SPORTING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 August 1892, Page 9

SPORTING NOTES.

The proposed race between Messrs CJoote and Vuglar which wits to have taken place last Saturday did not eventoate, Vuglarforfeiting,. not being in good trim.

The football match between Auckland and Thetmea resulted in a victory for tke former by 16 to 7.,

The selection committee of the Auckland Rugby Union, Messrs Dixoip, Arneil, and Speight, met; on Monday, sand picked tJie following team to represent Auckland against Taranaki on Saturday next: Full back, F. Taylor ', thre~e-*|aarteffl, Masefield, F. Peace, and Jenris^ fthal*es> Braund, and RHodesj forwards, Murray, Marshall, IBruce, Q'OonHorfA- McMillan; M MpntPennalligan, and IX. Stewart <ThainesL

Every racehorse ?bred{ in the cotetwes was Teckonigdl a Jyear 'older from .last ■Monday, August Ist. r

>On tbe TOorning of the Englisli Derby =a poetic isarrative of a dream of the igreat race, which appeared in the London" •Sportsman, concluded as follows; — ( Surjprise of surprises-! A great shout arises,, ' Proclaiming' abroad that the contest is done—

'That 'VZisdom's tihef <P<ceume. the son of Manoeuvre, /Lord Bradford's Sib Hugo the Derby has won.' ' '

'As far as I can ascertaiTi this was the «only tipeter that came anigh the result. V

Who-says.'there's no such thing as luck:? An old coloured aunty, hearing *that the enclosure was free on the Derby day, made up her Ihonest old -mind to see " them -ah hossee

run Vat people was gwine bq looney ""bout" -She secured a good seat on a ■waggon, and; /before the day's races were over, caught the betting fever. to > a iwee betting >com*missioner,, she'bade him name overall the horses in the race. When he got wtp Maggie May she said: "HoP on, «dah,-dat's enuff. Dats a pow'ful peert -name. -Go ovah and buy me-a Par's on dat ah Maggie May." The J?boy returned with the ticket, and the old woman looked very happy. However, it most 'be -known that Maggie i- -May had been doing lots of running, /'but .never yet had come close to the; tfront. In fact,' she was considered a .purest ray serene. This time,i a battery must 'have been ©,'ppUed, or else a bucket of whisky must' 'have been .given her, for «he went to the, tfore and stayed there to the end. The ;payed £110, 'being- about the ,«only f one sold on the mare. After that v .Maggie May sunk into the tiloogh of , -skatehoodj. -As far 'as that was cono Wrned/'it was her first and only win.' ,;'~Aud.yet'it'hTis-been said there's no such "ithing as luck, and nothing in a name. '_[ Mr Morrin'informs " Pbastori" that , .^ld Sylvia, the dam df' Martini-Henri •and' other' celebrities, who was last J Reason mated both with Castor -and ,_- JSotchkiss, has ,proyed to be barren. \ ( -As ( the old daughter of' Fisherman is \ now in her 28th year, and as in her crippled condition she is not likely to survive, "many more months, it is not , Mr Morrin's intention to again 'breed '-,', .from'her.

,";■;_ Mrs i^ngtry (the "Mr •Jersey" of "'' !Utfe' turf) toids fair to die not only a millionairebat a milliardaire, which is a Bearbetter. She draws tbe -comfortable "sal.'? of £100 a week from _'."/" r "^e! <?i'iterion treasury^ and^ aocording 'i!':{b a'icurrent romour, has jnst■ iiefused ' !lill-£fO}ooo for the racehorse said to have (been presented to- her -by M* Baird! Better to be 4IMr Jersey" than "the Or Jersey liily":

„ -.. -They are still poking a good deal of fun at t& Grand Duke Alexis for tele-

. .graphing to the stewards to postpone - the Derby for an hour because he had :-> missed his train. A royal prince of a ■ JRussian bouse is apt to believe that even tine stars in' their coureee Slight lie

altered to suit; his convenience. In this rase^h^ever, the stewards bat smiled; and" J the stars had ran their courses when the Grand Duke appeared.

paeans, in favour, of .good old Carbine is always pleasant to Aucklanders, for to us Maorilanders belongs the honour of having bred him. In referring to the prospects of Carbine as a sire, and to the Hon Mr Wallace having fixed the great horse's fee at 200 guineas, ""Asmodeons w Bays:—7 "Awhole page of panegyric could not add; one iota of the fame of the greatest racehorse ever foaled south of the line. * ,Th'e'*in'ere':mention'^tfae^iHune^arb4'ne” is sufficient to indicate all that is superlatively excellent in the .sliape of horseflesh, and when men now young in years who have seen and known this monarch of the turf iiaave .become greybeards,, they will tell the youth of future generations that the Jborse of.,,the, century; was 'Old Jack,' as be is familiarly called", and probably: they jvyjll oofcjbe very far, wide of/tlie mark. , HoioOaip^e couldj bavejcome.through thejordeal of a trial •of., speed J and i^taroinaV^ifrh fitfhej best horses that have been .bred in England 1 must of- coarse remaik':;an?open: question, bat-"that" he Wstb^e-pheno-menon of the Australasian turf is feeyond question.";; On-the sapesubject,; "Ribblederi," irrtihe Australasian, «tates7his opinion or"the mighty son of Musket in the following terse yet powerful strain : —''There never was a horse which won races under the difficulties that 'Carbine encountered. That Carbine was fcbe best racehorse Australasia ever produced, none will be foolhardy •enough: to deny; and it may he iha.t the world! iias nißver seen•«• better^,, -.^ w fS « rraw;^w ; Hippos. ;