SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3163, 1 October 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

|i'.v J-K Num.. I Says the X.-vv Z.-alaM.l l-!"l'<-re" : — The lion. .T. 1). Orui"ii'l his lurth'-r add. d to Iris tTi.-.f. Kj.'ivd kvrding stuck by imp.irtiiiti lle> i.'-mi- Straight Shot. wh<> sirriwd frum Victoria with Mr Ormond's nther mure liiidianl. Strai-hl SliMt i< a .-h"stnut mare, fi-il.-.'l in 1-NSI, -<>t by Xi.wmin-,ter fp.m Hull's Ky.'. l.y I-ad;, Kick iV-.m Target. She was M winner "i'a number .if raei--; ill h'T liativ.- 1 Hid. and a< she i< in I'kil !u the Melbourne ('u;, wiiin.-r. Dmil..|.. >h<- should be a valtvilile to the local liluud .stuck. 'I'be two-yciir-cld Light Artillery, by Trt-nlijii'froiii 8.-ngiil Light, is de cnbi'il by " ri-ni]io' : in the Spurt-mall as a iiarficually promising yoiiiigsler, in c'.ul'oriiialio'n faultles<. In colour he is a dark biy or brown, with four whit.: fetlick<. The e,,lt i< b.-ing (lained bv Walter iiiekenbotham.

On August 17th, sit Washington Park. Chicago, tin; famous mare Xiiney Tliiiiks lowi-'ivtl the trotting n.-eord for nir.iliiliy covering' tlif distance in 2 mill 7] sec. The irreut Collingwooil stnliles, Baltimore (America) were recently struck by lightning, when sixteen valuable horses were roasted alivo The animals were valued at £100,000, and among them was the imported English sire Galore, by Galopin from Lady Maura. Whilu being exercised at Randwick recently the livc-year-old Eossa.ll stumbled and broke one of his logs. Another accident is reported from a New South Wales training track, a racehorse, Enterprise, being brought down and breaking his back by a dog rushing in front of him. " Mnrtincliilo," of the Sydney News says :—lt is reported that the chestnut horse Liverpool, by King of Clubs from Idalia, has been purchased by a New .South "Wales studinaster. The pricepiiid was lOOgs. Tntil his owner, the late lion. W. 'Robertson, had him treated to four gallops of two miles each in succession, I hud a. strong fancy that Liverpool would win the Melbourne Cup of ISSS. Mr S. Miller, owner of Redleap, has purchased Boulevard, the runner up to his horse in the Caulfield Grand National Steeplechase. The death is announced of Richard Ten Brock at the age of Si'. He was the first American sportsman to send horses to complete in English races. At the Victorian Royal Agricultural Show Jess, an aged brown mare carry ing 11st, gained first prize in the high j urni ling competition, clearing lift, Highlander, who was ridden by a tiny boy named O'Leary, and weighing only 7st, was placed second, oft 10in being the height he got over. Public sympathy was naturally with the boy's horse, who in former ye irs made a. fight of it with Spondulix. ilalolo, who is fancied for both the Caullield andMclbourne Cups, is going well in his work, and is said to bear a most striking resemblance to his sire, Maliiit, when moving.

Mr M. O'Brien, father of Mick O' Bricn, whoso death was recorded last week, was not long in following his son to the grave, as lie died on the day of the horseman's burial. He was GS years of age.