SPORTING NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4738, 11 December 1886, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS

From last Thursday's edition of the Ohristchurch Referee, we learn that at Wellington Nelson ha 3 been supported for the Auckland Cup at 100 to 20. Waitiri at 1 00 to 14, and Pasha at 100 to 10. The Dunedin correspondent of the same journal says : The Auckland Cup is increasing every year in popularity here. A few seasons ago it would have been almost an impossibility to have backed any horse for the event in Dunedin for anything like a decent sum, especially so long before the race. To-nighfc a commission could have been executed for thousands had it been placed in the market. As it is, a lort of business was done, to the almost 4o*»* exclusion of Dunedin Cup SDP&ulaH'.tt which in former years has ngured prominently at our Spring Meeting, Over the Auckland event Nelson. Waitiri Pasha Derringer, and Drowned each 'received support. Several doubles were written for fehe Cup and Derby, Nelson and Waitiri being principally taken for the former event, with disowned for the Derby. 100 to a on the field was the best offer. A writer in the Referee says of the crowd at the recent sale of racehorses at Christchuroh :— Close to the auctioneer also stands a real old identity, the "Father of the New Zealand turf "—Mr H. Redwood—for it is the young stock from his 3tud farm that aro at present being paraded for sale, and he is near at hand to counsel the auctioneer as to reserves, &c. Though merging on the " three score and ten " pears allotted to. man, the " Guvnor," as lis intimates love to designate him, is hale md hearty, albeit a bit corpulent, but his lerve and sight have not failed him, and it bringing down the pheasants or quail vith one of Greener's best mado weapons le is as handy as ever. It's only once a 'ear, when the Metropolitan meeting :ornes round, when he comes amongst us, ye alwaya greet him heartily, and wish we. iad a few more like him, identified with he tine old English sport. He is on© of he last of that " old school," now rapidly lassing away, that have done so much in>ast times to ameliorate the Turf, and in he presence of whose v silks and satins " n the green sward now is proof that there re some owners still left who go straight ror.i en,d to end. He hasn't had a " high !d time " financially this 'rip, for his Cup orse, Alpine Rose, broke down, and his )erby hopo, Itepo, turned out a rotten st\ r l to rely on. Better luck next time Guvnor," and may it be many many eara before we mias you from our annual icing carnival. Not a beverage.— v They are not a average, but a medicine, with curative pro3rties, of the highest degree, containing no jisonous drugs. They do not tear down an ready debilitated nysteiu, but build it up. na bottle contains more real hop strength jaa a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians rescribe them.— Rochester US, A., Evening, xpresa on American Hop Bitters.