SPORTING NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 745, 11 June 1886, Page 19

SPORTING NOTES.

[Bs Martini ] Entries for the Wellington Racing Club Steeplechase meeting are due on the lGth inst. Weights will be declared on the 25th. Mr Pilbrotv tells ‘ Sir Launcelot ’ that “Clarence’s * gummy ’ leg has grown quite callous, and he should not be surprised to see the old horse a rod in pickle for the next V.R.C. Grand National.” Mr Pilbrow has named his yearling colt by The Drummer—Modesty, Captain Wheeler ; and the yearling colt by The Drummer —Corisande, Wakatipu. The Weights have been declared as follows for the Hawkes’ Bay Steeplechase Handicap of 500 sovs. Three miles and a half Canard, 12st 91b ; Erebus, 12st 51b ; Guy Fawkes, list Sib ; Sultan, list 61b; Macaroni, list 41b; Shotover, list 21b; Belle, list 21b ; Tiger, list 21b ; Faugh aBallagh, list; Secretary, list; The Druid, 10st 121 b ; Orient, lOst 71b ; Romeo, lOst 51b; Pastime, lOst 41b; Denbigh, lOst 31b ; Miss •Griffiths, lOst; Assegai, 9st lulb, Dan •O’Connell, 9st 71b; Lady Lee, 9st 71b; Mountaineer, 9st 71b ; Onepu, 9st 71b ; Fair William, 9st 71b; Forest King, 9st 7lb; •Spartan, 9st 7lb ; Alpha, 9st 71b ; Huntsman, 9at 71b ; Patent Safety, 9st 71b ; Kangaroo, 9st 71b. Canard, I fancy, is asked to carry more Whan he is likely to get home first with, and in short, on form there seems to me to be hardly' anything in the race but Guy Fawkes. I should say that Romeo, Secretary, Faugh-a-Ballagh, and Erebus are the next best. • Guy Fawkes has also been well treated in the Great Northern Steeplechase (Auckland) where he is top weight with list Sib ; Macaroni being next in order with list 41b. These two ought to furnish the winner, with Julia Ann for third place. Reputation is entered ifor the_ Whitsuntide Handicap and Sprint to be run at Plumpton Park on the 14th. The Wairarapa people are to be congratulated on the accession of Grand Duke, by Perkin Warbeck—Wild Rose to the numbers of their stud horses, Mr Kimberley, who has bought the little horse, should make a good thing out of him, and at the same time, the quality of the racing stock of the plains will be considerably improved. The malignant printer, of whose vindictiveness I have several times had to complain, has ‘ got ’em again.’ Last week, in a paragraph about the Cup weights, he took upon himself to speak of Master Agnes as ‘ she.’ It is exceedingly horrible to be under the dominion of this despotic type-snatcher ! I am informed that the statement that ‘ Mr E. Winfred’ has purchased the trotting mare Kate Kelly, is incorrect. At .the Bourke races recently, the Central Australian Handicap was won by Toward, a son of Grand Flaneur, out of Norah. Among the entries for the Champagne Stakes 18S7, to be run at the Australian J.C. Spring Meeting, are four colts entered in the name of Mr E. Mitchelson —Escutcheon, by Musket —Rosette ; Mana, by Musket —L’Orient ; Franter, by Musket — Pungawerewere; and Whakawai, by Leolinus —Lure. Archer is said to have ridden 258 S winners.

Another interesting action for slander in connection with a bet alleged to have been laid is going on in Melbourne. The Sportsman gives particulars as follows : —We have from time to time advised backers to be most careful in seeing that their bets are correctly recorded by the fielder at the time the bet is made, and further, to compare books before the race is run. One more instance of the wisdom of this advice is to be found in the slander action, Lee v Saqui, in which Mr Joseph Lionel Lee, a commercial traveller, seeks to recover from Mr Austin Saqui, the well-known book-maker, £2OOO damages for slander, in stating that the name on the block of the plaintiffs chequebook, alleged to be that of Saqui, is a forgery. The dispute arose over a bet of £IOOO to £3. The plaintiff alleges that he backed Nordenfelt and Sheet Anchor for the amount stated, and that Mr Saqui signed his cheque-book to that effect. The bookmaker states that the bet was another horse and Sheet Anchor. Of course, the question of the bet comes up incidentally in the case. Or rather, : perhaps, the action is one nominally for slander ; inreality, however, it is to settle a bet of £IOOO to £3. In the course of the case counsel for defendant asked the plaintiff if he did not see that the bet was correctly entered in Saqui’s book, and he replied that that he did not. His Honor Judge Williams said that when he betted—this was in his younger salad days—he never waited to see how the bookmaker entered the bet. And not one man in a hundred does so. Mr Oxenham (writes Asmodeus) is having a very brilliant innings on the turf of New South Wales. His name was first brought prominently forward through the medium of that sterling little mare Cerise and Blue, and on Monday last his recent purchase, Mackay (late Silver King), added to the prestige of Mr Oxenham s stable by winning the Royal Stakes, for which the ex-selling plater started a strong favorite. The purchase of Mackay a short time ago was a very lucky deal on the part of the Sydney metallician, on whom dame fortune has smiled with considerable force during the present season. It is said that in addition to supporting his horse for a big stake, Mr Oxenham laid £IOOO to £SOO on Mackay versus Fuse, and the last named had the misfortune to get interfered with. Mr Mitchelson’s three colts who were recently taken to Australia, appear to have created quite an impression overthere. Sporting writers speak in terms of great praise of the three youngsters. * Hippona,’ has it on excellent authority • that if passed as sound, the stallion Cap-

tivator, got by the English Derby winner Caractacus, will pass into the hands of the New Zealand Stud Company. MrT. Hawkins Smith, who hasalarge station on the Clarence River, New South Wales; and who owns the hprse, passed through Auckland en route to England a few days back, and a deal was made with him to secure Captivator, but the particulars have not yet transpired. The Hon Janies White has won nearly £13,000 in stakes this season.

‘VARIOUS.’ Tn a wrestling match, the best of three falls, for £4O, Graeco-Roman style, the other day, John Graham, of South Melbourne, beat Mens Victor, getting two falls out of three. The second intercolonial football match Victoria, v New- South Wales, was.played-at Sydney on the 22nd of May. Victoria won by S goals. 20 behinds, to New South Wales’ 3 goals 3 behinds. * Professor ’ Miller has retired from athletic competitions. Uarriman, the American champion heel and toe walker, is in Melbourne. "A match is on the tapis between him and Edwards. Australian scullers are not doing particularly well in England, for Neil Matterson has been beaten by Perkins, and Nelson has been * dersed * by Bubear. Let us hope that the champion will have better luck with Hanlan. The Australia cricketers, however, are doing ▼ery nicely. The first few matches they played did hot finish exactly as we should like to have seen them finis, but the colonials are evidently picking up, and their victory over the Gentleman is something to talk about. Harriman told a representative of the Melbourne Sportsman that Sullivan, (John L.) cmld knock any four men out in a day. The Sportsman doubts whether the slogger could do it if Miller was one of the four. North Canterbury beat Sydenham (at football), by 11 points to 2 the other day. This appeared in the New York Sportsman last March :— ‘ J. B. Russell, of Pittsburg, met J. Teemer in Alleghany, on Sunday and on the part of Beach, the champion oarsman of the world, presented to him the portrait and authograph of the renowned Australian. Teemer was very much pleased with the testimonials that his competitor had sent him, and inquired very particularly after him. “ I met Beach,’ said Mr Russell, * at Rydes, near Sydney, Australia. He told me that Hanlan had taught him his entire knowledge of sculling. He had rowed several prior to seeing Hanlan, and with very indifferent success. He witnessed his methods once or twice, and at once set himself to learn them. His success was instantaneous. Beach was at one time quite dissipated, and his backers and admirers knowing this, have settled a competency upon his wife, so that she may live if her husband fails to retain his hold. From the information I have received from those who witnessed the Teemer-Hanlan race I assume that Teemer will be able to defeat Beach. He will go to Australia one of these days to try conclusions with him. That is the country for sporting. I saw an Englishman lose £65,000 there in one day. Billy Emerson, . the California minstrel, won 60,000 dollars the same day. At the Flemington racecourse, near Melbourne, on Melbourne Cup day 150,000 tickets wore sold at the gates. This is but a sample of what they do in Australia.”’ They do say that poets are born liars. Wonder whether. J. B. Russell ever went in for verses ?

From the New York Herald it appears that the match which had been arranged between Edward Hanlan and Wallace Ross, for a purse of 3000 dollars, to take place at Montreal on Dominion Day, June 24, is off, and that on March 29 the final arangements, which have been going on for some time, for a race between Hanlan and George H. Hosmer, of Boston, w ere completed. The race is to be for 1500 dollars (a purse made up by the citizens of Quebec), and is to be rowed on Dominion Day, on Lake St. Joseph, near Quebec. Hosmer, on March 29, telegraphed his acceptance of the conditions. He is in splendid physical condition, and thinks he stands a good chance of pulling through.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (REDTEE’S TELEGRAMS) Paris, June 6. The Grand Prix de Paris was run for to-day—Minting, 1 ; Polycuete, 2; Sycamore, 3. MELBOURNE CUP ENTRIES. Melbourne, June 7. The following entries have been received for the Melbourne Cup, which is run for in November :—Acolyte, Bonnie Doon, Britisher, Clarendon (Kruschkao), Commotion, Coronet, Country Boy, Cyclops, Duke of Athol, Eagle Grange, Ebony, Fish o’Silver, Grace Darling, Islander, Kit Nubbles, Kenneth, Lesbia, Little John, Liverpool, Lord Wilton, Matchlock, Minerva, Mozart, Marvondah, Perchance, Plausible, Prometheus, Remus, Retort, Sheet Anchor, Silver Mine, Stornoway, Sauvignon, The Pencil, The Plunger, Trenton, Velocipede, Winchester. Ben Bolt, Brigantine, Blackenake, Boolka, Affluence, Aglaios,.Crane, St Albert, St Julian, Malua, Kohia, Loafer, Opal, Scylla, William Tell, Disowned, Nelson, Salvo, Highland Chief, Maori Chief, Isonouay, Tara, Recall, Meteor, Quentin Matsys, Gazelle, Menotte, Cornu?, Notiron, Stark, Sandal, Young Horatio, The Earl, The Levite, Jack Roach, Sir Lancelot, Trent, Fobber, Millstream, Duration, Lochiel, Zeoo, Merrimu, Huron, Lady Bell, St Paul, Kitawa, Torrent, Telford. In addition to the foregoing 87 received in Melbourne, the following 56 horses were nominated in Sydney: — Arsenal, Brown and Rose, Burrilda, Blairgowrie, Cairo, Cerise and Blue, Cor lay, Chesham, Dunlop, Honeydew, Haicione, Hexham, King’s Own, Moonshee, Monte Christo, Miles -na - Coppaleen, Madelina, Palarenda, St. O’Dille, Tetnpe, Warwick, Yellow-jacket, My Lord, Bravo, Volcano, Energy, Fernandez, Bohemian, Kingsgrove, Felon, Gipsy’s Warning, Silver King, Soldier’s Wife, Recovery, Cross Fire, Don Giovanne, Jacinta, Myall, King, New York, Raoul, Gozo, Coir, Kingfish, Lord William, Miona, Pilot, Trident, Milda, Gentility, Rifleshot, Highland Mary, Orphan, Ideal colt, Landseer, Midas, and Krupp,

Melbourne, June 8.

There are no South Australian entries for the Melbourne Cup, and the nominations generally show a falling off from previous years. For the Caulfield Cup, 102 entries have been received, which is also a considerable decrease on previous years. HAWESBUBY HANDICAP. ■ - - Sydney, June 7. For the Hawkesbury.Handicap, 92 nominations have been made, and for the Metropolitan, 69 have been received. Among the entries are Winchester and Liverpool. ASCOT GOLD VASK. (special to united pbees association.) London, June 8. At Ascot to-day the race for the Gold Vase,' valued 200 sovs, given by Her Majesty the Queen, added to sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, resulted as follow : Lord Ellesmere’s Belinda ... 1 Lord Hartington’s Sir Kenneth .. 2 M. Derville’a Michael ... ... 3