"HEMS." BY MASTER M'GRATH.

Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 23 May 1889, Page 23

"HEMS." BY MASTER M'GRATH.

The Oamaru Treasurer's Cup is open only to bounds the property of members for three months prior to the meeting. 11 Spectator " says that as Newton is svery bad j *ith distemper Mr Wise will have to reserve ! him for the Waterloo meeting. As Mr Wise %*m something like £25 for Newton, he has Seen thus early unfortunate. Flora, the runner up at the Dunedin meeting, belongs to Oamaru, *o<l it is said that her owners backed her to *ia £200. She is by Sam, whose sire was Totara, .and her dam is by Hook. This bitch *ent lame in Dunedin, having sprung a toe in her second course, and her party think she would have won but for this contretemps and toe fact that she waß in use two weeks before the meeting. She also will be kept for the Waterloo, and in her and Newton Oamaru will «aye two good representatives, as they are pro- «% the bost pair in these parts. It is understood that there will be no more wxrsing at the old English rendezvous Gosforfch i «£* Newcastle-on-Tyne. • j Mr Harry James has become the owner of 1 wohiel, full brother to Meg Dods. ,-und and Water mentions that.the fee of the •rod greyhound Greentiok. had .been raised to *?gB. in consequence of uthe demand for his ser*c*B. Ibis is .mentioned «s: being ; tho highest <

fee ever commanded by a greyhound, although 20g8 is not an unheard-of figure. The Melbourne Coursing Club, whose members do not believe in Plumpton coursing, but prefer the work to be done in the open, are starting the season on the Werribee country, which is kindly placed at their disposal by Mr A. Chirnside. _. A Dunedin sport offered £25 for Black Pine, winner of the Leger, but* the owner refused to sell at the price. , ; A racehorse for a greyhound. The owner of Half ,Guinea offered to swap her for one of Mercer's dogs. Some of the dogs beaten at the recent Dunedin meeting will make a , better show at the Waterloo gathering, for which they will be better trained. I understand that Meg DoaV owner was offered and refused £12 10s cash v and 5 per bent, of the Waterloo winnings, the purchaser to pay all expenses at the meeting. . ' Writing of Chester 11, winner of the Moonee Valley Derby, " Cumloden " says :— " For some unaccountable reason, there was a strong prejudice manifested against the dog from the start, as will be gleaned from the betbing on each of his individual courses, the odds being against him every time he went to slips — viz.: — 6 to 2 on Melfort Spy v. Chester 11. 6_ 4 — Wangarfltta Willie „ .. 3 — 1 — Banker m h 3 — 2 — Bullion „ .. These figures afford an amusing study. An investment of £2 on his first course, and the same, together with winnings, played up on his subsequent essays would have realised the handsome sum of £175. Chester II was beaten so badly in a private trial that his owner had no confidence whatever in him; nevertheless, he kept winning his courses in decisive fashion, albeit the cognoscenti refused to be enamoured of' him, and, as will be seen above, liberal odds were forthcoming against him every time he was taken in hand by Bign6ll. The Derby winner displayed a fair degree of pace ;he is a fast and clever scorer, and quite deadly in the use of his teeth,- killing all five hares to which he was slipped."