COURSING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 31

COURSING.

NOTES BY MASTER M'GRATH. Bhylook fairly earned hit wiu in the Champion Slakes. It was no small feat to smother Ka'e Kearney foe speed as be did, for this Blut was very well, and is ono of the coming : champions, if I mistake not. Lily Langtrv's wiu was particularly popular. She easily beat Faster and Faster for pace in tha final, but then ran wide, and I do not think she had a great deal to spate when puss escaped, Locket was lucky in the run-up, the hare bending ' towards her, and once in, she gave Nitrate King no show. 'How the oourse would have gone if the hare had run straight, or favoured Nitrate King, no one o»n tell. Safe Cure mast have won the Maiden Stakes if the deoision of a public test as between him and Master Razzle had been insisted" on ; but a division it these dogs met had been arranged the previous evening, and the parties stuck to their bargains. Archie DaJgleisb tells me that Shy lock and Black Feather are going to Auokland for the Champion Collar, and that they will afterwards visit Napier. At the sale of the late Colonel North's greybounds nothing sensational was realised in the way of prices. The Duke of Leeds, Sir W. Ingram, Sir Humphrey de Traff ird, Mr Dant, and others well ident : fi-:d with coursing were amongst the purchases, and the highest price was given" for the stud dog Simonian, who was- sold to Sir W. Ingram for 150gs. Young Fullerton was taken by Mr Deut for 70g«. , Eighteen saplings were sold for' 368 js, the bes j price bt ing given for a bilch by Nenagh out-of • j liady Jester, purcbaied by the Duko-of Leeds j for'Wgs,. who also gave 35g<t for the broad j bifchj Irish' Queen, by Greentiek out of TMis3 Glendyce. - •{ .• Say* the Oamaru Mail :— •' Some 20 or 30 , coursing enthusiwta who adjourned to the Papak*io Plain to run off a litble stak* found . their 6pott take an unexpected turn on the arrival of a inouated trooper, who took the 'names of the whole party, with a' view ta.proCfediugs being taken for a breach of the Animals' Protection Act. 'I he whole p»rby express their intention of 'going up'- fo^ thtif offence, and the local gaoler is all uniles at the prospect of getting his onion bed weeded ' and hjs carrots thinned. > Tne recent rains have. . hft a. good bit of gardening to he done. The. plumpest of the party hae *lready bstn e«-. marked by his odmpanions'for use as a garden , idler." ,Tbe plain truth is that theparty had no licenses. . , „ •■ Colouel 17 North as » courser was a great . .central figure a few jews back. Re. appoared in the English coursing world about eight year's ago, hit sensational purchase of Fullerton at public auction for 850gs soon placing him upon a pinnacle of fame, saya the London Sportsman. His earliest connection with the wan antecedent to this, for in the autumn of 1887 h« bought three greyhounds r rom Mr P. O'Kourke, Moran — viz , Mask M*id, Mask Man, and Mane Maid, the price being about £500. Futlertoß was not the only purchase made by the colonel at the break-up of the Short Flat Kennel that Saturday afternoon, for he »l»o gave 510gs for Mi-s Glendyne, 470gs for Troughend, 200gs for Bit of. Fashion (dam of Fullerton), 160g» for Mi»s Kitten, &c. Lord Lurg&n',. as the owner of Master M'Qr»th (thrice winner of the Waterloo Cap) was deemed to ' have accomplished a feat that would" probibly prove' unique in Waterloo records for .all time. Bub' Colonel North not only equalled, but eclipsed ifc. • He ran first and second jfor the Cup in 1869 with Fullerton au«i Troughend, and carried it iff by the aid of Fnlleiton in the three fol-' lowing years. Nor did the grand dog's great triumphs et*ud alone. A younger brotrec to 'j Fuller.toD, in Simonian (whom the colonel bred ( >' fr&m Bit of Fashion) carried off the' Waterloo ''Parse in 1891, and the Plato in 1892, whilst Troughend ran up for the Pui ( • in 1890. Had ' Fulieiton been able to perpetuate hi* species, ■the colonel's further luck, might h>v<3-been -differei.t, but with about a *pore of the best ) - bitches in the country put to him, never a pup was forthcoming. A-general meeting of the National CoursiDg Club was held lr>b Friday, Mr C4pstiok presiding, for the piitpoae of receiving, suggestions from members a6Mto oarryigg ou the , courting next year. One member -proposed that a challenge stakes at £5 or £5 5s should bs run on the Waterloo principle ; and another member said he thought there should be only three meetings in the year. Tbe proceedings were largely of a conversational character. The elnirmiu intimated that the suggestions made would be taken into consideration.