SPORTING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 45, 22 October 1892, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

In this issue appears the programme of the next meeting of the Thames \ ■ Jockey Club. v" v 'v' vV- ■■* ■•■* ■ , " Phaeton," of the " Herald," bit the winner of the Oau field Cup out of a field of 32. Paris?* *no won easily started at 14 to I, and was whipped ia by Yarran and Olonaid. G'Naroo, \ Pygmalion and JJlric were the favourites. Buugeb»»h made a poor i show. ■■■ •■■ v> It was seven years ago last Saturday -since Musket died. V In th« CaulfielU Cup oi Saturday Mr (5 eprge Wateon, starter, fined every jockey, with the exception of Gainsford, £5 for , crossing the line. His action has ocpasioheid considerable ex- ' •citement. Messrs Cook and Dowden infcei viewed iihe stewards, but their efforts to have the fines remitted were unsuccessful. • - _ %* Mr D O'Brien, as is well-known, is -greatly opposed to the totalisator, and thinks it does not assist racing. He has gheu " Verax," of the Sydney "Keferee," his ideas on the subject. Mr O'Brien says :— If a man came to me and a rid, " Has your horse a chance to win?" I -should tell him what I thought about it, and then he could please himsetf a3 to whether he backed him or not But, suppose there Was ft totalizator working on the race the horse Wds en^a^ed in, That would make all the difference. If I had 20 tickets on ihe horse, ««ud I told people who asked me if-I thought «he horae could win, they would at Oi cc hack it, and every man that put a pound on would reduce my odds >igain.st my own horse. The only way for an owner to obtain the long odds on the totylisator; which they are .<quite as much .entitledl-Vto as the •brtckera," would be .for bin) to say nothing about his" horse's eh nee Now, when L or any-ovhar,owner-back a horse with uhe 'bookmakers. «c #?t a fair, price, *nd ■the public money ;j>»t on...afterwards does not lessen the odd* we*.have oi*-. twined. Say I get £100 to £10 and the public money yoes oi- it shortens the price, but d e« not--reduce my £100 to i£lo, as it would ou the totalisator. The lite Marcus'Clarke once predicted that, "'n another 100 years, the average Australian will be a tall, course, strong-jawed, greedy; pishing, talented man, excelling in swimming and horsed" manship." He Bhonld -haTe --added.... pugilism to his list of accomplishments; for it looks as if it whs in that direction of athletics, and particularly that branch of vosinf sport, that Australians are desiinpd to impress the world. J"im Tlall's victory over Ted Pritchard, the famous English middle-weight champion, has created genuine nurprisej but the Sydney won with considerable edSfi. The' very tirst round showed his marked superiority; and in two minutes under th- quarter of an hour he bwd PritcHH helplessly beateo. The s^kes wore £'20,0, and, as there was besides, a good bit of money in beis, it was a very profitable quarter of an hour for Ball. V An English pap** remarks : '" There has beea a nretiy little-scandal in high places this last few -days. The matter 'id connected witu*he threat of two or three promi»i«nt'bor»Umak. in to post a royal sporisman. It is well-kaown f dt course, th tt amongst the princes there are those w!jq owe the ring more than they will cer pay, and it is said that one -of these parsonHges treated a prominent member of Tattersall's with great contempt when spoken to on the subject. ' The rw;ult is likely to be a co operation aiiiongat the fraternity, and a scandal which would easily be the fiißt of the season. Naturally,, theit are many •• layers" who .dare not make a tnss, as ther^ are many great racing men who never \tny the rina;, but in this instance the " b jokiea" are strong—* quite fclrong onongh to cany p\it their threat."