CAPAMD MCKET

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 9, 13 November 1880, Page 68

CAPAMD MCKET

Long's stable have netted £40,000 over Grand Flaneur's Cup victory. A good bit of money was dropped over Lure in Auckland. - It now transpires that Lure was "stiff" for the Canterbury Derby some days before the race. Importing Chaiidos and Blinkboy has cost cost the Hon. B. K. Cox £12,000. Camballo, fit aridHvell, at 7st. 41bs. seetns a very good thing for the Wagga (N.S.W.) Cup. Progress and Grand Flaneur were the only two backed for the V.R.C. Derby. A second attempt t>» get the Tasmanian Parliament to legalise the Totalizator has failed. Mr. G. Dods- in's brood mare Miss King has dropped a foal to Flying Dutchman. Amzri has a colt foal to Satirist. ■ A Sydney clerk, who drew Progress in Goyder's £2000 sweep on the Melbourne Cup, took £350 from a Sydney bookmaker forhis chance, Grand Flaneur carried 7st. 3lbs. in the M«l bourne Cup, so that he was giving Progress (sst. 71bs.) no less than 211bs. The first prize in Cameron's £0000 cinsuitation on the Melbourne Cup was won by a resident in the interior of Otago, while the second and. third prizes both fell to persons living in Dunedin. The account of the race for the Melbourne Cup in th " Sydney Morning Herald " winds up with the following pithy sentence : — "'The bad running of Mata caused great surprise." A Victorian stallion, named Hotspur, his arrived at. Oainaru, having been imported by Mr. John Reed, of Elderslie. No particulars of his breeding are given. It is stated that the sum of £30,000 has been offered for Bedford Lodge, Newmarket, which belonged to the late Joseph Daw&m, and that the offer has been refused. A consultation of 148 members on the C.J.C. Handicap was got up and drawn at the Thistle hist Saturday evening within three hours. This shows how many people frequent that popular hostelry. Dodds, the cabman who summoned Luscombe Searell was the winner of the first priae (£45) in the Thistle Sweep on the C.J.C. Handicap. Unfortunately he sold the ticket to Mick Gallagher for £5 directly after the drawing. . "Nemo," of the "Sydney Mail," plumped for Grand Flaneur to win the V.R.C. Derby, and was equally happy in his selections for the Cvp — Mata, Lord Burghley, and Grand Flaneur. '* Augur." the "Australasians" reporter, was very much out in his predictions on the late V.R.C. '.! meeting* He gave Moninouth for the Maribyrnong Plate, Progress for the Derby, and Progress and Mata for the Cup. The defeat of Progress in the V.X.C. Derby is ascribed to the fact that his rider, the well-known light-weight St. Albans, was suffering from cold and influenza, which, coupled with about 3st. of deadweight, could not be held to be the horse's advantage. An English correspondent writes :— "I hear Luke, the jockey — the third or fourth best in England — intends paying you a visit, or rather settling in Australia ; he is a grand finisher, but often rides very foully. He will not be allowed to ride in England this yerr again, hence, I suppose, his idea of departing. Mr. Kedwood's Raupo, Fair Puritan, Fair Agnes, and Puriki, have foaled colts to Cassivellaunus., They are all fine youngsters, both in size and shapo, the' Raupo one being at present the pick. Waieti and a filly out of Eglantine, by Albany, are yet to foal. Countess had a dead foal to Rama Rama. I The following telegram was received in Auckland on Monday night :— " Don't back anything for the C.J.C. ' Handicap ; there will be a lot of 'flashing.'" : Translated this means that there was such a lot of I jobbery going on between the ring and the owners of the favourites that even the v " sharps" couldn't tell what horse was really meant. The largest field that ha* started for the Melbourne Cup is 33, in Briseis.and Chester'syears, and. the smallest 7, in Banker's. Archer and Lantern both took 3min. 52sec. to do the two miles in, which is the longest, [ and Darriwcll's time last year is the shortest, 3min. ' 30fsecs. Mr. De Mestre has won the cup four times — twice with Archer and with Tim Whiftter and Calaniia, and trained Chester when he won. Mr. John Tait also won four times, with the Barb, Glencoe, The Pearl, and The Quack. The half-winner of the Maribyrnong Plate, Lavinia, is a nice-looking bay filly, by Talk o' the Hill, from Nancy, by South Australian from Apparition, by Jersey, grand dam Lady Villiers, by Bay Middletbn out I of Alea, by Whalebone; Lady Villiers being an imported ! mare. She is a speedy-looking filly, and was known in her stable to be so. Unfortunately, however, she was held to be in some measures inferior to her companion. Spectator, and consequently did not enjoy the entire confidence of her party. Her owner backed her at very long odds, but few of his friends were on. One is accustomed to hear of a good deal of contemptible conduct in connection with trade jealousies, but, for out and out meanness, commend me to the/ I action of a small clique of publicans, who, envious of the success achieved by Messrs. Abbott and Gallagher, deliberately set themselves to stop those two getting up sweeps. First of all a secret meeting was held, and then a deputation of informers waited on Superintendent Thomson. To that gentleman's lasting credit be it stated that he gave the deputation a severe snubbing. "There is nothing," he said, "to prevent Messrs. Abbott and Gallagher getting up consultations. Why don't you do it too, instead of coming to me like tell-tales ?" I cannot, of course, swear that these were the superintendent's exact words, but it was their drift ; and the informers had to retire with their tails between their legs The more respectable publicans now deeply regret that they had anything to do with the attair, and some of them, who were dragged into it without exactly comprehending its drift, have apologised. The real sinners will, it is whispered, have cause to rue their folly. A society is being formed to suppress Sunday trading, and the houses of these worthies are to be bailed up without j delay. Mr. King, of Timaru, has sustained a severe loss in the sudden death of his stallion Castaway, who was just in the prime of life, being only ten years old. i He was the well-known handsome brother to Lurline, Le Loup, and Lure, who ran Papapa to a head in the Derby of 1873 He went to Wellington and carried off the Cup there, and returning to Christchurch would possibly have secured the St. Leger; but he hit his leg in the race and finished behind Kakapo and Templeton. At the Dunedin meeting of 1875 he ran quite unfit, but at Canterbury Autumn he was in good fetter, and secured the St. George's Handicap. After winning races at Ashburton and Timaru, he was sent to the stud. The'racefor the V.R.C. Derby is described by the , ',' Age "as follows : " The flag had scarcely fallen when Progress went straight to the front, and it was soon seen that he intended to keep there as long as he could, in spite of the efforts of his tiny rider to steady him. Hemeld the lead until within half a mile from home, when Hales, on Grand Flaneur, stole up on the inside, and the pair came down the straight together far in advance of the field. At the distance both riders were at work at their horses. Then Hales steadied again and came with a rush close to home, and landed his charge half a length in advance of his opponent. Without meaning to disparage the riding or efforts of little St. Albans in the slightest degree, it was thought after the race that a more powerful rider might have done more in the interest of the colt, and it is reasonable to suppose that the indisposition of the rider, amount of dead weight, and making such strong running might have operated against his chance.