SPORTING NOTES FROM AUSTRALIA

Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 51

SPORTING NOTES FROM AUSTRALIA

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MELBOURNE, December 10. Matters in a sporting waj have been very, quiet since I last wrote. "We are now looking forward to the Boxing Day and Ne-<v Year's* Day meetings-, which will provide a. welcome change from the present stagnation. ASPENDALF PARK RACES. | E. Davis, who is giving up training at Cauli field to go in for hotel-keeping up-country, waO i lucky at the Aspendale Perk races on Deeem.I ber 3, as Jie won the Aspendale Park Handicap, one mile, with Butternut 7.9, by Eiridspord, and Hie "Welter Handicap, six furlongs, with Heiress S.I, by Sunrise. Hasty Locks B.*, who ran second to Heiress^occupied a similaa. i position to Burnside in tiie Trial Handicap. Butternut only had a couple of opponents, and odds of 7 to 4 were laid on him. Madagascar, who is by Hova from the dam of Haymaker, was successful in the Maiden Plate; -while Tottie 8.3, by Skipper, Bcored ir the Jumpers' Flat Race. Tottie is owned by Mr F. Tozer, of Warruambool, who io ove; 80 years oi age, and is the oldest racing m.i in Victoria. He trained Tottie himself. l Billy Manton 11.3, by the New Zealand-bred Manton, started favourite and easily won the Steeplechase. SANDOWN PARK RACES. Backers had rathei the worst of the boat with, the book;" at Sandown Park on Saturday, December 6. The leading event, the Sandown Park Summer Cup, of lOOsovs, one rmle^went to a 10 tc 1 ;hance in Headland 7.7, a well-bred horse by Bill of Portland, -who has- been very disappointing. He is now trained at Caulfield by Neil Campbell, who seems to have him very veil. Godwin 8.1, who was unlucky at Bendig-i, ran second to Headland. He is in ilia smart stable of C. Wheeler, whose good things have lately been coming undone. Pin, by Mot tvian (son of Malvolio), won the Maiden PUie for Mr Albert Miller,, while Dreyfns 9.3, by 'The Inquisitor (son of Trenton), starting at 5 to 1, won the Hurdle Rsce from the highlyfancied Manila 9.5. The Trial Handicap went to Staple 7.8, -by Padlock, the Steeplechase to Opprobrium 9.7 (in C. Wheeler's stable), and The Midshipman 7.7, by The Admiral, won the Weltei Handicap for Mi S. G. Cook. W. Min--ter, who rode The Midshipman, also had the mount on Staple ancl Headland. F. P. Glennon wa* the successful jockey in the jumping double. RACING IN SYDNEY. Velox, a recent visitor to Melbourne, started) | a 6 to 4 on favourite, and, carrying 7.10, -won. the Two-year-old Handicap at the CanterburyPark meeting on Saturday. Velox is by Bill of Portland fiorn Tea Rose, by Martini-Henry, and is in Hark Thompson's stable. It topk Ve]ox all her time to beat the odds-on favouritt , Demure. Velox was only given 7.10, the handicanper, it is understood, having made an acci-* dental mistake in her weight. Camira 7.5 watf rirlden tc victory by W. H. Smith in the Fairs' Handica.n. Camira, who is by Si Bbv*> *>.■*£ of The Persian, started a warm favourite »r»i La Simmer, winner of the Park Stakes. %v*a k comparative outsider. Ls? Simmer is b» ti* St. Simon horse Simmer, sire of the BeWtit* winner Bubble. Pylara, who is T>y the ?•'<>« Zealand Puschka, ran second to La Simmer, and subsequently took the Shorts, b»ating >>>• a head a hot favourite in Salvones. Roi-de-LJ' ' 8 6 led all the wa.v in the Stewards' Mile, whil the Canterbury Handicap, one mile and a-quat ter, was won by Happy Days 7.2, a 6 to 5 chance. RACING IN QUEENSLAND. A peculiar complication occurred in con* nection with the December Handicap, run a' the Queensland Turf Club spring meeting", which commenced last Saturday The winner was Vulcano. and after the totali3ator had nearly completed naying out, a protest wa entered against Vulcan, for crossing Lady • Olaf. * The protest was upheld, and th« raca awarded to Lady Olaf, but th owner of thei third horse, Kate, protested against Lady Olaf getting the race on the ground that he* Tider dismounted on the track before weigrh-ing-in -without the permission of the stewards'. The decision in this protest is pending. The Derby was the principal event. £he raca was regarded as a match between Balfour and Ivan, and Balfour, on whom odds of 5' to 4 were laid beat the, otliea. *asily by frf

length*. The Brisbane Handicap, ran orer ft dale, -went to The Squire 7.10. ODDS AND ENDS. 3£r W, E. Moffatt, « member of the ring fn Melbourne, died on December 2, after a >hort illness. George Towns, champion sculler of the Jfrorld, was welcomed by Melbourne oarsmen pin his arrival in Melbourne by the R.M.S. Cronies on December 3. He was presented With an illuminated address by Sir John Madpen on. behalf of bis admirers. i,Two horacs hailing from .Melbourne — ReWnt, by Penance, and Eustace, by Eumarrah —were successful at the Hobart meeting on i Saturday, December 6. Repent won the High I freight Handicap carrying 8.9, and Eustace, i with 7.9 up, the Flying Handicap. Repent paid a dividend at the rate of about 10 to 1. fhe principal event of the meeting, the Spring Handicap, one mile and a-quarter, went to tfarjorie 7.12, by. Zalinski; while Fiddlestring, *' recent visitor to Melbourne, took the Steeplechase, carrying 11.7. [ Black Watch has been sent to Tasmania, tie seems to have gone off. •' That smart two-year-old Czarovitcb is in Work again at Flemington. Th* Victory, Strata {Florida, Maelgwyn, and Fishery haye 1 also resumed work at Flemdngton ' after a short >pen. j 1. A. ihree-year-old filly by Dreamland (win- • lier -of the Australian Cup) from the dam of ' JTairy States, and a- two-year-old of the same breeding, have been taken up by the Ballarai "trainer. James Scobie. Nothing by Dreamland r ins. yet raced. - " v The Sandpwn Park Proprietary entertained -the, bookmakers to wine after the conclusion. y>i the race meeting last Saturday. The books yoto the' course a ' first-class one. I - The Trenton filly Omrah has developed lameness, and has been turned out. '/The programme of the V.R.C. autumn meeting/nas been agreed upon by the committee. 3t will be on similar lines to that of the last autumn .meeting. , Several of the prominent steeplecnase riders In Melbourne have presented a petition to the [V.R.C. Committee against the proposed inclusion of another fence' iv the steeplechase ,course at Flemington. j i Avalon, who is engaged m the Perth. Cup, bas left for Western Australia. - The appeal of W. Burn against his six months' disqualification by the Bendigo stewards for foul tiding, was on Friday last dismissed by the V.R.C. Committee. The appeal of D. M'Lean against the decision of )the Epsom stewards in disqualifying him and .the. hurdle racer Bruce was also dismissed. JThe sentence in each case will therefore have jto be served. . The Summer Cup, one mile, ran at the SBallarat Turf Club meeting last Friday, was .won by James Scobie's mare Annotate 8.10, by lAsnesley, who started favourite at 5 to 2 on. .Two mares by Padlock — vit., Gold Lock and Silver ' Locks, were each successful in winning a xace.