SPOUTING NOTES.D

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3157, 17 September 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPOUTING NOTES.D

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Wnltrr IFiclfonboUjinn, the iraiuiT of CitrljiiAL , , bits been beton; (lie p-ibli; .-is :i trainer for UviMity-oiic years. During ill d finn' In.- has (iinicil out, 17"> wiinuTS, and iiniii.'XiMl for iheir own.-is the sum of .WO.OIK), oosidos thirteen cups. 3lr N. I!. D. TS.-nd. formerly sceivt.iry to the Victorian Anialour Turf Club, anil at one time sporting editor of the Leader, died in Melbounie on August 'J'ind. Boulevard, who ran second to Re:llfiip in the V.A.T. Club's Grand National Steeplechase, was offered for sale in but withdrawn, the reserve ";00gs not. being reached. The London .Sportsman understands that an otter of H.OOOgs hits been refused for Barcaldine. of IJ.OOOgs for Orvieto, and of liO,(IOOgs for Atnnhion.

Capt, Machell at the Newmarket sales paid ISOOgs for a filly by Hermit from Mitrailleuse by Musket. Anything with either strain of blood of the two great sires is now eagerly competed for.

At the Newmarket July sales of yearlings the splendid price of l,loogs was obtained for a colt by Hampton out of Cherry, the purchaser being Mr Marcus Daly, an American. This colt is said to be th'j handsomest yearling seen in a ring since Maximilian was sold to Mr .Robert Peck—about fifteen years ago. Strange to say Maximilian realized the same figure, which was the record price under the hammer at that time.

.Senator Stanford's famous trotting stallion Palo Alto died at the MayfWd stud farm on July t> Ist. Palo Alto was foaled in ISB2, and was by Electioneer from Dame Winnie. As a two-year-old ho showed a public trial in t>uiiu. 2.'i. : , , sec; ho started nine times as a four-year-old, and Avon eight events, taking a record of 2min 20] see. In ISOO he trotted at Chicago, covering his mile heats in 2min 18 j-sec, 2min losec, and 2min lllsoo, giving him the fastest race on record, arid the fastest three consecutive heats won in a race by any trotter. On November 17th, 1801, he appeared on the Stockton (Cal.) irae.k, and trotted the mile in 2min After that wonderful performance he wont back to Slay field to stud duty, and remained there till he died, the cause of death being pneumonia, wnich followed an attack of distemper.

Tho English bookmaker, Mr "Jack" Cheltnrs, who accumulated a fortune and then retired from business, is in America just now. While chatting in Philadelphia recently about wagers on horse races, he said:—"Tho late j\lr Davis, tho bookmaker of his time in England, probably laid the biggest bet (ver recorded when he wagered £100,000 to i'l 000 against three horses owned by a Mr Clark, and entered in the Derby of IS9O. There is also a bet recorded in England of £90,000 to £."0,000, the big end being laid by Lord Glasgow and Ihe smaller amount by Lord George Eentinck, who lost. I onee saw (in IHSS, I think) a youns; fool of a lordling bet £3000 to £:W that St. Simon, a very celebrated racehorse, would win a race in which, but one other animal was to start. St. Simon was so hot a favourite th.it 100 to 1 was laid on his chance, and such odds are, of course, very uuusal and simply mean that there is no betting being done. That young ass, however, actually bet his £.'SOOO against a bookmaker's £30 as coolly as if he had been accepting and not laying the tremendous odds. St. Simon won in a canter, bnt he might have fallen Or bolted, or done some rascally trick, for his temper was none of the best.

Says the Sydney Euferee : —lt may surprise most people who have been acGiistoircd to think thai-races arc run in mucli faster time in America than in the old country to learn how fast some of tho English races have boon run. Fast time in England is militated against by tho different system of shirting that prevails across tho ocean, wliero the horses break slowly from the starting posts before tho horses have got into their stride, instead of with a flying start several rods distant from the starting pole as here. Notwithstanding this disadvantage some remarkably fast time has been made on the English turf, and a discussion in the London Sportsman, which has lately been showing a disposition favourable to the introduction of the flying start, brings out some interesting and surprising information as regards time records in England. Bendigo won tho Lincolnshire Handicap in lmin 3G 4-') sec. This mile is faster than anything done in a race in America. It is true that Salvator, with 1101b up, made the mile on Monmonth Park's straight track in lmin. o").]sec, but that was in a single struggle against time. The fastest time made in a race in America for tho mile was Ravolon's Monmouth Park in IS9O, with 1071b up, when the distance was done in lmin :S!).jse2. Bendigo ran his race with 1171b on his back in a iield of twenty-one starters to jostle him, so that his performance is immeasurably superior to anything done yet on this side of the Atlantic. Again, Lord Portsmouth's Buccaneer ran the Salisbury Mile in 2min .'Jilsoc many years n«n. while the same authority says that Lucerne ran a mile at Derby in lmin 3()soc.