SPORTING AND SPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 6

SPORTING AND SPORTS.

; THE TURF. l>r "Sentinel." — Terrapin and Tcrcolct are full brothers, 1 —Weights tor tho Gors meeting arc duo on March G. — The first half-milo of the Dunedin Clip was run in SOsec. — A filly.has not won the D.J.C. Champague 1 Stakes since 1891. ; —There are 22 trotte.s in America with records of 2.7 or better. ; — Vanguard, tho sire oS Orloß's dam, won i tho Dunedin Cup of 1885. 1 — Nominations for the Southland autumn . meeting close on March 20. — Mr G. (i. Stead lrajj won tho D.J.C. Chami pion Stakes on five occasions. — Tho yearling full brother to Altair and ] Daystar lias been named Uranus. ■ — St. Ronald broko,a bloodvessel during bis . race in Abbotsford Welter on Saturday. — Tho North Otugo Jockey Club intend holding their winter meeting on Juno 10 and 11. — A full sister to Achilles goes under the 1 hammer at the yearling sales in Sydney in April. — Tcrcolct bears a very strong resemblance to his sire Clanranald when the latter was on tho turf. — Sergius, the full brother to Ostialc, was : amongst the unplaced horses in the Maiden at Woodville. — Orloffs 8.13 is tho heaviest burden ever carried to' victory in the Dunedin Cup by a three-year-old. — Hewitt has had a special boot made to protect his injured foot, and will ride Orloft in tho Wanganui Cup. — If Orloff does not go off before ho starts in tho "Wanganui Cup ho should be very hard to beat in the race. — Mr Barber, the gentleman who purchased the stallion Almont recently, made an offer of £1000 for Rotlucbild. — The name of Astrakhan has been bestowed on tho foal by Stepniak from Irene, tho dam of Petrovna and Tsaritsa. — Prior to winning the Suburban Welter on Tercelet, J. M'Clusltcy had ridden 13 seconds for Sir George Clifford. — It is rumoured that St. Michael will not stand another preparation, and that in all probability his Tacing career is at an end. — Terrapin's 2.11 for a mile and a-qua.rter is a record for the Wingatui tack. Lady Lillian put up 2.11 1-5 in the same raco last year. — Tho totalisator investments on tho Wingatui Stakes for the last two years has been nil, and the collective total of starters in tho race for thrco years amounts to five. — Sinco the Dunedin Cup was reduced to a mile and a-half in 1899 the following have won the race as three-year-olds:—Djin Djin 7.2, Advanco 8.7, and Orlolf'B.l3. ■ —The name of Electric Light- lies boon bestowed on tho colt by Wonderland—Searclilijjhtj but ns that is tho name of tho dam of Bill of Portland it should not bo allowed. — The time-honoured Chester Cup failed to fill tliis year. The race is run over two milos and a-quarter, and before two-year-old racing gaiued such a footing it commanded the biggest handicap entry in England. — Evening Wonder's name figures amongst the onirics for tho Onkapariuga (S.A.) meeting, held on April 13. At present the Wonderland gelding is looking healthy and well, but not doing a great deal of work on tho track. — Kathlinda, tho dam of St. Denis, was only a pony, and won a pony race at Tahuna Park beforo tho galloping events wero deleted from the club's programmes She also won a pony raco at one o[ tlio Otago Hunt Club's meetings. — In his races at the Cup meeting, Vladimir did not produce results which could reasonably be expected from his gallops on the track. Tho son of Stepniak has a will of his own, and required not a litllo coaxing to get him up to tho barrier for his third ra.o at the meeting. — Tho Australasian-bred stallions advertised for public servicc in England includc-Goid Medallist, at a fee of sgs; Kirkhain, Sgs; Trenton, lOOgs; Merman, lOOgs; Aumm. 50gs; Patron, dOsovs; and Stoccado (late Cranberry), 25gs. Gold Medallist serves dams of winners free. — Thq climax of imbecile nomenclature has

been reached by an owner in Queensland, who named his unfortunate horso Snablats—St. Albans backwards. I hold the opinion that tho secretary who first acceptcd such a name on a nomination paper should be placed on the forfeit list for a million. — A remarknblo thing in connection with tho D.J.C. Cup meeting was that 19 winners out of 24 traced back to Musket. Of these 13 were descendants on the malo side, and six received the strain through their dams. In addition to the above, 22 place-getters have tho strain coursing in their veins. —H. Donovan headed tho list of winning horsemen at tho Cup meeting, and steered no less than seven winners during the three days. J. M'Comb comes ncxt.wilh five. L. H. Hewitt, W. Holmes, and R. King had each two win 3, and each of tho following a' single winning ride: 11. Carr, L. G. King, A. M'Kay, A. H'Konzie, A. Godfrey, nnd J. M'Cluskcy. — During the threo days of tho Cup meeting the sum of 1G.&325 was put through tho totalisat-or. Last year's total was £18,511, and tho totals of the two preceding years wero £15,387 and f1G,931. In 1899 the total reached £20,000. A large sum of money must have been lost to the club over last week's meeting through the machine being badly worked. —'As Advance was acceptcd for the Wanganui Cup, and has in addition been nominated for tho Hawke's Bay Cup, the rumour that the son of Vanguard was amiss apparently lacks foundation. An owner who received a wire during the progress of the D.J.C. meeting stating that Advance had broken down, at onco wired instructions for one of his horses to bo sent on to Wanganui to start in the Jackson Stakes. —Mr G. G. Stead lias had the misfortune to loso his well-bred brood maro Icli Dicn. Tho mare got into a watercourse and was found dead. Sho was by St. George, out of Ruvenswing, .by Apremcnt—ldalia, and was foaled in 1890. Icli Dien was a fair performer on tho turf, and taking up stud duties she threw Crest (dam of Bulawayo) to Medallion, St. Michael to St. Leger, and Romany Queeu to Gipsy Grand. — During the progress of tho Cup meeting some of tho horses went out with gear on them in a state that was not a credit to their trainers. However, that was somewhat counter-balanced by the nattmes3 of a eouplo of riders, who rode on the second day of ('he meeting, and who were trying all they knew to take the creases out of their reins at a time when they should have been trying the stimulating effects of the whip on their mounts. — St. Denis is frequently alluded to as being cut of a hack mare, but his gTand dam Kathleen won tlio D..J.C. St. Andrew's Handicap in 1874, in Mr If. Goodman's colours, and that gentleman informs me that she was evidently a well-bred mare, but the pedigree of her dam was unknown. Kathleen was by Roebuck (Sir Heroules—Miss Rowe), and Kathlinda, the dmn of St. Denis, was got by Betrayor, the full brother to Sir Modred. Being by St. Clair, St. Denis is well come on tlio male side of his pedigree. — Tho accident which occurred to Forward Guard at the Lawrencc meeting turned out to be more serious than was anticipated. When the Vanguard gelding broke down he evidontlv splintered one of his cannon bones, and it has been found necessary to destroy him. This is a piecc of Dad luck for his owner, as he had refused £*200 for tho horse. Forward Guard showed Mr Corrigan, who owned him in the North Island, some great gallops, and, including taking hint to Australia and back, the horse cost him a heap of money. —At tho second Calcutta meeting, which opened on January 17, the English horse Up Guards, ridden by the American jockey Ames, who paid Australia a visit last year, won the Coronation Stakes, a ra:e in which 10,000 rupees went to tho winner, after a dead heat with tho Bill of Portland poiiy Cretonne. In the run-oif Cretonne was favourite, but Up Guards forced the pace from tho jump, and beat her by a length after a good rase. Kecoid lteign wan third, and among the beaten lot were Stand Off, Hoop Iron, Aoctiuo, Ailie, Goldsmith, and Chillagoe. In one o*: the popular pony races a country-bred named Esmerella, in receipt of much weight, beat the Australians Bess and Not Yet. Other winners during tho day wero Henry, Promontory, Yankee Boy, Malto (all Australians); and tha English marc Cylinder, by Orvicto, won a race. — Tho blood stock purchased *in England at the December sales by Mr John Brown, of Motto Farm stud (N.S.W.), have arrived in Sydney. and (says an exchange) are now undergoing tho quarantine term. The lot number four— a colt and three females. The colt, who is a rich brown thrce-vear-old by St. Simon from Tact (2), is a full brother in blood to William 111, whom the Duke, of Portland sends to the elud this season at 300gs a marc. Tho pick of Mr Brown's importations is a lovely brown mare named Lacrosse, a six-year-old daughter of Ladas (1) and Lucy Cross (19), by. St. Simon from Ycrdisris, by Springfield. A beautifully-bred dame this, and her looks do not deny her high lineage. She is low set, clean built, and stands on four superb legs. Tho pasterns aro springy, and the. hind legs arc set, well under her. She is pitched high behind, and has light, shapely shoulders and neck, and a game, aristocratic head. In size, style, and pitch sho is remindful of Wakeful, but sho shows more quality tlisu that celebrity. Lacross cost Mr Blown 450gs iii England, and she is heavy in foal to. it is said, Martagon, a famous son of Bend Or. A chestnut three-year-old filly by Ormo (2) from Lady Heron (2) by Galliard, is of excellent shape, but different in style to Lacrosse. All her beauty is in front of the saddle, and, being high in front, her style suggests speed. The other filly is a nlain, light'.y built bay named Martinique (19), by Martagon (10), from St. Ursula, by Hermit.