SPORTING ITEMS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 11, 11 October 1890, Page 3

SPORTING ITEMS.

Pungawerewere has dropped a filly foal to Nordenfeldt. We notice that Tasman is in the sale list, price 1000 guineas. Nautilus, the dam of Galatea, Teredo, Cynisca and Pygmalion, has foaled a colt to Lochiel, and has visited Chainshot. We have received information that Yum Yum has met with an accident, and will therefore, not be a starter at the Hunt Club racemeeting. The Queensland correspondent of the Sydney Referee writes that Mr. Donald Wallace has scratched Megaphone for the Queensland Derby and St. Leger. Billy Craft, well-known in Auckland, is to be placed in command of Mr. Donald Wallace’s newly acquired stud farm near Queenscliffe. — Weekly Press.

Mr. J. G. Harris, well-known in sporting circles, has taken the White Hart Hotel, Christchurch. Jack is popular, and should do well.— Public Opinion. Hon. G. McLean’s New Zealand Cup candidate Emmason has been blistered, and St. James, belonging to the same owner, has been sold for stud purposes. St Gatien who ran a dead heat with Harvester' for the Derby at Epsom has left Newmarket for the Imperial Graditz Stud, having been sold to Count Lehndorff for Mr. H. Redwood’s colt Dog Rose, by Natator —Rosalind, met with a severe accident recently, and it is feared will never be able to race again. He threw his rider and bolted into a barbed wire fence, cutting himself severely. The following scratchings are announced since our last issue V.R.C. Derby: Tormentor. Caulfied Cup: Tormentor, Shootover, Sultan, Midas, Insignia, Daniel, Umslopogaas, Camden. Melbourne Cup: Tormentor, Cardigan, Medallion, Insignia, Litigant.

Meta, by Anteros—Pearl Ash, is comifig up to Auckland from Napier on a visit to Mr. Morrin’s Castor.

“Carbine” fancies Wolverine has a great chance in the New Zealand Cup and thinks it a pity that he was not left in the Caulfield Cup. After his dual victory at the Hunt Club meeting there was a great rush to get on him, but his price soon hardened, and he is now quoted at 6 to i. A notice appears in the Sydney Referee from Mr. Joseph Abrahams, the well-known bookmaker, setting forth that the partnership between himself and Mr. Alfred Drake (well-known in Auckland) has been dissolved, and requesting that gentlemen having bets on future events with the late firm will kindly compare books with Mr. Abrahams to prevent mistakes. The following chatty paragraphs are extracted from “Augur’s ” notes in the Australasian. “ It is admitted by all judges whose opinions are worthy of respect that Megaphone is one of the best colts that ever carried a saddle. There is little to choose between him and Carbine at weight-for-age up to a mile and a half. So brilliant indeed were some of his performances that turf men were amazed, and could scarcely believe that any three-year-old could accomplish such wonders. . . . Mostpeople who saw

the A.J.C. Derby declare that Whimberel ought to have won. . . . When Gibraltar steps

on to the Flemington course Victorians will see one of the grandest colts that ever graced the track. . . . Gatling is undoubtedly a

brilliant colt, but there is just a suspicion that he is fipnt-hearted. ... In Whimberel Mr. Dan O’Brien possesses one of the best colts of the season. . . . After his race with Megaphone in the Craven Plate there was a slight discharge from the crack in Carbine’s foot, which has opened out again. Hickenbotham will have to bring all his skill and ingenuity into play to. get him to the post for the Melbourne Cup. . . . The owner of Little Bernie, who is a bookmaker, or by the victories of his horse. . • • Sir William will, I think, prove his real worth in an important handicap. On the first day of the meeting he showed good form by running a dead heat for second place with Melos, and I noticed him in the three miles race taking a feeler as they mounted the hill at the back of the course. Sir William has Bst. iilb. in the Caulfield Cup and the same weight in the Melbourne Cup. Whichever he is intended for he will nearly, if not quite win, and my impression is that it will be the former. Tantallon and Prince Consort will materially improve on their Randwick form. They were both a bit jolly, but by the time the Melbourne Cup is run should be in their very best form. . . . Marvel is something of a mystery, but I think his first trip under full sail will be the Caulfield Cup, two miles being considered a trifle too far for him. He did not start at Randwick. . . . Nothing at Flemington

has improved more than Singapore, who has lost all that jaded appearance he presented last season. . . . Among the stables that I

visited during my stay in Sydney was Joe Kean’s. At the time of my visit the principal occupants of Kean’s stable were those under the care of his brother James, who at that time had not long recovered from the effects of a paralytic stroke. Cuirassier, who ran so indifferently at Randwick, was in physic. He is a dark brown colt, more like Enfilade than Trenton, and judging from his performances in New Zealand, he is no doubt a real good horse, but at present he is a great deal above himself, and James Kean will have his work cut out to have him ready by November. The colt’s trainer fears that he got him about seven or eight weeks too late to have him thoroughly fit, and being a gross horse, he will take a lot of work before he comes to the post in the pink of condition. Leopold is a horse of another colour, a chestnut, and much smaller than the brown, but he is one of the long and low sort, and should take his part in the Caulfield Cup. James Kean also has a very fine four-year-old filly named Dolosa, by Leolinus from Lure (sister to Lurline). This filly is a full-sister to Whakawai, and when her racing career has ended she should make a valuable brood mare. . . Correze has lengthened out into a regular gentleman, but his teeth have been giving his trainer a considerable amount of trouble, and for that reason it was considered advisable not to run him at the A.J.C. meeting.

Lionel, by Leolinus—Petroleuse, has found a purchaser in Mr. J. J. Russell, of New Plymouth, and the horse has been shipped down to his new owner.

The following mares have arrived on a visi to CastorArielina, Queen Cole, Veneration Lady Florin, Nymph, a mare by Traducer, a mare by Deadshot, Zip, and a mare pedigree unknown. Meta will arrive in a few days.

Of Mr. Morrin’s own mares the following will be put to Castor Vivandiere, Necklace, Balista, Hilda, Cissy, Victress, Brown Bess, Rose of Wellington. Welcome Katie, The Jilt, Ada, Gannet, and Molina. “ Carbine,” in Public Opinion, write that Dudu is doing as well as anything at Riccarton, and if she can stay she must have a big show in the New Zealand Cup. It is also now admitted by all racing men that when she went out for the Dunedin Cup such a hot favourite the mare was legitimately done with when she so suddenly shut up. At the time many expressed doubts that such was the case.

The bookmakers by sticking together, says “Ajax,” have secured a victory over the Victorian Amateur Turf Club Committee, who have recognized the absurdity of attempting to bring off a big meeting without the aid of pencillers. At a general meeting of the Australian bookmakers association it was agreed that it was optional if they paid /To a year or /i a meeting, neither fee to include admision to the course. This arrangement was accepted by the V.A:T.C. Committee.