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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 11, 27 November 1880, Page 89

Piscatorius is said to be " fishy." Xantippe is in training for the Waikato meeting, and doing fast work.

Byer's Golden CroAvn, and Thorpe's Woolbroker, are also doing fast work for the Waikato.

King Quail seems to be very big. He will probably go to the Waikato.

Ariel, who looks big and strong, is doing nice slow work.

Yatapa injured himself whilst at exercise on Monday,

Foul Play and Virginia Water are good goods for the Auckland Cnp.

Mr. Smith's Maid of Honour looks A 1., and should give a first-rate account of herself at the forthcoming meetings.

Danebury (Bst. 81b.) seems a good thing on paper for the Railway Stakes at the Wellington Spring Meeting.

Double and straight-out books on the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase have been opened by the local talent.

Hornby is said to lie suffering from fever in the feet.

Hailstorm earned £173 at Wanganui. Duncan Campion rode him in each race.

Apology, winner of the One Thousand Oaks and Leger of 1874, was sold at Doncaster to Mr. Vvner for £3,200.

A correspondent complains that Mr. Buck of Hamilton, has not paid over his Melbourne Cup sweep yet. Can this be so ?

Jenkins was the jockey who was hurt in the Wanganui Hurdle Eace. The mare (Lady Jane) rolled over him. Leotard, the other horse thut fell, was ridden by Lee.

Training operations for the Waikato and Auckland Meetings commenced some little time ago, and abo\\t twenty horses may now be seen exercising°at Ellerslie on a fine morning.

During the New Zealand season of 1879-80, ten exclusively two-year-old races were run, (he added money of which came to £890 ; and nine three-year-old races, with £11,020 added money. The balance-sheet submitted to the recent meeting of the Southland Jockey Club showed receipts of £648 18s 6d, and disbursements of .6615 4s 4d over the race meeting, leaving a balance to the srood of £33 14s 2d.

At one time, in the race for the Canterbury Derby, BadswoJth had a strong lead, and was going as well as possible till the field entered the straight, when it became apparent that nothing was in it but Sir Modred.

A New York sporting journal says that Vanderbilt has made the biggest offer for St. Julien that was ever made for a horse, either in this country or in England. It has probably escaped the memory of the editor that Richard 111., when in a tight place, ottered his kingdom for a horse.

"One lucky fellow," says " Public Opinion," took ont two tickets in Cameron's Dunedin consultation on the Melbourne Cup, and drew two horses. They were both non-starters, certainly ; but niany people bviy large parcels of tickets without getting even the tail of a horse of any kind.

Mr. H. Hedwood informs "Beacon," of the •Otago Witness," that he has every reason to be pleased with the result of his leasing of Mr. Dodson's stallion Cassivelaunus last season. Every mare at Spring Creek that was put to him produced a fine foal, and curiously enough, every foal is a colt. That out of Eaupo, Mata's dam, is an especially promising one.

The Canterbury Jockey Club lias received moderate entries for the Welcome Stakes, 1881. There are 27, and of these 12 were made by the Middle Park Stud Co., nine among the latter being by Traducer. There are 38 entries for the Derby, 1882, the company being: again represented by the same youngsters just referred to. Mr. P. F. Tancred's r.c, by the PremierPrincess Mary, is in the list.

The following sentence in the account of the race for the C.J.C. Handicap reads queerly : — " Coming 1 up the straight it looked as if Betrayer must win it, and nothing else, but as soon, as he looked dangerous he died aivay all to nothing." The italics are mine. Betrayer, it will be remembered, was a red hot favourite, and would have hit the ring hard had he won. Perhaps this explains the strange " dying away."

The business done by the Totalisator outside the paddock, at the Canterbury Meeting-, was as follows :— Preo Handicap, 114 tickets sold at £1 £114 • Derby, 204 at £1, £204; C.J.C. Handicap, 282 at £1, £282Welcome Stakes, 180 at £1, £180 ; Hack Race, 3 at £1, £3. Of these speculators 17 spotted the winner in the Free Handicap, 30 in the Derby, 60 in the C.J.C. Handicap, 38 in the Welcome Stakes, and one in the Hack Race.

A comparison between last week's Observer (published on Thursday afternoon) and Saturday's " Herald" will show that the sporting "Odds and Ends" in the latter were cribbed " holus bolus " from_our " Cap and Jacket." TheparreGeo. Frederick being purchased for New Zealand came in a private letter to the oditor of this journal, and was published several weeks ago. It was copied by the " Bulletin " sporting man, from whose columns " Phraeton" must have extracted it.

The first defeat sustained by Lord Falmouth's flying two year old Bal Gal, who is now almost as bad a roarer as her sire, Cantiniere, took place in the Middle Park Plate, in which, carrying 3st., she ran fourth to St. Louis. Her victories include the July stakes at Newmarket summer meeting, the Kichmond at Goodwood, the Princeof Wales's at York, the Champagne at Don-! caster, the Kous Memorial at Newmarket first October, and the Clearwell at Newmarket second October meeting £i<? ™ 6 a ° £ th x Sfctvkes tUe &ll y has woa amount to ±.14000. A good two year old is worth something nowa-

A number of strange things appear to have happened to the favourite on the first day of the Canterbury Meeting. Lure was nowhere in the Derby. Betrayer, after looking all over a winner of theC.J.C Handicap, died away just when victory appeared most certain, and Amulet, a red hot favourite for the Welcome Stakes, was left at the post. "It is " says c. c J- 1 ? 103 " innocently, " necessary to state that this (the bad start) was more the fault of Amulet's jockey than the starter's. The way in which this colt made up his ground, after being left at least 80 yards behind his horses at the start, proved that he only had to get well off to win the race,"

The Middle Park Plate, which is the great two-year-old contest of the English racing season, was run at Newmarket on October 14th. There were seventeen starters, the favourite being Lord Falmouth's flying filly Bal Gal who carried the extreme penalty of 9st. The race resulted in a victory for Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's St. Louis, Bst. 101 b., by Hermit out of Lady Audley (the dam of the renowned Pilgrimage and almost equally notorious Pellegrino), Lord Rosebery's Town Moor by Doncaster— Euxline, second ; Mr. Perkins's Lucy Glittersby Speculum-Bicycle third, and Bal Gal fourth At the start, an outsider called Albion made the running St. Louis, Town Moor, Lucy Glitters and Bal Gal, being only at the head of the second division, until the Abint?don Dip was reached, when St. Louis came out and won m a canter by three lengths, with a head between Town Moor and Lucy Gutters. Pordham rode St. Louis - Constable, Town Moor, and Snowden, Lucy Glitters St. Louis, the winner, was purchased by Mr. Crawfurd his present owner, out of Mr. Cookson's teara, at Doncaster, in 1879, for 2,200 guineas. It has long been said that he would likely turn out a flyer, and his victory as above described makes his first public appearance a notable one. St. Louis has many important engagements against his name, among them bein<» the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and Leger of 1881