SPORTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8062, 14 July 1904, Page 1

SPORTING NOTES.

. « Pampero won £2430 in stakes during his career on the turf. After her Oaks -win Pretty Polly -was made j an even money favourite for the St Leger. i Medallion, ihe sire of Achilies, will stand in New South "Wales next season at 15 guineas. (Ajax, 'by Flying Fox, started at 9 to 4 an, and won the French Derby by half a length. At-' latest advices L. 'H. Hewitt was in Melbourne, and was riding work at Fiemington. The Carbine horse \Vallace has a- full list for the coming .season oi a fee of 50 guineas. According to a Melbourne writer, Wairiki was backed some time ago for the Melbourne Cup. Martagon, the sire of Martian, has been represented by several winners in England lately. The Singapore Derby was won, by an Aus-tralian-bred horse in Essington, by Abercorn — Essie. •Mr Gollan's Australian Star ran unplaced in the Holiday Handicap at Hurst .Park on May 23. Odds cf 13 to 8 were laid on Sceptre in the Coronation Cup, in. which she was beaten by Zinfandal. During the present racing season Flower o'' ■Clutha won eighteen races, and was eleven times second. The French coli Gouvernanfc is described as a £.ne-looking. horse, with wonderful.. quarters; and perfect action^ ■ .-■■■" At a sale of. Mr R. S. Sievier's horses in May, Australasia, by Trenton — 'Dame Heron, was sold for 100 guineas. Tliie Flench Oaks drew a -field of twenty, the -winner turning up in M. Q& Blanc's Profane, by Winkfield's Pride. Aeronaut, a New Zealand-bred gelding by Phaethon, was showing good track form -when the last mail left Melbourne. Mr J. A. Buckland won another race in New South Wales last month, Zenda accounting for the Stewards' Mile at Moorefield. The three-year-old filly Heronry, sold by Ma: It. S. Sievier last year for 3000 guineas, is now performing with credit in Italy. The ex- Victorian trainer, J. E. Brewer, has eleven horses in training at Newmarket for Mr R. H. Henning, late of South Australia. John o' Gaunt is generally regarded as the best-looking three-year-old in training in England. He is, in addition, a great stayer. • Australian writers express the opinion that Mr Stead's 'horses are well enough treated to tempt him to take them to Sydney in the spring. The Australian horseman, <S. Callinan, who rode Gaulus when he won the Melbourne Cup, was riding work over hurdles at Riccarton last week. , Mr S. -H. Gollan gave 310 guineas for Star of Malta, by Knight of Malta — Rising Star, after he 'had won a selling race at tftie Epsom Derby meeting. The four-year-olds Zinfandel and Rock Sand had never met prior to the race for the Coronation Cup at Epsom, which was won by the first-named. Lord Cardigan is reported to be going on satisfactorily at Randwick. He promises to be i hard to beat in long-distance weigh t-for-age races next season. The Melbourne owners and trainers have a number of grievances, which -they propose 'to try to remedy by forming an Owners' and Trainers' Association. Queen of the Earth, tue two-year-old filly by Flying Fox, which cost 3300 guineas as a yearling, won the " great Surrey Foal St/akes at the Epsom meeting. Including the £500 added to the New Zealand Cup, the stakes for the Canterbury ! Jockey Club's Spring Meeting show an increase of £1500 over those of last year. The English colt Rock Sand is reported to have improved a Jot aince'he raced last year, but by latest showings Zingfandel must also have come on since 'he was <a ■tfhree-year-old. Though Sceptre was disqualified for certain races by the " warning-off " 'of Q£r R. S. Sievier. iher present owner, Mr W. Bass, is liable for all forfeits as if she were eligible to run. ■ New Zealandera figured prominently in Tattersall's No. 1 sweep on the National Hurdles. P. Murphy, Foxton, worJ the second prize of £2000, and A. Johnson, Queenstown, the third of £1000. .- ■ ■ Robin Hood, who won the Epsom Handicap at Randwick in 1897, and who fell in the Caulfield Cup of 1898, won by Hymettus, is running in a, buggy at Murrumburrah New South Wales". . On Friday Mr S. Brown, of Wakanui (Ashburton), lost his racehorse Hurricane, valued a.t £200. While being groomed the animal took fright and injured itself so seriously that death resulted. M. E. Blanc's four-year-old Caius won the Prix Sedouville, a weight-for-age' race «-t the Chantilly meeting. The champion French mare, La Oamargo, ran second, • but was disqualified for short. weight. On the declaration of the weights the exhurdle racer Marmon* was made- favourite for the Caulfield Cup. He was also backed in doubles to win both Cups as was also his stable companion, Merrion. '> The first batch of yearlings by the Aus-tralian-bred Stoccado (late Cranberry) are well spoken of in England, 'Cranberry, w>h© is by Cranbrook — Tiwoona, won the Australian Jockey Club's Derby in 1899, after whidh he wemt to England. The Woodcote Stakes, the nrincipal two-year-old race at : the Epsom Derby meeting, was wori by Cicero. The King's colt Rosemarket was third, and the unplaced division included King Duncan, for whom Mr ' W. Bass gave 20.00 guineas' to Mr <R. S. Sievier. Major Eustace I/oder, the breeder ond owner of Pretty Polly, has. some near relation© to the cfoiampion filly in a two-year-old fullsister, a yearling 'hailf-hrvytOier by Isinglass, and a . filly foal, full-sister 'to PTetty Polly. The dam of this lot is.-psain in foal. to.G-allimile. Tha : "Otago Witness" is responsible for the statement that Mr J. Jeffs, the owner of Petrovna, has lodged an appeal to the Racing Conference against the' decision of the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club in refusing to upbold hi« claim to the stakes won by Bagpipes in tie . Criterion Handioa-p, run last November at Riccarton. Amonir thn 'bip'h-wriced - si;a!ljo.r]« «t frhe stud in New South W*!ea are Sir Foots and Haut Brion at 50 puineaa, , TTUSsiritj, Cup ait 45 gnineas, and '.?konos and. Positario at 40 truineas. All of them «xe immortpd horses. Hau't Brion and Positano are by Si Simon, !» Txassisg Oaj> iby Oime, Sit Foot© :| by- Sir*.

Hugo, and Skopos by St Serf, a son of St An English writer sums up the Derby winner in the following terms : — " St Amant, to look at is jnsi a nice sort of horse, and northing more. He 13 a level made bay, not at all on the leg, and yet not a small horse. He is well balanced and neatly turned, but his middle piece is lather weak-looking, and his ribs are hardly sprung as they might -be. Little fault can be found with his limbs, and he is seen to greater advantage when going hard than he is when walking in a paddock." The Manawatu" Racing '.Club' last week discussed a project to construct a private railway from Awapuni station to the coiirso, and erect a< bridge over the lagoon at a total estimated cost -of £4000. . The committee were authorised "to proceed with the scheme, and secure the necessary land and the passing. of 1 a Bill in Parliament., The sum of £2000 will be found by the club and- the committee, and the remainder by -members of the club taking debentures at eight per cent, redeemable in seven years. . Two racecourse frequenters named Forster and Woodward, with several aliases, were sentenced at the Westport District Court last week to six months' imprisonment each for conspiracy to defraud John Ogg at the Westport race meeting last March by false ptotences. By the production of a bogus £10 note they induced Ogg to give them £5 to put on an unknown horse, which they, did not invest. Judge Ward said that the prisoners were a pair of disreputable scoundrels from Australia, getting a living on racecourses. A Launceston writer gives a few figures as to the number of horses running in Tasmania in different years. In the 1882-3 season the candidates totalled only 142, and in those times there were perhaps more mainland representatives attracted than to-day. By 1885---6 there was ■?. substantial increase, the figures then being 239. Upon the introduction of tike totalisator "the increase was well maintained, and in the 1892-3 season there were 309 competitors, ,and in 1896-7 304. During the last few years tihe niunbsr has been further added to. the nomin^ti-ons for the •present year being generally in _ excess of nhose for any previous season. This is satisfactory, -so far -as it goes, but it does not necessarily mean that there 'has been any improvement in quality.