SPORTING.
The notorious Ethel oaso inl with which R. S. Henry and'rW'i! stand committed for trial, vrill • . j pected, oomo before tlio Wiling A* e *' Court during the coming week. • V I Cuttfl and the other Auckland wit/' I I pcenaed leave for Wellington by steamer, in order to give evidence o ' mono,, ' , The first two-year-old race of ii ' . —the Fulham Park Plate of 255,° run at Adelaide on the 12th imt : : won by Mr. W. Blackler's filly p jj""V** ' a daughter of the Auokhnd-bred a* iv- i derbolt. _ j A meeting of the committeo of tk""s£\' I Auokland Racing Club was held at tJit I meroial Hotel, Hamilton, on Saturday w J I following members were present- if ? 1 1 Isaac Coates (chairman), Tristram B , I 1 Barton, Booth, and Edgecombe '«( 91 : 1 disposal of detail business, the j officials was made as follows - ' pwJ 's 1 Mr. W. H. Berries, M.H.R . •r"' ; I Mr. F. W. Lang, M.H.R. Brewis, Mossrs. F. W. Browning o\ % ' I Barton, E. B. Cox, W. Cusaen T r^' * I E. M. Dickey, G. Edgeoumbe. M (i I A. Furce, R. J. Gwynne, E I MatJuae, R. Noble, 0. F. Paw m' J - J A. Swarbrick, H. Tristram; | Cussen; hnndicappor, Mr. J 0 pJi, U S of scales, Mr. A. cleift" 5 M'i i : Mr. W. Hume; startor, Mr. 0. JTP tj° UlS! > § The same programme as last tm - ■ I adopted, the meeting to take nW„ ~*« I day, March 18. 0 place °n 8% ; J H.R.H. the Prince of Wales rl™, ' * • pear likely to find Persimmon's fifi.f i Diamond Jubilee, a stake-earner of „ . i English writer refe re to the Sh fr'V? ' Twain s famous " 010 hoss" was avn *L' 1 specimen of an equine humorist ™ 11(1(11 1 to the Prince of Wales' coltSwW 1 lee. This young fellow has been I his proper situation is in a circus ■ w?' : I he ran at Ascot he tried first to ms j then to eat his jockey. At Newm V 1 reason of a neck strap coming „ S' managed to give Watts a nasty ti™u : I oould have won the race if he had » 1' h ' do so but he had no inclination feu. 1 * I Several times ho tried to bolt out „N£' $ course, and it required all the str S: | his powerful jockey to keep him W I When Watts returned to scale the "'i tion was literally rolling off him, Sil I wonder was that he found breath IV, I wherewith to swear. Diamond Jnbift i I win when no one is looking, as it J?'? 1 if ha does not mend his manners srvwiL® ' ? may be difficulty in finding ,ff>: I enough to ride him. It would he ft * to add such a valuable animal to ft,. v' a alt-hough the blood can eas™ b e °M through Persimmon and Florizel TpW I former was a high-couraged horse, but not. g bad-tempered one, while the latter J' 1 quiet as the proverbial old sheen 'pa 1 dently Diamond Jubilee lias got mora'S I his fair share of the mad Galopin blowJ. 1 John Porter, the trainer of in • ' 1 Fox ,13 (says M.A.P.) a man who h« ffi i wonderfully successful life, and, 80 fa ' 1 one can judge from his own account 0 ft 1 lie has never had a really bad time He l I never had to fight against desperate 'bad tolas some men have to do before they ran 5 their way through to fame and fotC But he must have shown remarkable cS I aeter as a lad to have been nlaced in a joi 1 tion of trust and responsibility when S i 17, by so keen a judge of human natures I Mr. Henry Padwick. Mr. Porter was g s years of age when he went to Cannon Hall I as a private trainer for Sir Joseph. Haflln ! And for the last six-and-thirty yean la ha , I trained the horses entrusted to his care a ' ! those beautiful Hampshire Downs. One!®', dred and thirty years ago, the famous Eolith used to take his gallops on the same spring j turf. It is in very dry weather , that Hi; going on these Downs is especially.: goalThe fibrous roots of the grass extend {«| \ fully six inches below the surface. In ir : | weather the mould is constantly being shakai : down by the percussion of tho horses' both leaving little but the fibre immediately I*l neath tho surface. Thus the dryer sth I weather the softer becomes the going!.Ba| 1 it takes hundreds of years to produce tits $ deep fibrous roots. Splondid as the land i | for training purposes, it is not equally -si ;■ able for agriculture, and several farm i 1 the neighbourhood have gone out of cullin 1 tion in the last few years. Soon after 36. jjj Porter took up his quarters on tho Hjij I shire Downs, ho met an old shepherd, ui i asked him what sort of a place it was Mfi I in. "I can tell 'ee, maister," said tli.ol! | man, 'Tis too poor to live in, and too - I healthy to die in !" And that eipressai S exactly. On these Downs Mr. Porter; hi I already trained seven Derby winners: I Gown in 1858, Shotover in 1882, St. Shi I in 1883, Ormondo in 1886, Sainfoin in 1891 1 Common in 1891, and Flying Foi in 1899. I And who knows how many more Derhfilii d future may have in store for him ? Therein 1 some splendid two-year-olds in the Kngsta I stables at the present time, and it will bl 1 strange indeed if some notable victoria'aii 1 not achieved by these magnificent ,'yoinj 1 ones. In the diningroom at Park Hob 1 there hangs a portrait of Ormonde, "ffa i; he the best you ever trained I asked 1 " Yes," said Mr. Porter with a quiet smile; 1 " and the best that anybody else ever trains! ' i either." | Even after Flying Fox had won his Deri;, a some were found disputing his right to a plici « as a real top-notcher, but the manner in whfck 1 the son of Orme burst up the opposition 9 I the Princess of Wales' Stakes won every oa | of the doubters over. In referring to the ns | in question the Sportsman says:—No end | was ever won in more smashing style. Nera 1 from the time when the colours could he & a tinguished was the issue ever in the remote | doubt. Wide on the right there was Fljiaj 1 Fox, with his stable companion, stretcbfcj 1 away at his ease, and when just before tty I reached the plantation M. Cannon let him P ft —I will not say asked him to go— squat | dered his field at once. So extraordinary ?* fi the collapse of all the others, that Canift | having drawn well clear, crossed them fan g| right to left, and looking back at them 0 and again with pardonable complawji | fairly romped home, without ever haiit! || called upon his mount for the slightest effort* || Flying Fox (says the "Special CommissionirT ffl is the apotheosis of Bruce Lowe's system, w m was described by mo on the figure guide S 1 tho certainly best of his age at tbo end« 1 last year. I may also remind my read" 3 that even when we were all admiring the * a cot Gold Cup winner, Oylleno, the other d»fi | I wrote that while it is really impossible. | compare these groat horses, I should Bligl| | prefer Flying Fox if they were to meA j a
The great American sportsman, Rokj Bonner, died on July 6. The Breeder.® Sportsman says:— Mr. Bonner never new' horse in his life for money, yet he paid B' lions for record-breakers, and has owned® o , than one champion. The horses owflW him at the time of his death are e3tW" as worth £50,000 in the market to-dsy.fr Maud S. (2.081) he paid £8000, and » Sunol (2.081) ho gave £10,000. Ho op* the old champions, Dexter, Peerless, and many others, and tho money, to" 1 always ready to pay for the best led B? to try and breed that kind. Mr. Bom* made his, 'fortune out of the Led?®!' journal that enjoyed an immense circnliti» He was 75 years of age. '
A good story is told of the famous.ho® man, George Fordliam, who was riding J™ to do a "preliminary," on Derby Day, a friend stoppod him, and whisper®- " George, I've got a fiver in my pocK" what's the best thing I can do?" "The v best thing you can do," was the candid KW " is to run home to your wife and get "jj to sew that pocket up with twine, an ,ti might be as well if she chained you to."*, bedpost also. The best of us know so"™ till the flutter is over. Then we know Vi. but so does every other bally fool course!" " The Messrs. Nathan's stud claims' to § tinction this year of producing the fiw , of the season, St. Leger's daughter) Letty, on Monday last dropping 'J™'-, the English Biro, Seaton Delaval. Australian papers to hand state • tjjj Gauleon was rocently supported for tofl "r . field Cup at 1000 to 70, at which pnes&«' now quoted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11149, 23 August 1899, Page 6
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