OUR AUCKLAND SPORTING LETTER. (From Our Special Sporting Correspondent.) Auckland, September 25.

Otago Witness, Issue 1922, 28 September 1888, Page 24

OUR AUCKLAND SPORTING LETTER. (From Our Special Sporting Correspondent.) Auckland, September 25.

From the character of their work together at Ellerslie it seemed to me to be generally accounted a fact that Leopold was a long way ahead of bis stable mate Cuirassier in point of merit, and indeed many did not hesitate to dab the brother of Trenton as a rank duffer. However, I have it from a very reliable source that prior to being shipped to Napier they were tried together, when Cuirassier came out of the battle 'very satisfactorily, and the gallop was

considered of such rtferit that the. colt's going down to fulfil his engagements at the C.J.G. meeting is now 'said to be a certainty. Watty Clifford has been engaged to ride him in the Hawke's Bay Guineas to be run next week, and from what I cab hear Jimmy Eean considers that he has a mortgage on the race. Major George's mare jThe Maid has foaled a colt to Robinson Crusoe, and will this season visit Nelson. . The New Zealand Stud Company have made a further addition to their list of brood mares by the purchase of Renga, dam of Cinderella and Titbit, and Aconite, which they purchased dirt cheap recently at 37gs and 29gs' respectively. ' Artillery's sister Balista left last week for the put pose of fulfilling her engagement at the Hawke's Bay meeting. The Auckland Racing Club have not yet made any arrangements with reference to the working of the totalisator next season, but I am given to understand that they will decline to have any further business with the former lessee. Mr George Fraser, of the Phcenix foundry, is busy engaged endeavouring to effect a very elaborate instrument, which was left in an unfinished state by an inventor, but it is doubtful if it can be got ready in time. If the club do give, this instrument a trial at Ellerslie it will previously have to undergo a rigorous trial in private. The stallion Maoriland (full brother to Hilarious) has been sold by MrJ Bobbett to Mr M'Donald, of Wairoa. Mitrailleuse has, I understand, been purchased by Mr D. S. Wallace, of Victoria. The price said to have been paid for the daughter of Musket is 520gs. Mitrailleuse was one of the trio over which the Auckland Racing Club hold a bill of sale.