CAP AND JACKET.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 543, 25 May 1889, Page 20

CAP AND JACKET.

[Bt Centaur.] > fixtures. May 24-Takapuna Jockey Club. May 24-Wangamu Jockey Club. May 24-WairenKa Jockey Club. May 30-Egmont Racing Club. June 3-Aucklard Racing Club. Juae26-Hawie's Bay Jockey Club. —Mr B. Blaikie contemplates a visit to Australia next month. ;— Guy Fawkes is favourite for the Great Northern Steeplechase at 3 to 1. — Signess won the Plumpton Park Cup, carrying the heavy weight of list 71b. —The erstwhile Aucklander, Julia Ann, ran second in the Steeplechase at Bosehill Meeting. — The name of Gasparini, the noted French convict, has been conferred upon a Southern horse. — Nominations for the Dunedin Jockey Club Champagne Stakes of 1889 are due on the 27th inst. — Miss Alice and Ologs were amongst the starters for the Bosehill Mile, but failed to obtain a place. — Mr Harry Ellison of this town is now offering the "Turf Club Cigarettes" containing "Tom Thumb " portraits o£ local athletes, &c. — Escutcheon has been awarded top weight (9st 71b) in the Normanby Stakes and Flying Handicap at the Egmont Winter Meeting. — The colours of Mr Donald Wallace, viz., the " Magpie " colours, are the same aa those of Lord Falmouth, the straightest goer on the English Turf. Pearlshell, says a late Sydney paper, is still an occupant of Mr Lamond's stable. It was reported that he had become an inmate of Mr Monaghan's stable, but this is not true. —A curious incident took plate at the Auteuil (France) meeting recently. Baron J. Finet's Pautin, ridden by Barker, started to walk over the Prix flycine (steeplechase), but the horse fell and the race had to be declared void. — An old Southern sport says : — 'If the present tendency of racing continues much Jonger, nobody will care whether he has a thoroughbred or not. In these days a horse that can win at from five to seven furlongs is all that a man wants for winning the best prizes, and for such races a horse with a cloudy pedigree is as good as a thoroughbred.' — A writer in the Sportsman speaking of Carbine says: — 'As the eye is cast for a general look, he appears a lean, leggy colt with much about him that looks undeniably like pace. In walking he is an idle horse, without anything remarkable in his gait, but when extended or cantering his action is of the best possible style, his great reach and power behind sending him over a deal of ground.' , — Mr P. Butler, who has just returned from Australia, says 'that the 1700 guineas bid for Manton was honafide. He also backed Steppe's son, Too Soon, when he won the May Handicap at Bosehill, on the 4th inst., and he procured the nice price of sto 1. Mr Butler also had a look over the Hon. J. White's stud while he was in Sydney, but his time was too limited to accept of an invitation to interview Mr Andrew Tour's stallions and brood mares at Bichmond.