Untitled

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 361, 24 June 1897, Page 8

The ring at Flemington on June 12, says the Age, was strengthened by the presence of several of the leading Sydney pencillers, who have been driven out of the sister colony because of the rigorous application of the law against betting. Their visit will be welcome from a backer’s point of view, as the competition they will create will conduce agreeably towards longer odds. The tendency has been for some time, especially at suburban meetings, to cramp prices, the bookmakers becoming very cautious when they found manipulators stopping several horses in a race and backing the winner. Fortunately that practice is not so rife now. On Saturday the prices laid about different horses were, everything considered, far more liberal than they have been for some time.

Cambooya, the Trenton horse purchased by Mr M. H. Devlin, of Silver Pines, a couple of years back, claimed, if I mistake not, says “ Taranaki,” his first winner at the Maribyrnong (Vic.) races on June 10, when his 2-year.old daughter, Camrbse, starting a solid favourite, accounted for a big field in the Trial Stakes, 5 furlongs, slipping over the journey in the smart time of Imin 2|sec. Mr Devlin, no doubt, made a happy choice when he selected a strain of the great Musket blood to mate with the Sunrise maids.. Sunrose, the dam of Camrose, is a daughter of Sunrise, so the services of a descendant of Musket should prove a success with the grand-daughter of Maribyrnong.

Racing ponies, racehorses, jockeys, bookmakers, owners, punters, tip-slingers, and all sorts and kinds of race course habitues are preparing to leave this city of the beautijul ’arbour (Sydney) for Melbourne. Money, and plenty of it, will go with them and follow them, consequently our loss is Melbourne’s gain. Pity we couldn’t export a few parsons and parliament men over to New Guinea, where the fever bites quick and often, and the niggers are not at all particular when they are hungry. —“Delaware.”