ROUND THE WORLD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 25

ROUND THE WORLD.

Bombshell will be raced in Sydney in the spring.

Cabin lioy, the winner of the Victoria Racing Club’s St. Leger, has gone to Queensland.

Paris, the Australian racer, has won the Gahvick Handicap at Home. There were only two starters.

Thunderer, the winner of the Baker Handicap in Adelaide, paid the remarkable dividend of £99 4s.

Governor Hampden takes a very keen interest in sporting. Why does he not get some horses of his own ?

There is some talk about nominating Euroelydon for tho Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and the Metropolitan Handicap.

The winner and runner-up in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase started at 40 to 1 each, and the third horse at 25 to

A couple of moneyed New Zealanders have been securing a big amount over on the other side about Tire for the next Derby and Cup.

Something was seen to be wrong with Trentham some days before lie ran in the Adelaide Cup, which may account for his’ defeat.

The London correspondent of the Bulletin rays, speaking of Cloraine, that his victory under that weight proves him the best handicap horse in England, liar, perhaps, \ ictor Wild.

It is said that the Prince of Wales has a remarkably fine two-year-old in St. Nicholas, by St. Serf out of Fortune, and that he is one of the best looking and most promising animals of his age now to be seen at Newmarket. St. Nicholas will probably make his debut at Ascot,

The London Field has a table showing that during the period from 13;3 to 1894 inclusive, 317 yearlings brought “ four figures” each in England, that the total cost was £503,110 10s, and the amount won while in training £215,837. In not one year of the twelve has the total income equalled the total cost.

The ex-leviathan of the Australian ring, Mr “Joe” Thompson, now in England, writes to a friend to say that he won £15,000 over the Liverpool Grand National, partly through being unable to “ get out ” of £SOOO for which he had early backed the winner. J. D. Marks, another well known Melbourne penciller, is also fielding in England, having an interest in Thompson’s book,

The Earl of Coventry, who lived during the commencement of the present century, was unfortunately blind. Nevertheless, lu selected his own horses, judging their hr. mat ion by feel, and their action bv 1 i>n r:; ■■ r. Mr Weston, whose father planned tho ilr-t Eddystone Lighthouse, was a contomnoruw of the Earl’s, and also blind, and. like iL. nobleman referred to, always bou.ht i n hunters and effected many commissions k : his friends. The weights put on Mr Gollau’s lmivi were so tremendously heavy that he s ‘r;.i ■ i Norton for the Liverpool Grand Nati-.rd. Other New Zealanders will take waini: ; and not send any horses Home if tint is n be the state of things, although, if NoG.-.n had started, the race was such a surprise all through that he might have won. The Lincolnshire Handicap has be i won this time by an Irish-bred lmr-v. Cloraine, owned by Mr A. F. Bassett, a v.oy rich young man who has been more tie.", once mentioned as a very ardent lover <4 one of our pretty Australian adre.-.-".-Cloraine was ridden by Moniington Cmi:-m, and carried the enormous weight of P--t lOl'a Mr Bassett first wagered £ls,uooJo £su'> on him ami has made a boh.

The stables of the Prince of ".Vales : said to be the finest in the wuv! 1. T ventilation is said to be so admirable U you can hardly distinguish Lei .w u I atmosphere thee from that in a draw!: room. So perfect is the plan on which ’ whole is arranged that you can walk rou CO boxes without ever going out iff doo:s, a every necessary appliance is available wo out leaving the building, At the bn 4: the first large quadrangle is another win hospital cases are dealt with, and wm machinery is constantly at work for piling water, chaff cutting, general: electricity, kc.., all driven by the sm engine power. Here, too, is the forge, y, two blacksmiths in regular employneSo gigantic is the establishment that £ b week has to be paid in wages out fide i ordinary wages account for boys, stublenn kc. The boys’ quarters arc good, ami i catering department is in the ham!.; of contractor, who looks after it in t ors There arc 1C boys to provide for.