Simon out of Wheel of Fortune. The Duke gave 5000 guineas for the dam at the late Lord Falmouth's celebrated sale. Braemar (the full brother to Mitrailleuse) has become the property of a patron of Walter Hickenbotham's stable, who is known for his plunging proclivities. Corunna is said to be moving very sore in his work at Randwick. A good story is told by Joe Ullmann, the New York penciller. He paid some paltry figure for Raceland as a something less than 201) dollars—and gave him to a Missouri trainer to keep over the winter and develop in the spring. Joe had no money to pay training expenses, and the trainer threatened to keep the colt in lieu of the bill. Ullman was on the point of giving the gelding for the feed bill, when a friend offered him enough money to tide over the difficulty, and within two months Raceland won the rich St. Louis Futurity Stakes, came East and lowered the colours of our best twoyear- and wound up the yea* by running

a series of marvellous fast races at Washington, after which Ullman sold him to Appleby and Co., who acted for Mr. August Belmont, for 19,000 dollars. An American paper says: A man who can pickup a 19,000 dollar gelding for 150 dollars, came near trading him for a feed and training bill, and ultimately win many thousands of dollars in stakes and bets, was not born to die in absolute poverty.