MY NOTE BOOK, BY "SAUL."

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 61, 12 November 1881, Page 133

MY NOTE BOOK, BY "SAUL."

"Js Sau' also amongst the prophets." — Louis DOr will win a big race one of these days. — A lad named Gough rode Zulu in the Melbourne Cup. —Entries for Ohaupo and Pakuranga- close this evening. — Jack Harris laid 100 to 3, and Snider 50 to 1, about Zulu for the Melbourne Cup. — Parainena, who has wintered well, has been placed under Edward Day's charge. — Foxhall's victory in the Cambridgeshire Stakes, carrying 9st, is phenomenal. — Segenhoe started at 5 to 1 for the Maribyrnong Plate, and was well backed. Time, lm isecs. — Tlie backers of Libeller for tiie C.J.Csuffered seriously from Grip(e)s on Tuesday evening. . — Grip, the hero of the C.J.C, is by Slanderer out of Awatea. His stable win about 2000sovs on the race. — How pleased Edward Day will be to hear of his brother winning the double event of Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire with Foxhall. — Lurlines dam, Mermaid, has foaled a chesnut colt to Korari, that has in his veins precisely the same blood as Dnrebin. —Billingsgate is evidently in his old form, and will be as dangerous as ever over short courses this season. — Messrs Miller, Jones, and O'Brien, the well, known firm of Melbourne bookmakers, won £30,000 over the Cup. — Zulu's starting price for the Melbourne Cup was ICO to 1, offered freely as the colt appeared to be lame. — When tear won the Melbourne Stakes on the firat day of the V.R.C. Meeting, carrying 7st Hlbs ; Wellington, 9st 41bs, second ; and Bathurst (4yrs), 9st, third. —The reason for the removal of the hillock at the racecoui-se, complained of in a recent issue, is that the new plough gallop passes straight across it. — The improvements on the Auckland racecourse are now complete, and reflect great credit on Mr Percival, who is solely responsible for their carrying out. — Maritana, winner of the C.J.C. Handicap of 1878, foaled a chesnut colt to Korari on Monday week, but unfortunately the youngster only lived a few hours. The mare will next visit Hornby. — Our Christchurch contributor's tips were pretty fair last week. He stood Grip for the C, J.C, and gave Louis DOr a place. — The weights for the Auckland Cup are being anxiously awaited, in fact the well-being of the race depends wholly ond solely on the handicappers. — The liberality of the Auckland Stud Company deserves mention. They are giving a £15 prize for Elgin stock at the Show, and £200 for a race for the thoroughbred stock. — The Americans can boast having carried off nearly all the great prizes on the English Turf this season, viz., Derby, Leger, Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshire. — Only a day or two before tlie C.J.C. a " sport " who is accounted pretty smart said de did not like the look of Libeller for that event. " Depend upon it," he said, '.it's not his journey." — That astonishingly open trial of Libeller's choked many off him for the C.J.C. They argued that Mason and Vallance are not the people to let the whole world into their secrets so easily. — " Nemo," of the Sydney Mail, says : — " Zulu's running goes to show that hod not Wheatear fallen, he would just about have won ; for of late Wheatear had the best of the black horse in their work." — It is somewhat strange that, after attempting to place the first three horses for the Melbourne Cup, "Nemo," of the Sydney Mail, named Sweetmeat, The Czar, and Zulu as the next likely to fill the places. They did so, but in the reverse order. — Christchurch Meeting passed off dully, owing to their being no sweeps. The public grumble terribly over the new order of things, and I pity the candidates who uphold the Gaming and Lotteries Bill on the hustings. — Now the Christmas meeting is approaching it is to be hoped that the stewards will exercise their wits, and lay out apio.tsible steejilechase course. Hitherto the event has been an absurdity, very few horses being able to get round, in fact, if left as it is, the race will be simply a gift to The Agent. — The Maribyrnong Plato i.s au extraordinary race for dead heats. On Saturday week, Navigator and Guesswork ran a dead heat for second place, "last year Welcome Jack and Lavina divided the stakes, and the year before the judge was unable to separate Otira and Geraldine for second place. — To show the folly of haggling over a few shillings when you wish to back a horse, it may be mentioned that the night before the Victorian Derby a youth wanted to put a pound on the double, Darebin and Zulu, at £100 to £1. He wns offered £100 to £1?., but refused this, and so saved the layer a cool century." — According to the Melbourne Sportsman, Zulu did not start entirely unsupported for the Melbourne Cup. Several persons in N. S. Wales had a sneaking regard for his Melbourne Cup chance previous to his indifferent running in the Hawkesbury Handicap. Only the Sydney bookmakers, however, wrote his name to any amount, with here and there a solitary exception. __ ■ — Sweetmeat's performances iv carrying top weight into third place for the Melbourne Cup must be considered a great one, and proves, if any proof be needed, that he is one of the stoutest hearted and best stayers in Australia. Often as he has proved himself a clinker over a long course, his best performance last season was his second, with 9st 21bs, to First Water (7st 61bs), in the Australian Cup, the two miles and a quarter being run in 4iniu ljsec. Prior to the V.R.C. Spring Meeting he had not run during the present season. — The following account of the finish for the Melbourne Cup is from the Sydney Morning Herald of Nov. 2nd.— "At the distance Darebin was done with, and Zulu had a two lengths lead of Waxy and Odd Trick; and after them might be seen Trump Yoss, Sweetmeat, The Czar, Wandering Jew, Waterloo, and

Wellington, who were on very close terms. A hundred yards further on all were in trouble except Zulu, who finished as strong as a lion, and, stalling off a brilliant rush made by the Czar, beat him comfortably by a short length. Sweetmeat, Avho was on the outside, was a length off, third ; and then on close terms followed Waxy, Trump Yoss, Waterloo, and Creswick, with the rest in a heap and whipped in by Coreena, First Water, and the Cockney." —After the Melbourne Cup race Zulu traversed nearly the whole course back again all round on his way home, and it was remarkable that ho excited no attention, as no one appeared to know that the quiet animal, in the dark blue clothes with tlie thin red bars, was the great unknown who had just won the Cup. Wheatear accompanied him, three boys having charge of the pair. Zulu nearly walked over a man and his wife iwho were sitting peacefully on the grass, and the man spoke up Avoi-mly, whereupon one of the boys coolly said, " Why this is the Cup winner!" apparently thinking it an honour to be trampled on by such. The man said, "D the Cup winner!" and doubtless many thousands echo the sentiment. Zulu is a very good-tempered horse, but the race did not take the go but of him. — The Americans are altogether invincible at Home this season. Only a few weeks ago we had to chronicle the victory of the winner of tho Grand Prize of Paris, Mr J. R. Keeue's Foxhall, in the Cesarewitch Stakes, and now we learn that the colt has achieved the extraordinary feat of carrying off the Cambridgeshire also. Taken altogether, the Cambridgeshire Stakes is the heaviest betting race in the world. It is run at Newinarket-Houghton Meeting over a special course (1 mile 240 yards), and the fields are so largo and the books so big that for a comparatively, small stake a horse may be backed to win a fortune. Only once before has the double event of Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire been carried off, viz., in 1876, when Mr James Smith won over £200,000 with Rosebery. Foxhall's victory, however, happens to be far more wonderful, for the American colt carried no less than 9st, the heaviest weight ever brought home in this race. It was considered a big thing when Tongleur carried Bst 41b to victory in 1877, but by the side of Foxhall's 9stthe performance appears absurdly insignificant. Lucy Glitters (the third in the Oaks and Leger) ran second to Foxhall in the Cambridgeshire, and Tristan (by Hermit— Thrift) third. — The following table gives the Avinners and placed horses for the C.J.C. Handicap, and the winners of tho Canterbury Derby, Cuj), and Christchurch Plate, from 1872 .— « |J . _— ,-j is -•* -■«..«... -..*« « a i ?J 22 »0 WN. .-1 10 <3 35 CZHS W t *>, C S O I ___ w "STISSaSaS^ O <2> O'T? S*j_M >.d a S "2 1 eAgtj I "Kw Q $B&&S3teßsssfc®B 5 3 fclt^Sl^^ ,-,,-, ca — — 2 M a £3 rt -. n S n « {h § S-§.g , 3/S ) _ 2-2-g "> £ 13 ____ <v ~-S-;saa2>3'-<«'= __, .rt oSP 5 _„ (s«s 0 3 IS «» I 1^ £ tv«ost^S«t-coc-i w> A .5 .2 _\_\ "o Pm "p, ff? rj — — — 3 Easda'K <do<i> 5 <!' '* M '' I " ISM if" 3 <= "> 5 <sieO'>i>i9WiN.ooo»©i-* J3 -< 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cc 55 H . 'S PS t. 2 § s l«S-g sJrt 3 p5 a -g oS 2 a 513 s 1 g 3 fiMeoe>aSoH?o j§ „ c t. ■ " 2 ° "p n^ . rtra 'drs a a s M £ 15 § §88 §§ a it§ Q h OS°.^.S * •ilfisl's^33 S E'S'i-ssti'sjH ««Oi-3#««OenM a 'S «Ts a g r rtJ,2.iJ^ § S3 SB S5 85 S3 S5 83 S3 &88 3 SSSSSSSSSS rtrtHrtHrtrtrtHH y