SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3160, 24 September 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Lk None]

Thk Smith Auckland Racing Club liuvi! issued tin' programme for their Summer Alerting, which is to be held on tlii. 1 Olnud'-lands raercourso on Friday and Saturday, December 1 0' 1« and 1 71! i. There are fifteen events set down for decision, and the value of the slakes amounts to the respectable sum of £G;J.j This club is the premier club of Waikato, and is increasing in popularity every season. The course is one of the best and prettiest to be found in New Zealand, and is in splendid condition at present. Ilorseowners and others can, therefore. look forward to having one of the best meetings yet held under the auspices of (his club. The successful state to which this club has been brought, is no doubt largc-.ly due to their energetic secretary, Mr G. TT. Carter, who has worked hard for ils benefit. I trust that they will have a very .successful meeting in December, and that the club will come out on the right side of the ledger. An offer of £10,000 has been made for Gouvcrneur, who ran second to Common in the Derby of IS9I, on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian Government. Colonel North, speaking at West Broniwill in support of the candidate that afterwards proved successful. was asked by one of his hearers to give them a tip. The Nitrate King responding said ; " Back Spencer for Monday and back Nunthorpc (his own horse) for the Liverpool Cup." Mr Spencer was returned by a large majority, and as cabled out Nunthorpe won the race mentioned. Writing of Irish horses, the London Daily Tolegrapii says:—To say the truth, Ireland is undoubtedly the first flower of the earth for the production of noble steeds. We would suggest that no Irish aspiration could be more to the point than ''Erin-go-Bragli flocks and herds, turkeys and poultry." No better climate, no richer pastures, no purer water, no more refreshing breezes, are anywhere to be found than those which make Royal Heath and Kildare blossom like the rose. The Empress of Austria pronounced Erin's Isle to be without a rival upon the face of the earth as a hunting country. The best panacea for her woes would bo the constant presence of "great London dealers" at her fairs and markets, *nd an abundance of high-bred steeds to which six feet of timber or stone seemed nothing more than a baga:elle.

The ex-New Zealand jockey, H. Cusdin, is now attached to Mr James ltedfearn's stable at Caulfield, where Malvolio Corrcze, and Marco are quartered. Talking of Niagara, "Yerax" in the Sydney Referee says:—Niagara has made a pet of a cockatoo, which sits perched on a rail and watches his big companion manoeuvring about his paddock. This bird has a remarkable control of language, and some of his expressions arc more impressive than polite. Niagara will not tolerate dogs or cats near him, and his sole companion is this screeching cockatoo.

Thirteen Darebin yearlings bred at Rancho del Paso and sold at New York averaged £200 Ss, and twentyfive Sir Modred's £105 each. Aim si is unquestionably an accomplished steeplechaser under a certain weight and up to a certain distance (says a N.Z. writer), but he has never been such a great horse ovor coHntry as Kulnine is al the present moment over the small fences. The latter is, perhaps, the best hurdle-racer the colony has yet produced, and the Redleap people may be very thankful that he was not sent across, as at on® time proposed, to take part in the V. R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race.

Writes " Spectator" in the New Zealand Referee : —Readleap is re- | garded and no doubt with justice, as I the best horse ever seen over country in Australia, and in some quarters his latest feat is set down as the greateststeeplechase performance on record. Of New Zealand steeplechasers, past and present, Canard was probably the best under a heavy impost, and it is not out of place to class the big son of Anteros with the Australian champion. Competent judges give it as their opinion that Freeman, at his best, would hardly be within a stone and a half of Canard even under a high scale of weights, for the New Zealand Grand National winner of 1891 is hardly bred well enough to 2)ace it with his predecessor in the possesion of the cross country blue ribband, while as for staying ability Canard had few equals. In enumerating great steeplechasing performances prior to Redleap's recent achievements, the victory of Lone Hand over the Plemington course, carrying 13st 61b, is mentioned by the Australian papers as one the most I notable.

Word comes from America that Senator Stanford has refused an offer of £30,000 for the trotting horse Advertiser, by Electioneer from Lulu Wilkes, by George Wilkes. This is the highest price ever offered for a horse ef any description. The Australian Peer shows every symptom of vindicating the judgment of the Squire of Duckenfield (says " Yagrant "), and is getting beautiful stock, which in make and shape promise good things for the future. Nothing succeeds like success. It is nowstated that theDukeof Westminster is the most perfect judge of a horse in England. The eulogy is no doubt passed for the reason that he has been the happy possessor of Doncaster, who begot Bend Or. who begot Ormonde, who begot Orme. An oxchange states that Mrs Langtry, who owns the unbeaten two\year-old Milford, bets pretty heavily. She took £15,000 to £5000 about the colt the first time he won, laid £6000 to £4100 on the seco.id time, and £3500 to £2000 tho day he beat Bill of Portland for the July Stakes. Twenty-one thousand pounds is a nice sum to win about a two-year -

olrl in three races, and to this amount must be added the value of the stakes Milford won. A.n American exchange states that Adolph Spreckles, son of the sugar Magnate. Claus Spreckles, of San Francisco, Cal., proposes to engage in the business of breeding thoroughbreds. To that end he has just bought tae imported stallion Idalium, a full brother to the great Sir Modred ; being by Traducer out of Idalia.