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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 108, 18 August 1892, Page 4

Count Lahens, the French sportsman, who ‘ ‘ warned off ’ ’ some time since at the request the Pau stewards, and who commenced an actijflM against them, has come off with flying The sentence passed upon hi n was confirmed by the Steeplechase Society, but the latter - has inserted a notice in the Bulletin Officiel reinstating Count Lahens at the request of the Pau stewards, who admit that their judgment was formed too hastily, and that the evidence Count Lahens produced has led them to alter their decision. Most of the French papers deplore the authority vested in race stewards, most of whom know very little about sport, but who, unfortunately, have it in their power, actuated by pique on the part o some friend, to disgrace a man for life by excluding him from among his fellowmen on the Turf. They ask for a reform of the French racing law. Lord Bradford has a two-year-old half-sister to Sir Hugo, by Chippendale out of Manoeuvre, called Drill, but no yearling relative to him, owing to the mare’s colt by Chillington having died. Mr. W. Blackler, the Adelaide studmaster, has sustained a loss by the death of Ruby, the dam of Sardius. The latter was her best son. She has been an unfortunate mare for Mr. Bladder, as she slipped twins on no less than three occasions. At the time of her death the mare was in foal to i the Musket horse, Thunderbolt.