SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3257, 13 May 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[lk Lk Nord.l Tt is slated that Tho Admiral will bo |jiit to the stud iioxl. season. Buron Neckar, at one time clinin pion of West Australia, was recently sold for £4. Tlii V.A.T.C. intend to shut down on ponies shortly, and will not allow them to 1m trained til Cnulficld. A namesake of the champion son of Musket and Lady Mersey is winning steeplechases in England. Mr S. IJonlern, the owner of lienlm, was 1-1)0 biggest stoke winner nt the A.J.C. Meeting, his cheque being for £27911. Mr Fry, the leader of the English riu<*, says his expenses last year amounted to £IO,OOO, apart from bad debts, An American authority says that in a few more years the blindest of the would-be blind may bo led to acknowledge the supremacy of American trotting blood all over Europe. Owing to the bad times, several Melbourne horsoowners are approaching the V.It.C. with n view to the effecting of a reduction in riding fees on the tint and in hurdle races. " Diamond," in the Sporting

Standard, says -George Robson the i jookcy, is back again in Melbourne i after bis New Zealand trip. I had a f chat with Robson at Epsom on Satur- 1 day, and he was enthusiastic in praise ' of racing in Maoriland, He did a fail j amount of riding during his stay, ' steering five winners, while ho thinks lie must have ridden a dozen seconds. Racing now is well conducted, the' courses admirably appointed, and the cattle first-class, He considers the four-year-old filly Merganser the greatest crack in New Zealand. The races in which he saw'her victorious were won in splendid company, and the pace she displayed would place her on an equality with the best horses in Australia. ; The Berlin authorities havo decided upon adopting the English rules concerning jockeys. Horsemen riding for money are no longer allowed (1) to bet over races or to make entries at the totalisator (parimntuel); (2) to accept presents from persons other than from those to whom the horsesthey are riding belong. Thatsterling steeplechase performer, Frigate, is dead. She was by Gunboat put of Maid of Kent, and she won the Lmrpool Grand National in 18S9. The year previous she finishod second to Plnyfair, and most probably, but for being carried out by Usnn, blic would then have been successful. Says the Napier Tclogruph They held a very enjoyable Maori race meeting up ti;o lino the other dayone that was a novelty in its way, for it was ruu by Maoris, the animals were Maori weeds, the jockeys dark in color, and the officials wero as black as the ace of spades. The Maori Carbines that wore saddled up for the various events were not beauties to gaze upon, but there was as much preparation uiado in regard to them as though they wero going out for a Melbourne Cup. The entrance fee was a couple of bags of grain for each race, with an acceptance of one sack. The first horse got so mauy sacks and the second so many. There was a five shilling " equalisitor" on the ground, on which those present could back their fancies. A spieler who attended the races, and who introduced a game of " poj. it down gents," was told by the stewards to pop himself outside. He popped. That splendid mare La Fliehe narrowly escaped going to America. When she was sold at Hampton Court •as a yearling a telogriun from Mr Daly authorising Lord Marcus Hereford to give C,ooogs for her was received too late. , Speaking of the age horses when well takon care of are likely to live to, an American exchange says: "Will Scarlet, a horse that was foaled in ISoG. made a heavy season in the stiul at the age of twenty nine, when he was unusually fresh looking. Outside of the fact that he was getting a trifle sway-backed and his legs forward were a little bad, Will Scarlet was a nice looking horse. lie died in November, 1890, lacking but two months of being thirty-five years of age. Lothario, by King Tom, foaled in 1850, stood in 1891, and got foals that are healthy and promising. The old j horse is in good health but is a trifle I stiff in his underpinning. The widespread bookmaking interest in horses running in Melbourne, added to the growth of pony racing is, says tha Sydney Telegraph, said to be knocking the bottom out 9f suburban race meetings in Victoria; 1 and unless a change occurs at no distant dato several clubs, must, it is thought, suspend operations. Wo are not so badly off here. Horses owned by several bookmakers in this colony, who run in their own names, are, so far as can be seen, invariably labelled genuine; but this cannot be said of the equines owned by some members of the ring, who for some reason or other, shelter themselves behind trainers' nominations, and one stable in particular being noted for nothing so much as the inconsistent running of its representatives. In this case "form" seems to be regulated by the tone of the betting market. The writer of Notes and Notions in the Sydney Echo says:-"Marvel cut up a"duffer;" and it may bo that a shrewd spectator who stood near me hit the right nail on the head when he remarked'" It's no use talking or argufying. Marvel's got little sense. The moke 'as found out that 'e gets as good a feed when 'e loses as when 'e wins, and 'e ain't agoin' to exert 'isself more'n 'e kin 'elp. An' I don't blame 'im Hither!'"

A horse has got himself warned off

in Ainorica, Inovo his name, and while at the post, he seized a jockey named Sargent by tho leg, draggel him from the saddlo and savaged him severely. "In future Inovo will not be allowed to enter" is the decision of the authorities. I (" Rapier") should have thought that a muzzle would have been sufficient, as it was hero in tho recent case of Screech Owl; but that is not our affair. The meeting at which Inovo exhibited his savage nature was the one whore the electric battery incident occurred—the result of which was tho addition of a new rule: "A jockey using other implements than whip and spur to assist his mount will be ruled oft', and the further entry of the horse so assisted will bo refused."