SPORTING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 873, 23 November 1888, Page 13

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(By Marti* i.) ' ; ■ : FIXTURES. November 30 and December I—Dunedin Spring SO and December I—Wellington R.C. Spring-Meeting. _ j „ December 4—lsland Bay R. C. Meeting. December 26—H iwkes Bay J. C. Meeting. December 20—ManawatuR. C. Summor Meeting. December 20 and January 1 and 2—Auckland It. U. Summer Meeting; • * ' ■ a December 31—Canterbury Jockey Club s Summer 1 and 2—Rangltikei R.C. Annual Meeting. April 22 and 23—Canterbury Jock-y Club a Autumn Meeting. , Nominations. .Acceptances Ac. November 24—Nominations Rangltikei Racing Club’s :Ahnual Meeting. , , ' ' r. November 27—Nominations Hawkes Bay J. C. Boxing Day Meeting. . „ ~ November 27 —Nominations Christmas Handicap. Hurdles, and Summer Handicap, Hawkes Bay Boxing Day. Meeting. ~ ’ , November 30—Acceptances Auckland Cup and St November’ SO—Nominations • Taranaki Summer Meeting. ~ ~ „ December 3—Nominations Napier Park New Year Meeting. December 3—Acceptances Island Bay Meeting. - - Declaration or Weights. December I—lsland Bay R. C. Meeting. December 11—Acceptances and general entries Hawkes Bay Club’s Boxing Day Meeting. December 12—Acceptances and entries New ungnton Spring Meeting. . , < ■> ■ December 13— Acceptances and general entries Manawatu Summer Meeting. ’• December 14—General entries Auckland Summer Meeting, and first forfeits Great Northern Derby and Foal Stakes. ■ , . . December 15—Acceptances and general entries Greymouth Midsummer Meeting. December 19—Acceptances and entries Rangltikei Annual Meeting. . December 21—Acceptance* Burdles, Christmas, and Railway Handicaps, Auckland Summer Meeting. December 23—Nominations Egmont Autumn Meet24—Second forfeits Great Northern Derby and Foal Stakes.

Mr W. Somerville may be said to have bad a rare picnic at the Auckland Spring meeting, where, with the aid of his two Musket fillies Hilda and Cissy, he annexed the two principal events on the first day and the three best on-the second day. With Hilda, by Musket—Ouida, he won the Gnineasar.d Prince of Wales Handicap on Saturday week; while Cissy, who is a full sister to Trenton, and apparently a rattling good two-year-old, appropriated the Welcome Stakes. On Saturday last Hilda won him the, Spring Handicap and City Handicap. Not at all a bad two daye' work. Major George’s colt Raglan, - by Cap-a-pie, ran in the Guineas, and was only able to make a fair second to Hilda. „ . The weights for the Wellington Racing Club’s Spring Meeting were declared last week, and acceptances are due to-night. In the Flying Stakes Mr Evett has begun rather low by giving Forester Bst 101 b, a weight at which Mr Tancred’s horse conld heat any* thing else in the raoe if he were so inclined. Unfortunately, however, he is seldom so in*, dined, and probably therefore the weight he is given is not a bit too much. As a pretty spry one over the distance Whisper should have a big say in the race with Bst 71b np, but she does not appear to have been runnine in the best form lately, and I think Little Sorub with 7st 12ib is much more dangerous. Man Friday I don’t know, but his name ought to stiffen him, and with the exception of Cupid there does not appear to be anything dangerous in the race. In the Hurdles, Orlando looks about the beat treated. Little Scrub is well treated in the Hutt Park Spring Handicap, and if he is well, bising a consistent performer and a hard §oer, I shall stand him. I don’t think trennons can give him a stone and a half. In the Grand Stand Handicap Whisper and Forester seem to me to be about the best. A race for the biggest stake on record took place at Manchester late in September. It was called the Lancashire Plate, valued at £II,OOO, weight for age, for two-year-olds’ and upwards, seven furlongs. The St. Leger winner Seabreeze won from Ayrshire, after a grand race, by half a length. Time 1 min. 29 l-sth sec. The value of the stakes to the winner'was £10,196, to the second £IOOO, and to the third (Le Saucy) £250. Fusillade’s dam, Wai-iti,. has produced a chestnut colt to Le Loup. Rubina, Waterwitoh and a Traduoer mare, have produced foals to Tasman. If the com* bination is at all a happy one the filly by Tasman—Rubina ought to be a real good one, for both its parents were lenowned for speed as well as heart. Coooanut, dam of Navigator and Trident, has visited the New Zealand (horse Silver Prince. .

I saw one man on the Derby day (writes • Aulua’) who had a piece of luck in a email way. Just before the Maribyrnong was run, he was going down with a friend to back Rudolph. On his way he picked up a bead ornament. 4 What is this?’ ‘That,’ said the friend 4 is a necklet. ’ ‘Necklet? Isn’t there a horse of that name in this race 7 By Jove, this is a Mascotte ; I’ll back Necklet instead of Rudolph,’ And he did, and Neoklet won; and ne can show the necklet and the money to convinoe the sceptical. The Australasian comments thus upon the appearance of the Derby horses iu t<;e paddook :—lt was with extreme difficulty that we got a peep at the New Zealander (Carbine), so dense was the crowd that surrounded him, and as bis owner in his shirt-Bleeves led the favourite through the throng, he was followed by hundreds of people anxious to obtain a glimpse of the colt of whom they had heard so much.-’ -In colour a bright bay, with a white hind foot, his coat shone with all the appearance of health, and the muscular development of his quarters denoted that previous to arriving' in Australia he mußt

have done plenty of good sound work, albeit another fortnight would have served him well. To us he looked all over a stayer, and with not a very brilliant lot to oopo with we thought, as he walked away with his owner, the New Zealanders had never had such, a rosy chance of appropriating a Derby. Still wo fancied Melos as the most like a -Derby winner. Rayner had him in excellent condition, and his stable companion Wycombe showed improvement upon his Randwick form. With his weakish-looking coupling and light black ribs, Ensign hardly pre. seated the appearance of a Derby winner, but if ever there was a three-year-old strung right up to concert pitch, fit to run for a kingdom, it was this whito-faoed son of Grandmaster. His trainer, Tom Payten, was much more confident of ' victory than anybody, and declared that, whatever Carbine might do with him, he was certain that the gelding would heat both of Mr Gannon’s.; > -

Tradition the despised, of whom one writer said that he might be good enough to win a selling race if the company wasn’t good, has gone up in public estimation, and- ‘ Augur ’ makes the following remarkable statement about him :—One thing, I think, is certain, if Tradition had received suoh a preparation as Mentor ho would have won both the Caulfield and the Melbourne Cup, He ran a good horse under difficulties, and I feel certain that if he trains on we shall discover him to be one of the groatest weight* for-age horses of the day. A yarn has boenjn circulation during the past couple of weeks (writes 4 Mazeppa’) to the effect that in Tatterisall’s Sydney consulta. tion on the Melbourne Cup Mentor was drawn by a Dunedin syndicate of four, and when it became known that Mentor had won the race the gentlemen referred to were congratulated on all sides on their supposed good fortune in having dropped in for the handsome bonns of • £25,000. I regret to have to announce that there is not one atom of truth in the story. CHaraeteristics ot a Great Oars- - man* Trickett used to row one warm pace from start to finish, and he won many good races by so doing until opposed by Beach, who made the pace all he knew for the first mile. Elias Laycook used to row the first mile fast, then ease; and for the last half-mile he put all his speed out. By so doing he won some excellent races in the last part of the’struggie. Hanlan always followed the one set rule of barsting his opponent in the first mile, after which time he had the race well in hand, and won comfortably. When he met Trio* kett on the Thames he took the Australian away so much faster than he had been used to cover the first part of the course, that the latter part of the race was merely a padd'e. Hanlan tried the same tactics with Beach in the first race they had on the Parramatta, but overreached himself, and fell an easy victim after one and a-half mile. This raoe taught us how to defeat the Canadian. He wanted a * spell ’ after the mile; and to press him then was to defeat him. When Beach met Teemer on the Thames he allowed the latter no time to loiter, and the race was all over after a mile or so of hard rowing ; but in the race with Gaud anr the pace was not made from the start, and, as a consequenoo, we find the struggle prolonged until near the finish, when both men were more severely distressed than they would have been had the paoe been faster during the first mile. Wallace Ross seems to row one oven pace all through, but he has not been successful against men who rowed a fast paoe for a mile. Kemp attempts to lead from the start, eases at half a mile, spurts at the mile, and wins or loses during the next quartermile. By so doing ho defeated Hanlan twice. Searle rows for the lead, slows down at a quarter-mile, spurts at half a mile, eases again, and spurts at a mile. But the iemarkable thing about the champion is that he can always spurt at the right time, aud at any part of the course, as he did when rowing Stansbnry, who rowed one determined pace all the way.—Sydney Mail. Two-Miles Bicycling Championship. A race for the English twenty-miles professional bicycling championship took place at Leicester a month or two ago. T. H. English and A. H. Robb were the favourites ; hut the winner turned up in W. Wood, who finished in lhr. 4min. 235e0., beating Robb by half a yard. W. Wood, North Shields, 55in Hillman (belt and £10) ... ... ... 1 A. H. Robb, Leicester, 54in Humber (£3) 2 R. Howell, Leicester, 58in Rudge (£2)... 3 A. Hawker, Leicester, 57in Humber (£1) 4 This is the first time W. Wood has won the championship over this distance, but his namesake F. Wood has won it six times and" Howell nine times. The best time 'on record for the raoe is held by F. Wood -59 min 18£ secs, made in 1885. AUCKLAND SPRING MEETING. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, November 17. The Auckland Racing Club held the second day’s racing in connection with the Spring Meeting to-day. The weather was fine, but it was threatening in the morning, and the attendance was small. The raoing was good throughout. The result of the two-year-old race, the Nursery Handicap, was a surprise, La Daupbine, a good looking filly by The Dauphin from the Panic mare Brassolis, upsetting what was presumed to be a certainty for The Bean. Following are the results: Spring Handicap, of 60 sovs; seven furlongs.—W. Sommerville’s Hilda, Bst 61b (Taylor), 1 ; W. Bobbett’s Patchwork, 6st 121 b (Cook), 2 ; J. Paul’s Fox ton, 7a t 51b (Durston), 3, Landseer, Lioness, Braemar, and Muskerina also ran. Won easily by a length, Foxton third, a length behind Patchwork, Lioness fourth. Time, lmin 32£sec. Dividends—lnside, £1 13s ; outside, £1 11s. Nursery Handicap, of 60 bovs, for two-year-olds ; four furlongs.—Mr J. O. Davis’ La Dauphiue, by The Dauphin—Braßsolis, 7st (Neilly), 1; Mr W. Sommerville’s The Bean, by Feve—Memento, 7st 81b (Katterns), 2 ; Mr W. Turner’s The Baron, by Hippo, campus—Grand Duohees, 7st 101 b (Carey),

3. Lochhess, Nosegay, Warrior, and Fabulous were the other starters. La Daupbine won by a head. Time, 52Jsec. Dividends—lnside, £37 16s ; outside, £42 18s.

Hurdle Race, of 60 sovs ; one and threequarter miles.—Mr J. Carnegie’s Pretender, lOst 21b (Frewin), 1; MrJ. B. Williamson’s Shillelagh, 10st 71b (Hadfield), 2 ; Mr M. Gallagher’s Peter Oabeck, list 71b (Fergus), 3. The other starters were—Orangeman, Ma Petite Fille, Kangaioo, and Artist. Won by a head. Time, 3min 27|seo. Dividends—lnside, £5 178 6d ; outside, £6 lls 6d.

City Handicap, of 100 sovs; one and a quarter miles.—Mr W. Sommerville’s Hilda, Bst 71b (Taylor), 1 ; Mr T. Page’s Antelope, Bst 71b (Monaghan), 2 ; Mr J. Chaafe's Tartar, 6at 71b (Smith), 3 Clogs, Leorina, Lioness, Pusohka, and Ernest also ran. Won easily by three lengths. Antelope was second, a head in front of Tartar, whilst Clogs was fourth by the same distance away. Leorina, Lionesß, Ernest and Pus. chka finished in the order named. Time, 2tnin 21Jaec. Dividends—lnside, £1 lls ; outside, £1 12s 6d. Shotover won the Selling Hurdle Race, beatiog Fisherman. Hunters’ Stakes, 40 sovs , one mile.— Mr J. Carnegie’s Pretender, list 131 b (J. S. Buckland), 1 ; Mr R. Burke’s Sirloin, list 131 b (T. Holstead), 2 ; Mr T. B. Bell’s Reproach, list 71b (Owner), 3. The Squire, On Guard, and Cußhla also ran. Pretender won easily by a length in front of Reproach. Time, lmin 54Jsec. Dividends—lnside, £2 2s 6d ; outside, £2 9s. Maiden Plate, of 50 sovs ; one mile.— ,Mr J. Enko’s Puschka, 7st 61b (Katterns), 1 ; Mr W. Bobbett’s Patchwork, 8s t 21b (Kidd), 2; Mr J. Paul’s Foxton, Bst 81b (Belcher), 3. Eruption, Tupaki, Rataplan, Brown Rose, Black Joe, and Mantilla completed the fisld. Won by half a length, Foxton being in . time only to get third place, a neck behind Patchwork. Time, lmin 48sec. Dividend—£l2 12s 6d ; outside, £l3 10s. November 20. The winning payments in connection with the A. R.C. Spring Meeting were made today, when £1123 16s was distributed. The principal amounts were to Mr Sommerville (£621 6s) and Mr J. C. Carnegie (£137 15s). C.J.C. NOMINATIONS. Christchurch,’ November 19. The nominations for the Canterbury Jockey Club Welcome, 1889, and Canterbury Jockey Club Derby and Oaks, 1890, received on November 10th, were made public to-night. The nominations for the Welcome numbered 77, one more than those for the present year, and the largest ever received for the Stake. The Derby has received 65 nominations, a total which exceeds the previous list record by 8. The Oaks total is 43, which is 21 in excess of the last nominations. The New Zealand Stud Company, Middle Park Stud Company, Major George, and Mr G. McLean are the largest nominators, but most of the principal breeders and racing men of the Colony have horses engaged.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, November 15. The following weights have been declared :—Auokland Cup Handicap.—Nelson, 9st 121 b ; Lochiel, Bat 101 b ; Silence, Bst 81b; Carbine and Manton, Bsb 71b; Lorraine, 7st 121 b ; Wolverine, 7st 111 b; British Lion and Jet d’Eau, 7st 71b; Cuirassier and Lady Norah, 7st 61b ; Brigadier, Phormium Tenax, and Escutcheon, 7st 51b ; , Clogs, Son-of a-Gun, and Hotchkiss, 7st 41b ; Hilda and Meta, 7st 31b ; Red. wood, Richmond, and Leopold, 7st; St Clair, 6st 121 b ; Enid, 6st 81b ; Tartar, Raglan, and Lavinia, 6st 71b ; Rataplan and Bangle, 6st 61b; Patchwork, Balista, St James, and St Malo, 6st 51b ; Lioness, 6st 31b ; Clive, Earnest, Pusohka, Sir Walter, and Parvenu, 6st. Christchurch, November 15.. The racehorses Leopold, Korunna, Escutcheon, and Cuirrassier wore shipped on the Mararoa for Auckland this afternoon. After getting them safely on board, the trainer was informed that the steamer would nob sail till to morrow at 2. Auckland, November 20. Lorraine has been scratched for all engagements at the Auokland Racing Club’s Summer Meeting. Sydney, November 21. The Wagga Gold Cup resulted bb follows : —Drumstick, 1 ; Minerva, 2; Desmond, 3.