RACING.

Otago Witness, Issue 1854, 3 June 1887, Page 23

RACING.

Tom Haydon, the secretary of the Victorian Trotting Club, had a long and varied perform-, ance to get through at Elsternwick Park ; bat, although the fields were unusually strong, Tom was "on time "-all through the afternoon, the consequence being that visitors were on the back track at half-past 4. Mr S. G. Cook started operations by putting down Earimil, Louise, and 14 others in the Maiden Plate, of five furlongs, with a chestnut two-year-old filly named The Charmer, which he recently .purchased in Sydney. She is by Henchman "(full brother to Robinson Crusoe) out of The Witoh, an imported mare, who claims Rosicrucian as grand sire. The Charmer is a big little one, as handsome as paint, and although she caused her backers some anxiety (she started at 7 to 4

fayourite), ; by getting away badly off, /the mark, she scored a win byhalf-a-length.<;,Earimil,who finished second, is, by ,HugendeniOut of ERnn* Mungie, and\therefore brother to,. Duration and Dizzy..,, He is a .fourryearrblduinsGlasswiok's stable, and intended ,f or hurdle racing,' at 1 which .h^ has already tried bis calibre, but Without success.^ When hehas had a:littlemore:experience in negotiating, the small .stJcksj^hei will prove » Bobby* Pazzler.at the game^for he has-? splendid ,Bp.eed and stamina. l )*F,erguson.up:onAce (12st) was thought ,good. goods in a> fieldibf 14 for the , Hurdle Race, of a >mile> and- a-qu&rter; and he ,quickly.shprtened tos tq"2, bntf there were not wanting tliose who thought he lacked" condition, looked a bit; jaded in ;fact,,and)jaward&d a five-year-rold Eanic ; ;horßej(by ( Dawjmof .Day out of Hose); named Aristides, supporf'at^6it!ol. The result proved the soundness ofitheirsgudgment, for,; the .favourite .was i never :once 'dangerous, whilst. Aristides.won.in a canter by half-a-dozen lengths from, Doner, r/ There"! were? rl6 saddled up .for the Victoria of^iuifjfurlongs and a-halfi .and at the close ofsttifcr betting the prices were: 2to. 1 agst Master ' John, 4 to 1 Xantippe, 5 to 1; Kitty Fisher, 6 to 1 Mavourneen, 8 to 1 ,The Fbrsakeri. t .The, lastnamed is a< three-year-old daughter,' aft .-Rapid, Bay and Mary* "Gladstane,' and jafter l^,- great. Jstruggle she defeated r Kitty, .Fishfir/J^forv first place by' a head, Maroney, 'a ; cbople' ft"9Jt( lengths away, beuig. th'eirynearestYe^uerry^tn wait' "mg. Argus', „Girl , (by,, .Argus ' Scandal) experienced- ,- little ; Sifllculty-i'Sn , - getting home in front qf old , Shamrock J/Aphrbdite, Harper Thompson, and Hypatia'intbe Steeplechase; '.the ; Harper iThompWn /engaged therein , being the celebrity, who figpred jn-Jtbe'riotorious. HopelessfHubbub case at Randwiok Jsome three' or, four years ago. i He ( was>alwayS;a. bit of an enigma was Big Head; and, , according to the Argus report, his, performance pn r Saturday was of the nature of a puzzle, t as r , we, are , told that after assuming a, lead of, [ naif -a-ddason lengths, / "in the centre ( of ,the^back^swe^qh;; Harper Thompson pulled up . apparelitly^hiaxe" (The italic is mine.) .A , Time Handicap ,^?rot, of three miles, proved Disraeli (at 30seo. behind) to be altogether too good for Leithamatead (60sec), Joe.Bell (40sec), and 18 others, as he, won comfortably" by, 30yds, in, 9tnin, Wsec.,,.!^, Selling Race, of four. furlongs, an^,a-half,,g'ave Willy Harper's ""two-year-old Carnival j(by Glorious — Confusion) a chance of making a holy show of Breeze, Bon Bon, and Outlaw;,, and, so impressed, was the Rajah.of, Futtygur (Mr E. Weeks), with the performance k, that he, silenced opposition, when she was,. submitted to,, auction, and purchased her. for, 105gs-rf exactly £86 5s more than she was entered to be sold.fqr. The Elsternwick , Park Handicap, one j mile and a furlong and a-h'alf, saw; a baker?s,dozen at the post, and when matters settled down, Salvo and 1. 0. U. ,w,ere equal favourites i.^t, 3 .tori each. The former won easily,,enough,at.th,e» finish by two lengths, I. O. U. being fourth, and the places occupied by Strongbow and The Yoeman. The latter is a three-year-old son of the Englishman, in Mr S. G. Cook's stable./stands 162 high, 'and ;is destined for the' illegitimate, game, not fakey-doodleum (though his; owner is ,a book* maker), but the hurdle race business., „ ' Yesterday "was .a dull, threatening s'ori of day. ,and , although, football commanded. its\, tens of thousands',' there was'a'yery good attendance at the Melbourne Hunt Club meeting at.Flemingtoni Followingjuphis Bls'ternwickjPark'success, Aristides, justified popular opinion, by 'annexing the; Handicap Hurdle Race, one mile and a-half and a distance, very easily by, three! lengths from Courage^ Ballarat*, and 'fiye others* Eight started for the half -mite. Selling Rice,, Derision being'madea hot'favourite^at, 5 to 4, and win* .ning easily, by ( ttiree-quartjerj^of a. length from Little Jack,* who was a heck" iii advance of Flash 6. Lightning. ,O, On 'beuig,. submitted to auction the Boltoh Green— Fie,Fie'gelding became the property of Mr J. Cohen (the'old Red House in Elizabeth street man); for £180, the ,club thus benefitting £140, by. the win 1 . There were six started for the Handicap Steeplechase, of two miles ; , and of ,these only', two — Lady Ashton at 6 to' 4, and Promotidn'at 2 to'ji — were backed, for money., The ,face. was a, chapter of accidents,' 5 Promotion being 'tlie/only'/one to successfully negotiate the. course, Lady 'Ashton {who -had been running, ddwn f her (fences and jumping the wings) eventually crashing into an obstacle near, the abattoirs and sustaining such injuries that she^had to be' destroyed, her rider (M'Cullbch) escaping with a ' fractured collar bone and a severe shaking. The three-quarters of a mile sprint of the Birthday Handicap induced 25 to face the ,'the, plpsg of the netting placing them thus in.public .estimation : 5 to 1 each against The Charmer " and. Dufferin, 7to 1 Salvo, and. ffitty Fisher, 10 ' to 1 William Tell and Rhetorician^ 12 td f i Damoctes, fl 2o to 1 Mkster' John (offered). The.Oharmer got badly on I;he mark, but Master John was away in the first flight, and once inside ttecpiirse proper he left' his field as. if they.' we're, standing,, and ran home five lengths in advance of ( ..The* Charmer, whd^was^duble tha,tdistance m front. 1 of New"m'asteri after 'wh'oni' came' ( William t '^r ¥ ell, witi» lOst on his back.. t Eight was again the 1 , main in 'the' Selling .Hurdle Race, of, dne,mUe and a-quafter, Fdolraan bpin.gjinosif fancied, and backed. clown to 6' to 4)' Doner finding' friends at 2 to I,* ' Maori- at' 4''to *1, and Quilt' at - 6 H to 1. Maori,' Footman, and Ddne'r were together as "they founded the turn for home, aiuTin that, order they finished, Maori beating Footman by two lengths, the" favourite in turn being four lengths td the good of Doner. On being submitted .to auction the winner was bought in for £65 (the whole of which went to the. ( club), whilst Doner, being claimed, he passed into Mr E. Weeky charge for £100 (just tlie value of the stake and hit upset price, £25),' , ''> ■„ Joe Thompson (the King of the Ring) owns Master John, and — mirabile dictu/ — his victory was never anticipated <by the stable. Supported ■ for . pounds, , shillings, and , pence, and with a crack jockey up, he finished four at Elsternwick on Saturday; whilst yesterday, when .'absolutely friendless, and., with a stable boy as guide, philosopher, and, friend, he won absolutely in a walk.; , The Leviathan made a fancy wager.about him to Mrs J.Leck^wife of the trainer of Master" John), £100 to a shilling that he, couldn't win ; so that his party had evidently put him down as an approved duffer. It's not the first time — and it won't be the last by long, chalksr-that the stem logic of facts ,proved incontestibly some horses will do more for lads they know than ihey will for the most talented jockeys; the victory of, Caractacns in the English Derby, when ridden by a stable boy, as a deruier ressort, when Jean Goater threw up the mount, being a case in -point. . Parsons ride for sour apples; but he T kepton all through .the race, patting his horse, on the neck and. encouraging him with such ♦remarks as T " Go it, Cracky " J " Good lad, Cracky " ! which the horse seemed to understand, and in response put [his best foot foremost and scored a glorious victory. , . \ ,r., r . _ ' *, < *'- The Hon. William Pearson's bad luck seems as if it were going to stretch out' to the crack of doom. Lady 'Ashton was a' rare J pet'of the pubh'c, and when on her best behaviour the field

hadf to r , bestir. • themselves right 'merrily to keep *• within coo^ey of her. • - -■ . ■ Mitrailleuse people caught a snag in the Royal Stakes at Randwick yesterday, " Gorry's mount," Centaur (by The Drummer -^lio), defeating her >on the post by quarter' of a length in'lmin 1 16|8ec. ' Twenty-four staried, The Felon being third. I mentioned in one of my letters prior to the Newmarket Handicap that Mitrailleuse's mission to ' Victoria was not clearly defined ; add , now that she has shown' her hand with Bst 81b in the 'saddle, I opine she will for some time longer prove more of an enigma than ever. \ -„ The two Victorians, Ringmaster and • Fer- < uandez (the former trained by, Jimmy Wilson,' ■jun.i and the latter by Ikey Foulsham) also came to grief in the Birthday Cup at the Sydney Turf Club meeting; the ancient Willeroo being ' turned out in Al trim by Kelso, and delighting the hearts of the 15,000 New South Welshmen ■ with the style in ' which he smothered the visitors 'from over the border. ! The Queen's Birthday. was certainly a regular jubilee day for metallicianß both at Randwick arid Flemington.