MY NOTE BOOK, By "SAUL."

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 57, 15 October 1881, Page 78

MY NOTE BOOK, By "SAUL."

" Is Saul ateo amongst the prophets." — Mr Powdrell, of Wanganui, lias refused £100 for Ely, by Gladiator, dam Clematis. — Old Resolution is in training for tlie Wanganui Spring Meeting. — King Don has .sprained liis fetlock joint, and may be miable to run at Christinas. — Since the Duchess coup, Royal Maid lias been coming into favour for the Victoria Derby. — Maori lias gone into Edward Day's stable to prepare for the Christinas meeting. — Progress has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup to make room for Duchess — The Poet, is advertised for private sale, likewise Hilda. — The Slander filly and Lome ran a dead heat for the Maiden Plate at Napier, Venture third. — The Duke is now second favourite fov the V.R.C. Derby at only one point less than Somerset. — The owner of Canary has backed him at 100 to 3 and 100 to 4 to win £8000. — The stakes of the 'Wellington Cup have been increased from £400 to £500. — The well-known Victorian sire Tocal (the Barb's best son) broke his neck the other day. — The Dimedin entries tot up to 228, as against 188 in 1880. — Mr John Smith has named the Auk filly, Lady, and the Marlborough colt, Trafalgar. — Mick Gallagher had a very successful Derby sweep on the Hawke's Bay Handicap last Tuesday evening. — Harkaway has changed hands again, Mr Shakespeare of' the North Shore being the purchaser. Price, £104. Mischief, the favourite tor the Spring Handicap won the Flying Handicap by n head from Foul Play, Prim third. —Walters' Slander filly won the Hawke's Bay Guineas with ridiculous ease, Kincraig second, and Sydney third. . The Stud Company having over 100 mares to graze at present have "leased the late Mr "Watt's property at Kohhnaramara. —The Mayor has had bad luck with Don Juan, who was severely kicked the other day by a stable companion, and will be unable to rim for sometime. — Anr bets made about Hesperian for the Melbourne Cup he/ore nomination day of course stand good, as backers then bod a chance.

— Major G-corge's mare, Pearl Ash, has dropped a filly foal to Bethnal Green. — The three-year-old Traduccr-En Avant filly has been christned Duchess, and Butler's KorariAwatca filly, Teata. — Progress, Darriwell, Atlantic, Mowerina, Simiiyside, Lavinia, Remembrance, Zambesi, and Strathearn have been scratched for the Melbourne Cnp. — Will Duchess turn out a Progress or a Melita is the question now asked everywhere in Melbourne. — Mata, though still a bit light, has picked up wonderfully, and looks like carrying off the Canterbm-y Cup without a struggle. • — Lady Emma is in capital fettle and appears to me to 'have a far better chance than Grip for the C T C ' —Hesperian, The Gem and Sccundus have been purchased by a Mr Bobarth at 800, 700 and 300 guineas resx)ectively. — "Spectator" selects Angler, Rewi, and Merlin as most likely to win the Stakes at Wanganui Spring Meeting. . — The Duchess secret was amazingly well kept. Not a stable boy at St. Albans knew the mare was there. It was told only to about four persons who knew how to hold their tongues. —The Melbourne folks are fonder of Hilarious than Soinnus, but a friend of "Beacon's," who has just been over at Flemington, thinks the latter will make a grand show in both Derby and Cup. — " Spectator," of the Yeoman, says Morning Star was never in good hands till he got into those of Dick Wheeler, and anticipates that he will cut a rare dash during the coming season. — Mr John Smith's team, consisting of Lady, Trafalgar, the Yattendon colt, and Tim Whiftter are in active training for the Christmas meeting, doing their work in Mr Leniin-rd's paddock at Epsom. —Dick Wheeler's fall oft' Morning Star reminds me of a singular fall the same worthy had off Perfume, a few years ago. On the occasion in question the populace were so dissatisfied that they wanted to tear Dick to pieces. However they didn't, _ ■ — In the Spring Handicap at Napier on ruesday MrMcDonald declared to win with Badsworth, and just managed to do so, although Williams had to pull up Foul Play to let him pass. Grand Duchess was third. Eight ran. — Mr Stephenson, the new purchaser of Mata wrote to the Wellington Racing Club the other day asking them to remove the ban on the horse. Of course they refused, being of opinion that Mr Stephenson knew all about the disqualification when ho bought Mata. — The pot boiled over several times at Napier on the first day. In the Hurdle Race, won by Uira, 2to 1 was lnid on Morning Star ; in the Spring Handicap, won by Badsworth, even money was laid on Mischief; and in the Flying Huudicap, won by Mischief, 2 to 1 was laid on Foul Piny. —Mr Abbotts £10,000 consultation on the Melbourne Cup closed enrly on Saturday, the promoter having sold 1200 tickets in the last three days. It will | probably be drawn on Wednesday next. Abbott has now opened an unlimited consultation, which seems likely to tot up to about £2000. — Morning .Star was winning the Hurdle Race at Nnpier easily when Wheeler, his jockey, most mysteriously fell off, and Mr Douglas's Uira won from Loch Lomond, with Will-if-I-cnn third. The talent lnid 2to ] on Morning SI ar, and 2 to 1 against Loch Lomond. Nothing else backed. — Savanaka and First Water are doing excellent work at Adelaide, and if the first-named can be got j back to his best form, he must be amongst the hardest to beat for the Melbourne Cup, in which he hns been allotted Bst 71b, exactly the same weight he carried when he lowered Chester's colours at Randwick. — The wife of a Melbourne " sport" dreamt that Waxy would win the Cud and her husband was so impressed by the circumstantiality of the dream that he sent an unlimited commission to buy the horse to Sydi\ey , and was much annoyed when he found his ngent had not liked to bid more than 2100 guineas, and so allowed Mr Wenkworth to get him. — Says " Spectator," Messrs Hearn and Kennedy purchased the brood mare Quickstep, by Ravens- ( worth from Yenessa, and in foal to Piiriri, last week at Hawera. She will visit Patriarch after foaling. This mare has furnished into a very useful animal for breeding purposes. I understand the owners of Patriarch are getting together some well-bred mares. — Since the accidents to King Don, .Don Juan and The Ghost there has been some talk of not holding the Pakuranga Hunt Club Meeting at all. This has naturally caused groatdissatisf action amongst other horseowners, who think the public as well as Messrs Morrin, Clark, and Smith might be allowed a look in for the steeplechase. Surely the committee won't allow such a palpable job to be perpetrated. —Says " Tout Cela," in the Melbourne Sportsman, " Somnus, the Maori candidate for the Victorian Derby honours, seems what the Yankees call ' on the improve,' if ' kicking up his heels behind and before' be any criterion thereof, for on Monday morning he flared up so freely on the training ground as to dislodge his rider, and then bolted off the flat. Fortunately, the rattle of his feet, as he galloped up the road, attracted attention at the Racecourse Hotel corner, and he was cleverly stopped in his career by one of the horsey loungers at that horsey hostelry." — Those who wish to send their mares to a first-class stud horse this season should not forget the claims of Mr Ferguson's Feve, one of the few Lord Clifden thoroughbreds in the colony. Feve is by Lord Clifden, out of Haricot, by Mango or Lanercost ; her dam Queen Mary, by Gladiator . Mango, by Emilius, out of Mustard, by Merlin, out of Morel. Lanercost, by Liverpool, out of Otis, by Bustard, out of daughter of sister to Skysweeper, by Highflyer. Lord Clifden, by Newminster, dam The Slave, by Melbourne, out of Volley ("sister to Voltigeur). Newminster, by Touchstone, out of Beeswig, by Dr. Syntax. The success of Lord Clifden's stock, both on the turf and at the stud, is too well known to need "puffing."