Turf Topics.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 163, 7 September 1893, Page 8

Turf Topics.

[By

“Sir Launcelot.”]

The privileges foi the Auckland Racing Club’s Spring Meeting will be submitted to auction by Messrs D. Tonks & Co., on Fiiday at noon.

Napier, who is, if my memory ccive me light, a son of Hiko, has been bought out of Waddell’s stable by Mr F. R. White of Gore.

From Sydney comes the news that Buccleugh picked up a sharp bone a few days ago while doing walking exercise, and a piece of the injured foot had to be cut away before the unwelcome intruder could be removed. Mr Mourn sustained a severe loss on Friday ■when Onyx produced a dead fifty foal to Cuirrassier. The result of the union should have fetched at least woo guineas at the sale-ring. Fancy!—by a son of Musket and Prailty out of Onyx the youngster would be three-parts sister to "Nordenfeldt, with the invaluable strain of Frailty thrown in. As Onyx is getting up in years too, the loss is additionally vexatious.

Owing to the heavy rain that fell on Saturday aftainoon the meet of the Pakuranga Hunt Club at Potter’s Paddock was but a small one, and only one little run was indulged in. Sydney Truth remarks The four-year-old mare, Tit, whom we referred to last week as fullsister to the Melbourne hurdle racer Titanic (by JLeolinus —Titania), won the 14 hands race at Rosehill on Thursday, for which she started at odds ‘ on.’ Many punters were anxiously waiting for this much discussed ‘ galloway ’ to perform.

Scots Grey, by Musket —Maid of Athol, who ■won the Canterbury Derby of 1889 for Mr Stead, is now doing stud duties at Morpeth, N.S.W.

The committee of the Queensland Turf Club at their last meeting decided to lower their tariff, in accordance with the depressed state of the times, and at the September race meeting one shilling will admit to the St. Legcr enclosure and five shillings to the saddling paddock.

Professor Theodore Lichtwark will give two of his expositions of horsemanship and horse taming in Mrs Connolly’s Hall, Victoria-street West, near 'he Empire Hotel, to-morrow and Saturday evenings. I have seen the Professor deal with 'he fiery untamed thoroughbred down South, and I can vouch for the efficacy of his system of horse taming. The unruly subject he wi l ! handle on Friday night will be an unbroken colt by A-ma-ment, the property of Mr J. B. Williamson. The imported pure-bred Irish hunting sire Paddy’s Land will again stand the season at Sylvia Park at a fee of 7gs. Paddy’s Land comes of a great jumping family, and should be especially well patronised by breeders of that class of stock. I shall comment on him at greater length in a future article as a ‘ Sire of the Season.’

Brigadier is another “ si-e of the season” that will come up for review in due course. He is advertised in another column to stand the season at a fee of logs. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays he will seve mares at Wellington Park, and on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at Devenport. As sire of Eve, Brigand and others, and a good two-year-old racer himself, Brigadier is well known to the racing world. The Sydney correspondent of the Sportsman in the last issue of that journal to hand says :— “Cremorne is doing well, despite the ugly rumours afloat as to his having hurt himself. If Cremorne keeps going as well as he is now, this long-legged descendant of old Glorious will be one of the hardest horses to beat in the Melbourne Cop. I have a special fancy for Cremorne and Sir William. The latter, I know, can get the distance, and the easy way in which Mr Mitchell’s gelding won a” his races last season leads me to believe that Cremoine is the best handicap horse on the Australian turf to-day. little Paris has been bounding along with his old time elasticity, and, with Paris and Cremorne in his stable, A "sop has a clinking pair.” There arrived here last week from Napier three mares belonging to Mr W. Rathbone, who has sent them upon a visit to St. Leger. They are Watersprite, by Traducer (imp.) —Waterwitch ; Mrs Rawdon, by K-ng of Clubs—Becky Sharp; and Burd Helen, by Cadogan (imp.) out of Helena. Watersprite is full sister to Natator and Nautilus, and is dam of Stonyhurst, who won the Canterbury Derby and Cup of 1885. Mrs Rawdon (whose damJßecky Sharp is sisterto Welcome Jack) is dam of Crawley, who ran weft as a two-yeai-old last season. Burd Helen’s sire Cadogan is an imported son of the English Derby winner Cremorne. and her dam Helena is half-sister to Strenuous.

The usual monthly meeting of the committee of the Auckland Racing Club was held on Monday. Messrs Ganett, Kirkwood, Evett and Percival we;e appointed to superintend the measurement of ponies. It was decided that the certificate for a three-year-old pony shov’d be six months, and A.R.C. certificates will be recognised where Tie rules are in force. All ponies must hold a certificate from the A.R.C. Club. Four trainers licenses were granted, and twenty jockeys’ licenses, and four apprentices were approved of. The names of those licensed wftl be found in the Official Calendar column of th’S journal. R. was ordered to return to fulfil bus engagement with Adam Byers. It was decided that the license fee charged to bookmakers in future be 20 g tineas, or 3 guineas a day. Several programmes were approved of and passed and daes a"otted to several clubs

Mr L. D. Nathan’s mare Brassolis, by Panic— Josephine, has foaled a filly Io St. Leger.

Orme ran his last race when he won the Eclipse Stakes, and he goes to the stud next season, 200 guineas being his covering fee. An American-bred filly named Siroces ran six furlongs at Sheepshead Bay (U.S.) in 1 min 13 1-sth sec—the fastest on record ever made on a circular course.

Mr L. D. Nathan scratched all his horses for their engagements at the A.R.C. Spring Aleeting shor !y after (he weights appealed. Latest English fi'.es to hand show that on the eve of the Ec ,; pse Stakes La Flecbe was first favomite at evens, bat theie was not much to choose between her and Orme, who was quoted at sto 4. It was considered probable that there would be seven starters. The cable notified us that the race was won by Orme. The first consignment of thoroughbred stock from Austral’a for British Columbia has left there by the steamer Warrimoo, and cons ; sts of the bay hoi se Doncaster, by The Drummer (imp.) Pom Devotion by Goldsbrough; bay filly by Grandmaster from Banvie (imp.) by Blair Athol; black filly by Grandmaster from Beatrice by Goldsbrough ; bay filly, by Waterloo (son of Epigram) from Grace Darling by The Diver ; and bay gelding Zircon, by Jacinth from Ruby. At Newminster Park, Camperdown, Vic., the property of Mr Chirnside, there is a splendid yearling colt by Vengeance, winner of the Caulfield Cup of 1890. He is said to be a replica of the Cup winner in conformation—a great length, with deep ribs, and a back formed to carry weight. When the mail left England Isinglass had been missing Jrom exercise for some time, and it was reported that the St. Leger favourite had been undergoing a course of medicne. A veterinaiy surgeon was in attendance on the colt, but nothing serious was thought to be amiss with him.

The proposal of Mr W. S. Cox to hold a race meeting at Moonee Valley on the day before Melbourne Cup day, which has heretofore been set apart lor the settling on Derby Day, has aroused considerable comment in betting circles. The matter was referred to by Mr Alfred Josephs at the annual meeting of the Victorian Betting Club a short time since. In accordance with his suggestion, the chairman of the club, Mr John Buckley, and the secretary, Mr Thomas Haydon, waited on the V.R.C. committee at its last meeting, and explained to that body the desirability of leaving the day named free for the adjustment of accounts. The meeting gave attentive hearing to the views of the deputation, but after considering the subject seemed to think that, as Mr Cox had been duly allotted the date in question, it would be unfair to deprive him of it. The committee have sent Mr Haydon a communication informing him that they could not agree to the wishes expressed.

The committee of the Auckland Racing Chib, by advertisement in another column, invite tenders for the right to cater injthe grand stand and Derby stand at the Club’s several meetings to be held during the season. Tenders close to-morrow at 1 o’clock. A meeting is convened at Knock’s Terminus Hotel, Onehunga, on Thursday next, to arrange the preliminaries for a pigeon match — vide adveitisement in another column. The first of Cuirassier’s progeny has seen the light of day, Amazon by Anteros—Revoke (dam of Trump Card) having produced a fi"y to the son of Musket and Fra” 'y. Welcome Katie, the dam of Tuftoch, has foaled a colt to Castor. The St. Leger—Lady Vv.ntfovd colt, whose leg was broken, was not destroyed. Mr E. D. Halstead set the injured member, and the youngster is progressing favourably. Mr D. O’Brien, writing to an Auckland friend, says that he returns to the co'ony from Sydney by way of Auckland at the conclusion of the A.J.C. Spring Meeting. Mr Hungerford’s horse The Dreamer, with 7.3 up, failed to gain a place behind Solanum, 8.0, in the Moorefield Handicap, one nr’e and a quarter, run at Moorefield, Sydney, on the 26th ult. Moraine, 7.2, was unplaced in the Auction Slakes, six furlongs. Torpedo, with 9.11, was second to the ‘J. B. Clarke ’ syndicate’s colt Pulvil, 8.7, in the Stewards’ Mile. Particulars to hand by mail of Tit’s win in the Clyde Handicap ot 30S0VS, si fvlongs, for ponies 14 hds and under, at Roselr" (Sydney) on the 2 eth inst., show that she had to encounter nine opponents. Her weight, as I mentioned last week, was 7.12, Hebe being top weight, 9.1. According to the Sydney Referee the betting was 2 to 1 on Tit, who ran in the nomination of Mr J. C. Booth. Forest Maid, 7.0, cut out the work for three furlongs, when Tit went -o the front and won easily by two lengths from Zita, 6.7• The five and a half fm longs were got over in I min nfsec. Signess, 8.10, was unplaced in the GrPoway Handicap (14.1), one nr’e and a fur long, won by Muiifta, 6.11. The Sydney Referee has the following comments on Tit’s win :— ‘ The much-discussed New ZeaGnd importation, Tit (by Leo^nus —Titama), made famous by being quoted in Mr W. A. Long’s denunciation of pony measurement (as the art is known in Sydney), was out strictly for business. The fact was made patent by the weight of cash that came forwaid, but it did not take a deal of it to establish Tit at 2to 1 ‘on.’ The knights of the pencil were wary, and dealt it out in small lots at short rates. Tit was always handy in the race, as laying bebmd korest Maid to the turn she 'ook command there, and gallopped home comfortably. I suppose Tit will not confine her operations to the 14 hands class entirely. As a two-year-old she won Auckland Onslow Stakes, and beat afield of fair peiformers. Wi ( h 7.6 ran second to Lotae, 7.6, in Huia’s Handicap, isorovs, at Farewell Meeting to Lord Onslow, and beat St. Hippo, 7.6, and others. Of course eady two-year-old fo'm doesnot guarantee that it will be keot up a year or two later, but Tit has shown herself equal to defeating one field of 14 hands ponies, albeit she has been several times defeated in the same company of late. On these occasions she did not go out favourite, and probably has suddenly come into form.’ Cuirassier’s haff-brother Niagara is to stand the season at Waiwlck Faim, Sydney. The moderate figuie of 2Ogs is aft that is asked for his services.

Mr S. Hordern has christened the yearlings he bought at the last Wc’lingion Park sale as under: —Fifty by Castor —Necklace, Collarette-, fifty by Nordenfeldt—Yattacy, Maori Belle-, filly by Norder eldt—Pungawerewre, Entangle : fifty by Nordenfeldt—Onida, Novelette. Collarette for the Necklace fifty is particularly apropos. Sinece-e, who was purchased at the late Hon. J. White’s sale of racehorses for 7oogs, by Mr C. M. Lloyd, ended bis career on board the s.s. Bur- : rmbeet the other day. He was being brought Com Melbourne to Sydney in company with Lefi-hardt, but died on the voyage. The son of Martini Henry and Solent was an expensive disappointment, as indeed were all the nags that changed hands at that sale, with the exception of Utter.

Mr W. Wilson, of Waverley, writes me:— “ Sir, —I see in your article ‘ Amid the Thoroughbreds’ that the name Salvo has been given the No'denffildt— Cressina coft. I would draw your attenrion to the eniries for the Great Northern Derby 94-95, where my colt Salvo by A’mament —Eclat is entered, which name I still claim.” Mr Wilson, of course, has first claim to the name.

‘ Mazeppa,’ of the Otago Witness, who has been looking through H. Goodman’s stable, says of Casket, the Castor —Bangle colt that Mr R. McMaster secured at the last Wellington Park sale :— ‘ Casket has for some time past been troubled with what appears to be a slight bony enlargement on the outside of the near forepastern, and for this he has been blistered and kept to the gentlest form of exercise. The swelling will probably remain, but it is becoming callous, and as the leg is getting sounder every day, and has now so far come right that the colt is able to gallop, I do not think the lump will be anything more than a trifling disfiguration. The chances are that the youngster received a knock in the course of his trip from Auckland. Goodman has every expectation of racing this Casket in the Welcome Stakes.’ Of a N.Z. Cup candidate in the same stable ‘ Mazeppa ’ says :— ‘ Blizzard still keeps sound on those suspicious legs of his: and points in his favour, so far as his preparation for the New Zealand Cup is concerned, are that he is a light-fleshed horse, is easily trained, and has naturally good wind, so that he may be brought to thejpost for the big event, though I for one would think more of his chance in a race over a shorter distance.’

Three importations from Australia have reached Dunedin. They are : Aspen Leaf, a seven-year-oldmare by Larpent out of Aspen (winner of two Newmarket Handicaps); aponymare, Satisfaction, by Maribyrnong —Nerissa ; and Sebastopol, by First King- Lady Keith. Sebastopool is a five-year-old, and has been returned the winner of a Maiden Plate at Epsom, Melbourne. Lady Keith, his dam, is dam of Mooroongie, a two-year-old winner in New South Wales this season.

There are in training within 40 miles of Sydney r 248 ponies and galloways and 292 horses.

My Gisborne correspondent wires that Mr ' Evett has dec i: ned the appointment of handicapper r to the Poverty Bay Turf Club owing to his having: to act at Wanganv’ about the same time, and the _■ club have appointed Mr A. T. Danvers of ■ Napier. The backers of Light Artillety for the V.R.C. . Derby and they are prettv numerous in NewZealand—will be interested in the following re-, marks of ‘Terlinga,’ who recently looked him over in his box at Hickenbotham’s :— ‘ Those * who fancy Light Artil’ery for the Derby can restassured that he is going on all right. I doubt iE =« he is more than a trifle higher than when he left off racing, but he seems to be lengthening out and putting on muscle as his progresses. Hiclcenbotbsm tells me lie never had athorse doing better work for the time. Twice a. week he gets through nice two-mile work, the last x. mile and a half at about even time, which, for the benefit of the uninitiated, I may explain is fifteen seconds to the furlong. He does all that is asked of him in the stable as well as on the track—a .1 great consideration with a horse booked to contest a severe race. Light Artillery is a wide-footed horse, and for safety’s sake he works in bar shoes. It will not be long before the public have a chance of seeing Mr Turnbull’s colt, as Hickenbotham ■ intends to give him a race directly.’ I have to acknowledge lhe receipt from the secretary of the Poverty Bay Turf Club of a copy of the programme of the club’s Spring Meeting,, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, October 17 and 18. is the total to be given away in..stakes during the two days, and the Spring Handicap of 100 sovs, one mile and a quarter, and: Makaraka Handicap of too sovs, one mile, are the principal prizes, while two hurdle races figure in.■■■ the piogramme, one being endowed with 55 sovs - and the other with 50 sovs.

On August 26th Sub-Inspector Connolly, along with about a dozen constables, made a raidri on the premises of C. S. Levy, who keeps a. tobacconist’s shop in Simpson-road, Collingwood, Melbourne. For some time past it was known to the police that gaming was carried on on the - premises in the shape of a totalisator. On entering the building Levy and eight other persons - were arr sted and removed to the Collingwood lockup. Bail was forthcoming for all, and they .- were liberated without having been locked up~ They were all bound over to appear at the Col- - lingwood court on September Ist. Charles - Samuel Levy, the proprietor of the tobacconist’s ■ shop, is charged with being the keeper of a common gaming house, and John Thomas, aged . 30 years, a painter, is charged with assisting in keeping the same. The charge of being found without lawful excuse in a common gaming house was preferred against seven others. No money was found on the premises. The fi-st foal of the season at Mr W. R. Wilson’s St. Albans stud farm is a fifty by Eirids- - pord out of Solitude, dam of Ascot Vale. It is many a long day since that prince of aidround horseman, Bob Batty, has been seen in the saddle. On the 26th ult., he had the mount on his gelding, Patrician, in the Spring Vale Welter Handicap, at Sandown Park, Melbourne, but had the bad luck to finish second on the brother ■ to Birdie, Thought, by St. Albans from Eileen (Vakeel’s dam), getting home. Old Hollowback, 9.9, was second to Nell Cook,. 9.9, in the Selling Hurdles, i-!>- miles, at Sandown Park, Melbourne, on the 2bth ult. Myra, who won the Caulfield Grand National Hurdle race, has been sold to go to India. It is stated that there is every probability of the yearlings purchased in England by the Hon. Wm.. M’Cuftoch being put in<o active work shortly. In aft like’ihood they will be trained by Walter ■ Hickenbotham at Flemington, and thus will have eveiy justice accorded them. The Doncaster St. Leger was set down for decision yesterday. It seems hard to find anything capable of lowering the colours of the Two Thousand and Derby winner Isinglass, and he should win easily. A new aspirant for stud honours, advertised in this issue as being at the sei vice of breeders is Quadrant, who will stand at J. Rae’s stables at Otahuhu, and who wi l ! serve a limited number of mares at a fee of sgs. The weft-bred son of' Robinson Crusoe and Radiance was one of the faslest horses that ever looked through a bi idle in New Zealand. I shall in due course comment on him as a ‘ Sire of the Season.’ Another new candidate for stud honours is Leolantis, who will stand this season at Sylvia Park at a fee of logs. This horse won the Auckland Guineas and Christmas Handicap, and ran several good races both as a two and three-year-old, and he has a great point in his favour as a recommendation to breeders —he is half-brother to that very successful sire St. Leger. I shall in a futureissue deal with Leolantis in a separate article as a. ‘ Sire of the Season.’ The Avondale Jockey Club are making a novel departure of holding a Pony Meeting on their course on Saturday, the 23rd inst., which will beconducted without the use of the totalisatoris to be given to five events, of which the most valuab’e ones are the Gaftoway Handicap of 3osovs, one mile, and Handicap Hurdles of 25. sovs, one mile and a half. Owners of ponies will not fail to observe that the date of the meeting is the Saturday after the Auckland Spring, so the ponies that compete there can have another flutter at Avondale. The Avondale Jockey Club are trying an experiment and taking a risk, and it is to be hoped they will be rewarded with a proper return for their enterprise. Nominations close tomorrow week, the 15th inst. The Hawke’s Bay correspondent of this journal inclines to the belief that Aidershot will be Mr Stead’s representative in the Hawke’s Bay Guineas. This colt was bred by Mr W. Elliott, of Waitara, and is by Foul Shot (winner of the Great Northern Derby) ont of Anterina.

Mr W. Walters announces by advertisement in this issue that Blairgowrie, by Vespasian (imp.} out of Atholine (imp.) by Blair Athol, will stand the season at the Glenora Stud, Papakura. Further particulars wiil appear in a future advertisement.

Merrie England, the son of St. George and Rupee, has been leased to a studmaster in the Rangitikei district. A Sydney paper says that “ Old Rocket, by Anteros, has been running in harness about Junee for a number of years, and few, to look at him now, would believe he was ever a great sprinter.” Rocket was a real honest gelding, very fast .though he couldn’t stay, and he won several races •over sprint courses for Mr “H. Hammond,” who owned him and Sultan at the same time. By the way we hear nothing from Melbourne now about Sultan. I wonder what has become of him.

The Hon. James White’s widow is sparing no expense to keep up the reputation of the Kirkham •Stud. In addition to the Donovan yearling the following young stock have been purchased on her behalf in England :—Yearling colt, by Foxhall—Bagdad, gogs ; yearling filly, by Gulliver — 'Penitent, 32ogs; two-year-old filly, by Merry (Hampton —For Ever, l6ogs; yearling filly, by Timothy—Aera, 35gs; yearling filly by Kilwarlin —Union, I9sgs ; yearling filly, by Sheen—Maid Ida, joogs; and the brood mares Tyne Laddie, by Ayrshire—Catherine Douglas, 7togs, and Atalanta, by Albert Victor—Nameless (dam of Geheimniss) with filly by Glasshampton, 290 gs. Bessie Macarthy was incorrectly nominated for the Caulfield Cup as by Nordenfeldt instead of Tngomar, The committee of the V.A.T.C., (however, allowed the entry form to be amended

Time was when the Hawkesbury Grand Han--dicap and County Purse were races in which keen ’ interest was taken, but they have now quite lost their former prestige. The County Purse, which is run over a course of six furlongs, and is fixed tfor Thursday next, has only been patronised by one New Zealander, Wyvern, who is allotted 7.0. There were 40 weighted by Mr Scarr. For the Hawkesbury Grand Handicap, one mile and three furlongs, to be run on Saturday week, Aurrus is top weight with 9 3, and then follow 9.0, Rosstellan 8.3, Barnaby Rudge ■8.9 (including sib penalty), Utter 8.6, Oxenham "8.2, Shamrock 8.2, and Miletos 8.0. Wyvern is the only New Zealander engaged, and his impost is 6.9. At Canterbury Park (Sydney), on the 19th ult., Torpedo. 8.0, was beaten out of place in the Flying Handicap, 6 furlongs, won by the aged gelding Two Up, 7.11. TheApremont—Miss Flat horse. Moraine was one of the. unplaced division In the Selling Race. Mr Hungerford’s mare Heather Bell, carrying 7.11, ran her first race on

Australian soil in the Canterbury Handicap, about mile, but she didn’t get a place behind Barnaby Rudge, 8.4. The distance is a bit further than the mare liked when she was over here. Torpedo, in the last event of the day, the

Welter Handicap, 1 mile 100yds, carried 9.11 into third place behind Hereward, 7.11, and .Brown Bess, 8 7. Mr S. Miller’s Leolinus — Titania gelding ' Titanic was second with 10.4 to Killaloe, 11.4, in a field of six in the Hurdle Handicap, one mile and five furlongs, at the Victorian Betting Club’s races held on the Caulfield course on the 19th ult. He started favourite at evens. Mr Gollan’s Leonardo, 9.0, was one of the competitors. Mr H. Power’s Athata, by Trident—Nellie, 8.8, should Z have won the Two Year Old Handicap, 31 furlongs, but Moore, who was riding her, was • caught napping, a thing that doesn’t often happen to him, and she was beaten a head by Mr Morris Jacobs’ filly Lady’s Maid, by Newminster—Wait- : ing Maid. Waiting Maid is full sister to First King. The chief item of the card, the Victorian Club Handicap of 125SOVS, one mile and three furlongs, brought out a field of 15. The Leolinus—Lyre gelding All There, 8.2, who in some • quarters is regarded as having a big chance in the Caulfield Cup, was favourite at 7 to 2, but he was not dangerous, and that good mare Wild Rose, • 9.3, g°t home by a head from Sainfoin, 8.0, who ■was half-a-length in front of Ducrow, 8.0. Among ■.the unplaced division was Mr Gollan’s filly Bessie Macarthy. Wild Rose’s victory drew attention to her chance in the Caulfield Cup, in which she has 51b less than she carried, but the extra furlong to be traversed will, it is thought, tell ■ against her. The ex-New Zealander Waiter, 11.9, was third to Riverton, 12.2, and Liberty, 10. 10, in the Steeplechase, two miles, andTongarriro, 6.12, was unplaced in the Flying Handicap, furlongs, won by Labour in Vain, 9.3. One of the first of the progeny of Friar’s Balsam 'was victorious at Sandown Park on July 10. This was Lord Rosslyn’s peculiarly-named Pomade Divine, by Friar’s Balsam out of Patroness, by Pellegrino, who carried off the principal event of the meeting, the British Dominion Stakes of -Z822. Strange blit true. The winner of the Caulfield Grand National Steeplechase, Knight of the Garter, made his debut over big country in that 'event, and The Actress, who carried off the Adelaide Racing Club’s Grand National Steeplechase, also made her first appearance over the big fences in that event.

From a pamphlet issued by the V.R.C. it appears that the added money proposed to be .given by the club this season is £"1500 less than was added during the season 1892-93, when it totalled £44,800. But this year nearly the whole •of the entries will be retained by the club, and these are estimated at from .£14,000 to £16,000. The great increase in the stakes during the last twenty-nine years may be gathered from the fact that, in the season 1864-65, these are given as j£3,205, from which period to the present more than a quarter of a million of money has been given by the V.R.C. at their meetings, the exact figures being £"488,005. Mr H. V. Cresswaller has become so disgusted -with the erratic performances of Paddy that he .has presented the unsexed son of Anteros and Atalanta to his trainer, J. O’Neill. A nasty accident befel Mr J. Redfearn, the trainer of Malvolio, Correze, Aquarius, etc., the ■other day. He was doing something to a scythe, when it slipped and struck him on the leg, inflicting an ugly wound. Medical assistance was at once obtained, when six stitches had to be put in. Mr “ B. Thompson” has had a slice of luck -with two of his mares, the first foalings at the Brown’s Island Stud being colts, one by Nelson out of Phantom by Musket—Atlantis (dam of St. JLeger), and the other by Nelson out of The Painter—Fortuna mare Mystery. A couple of colts is a good beginning for a season’s foalings.