SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3154, 10 September 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

|By I.k Noni>. | 1 Stk. iM i-.oi.i. on. -. .f i h?eraek l hrje-y.'.-ir-olds of seas.n, has ee:.e vfrMii, an'.l IS to woto til s|,;.l. T|. ( . i;,..- 1 >■. i l.y of t ■ Osov-s, run foi i, . I."I• •v fi !iv ]•]-; '-Ir, a i»n .) i;:i" A•' A " -' 1 " ! ■''l',. of tilts Aastrali-.il /-'ii'.i,- |!o1»■ at Uandwiclc • n s"-|.'-" : .il. >' '1- ' 1 u "' l •|',ie \ ieii.ria-i Ain-iteiir Turf Clul. a p.- I:' "? C7'>o ovr-r the National M'-'-tint'. , , f 1 0.1, A, Adelaide in .-elm-on Aiunst IoU, a rink a.l-i.ier, in Ih'aVo, won the \Y elt.-l llandieip, th.: toiali.s it-.r divnl-nil hi.in_ ,• -,j if),. Tn another race the same uay tile ilividen-l wai 1--5 1 Us. l.'or the three t'nr'.oiiL' race for tuo-y--ai-old- v.liie!. opened the nroeeedlngs at (.'anifi'-ld on An-ust V.Uh. 'dv-ro weneiulit.en starters. The favourite, liV Xeel.;ers-at, owned I'V Mr Mulei, won easily Time, S'.l{•<«•'•_ (lolonel Wai-hurlon in his book, ' tlow Train the R-te..-l.olSf, ! " reni''i>'- th « ' the immnralitv "I' pullina hors-s is purely oonrenti-nal," and thatitis lust as bad to run a horse until, as to pull him. Says the Sydney R- fereo : —D"ii t give ti.e eolts too much work, Don f, forgot, that the inu-oleH and sinews arc young•in(l tender, like the animal to which thev helontr, and if the eolt, is large, and has been fed liberal rations, so much the more need of exceptional care. Because lie is the size of a horse- does not make him one. The coif which is grown fast is something like the iron which is heated and then cooled quickly. At the recent agricultural show m Brisbane the high-jumping cont-st was reduced to a matcli between the wel - known fencers Min.cpola and Sponduhv After all the other competitors hid fallen out the two mentioned were ruMcn at lift 9in.' but both denliued. The owners then agreed to divide the prize and subsequently Spondulix negotiated 6ft ,).,m m '•Racehorse trainers are worse than old maids," we (American Horseman:) heard it said once upon a time, and we begm to believe it. They are timid suspicious, ahvavs looking for the best of the bargain and "jetting the worst of it. 1-ew of them have any nerve. They are afraid to Start a horse uuless he has a moral certainty and the result is they miss lots ft good things I" was this which caused the I Hvver brothers to take their stables in their own hands as regards management. The N.S.W. trainer and jockey, lionrtv, had a narrow escapc from a fatal injury the other day. He was dressing- his cnargo Commissioner, when the horse lashe'l out, and caught Roart.y over the eye, inflicting an n™dv irash. Koarty fortunately was too close up to the hotse, and did not got the full weight of his hoofs. The -rooming of such horses makes you careful. News of t.he horrible mutilation of a valuable stallion comes from Sydney. The tongue of the animal was nearly cut ihrouffh close to the root. A man named Jamej Amos has boon arrested on s-is-

In the matter of liorso breeding in Ireland, the Horse, Breeder considers that this tumult of political life is doing' a Vast amount of harm. The journal m question advises Irishmen to enter upon this business of horse breeding enthusiastically and with system. The lime-containing soil the natural life of the horses, the nature of the rural horse labour, are a combined in the Emerald Isle Get to work aud leave oft' the wind-bags of legislation. ~ iSarellan, one of the colts sent to Lapland bv the late Mr. James \Vhit3 to compete in the English Derby is now being used as a farm stallion at a fee ot one guinea a marc. A keen judge of hordes and horse-iacing fs.i"s il Trump atr,r ") lately returned S'-iinev speaks in plowing terms of Autonomy, whom he says has let down and now looks the model of a Derby horse lie saw a deal of work in Sydney, and tninks hiirhly of the two-year-olds, a colt by Trident—Nellie being particularly t'ood-looivin<r. . c " Horses may need m the matter of watering all the care hereby urged but tl.ev very rarely got it: "heeding a horse m-incipallv on grain and driving it five iiours without water is like giving a man salt mackerel for dinner and not allowing him to drink before supper time-very unsatisfactory for the man. If you know arvtliinsr about the care of horses and havo sympathy for them water them as often as t.liey want to drink"—once an hour, if possible. By doing this you will not only be merciful to other animals, but V-ou will be a benefactor to yonrsel as t-lioy will do more work, they look bcttu, and live longer." says an exchange, News from England state that Robert S Savior well known in Australia as a bookmaker, and who gained some notorieiy a few years back spanking Lord Deerhurst, A. D- C. to Sir H. B. Looh when Governor of ,h Bankruptcy Conrt. Liabilities. £3101; asserts estimated at 8000 A rider named C. Pag3t lias been disqualified for life by the Plympton (Sou h Australia), Racin:? Clnb for deliberately pulling a horse into a trot; At the satuo meeting C. Curtain, an amateur rider, met w'i'th .similar punishment for using abusive language to the staitei. It may perhaps, bo an open question whether the best joc.teysliip is required for a lon<- or for r. short race, the majority of turfites rather inclining to a belief that the longer the distance the i'rc iter need is there of judgement on the part of the rider. Colonel Warburton is emphatically of the other way of thinking and "'ive-i in support the very excellent reason tba less time there is for retrieving mistake.? the more urgent the necessity for not making any. The common expression of a runaway horse " taking the bit between his teeth" iw evidently a wrong account of the action it is intended to describe. The bu 1 tin" horse (says Live Stock Journal.) carries his head in a characterise manner, either poking it forward at full Si.roteh ot bending it down ward with arched neck. In either cases, says ona of the most eminent of veterinarians on the Continent, lie takes " a strong point of supporl by ihe assistance of the bar. Ho never takes the bit between his teeth, for the bar of tin; bit can, at most, only touch the first molars. This, our authority says, " is sufficient to explain the twisting of the branches of the bit and the I'uptmc of the bearing rein" which sometimes result from the rider exercising all his strength to restrain the mad careeiyif his steed° It is a ridiculous to think tnat in the cases attributed to " taking the bit between the te.-t.il " it is grasped by the incisors. Therefore the incorrect expression should be abandoned. Live Stock Journal .