SPORTING NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 705, 4 September 1885, Page 14

SPORTING NOTES.

(By Martini.) The Island Bay Racing Club have every reason to be satisfied with the acceptances and entries for to-morrow’s meeting. Quantity and quality are alike well represented, and given fine weather, we shall be able to look forward to a most enjoyable meet. For the Hurdles ten have accepted, and it is difficult to divine a probable winner. Erebus, the top weight, carried 9st 71b home to victory at the Hutfc the other day, and that, I think, is .about his best performance. In this case be Vis asked to carry list 121 b, giving within an r ace of 2st to Bobbie, who ran a decent second to Faugb-a-Ballagh in the Trial Steeplechase at the Hutt. Main Boom has got more, it teems to me, than he is likely to win with. Wanda we have only seen hitherto in very third-rate company, but experience shows that she is a fast one on the flat, and a decent hurdler. I shall expect her to be very close at the finish. Ngatitoa has a very fair show with 9st 71b, and if the going is heavy, should be about. Porotawa is, I think, a very likely one. Altogether, the best in it appear to be Bobbie, Porotawa, and Ngatitoa, with ' Bobbie for pick. The Exhibition Handicap, a mile, is a very open affair. The Administrator is to be tried in this and the three-quarter mile event as a sprinter, but I doubt whether he can beat such flyers at the weight and distances as The Paßba, Clogs, or Germaine, not to speak of Talebearer. The best, I think, in this is Pasha, V with Clogs and Germaine for next best. The Sessions Handicap should fall to either '• CXOGS, Germaine, or Glaicks. ' Xet another tribute to the equine champions of Maoriland. A correspondent of the Australasian says :—The Hon. W. Robinson’s horses are five as grand specimens of horseflesh as you could wish to look at. Mason gives them « pepper,” with clothes on, long striding work quite different to ours, and more like what Mr John Tait gave his horses in the old days. Liverpool is a raking, fine chestnut, livercolored, a lovely mover, and never gets up. Of Thunderbolt and Winchester I like the latter best; he is not doing the same strong work as Thunderbolt. A capital judge here likes Vanguard best. I fancy the best of thorn will be hard to beat in the weight-for-ige races. Sunray, who will be remembered in connee:ion with the steeplechase fiasco in Auckland i year or two ago, has been distinguishing limsslf on the other side. A recent Austraian file gives the following particulars of a ace which Sunray won at the Northern Hunt Hub Meeting ; ?hb Northern Hunt Club Cup. —A trephy, value 70 eovs., for the first horse, a trophy, value 20 sovs., for the second ; and a trophy, value 10 sovs., for the third horse. A Welter handicap steeplechase, for bona-fide hunters, to be ridden by gentlemen riders, in hunting costume. About 2% miles. [r H. Bennett’s b g Sunray, by Daydawn, aged, 13st. ... ••• 1

Mr E. Terry’s b or b g Butcher Boy, aged, 12st. ... ••• _ 2 Betting : 7 to 4 v. Acrobat, 3 to 1 v. Bunray, 4 to 1 v. Butcher JBoy, 6 to 1 v. any other. . . , , , Sunray was the first to begin, and led over the first fence by ten lengths, followed by Butcher Boy; and the others, with the exception of Felix, who baulked and refused to look at a rail. Planet fell at the second jump, but was soon remounted ; and Sunray, running the fence at the Denison turn, Butcher Boy was left at the front, with Acrobat in close waiting, but both came to grief at the first of the treble, and Sunray having safely negotiated the fence, he ran round once more, and assumed the command. Mr Hill was unable to rise, but although Mr Teiry soon got Butcher Boy going again, the result was never in doubt, and the top weight won easily by twelve lengths, while Butcher Boy was 30 lengths in front of Planet. Time, 5 minutes 17 seconds. At a recent meeting of the English Jockey Club the following addition to rule 4 was passed;—" At each meeting advertised in the Racing Calendar there shall be. not less than one weight for age race, with .or without penalties or allowances, nob being a selling race or confined to two-year-olds, provided there are five entries, and three horses the property of different owners start, and at every meeting of more than two days, once such race each day.” The American flyer, Joe Cotton, has this season already won 18,425 dollars, the largest sum to the credit of any one horse up to the present. He has , captured three Derbies in three different States, won bix races out of eight starts, made a dead heat in one, and in the other was third and last. The firing which Canard underwent some time back has (says** Actseon”) bad the desired effect, and his legs now look as sound as when he was foaled. Yeung Huxtable, who went over to Australia with the Hon. W. Robinson s string, rode the winner, Farewell, in the'June Handicap at Bosehill. Mr A. Turner, who has purchased the right to the booth ou the Island Bay Course next Saturday, has appointed Mr F. S. Cooper, steward of the Working Men’s Club to manage it. Meals will be kept in readiness in the afternoon and evening. The following was the result of the sale, by Messrs J. H. Wallace and Co., of privileges on. the Island Bay Racecourse for next Saturday :—Publican’s and luncheon booth in saddling paddock, £6 15s, Mr Mcliellan ; publican’s booth opposite grand stand, £6 10s, Mr Cooper (Working Men’s Club) ; publican s booth opposite grand stand, £4 15s, Mr Cooper ; two confectioners’ booths, both opposite grand stand, 15s each, Mr. A. Morgan, Lambton-quay ; light of printing cards, £22, Mr Carpenter, fruiterer ; right to games, 12s 6d ; and right to tether horses, 15s 6d. The racehorses Clogs, Main Boom, and Life Buoy (late Rally) arrived here Wednesday, for the purpose of taking part in the race meeting at Island Bay on Saturday next, the two former by the Rotorua from Picton, and the latter by the Hawea from Lyttelton.