SPORTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3737, 11 May 1899, Page 7

SPORTING.

MULTIFORM. Bv the departure of Multiform iu the Ruahine for England to-day tins colony loses the best horse now racing here The son of Hotchkiss and Formo has had a most successful career Ins winning account totalling over L6o°o nearly all secured; in classic eients, m which he proved- himself invincible. As a. two-year T old at Christchurch he deadheated Sir Lancelot, haH-orother to an Modred in the Melcome Stakes. The Derby /that year fell to Multiform s elder s brother, Uniform. On the lav following the dead-heaters met again, but on this occasion Multiform .beat Mr Ormond’s colt by a couple of lengd s. On that day. The Possible, it will be remembered, beat Dauntless; in -ie 'Metropolitan Handicap. Multiform «as next seen out in the Electric Plate in which he was followed home ty Blazer and Sir Lancelot. komg u> Auckland in December following, dutiform was made a hot pot tor tie Great Northern Foal Stakes, but nas beaten .by his stable mate, Gold Medallist, who paid the good dividend or £8 12sr" This unlooked-for result was followed by a very -hostile demonstration against the ’stable ■by the crou d. Multiform next fan second in the Dun edin Champagne Stakes, being bracketed with Gold Medallist on the machine. On the-third- day :he; again ran benuM his stable companion f Stakes. AS a three-year-old Multhoim raced bh ’ four bccasidns,-- winning caci Cme ' At Hawkd’h BSy he-secured the H B Guineas and‘followed" this' up by SmpiShome, inrthe OJ.C Derby, and the - Canterbury Cup,.;in.-which lie feated-tho- New:.‘Zealand .Gup, y inner, Waiukur At the Canterbury '^ u g : Meeting he was successful in the-bikcn Challenge’ Stakes, in which he _ Uat Gold Medallist, ; ,He Was successful _ m the same .race agam this year, having j ust previously ■ yon the Ec bpse Stakes at Dunedin, while the Auckland P - fell to him- in January last. This fine record stamps the grandson of Musket as -being h,-first-class performer. . He is still a young horse, arid.when properly acclimatised 8 * the Old Country may prove a better 1 .advertisement for -the Colony ' than Uniform, Wamku, Gold Medallist, . arid; Co., - . . . . - - ; i WANGANUI WINTER MEETING. ' The following are the weights ±or Uie hack events at the Wanganui Jockey Club’s Winter Meeting ‘ .First Hack Hurdles, of 60 so.-, one inile' and a half.-Woolooipooloo ' list 51b- - Tangahoo,, list 121 b; Kapu, lOrt 51b-; -La- Volta ,-lOst ..21b 4 Derry, .Wsty. Frost, 9sfc 71b; The Fox ana Ivamiate, 9st 31b; Hauriri.-Lightning, Odd Stocking (late Ascot) and- Silver-Ray, _ |irst..Hack : Flat, of 50 sovs ; cue fflue and a distance.—Doctor Bib. .I 1 Thrush, ’ 9si; ■ Tukapa. Bst Southerly Buster, Bst Blb ; R-uou i-, 21b : Ocean arid .Dartmoor, ost; Luma, 7st 131 b ; Cora Linn, 7st l2i Euicralt.,. 7st 91b; Kohiiia, Bandore, Whitney, Dormant/'The Bugler and Ca -.-umado, 7st 71b. rrn „ vs ' ■ Hunters Stecpleciiasc, '; l three miles.—Faugh-a-Ballagh, lOstoi-b , Sir Athol, 12st 51b; Elect,rc. ..«•homii Hood,.'list 101 b; Whakama !-t , Mangamahu, list 51b; Stilts . Rose Marie, Bonfire, The Clown lay light, Tui. Queen Mab ana .1. y'tei \, list. B GEORGE MORSE, handicapper.