SPORTING BREVITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5115, 24 November 1894, Page 6

SPORTING BREVITIES.

Pinrose is in steady work again. Indolence baa foaled a filly to St Clair. The field for the Otago Cup will be very small, • •

Chaoa served one or two mares last season.

Challenger ran unkindly in the Maribyrnong Plate.

Hsrkaway has been taken over to the West Coast.

Ohainlink has been Bold to a North Island breeder.

Dreamland was sore when he ran in the Melbourne Cup. J. Loughlin, the Dunedin trainer, has filed his schedule. Nominations for the Ashbnrton Stakes close on Saturday.

Throstle, the winner of the Doncaeter St Lager, was bora blind.

Arihi, who won tha Maribyrnong Plate, was foaled on August 1. Escapade, the siaten to Chesterman, is always more or less lame.

Lottie will not run in the Otago Cup, in which ahe was well treated.

Arihi, the winner of the Maribyrnong Plate, cost 300gs as a yearling. E. Bradford, who trains Patron, learned his business with I. Foulabam.

It, is stated that an American breeder is making inquiries after Vanguard. Hippomenes has not accepted for the Otago Cap, but Prime Warden has.

Diomed.the winner of the first English Derby, was imported to America in 1799.

Casket will probably be sent to Auckland to run in the Great Northern Derby. The father of Dawes, the rider of Patron, won the Melbourne Cup on Banker in 1863. Rosary, the dam of Calculus and Aquarius, has this season visited Carbine.

F. Piper will act; as atarter at the Hawke's Bay Jookey Club's Summer Meetin&« ' . ...

Mr Stead has sold the two-year-old colt Popgun to Mr G. Ellis, of Hawke'a Bay.

Liberator has bean turned out for a rest. The old Bon of Betrayer has earned it well.

When Paris stumbled in the Melbourne Cup he nearly threw Feilder out of the saddle.

D. O'Brien has won the Otsgo Cup twice— with Freedom in 1890 and Florrie in 1891.

The price paid for Bowshot was 6Ogs. The son of Maxim has gone to the Hawera district.

Dilemma, who displayed signs of lameness recently, will not run again until the autumn.

The death is announced from London of Mr Bruce Low, who took Stromboli to America.

G. Wright, the Auckland trainer, has leased Sylvia Park, the full brother to Hippomenes. Georgie Sharp has changed hands, Mr J. A. Holmes having purchased her from Mr T. BassetC.

The price which Chainlink was sold for was MO. The son of Ckainßhot coßt J6420 as a yearliDg. ■ . » . . The dowager Duchess of Montroae, better, known in racing circles as "Mr ManfcoD," is dead*

Arihi, the name of the winner of the Maribyrnong Plate, is the Maori name which applies to Alice. It is stated that for eight weeks before he ran in the Caulfield Guineas, Dreamland never ate up a feed.

It is stated that Safeguard will be sen 1 to Auckland to run in the Great Northe Foal Stakes next month.

W. Clark and Barry are both going over to the West Coast shortly to ride at the various meetings there.

A syndicate of Wellington railway employes won four cash prizes in Tattersali's sweep on the Melbourne Cup.

During the years 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894, the horses owned by Mr W. E. Wilson won, in Btakes, .£27,511.

Preston, who won the Spring Stakes on the fourth day of the V.X..C. Spring Meeting only coat 40ga as a yearling.

The racing on the first day of the Duaedin Jockey Club's Spring Meeting does not promise very satisfactorily. During the two years the Otago Cup was run over a mile and three-quarters the distance was covered in 3min 9ssee.

The heaviest weight ever carried to victory in the Otago Cup waa last year, when Prime Warden won under Bat 111 b.

Ben Godfrey was' a good deal injured in the scramble in the run off of the dead heat iv tho City Haadicap at Auckland. The 9st 31b which Patron carried in the Melbourne Cup is the heaviest weight under which any four-year-old has won the race.

The attendance at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day ia calculated to have been 60,000, or about 7000 less than last year.

The yearling colt Cartridge, by Carbine, which D. O'Brien purchased last week, is out of St Oclille by St Albans, from Prioress.

The death is announced of Moss Eose, by Cassivelaunus— -Eoaeneath, who died foaling to First King. The foal—a colt—, likewise died.

Paris stumbled badly at the top turn in the Melbourne Cup and interfered slightly with Patron, who, however, suffered no inconvenience.

Some telegraph operators at Wellington, who last year drew The Jeweller in the Melbourne Cup Sweep, this year drew two " non-3tarters,"

Johnny Martin is being tried' over hurdles. He shapea well; and bo does Lord of Mißrulo, another aspirant for jumping honours.

At the Doncaster autumn sales a colt, by Ayrshire from the New Zealand bred mare Cartridge, by Musket from Rosalie, was sold for 350gs.

Mr W. T. Jones's two horses which ran in the Melbourne Cup— Lord Randolph and Capstan, coat between them 3300g8 in purchase money alone. It is reported ia Auckland that cash bookmakers were laying totalisator odds very freely at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Spring Meeting.

There is a two-year-old half-brother, by Escutcheon, to The Harvester. He belongs to Mr S. Miller, who was fortunate enough to acquire him for 45gs.

A new racing club has been formed, called the Christchurch Racing Club. Its first meeting will be held ou the New Brighton Bacecourse on Dec. 17.

Mr G. G. Stead has purchased from E. Cuttß the yearling colta by Chainahot — Nautilus and by Medallion — Dudu. The price paid for the pair was 300ga. Legerdemain, the dam of St Malo, and Lady Gertrude, the dam of Blizzard and Euroclydon, have foaled to Sb Clair— the former a filly and the latter a colt.

Merganser's full-brother, Elswick, broke a blood-vessel when running in the Coburg Stakes on the first day of the Victoria Eacing Club's Spring Meeting. Ab the Mentone (Victoria) Race Meeting on Nov. 2, Ilium Bst lib, hy Albauy, won the Flying Handicap, and Matai 9st 71b, by St Leger, the Welter Handicap. No jockey has ridden the winner of the Otago Cup more than once. White, Leeßon, Dorretfc, Donovan and F. Cochraue h*vo been up on the various winners. It ia auticipated that when all has been settled the late T. Corrigan'fl Wife and

children will have a safe and permanent income from tbo fund of about £80 a year. Since the distance of the Otago Cup has been reduced to a mile and a half the fastest time for the race is that registered by Florrie in 1891, viz., 2min 39£aeo. Strath Braan has been taken home to his owner's place for a rest. He is being hacked about, and the other day was walking down Colombo Street as quietly as possible. Gatwick racecourse waa originally a dairy farm, the proprietor of which had an idea that he could pump the milk through pipes to London, ana thus save the coßt of carriage.

The prize money won by Mr Ayre, of Ofcaki, in Tattersall'a consultation on the Melbourne' Cup, amounts to .£1125, but three other residents of Ofcaki held a quarter share in the prize. A. Smith, who trained British Lion when he won tho New Zealand Cup and trained Wakawatea, and rode him in the majority of his two-year-old engagements, died in the Ctaristchurph Hospital on Sunday; J. Wattie, who was one of the best horsemen in Now Zealand ten or twelve years ago, ia thinking of commencing riding again. Wattie rode the winners of most of the important races decided in the colony.

' Dawes, who rode Patron to victory in the Melbourne Cup, is only seventeen years of age. H« rode the winner of the Port Adelaide Cup when he was twelve years old, and last season he rode Portsea and Patron in all their victories.

Pumau, when running in the Hurdle Race at Mentone (Victoria), on Nov. 2, fell and fractured one of bis hind legs. He waa destroyed. Only a few months ago Mr Gollan gave £225 for the son of Bemmington who had not won a race for him.

Arihi's time for the Maribyrnong Plate — lmin 2£sec— has never been beaten in the race, but lolahthe, who won in 1883. registered a similar time record, and Necklet, the winner of 1 888, was only a quarter of a second slower in running the five furlongs.

The Otago Cup waa inaugurated in 1889, when it was known as the Exhibition Cnp. It was worth 1500 soys, and was run over a mile and three-quarters. In 1890 the value was reduced to 500 soys, and in 1892 the distance was decreased to a mile and a half.

It is intended to adopt permanently Gray's starting machine at Forbury, six of these having been purchased to be used in all the races save two throughout the spring meeting. The exceptions are the hurdle race on the first day and the President's Handicap on the third day. In thirty-four Melbourne oup races only seven favourites have won. Among the winners one started at 100 to 1 ; three at 60 to 1 ; one at 40 to 1 ; two at 33 to 1 ; three at 20 to 1 ; one at 18 to 1 ; two at 16 to 1 ; one at 14 to 1 ; one at 12 to 1 ; and four at 10 to one. Which makes nineteen rank-outsiders among thirty-four winners. A cuiious feature in connection with the Doncaßter Sb Leger is that, ever since Seabreeae won in 1888, the race has alternately fallen to a colt and a filly, for Donovan succeeded the late Lord Calthorpe's mare ; then came Memoir, who is divided from her own sister, La Fiecbe, by Common, and now we have a half-sister to the last-named succeeding Isinglass. As the horses running in the Melbourne Cup were turning into the straight Devon, who was on the outside, closed in and bumped again ai; Nada, who rolled on to Taranaki, and the last-named, who was lying on Boenalf's quarter*, bumped the favourite on to th« rails. Moran'B boot was torn, and the rider thinks that, bub for the mishap, Buenalf would have won.

The starting-machine will (says the Sydney Bulletin take 15 per cent off starter Watson's lease of purgatory. Ib will enable him to presently swear off swearing. On Saturday, for probably the first time in the world, the manner of a start was rapturously applauded. The Derby horaeß left the line like automata, hannch to haunch and neck to neok. The lawn and hill and flat clapped honest admiration, & thing, seldom known on a racecourse.

Mr Byron Moore, secretary Victoria Bating Club, much to the disgust of a crowd of other hangers-on, .hao (says the Sydney ' Bulletin) 1 expunged the names of 192 bogus pressmen who in former years got free press-tickets for the four days' racing. It's scarcely creditable, bub one mean Canadian had for years got pressbox tickets for Victoria rice meetings as representative of Arizona Kic&erl Another travelled a? the Colorado Clarion — both alleged papers being: mere myths, invented by certain 'Murfcan humourists. This meeting, anyhow, genuine pressmen were allowed to Bee something from the preaß: box at Flemihgton.

The Sydney Bulletin gives the following eight reasons why the totalisator should snpereede the bookmaker in Australia :— (1) Because the tots lays the highest odds. (2) Because it never climbs over the nearest fence when the time comes to pay out; (3) Because he never needs to lay short odds bo as to buy a diamond pin. and a 36-carat watch and chain. (4) Because the tote is indifferent as to the ultimate winner, and never needs to dose up the favourite in the interest of the ." bag." (5) Because the machine doesn't own and run horses. (6) Because the percentage profits go to the clubs and, through increased stakes, back to the public. (7) Because wherever it has been tried the machine has purified racing and protected the legitimate owner. (8) Because it has led to the estinotion o£ the. turf middleman, the, "bookie," and diverted hundreds of pounds from his pocket to the charities by. handing its fractions to benevolent institutions.