SPORTING NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9139, 10 November 1890, Page 4

SPORTING NOTES.

(From the JVeic Zealand Mail, November 7.) Mr Brodribb’a £4BOO which he paid for Titan has apparently gone into the deep sea, along with the good round sum it must have cost to keep him since the purchase. Titan, the cable tells ua, wont hopelessly lamo tha other day. Experience, whicU makes all classes of people wise, will ba valuable in this case. Mr BrodriLb pail £4GOD guineas for a two-year-old gelding who was a wonderful performer certainly, bat only a two-year-old, and only a gelding, atter all. Now, even if the horse recovers bo is always liable to go again at any time, Writing of Titan aod'his stable adventures a week or two ago,' Freelance* in the Sportsman said : —ln putting down the sum total of the stable and public losses on Titan at £50,000, I fancy I shall be found to ba well within the mark. Counting the original cost if the son of Chester and the stable lessen over the A.J.C. Derby and Guineas, they must have already dropped at least £20,000 over the disappointment. Add to this the amount invested on the V.R.C. Derby and the public investments on the three races, and the total is swollen to, say, £50,000. The 'double’ money lost is by no means insignificant. All through the winter Titan had been taken iu all sorts of Gap combinations, and his dual defeat as a three-year-old has left tho early, impatient punters with volumes of ‘dead wagers’ on hand. It seems that in tho Caulfield Guineas Titan turned sulky and refused to gallop when Huxley called on him. One more favourite has won tho V.R.O. Derby, this time The Admiral, whose sire Richmond (by Maribymong) won tho A.J.C, Derby in 1875 for Mr Jellett, Tho Admiral, it may be remarked, la the first of the Richmonds to attain such a distinction. After his strong running and easy victory in the Caulfield Stakes the colt was naturally made favourite for the Derby, though tho Guineas winner, Anneslcy, supplanted him at one time. However, Annesley seems to have been just out of the race for places. Magic Circle, who ran second to The Admiral, is a full sister to Ringmaster, being by First King-Yardley. The very poor time for the raoe is probably due to the first mile having been cat out very slowly. However, the time test, they say, is not reliable, and as Nordeufeldt (who aocordiug to Payten was the finest oolt he ever handled) was exactly two seconds slower than The Admiral, probably there is nothing in .the time test. The fastest on record for tho raoo remains with Martini-Henry and Trident, whose 2min. SOaeo. each remain unbeaten.

Writing of tho Caulfield Cup tho Argus says that for style and carriage Pygmalion had no rival in the race. Towards the time for starting the race, Bothwell was a strong order in the market, and he advanced into tho position of absolute favourite &t the start. The others which the public asked for most frequently were Pygmalion, Singapore, Churchill, Loy ala tone, Jobusito, and Little Bernie. Though Vengeance and Kuuc were well backed, they were not nearly such favourites on tho course as tho others mentioned. The raoe was not a specially remarkable one, but it certainly was fast. Sir William commenced it, aud then Plenty and Tarooola kept it going right round to tho tarn into tho straight. During the whole journey Loyalstono, Bothwcll, and Vengeance were handy, and none of the three ever fell very far back, Vengeance in particular always bolding fourth or fifth position. On the other band, Pygmalion, Little Bernie, Singapore, and Leopold were never seen near the front at any part of the race. Tarooola hold his place gallantly until they were fairly in tho straight, when he gave way before the strong running left in a couple who had a stone or so loss weight to carry—Vengeance and Loyalstouc. Bothwell also found himself unable to keep with the two lighter-weighted ones; while Enuc, who suffered under no disadvantage in the handicap, was too late getting out from the field. Had he got a clearer run home he might have been ia the struggle at the finish. As it was Vengeance just beat Loyalatone by a short head after a very exciting eiruggle, while everything else except Enuo seemed to* be quite out of it. The Caulfield Cup was worth £ISOO to the first horse, of the Stakes £465, and the Guineas £4lO. I (‘ Hippo ’) am sorry to say that Huxtablo, tho jockey who got hurt through a fall from Haven in the Hurdle Haco at the Napier Park races, is not getting on at all well. Qis mind wanders a great deal at times, and as it was considered that a change might do him good, it has been decided to send him to the Wellington hospital by today's steamer. The Napier Park Kaoing Club will pay the expenses, and keep him there for a time until it is seen whether he benefits by the change. “Trident’ writes in the Sydney Mall:—■ J, McLean ia rowing very well, and many persons believe ho will defeat Stansbary, who has been twice defeated by Kemp on the Fitzroy River, also by Nulaos in tho handicap raoe. Probably Kemp is the fastest man we have on fast running water, and in any case ho ia believed to bo about equal to Stansbary.