SPORTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7391, 1 May 1902, Page 3

SPORTING.

♦ : ' " : NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING ; ' • : MEETING*. ! ' THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received May 1, 11.45 a.m.) ' LONDON, April SO. The following is the result of the TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS, of 100 soys each; second horse 300 soys and third horse to save his stake. For three-year-olds. Coits 9,st, fillies- Bst 9ib. On© mile and eleven yards. Mr R. S. Sievier's b f Sceptre, by Persimmon — Ornament,. Bst 9lb . .- .' .1 Sir 'E- Vincent's b c Pistol, by Carbine — Wenonah, 9st 2 Mr H. Gubbins's bf c Ard Patrick, <by St Florian — Morganette, 9st . . .3 (Sceptre, for whom Mr "R. 8. Sievier paid lO.OCOgs at the sale of late Duke of Westminster's stud, only started three times as a two-> ear-old, -winning the Wcodcote Stakes at the Epsom Jitne Meeting and the valuable July Stakes at the Newmarket July Meeting, the filly starting ,at 10 to 1 on. In the Doncaster Champagne Stakes she could only get third place, behind Game Chick and Csardas. This season she was only defeated by a head in the Lincolnshire Handicap by St Malcou. Many English writers affirm that Sceptre was not judiciously ridden, or she might have reversed positions with St Maicou, Sceptre is engaged in. the Ona Thousand Ghrineas, May Three-year-old Plate, Derby Stakes, Oaks Stakes, Prince of Wales' s Stakes, Coronation Stakes, St James's Palace Stakes, Hardwicke Stakes, St Leger Stakes and Park Hill Stakes. Pirtol — who ueed to be known as Indian Shot — who finished second, started eleven times last season, winning twice and was placed on six other occasions. He won the Hopeful Stakes, five furlongs, at the Newmarket October Meeting, and the Moulton Stakes, five furlongs, decided at Newmarket in the same month. This season the son of Carbine finished out of a place in the Chaplin Stakes, run at Lincoln on March 17. Ard Patrick, like Sceptre, only contested three races as a two-year-old, and several good English judges considered that he would develop into a clinking three-year-old. He won the valuable Imperial Produce Stakes, six furlongs, by a head from Royal Lancer, at the ' Kempton Park October Meeting, and followed this up by annexing the Clearwell Stakes, five furlongs and 140 yards, at the .Newmarket October Meeting. He was then beaten a head by Game ■Chick in the Dewhurst Plate, Beven. furlongs.)