NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTING VOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1784, 30 January 1886, Page 20

NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTING VOTES.

(By ourc Austbalian Spouting CORRESPONDENT " WaKIUOB.") Sydney, January 1,9. With the A.J.C. Anniversary Handicap to be disposed of at Randwick on the 26th January, the Newmarket Handicap, Australian Cup, St. Leger, and Cha-npion Race, at the V.R.C. Autumn meeting ; the Adelaide Cup meeting; and the A.J.C. St. Lpger and Sydney Cup Carnival, the followers of horseracing will have their fill. This month (we have only 12 days to run) should be a brisk o^e among sportsmen of all kinds. As regards athletics, the Newcastle Sheffield Handicap, of 150 soys, was decided on Saturday last, and fell to Bailey (7 yards), a native of Newcastle, with Griffiths (6K yards) second, and Doyle (10 yards) third. Time — 12 sec. The Rir Joseph Banks Handicap takes place at Botany on the 13th, 17th, and 20th March. There will be two important pigeon matches at Junee and Yass on the 23rd and 26th of the present month. This day week the friends of the willow will certainly show up in large numbers on the Association Cricket Ground to witness the contest between Victoria and New South' Wales for supremacy. Last match I tipped the sister Colony, and I don't see any reason for altering ray opinion on this occasion. On the 13th February we are promised grand sport bj' the self-named champion swimmer of the world, Professor Clampett. Five rich swimming events in the presence of a real lord and Governor ! Lord Carrington here, Lord Carrington there. First at the Royal, then at Hhe Caledonian sports, winding up with Tattersail's Club race meeting and Woodyear's Grand (?) Circus. Speaking of our distinguished Governor, we in New South Wales know our way about. Carrington Stakes (Tattersall's Club gift of a thousand sovereigns) — not a had bait. What follows. Mr Andrew Town, of Richmend, one of tile most successful breeders of racehorses, invited his Excellency and other friends to his stud farm. Of course Lord Carrington is impressed with the yearlings, and to-morrow will bo one of the principal purchasers at Hobartvillp. The Melbourne Sportsman is a paper, as a rule, that can be depended upon, but on this auspicious occasion it's " got hold of tho wrong end of the stick " when it publishes such rot as — " Mr M. Fenuelly had his trip to New Zealand for nothing." How very strange that " Warrior " could see Mr Fennelly oh the Randwick training ground three mornings a week, arid

Mr White's trainer in your country all the time.

The Hon. James White, I am glad to find, will be represented in the Great Northern Derby and Foal Stakes at the Auckland November race meeting of 1887 by Craubrook and Abercorn. Yesterday afternoon Mr Fennelly left Redfern railway-station by the mail train for Melbourne, accompanied by half a dozen of the best racers in Australia, viz., Nordenfeldt, Uralla, Monte Christo, Matchlock, Trident, and 1 Philip Augustus. Before daylight on Saturday and yesterday I was on the tan track at Randwick, but very little work was done before six o'clock. The Hon. James White's Summer Cup and Tattersail's Cup winner Tempe, with the black boy on his back, did the startling gallop of the morning. Although she had to run wide of the hurdles the once round was completed in 2 miv. 25 sec. Notwithstanding the heavy weight she has been called upon to carry, she should be very near the winner in the Anniversary Handicap. The two-year-olds Blairgowrie and Chesham had a fast spin of five furlongs, and the majority of the touts voted Chesham the best. Nordenfeldt and Matchlock, both looking well, cantered twice round the tan track, and then took a sharp spurt of five furlongs. The son of Musket galloped grandly, and should he be as fit on the day of the V.R.C. St. Leger and Champion Race it will be all over with both, for I cannot see anything in either race to beat Nordenfeldt. Messrs J. White and M. Fennelly have in Trident, who is by Robinson Crusoe out of Cocoanut, and consequently full brother to the great three-yerr-old of his day— Navigator— one of the finest two-year-olds of this season. Yesterday morning he covered five furlongs equal to anything ever witnessed at Randwick. Let me impress my readers with one fact, namely, if the Hon. James White wins the A.J.C. Derby or Victorian Derby next spring it will certainly be with Trident. He is a beauty to look at, and moves likes his full brother. Philip Augustus should beat all the two-year-olds at the V.R.C. Autumn meeting, notwithstanding Chesham ran him a dead heat a few ago. Another of Mr "White's did -serviceable work on Saturday, i Matchlock, who, I believe, will carry the hon. gentleman's colours to victory in the sister colony. Battalious, Cerise and Blue, First Demon, Espiegle, and First. Chester indulged in easy work. Mr J. Oripps' Duration, who carried off the double at the Victoria Racing Club on New year's Day— the Standish Plate (one mile, 1 mm. 42| sec.) and the Midsummer Handicap (one and a-half mile, 2 mm. 38£ sec.) easily defeated Knave, Meteor, Kohai, Granville, Vision, Astronomer, Ballarat, Hawthorne, Clarendon, and Western on Thursday last in the " tight little island," winning the Launceston Cup in 3 mm. 11^ sec. The Victoria cricketers arrived in Sydney on Saturday and this morning to take part in the forthcoming intercolonial cricket match, which comrs off on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. The following gentlemen will represent Victoria :— Messrs Trott, Horan, M'Shane, Black-ha-n, Worrall, Houston, Scott, Palmer, Walters, Trumble, and Brme. There is very little excitement over the match ; Victoria must win. Laurence Foley, the Sydney " bruiser," and Messrs Farnan and Peter Newton are once more on the "war-path," so says the "Fighting Editor." Larry is going to knock them both out of time. Newton laughs, and Farnan is dying to take Foley's moustache, I mean " sideboards," off his face. When shall we be done with these brutal exhibitions? Not until the evening and weekly press of Australia cut the painter. A man that cannot write better trash than the " noble art of self-defence " and " dog fights " should take a spell at sheep-shearing.