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When the last mail left America Star Pointer was for sale. On nearly every occasion that Star Pointer has been advertised for a recordbreaking performance this year, either wind or rain has interfered, or else the track has been heavy. This sort of luck has so thoroughly disgusted his owner, Mr James A. Murphy, that he has put the champion in the sale list. The Tahuna Park Trotting Club resumed the inquiry into the complaint made by Clarke, late trainer of the trotter Cling, that Rutherford, the owner, had not sent the correct performances with the nomination of the mare. It was resolved that the correct performances were not handed in, but the committee exonerate Rutherford, the owner, from any intention of fraud, but the omission having been m de, the committee request Rutherford to refund the stakes won by Cling at the-autumn and May meetings, and that the same be paid to the horse placed second. It was resolved 1 o disqualify Clarke, the late trainer of Cling, for two years. In explanation of the disqualification, the evidence of Rutherford was to the effect that Clarke, who subsequently informed the club of the omissions, dictated the mare’s performances when he (Rutherford) was filling in the entry form. In printing the nominations for the Exhibition Cup last week a printer’s error occurred, it being made to appear that the breeding of La Rue was unknown. This is absurd, as La Rue is fashionably bred. He is by Campaign out of Clara D. On the sire’s side be comes from the famous Electioneer —a sire of some of the best horses in America, out of Lillie B.; while on the dam s side he was equally well bred, Clara D. being full-sister to Honesty, who was imported to Victoria by Mr Roberts, and for a number of years held the Australian record. On both the dam and sire’s side La Rue inherits a strain of the Hamhletonian blood, and this in itself is enough to make La Rue an aristocrat. La Rue, it may be mentioned, is in the capable hands of Mr Greenwood.