SPORTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3728, 1 May 1899, Page 6

SPORTING.

RACING IN ENGLAND. CHESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Saturday. At the Newmarket hrst Spring Meeting, the 1000 Guinea Slakes, of 100 sovs each, for three-year-ola allies, resulted as followsMr Lorillard's b f Sibola, by The Sailor Prince—Saluda 1 Mr Arthur James's b f Fascination, by Royal Hampton—Charm 2 Mr Douglas Baird's b f Musa, by Martagon—Fahnliower 3 WELLINGTON RACING CLUB. The winning payments over the recent Autumn Meeting are as follow:—Messrs G. G. Stead, £bf9 10s; F. Watson, jiZi'i ss; F. Webb, £175 las; £. Hammond, .£l2B ss; R. Platts, -tlu-l 10s; T. Clarke, Jill ss; VV. Davies, AOo 10s; E. Pitzmaurlcc, £l2 15a; Dr Nairn, All); F. Martin, AO 10s; P. F. lancreo, 10s; K. Connop, Ids; Captain Russell, AZJ.B 10s; X. fccott, Afs2; M. Walker, AIU; E. Morse, JO) 5; E. Cutts, £6O 10a; VV. Rathbone, A 42 15s; <ct. P. Donnelly, A2B 10s; J. Cress, JO) 10s; J. Goodwin, At) 10; J. Belcher, A 0 10s; total, £2451.

■ NOTES. , Horse-owners and trainers, are reminded that acceptances for the Woodvillo meeting on Wednesday and Thursday close tbis evening at 8 o’clock. The club has been particularly fortunate in the number of nominations received, wide a is in excess of that ever made for a race meeting in the colony, and as the quality of tho animals engaged is above the average ; an interesting couple of days’ sport is looked for. vVaiuku is now being trained by F. TV. Day, at Newmarket, England. Stated that the former owner of the hack Dr Bill, only gave £5 for him. The horse is by Gipsy King, and was used as a hack before being put into training.Writing about' tne Auckland, two year olds “Hippona” says he likes Miss Delavel for classic honours m preference to Roseila, for the first-named is built on stronger lines. She is a -he quartered mare, and one of the best finishers he has seen. For a Derby colt commend him to Seahorse, who is a tine mg' fellow, up to weight, and who should go on improving. His displays at the A.R'.U. Autumn meeting were of a satisfactory character, and the immense amount of ground he made up after being so badly.lett in the Victoria Handicap goes to show that he can muster up a lot of pace. According to fin Indian exchange the last day of the Bombay races was chiefly remarkable for the success of Ebrahim ? the great Arab rider, who created a local record by winning five races right off the reel, on two occasions beating the much fancied favourites. Ebrahim is all powerful at Bombay, where the only first-class professional in opposition is Donald Greenhalgh, whose weight is against him. Being retained by a powerful Aga stable, Ebrahim has usually the pick of. the basket, and the generosity of his-em-ployers enables him to get a leg up on any likely thing he spots in the. Arab dealers’ stables, to all of which he is free. For all that, he owes much of his success to his accomplished horsemanship. His record for the Bombay meeting was 19 mounts, 11 wins, and 5 seconds; he was once third in a large field, so that, he rode only twice unplaced. ' ■ Old Liberator,, whq has Deen located at the Hutt ever since ,his breakdown, will be sent home the week after next. Splinter is doing slow work on the Ellerslie track. " . , , , Some of the American racing clubs object to horses being raced when they are lame or very sore, and at. a recent meeting the stewards of one Crescent City Jockey , Club (New Orleans) notified an owner named Daly that, as two of his horses were showing lameness, their entries would not be received. ■ ■ ■ At the last meeting of the South Island Trotting Association Mr V. Hama brought up the question of distancing iri a race. At-the recent Lancashire Park meeting in one race two horses were inside the distance when the winner passed the post, hut one of the two was under Rule 32a all horses outside the distance when the winner finished, wore The President gave-it as his opinion that undro Rule 32a all horses outside- the; distance ■ when the winner finished was riot entitled -to any of the stakes. He however, would, 'it one delegates thought it desiraole,, state a case to the National Trotting-Assioiation of America for their opinion, which .it was agreed would bo an advisable course ,to .pursue. . T. i The hurdlers Slaiden and: Couranto, are to be sent from- South to try their luck; iri the north this winter. • ; ; I hear (says a London “Truth”, writer) that the Duke of Portland’s two-year-old filly, 303, by Carbine—Semolina, of whom great things was at on© time expected, .isRkoly to turn out a failure. So high an ■ opinion r was entertained at Welbeck of 303 when she was a foal that, j. 3 engagements were made for her at that poriod ( of her career. Her idiotic name is enougn; to settle her chances of distinction. . ; Neither the New Zealand ’ bred Lan-; caster (Hotchkiss— Frailty) * nor Lord, Cureton, (Hotchkiss— Lady Cureton) has been seriously prepared for two-year-old engagements, and it is. quite plain Isaac Foulsham intends to reserve these fine; colts for three-year-old events. Whether; one or the other, is up to Derby form, time, alone will show, but, personally, a Melbourne writer expects to see the better of the two—whichever it may be—make: a bold bid for victory. Both are splen-i didly proportioned and excellently bred,; and have very nice action, so it will, be; strange if they do not turn out well.; Nearly everything opt of Frailty could gallop, and Lancaster wili.be found no exception to the rule, yet he would no*, like to say he will be better than his stable companion. Even their astute mentor, would hardly venture an opinion on this, point at the present stage. 1 Jack Page, who has been in the employ, of Mr G. P., Donnelly, leaves by the Kaikoura for the Old Country where his brother Dan is at present in the racing establishment of MrQollari. Noble and Carr .are also going by the same steamer. How some jumping horses last to be sure !, The veteran, Couranto (Patriarch —Quickstep) won five hurdle races, ran a dead heat and two seconds oiit of eight; starts, at the late southern coastal meetings. -.- „ ' ' : Remarked that Bobadu as a great _ horse reads like a joke in the light of Carbine’s record. Carbine met everything at w.f.a. or at a big disadvantage—and some of the horses that finished second or third to him when he won the stake were Melos ten times, Abercorn, four times. Dreadnought pve times'-. Lochiel twice, Highborn twice, Carlyon and The Admiral once each. Melos, it. must be remembered, was good enough tc win tne A.J.C. Derby and Leger, and: carry 9st 121 b into second place in the; Australian Cup which Dreadnought won , Highborn won Sydney Cup, carrying fist,; in the same season .that Carbine gave him 531 b and a beating for the Melbourne; Cup. ' , : There has been no betting on tne French Derby, otherwise the French colt, Holocauste, would have been a very strong favourite, although he is entered for the blue riband of the English Turf, and some think that his owner would hardly permit him to run two severe races with such a short period elapsing between the important events. Holocauste is a great favourite with his owner and with his trainer, and the opinion that he is an exceptionally good hors© is shared, by everyone who has seen him out in the rides at Chantilly, and compared his style of moving with his performances last year. He seems to have the event at Epsom, as well as at Chantilly, at his : mercy, but the question as,to his keeping hotn engagements has yet to be answer-; ed. - -