CURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 459, 11 May 1899, Page 8

CURSING.

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Dicken.

Coursing is again in full swing in Australia, and the prospects of the sport appear to be fairly good. The season was opened at Moonee Valley on April 26, but although there is an improved tone in the sport, I question if it will ever be so prosperous as in the boom times, which seemed to end with the rich Moonee Valley Cup and Plate won by the brother and siste:, Faugh-a-Ballagh and Flageolet, and the Victorian Waterloo Cup won by Good News. At that time and for a few years prior, thousands changed hands on a course, and it would probably be difficult now to win a hundred on any single trial. At tl e Moonee Valley Cup meeting to which I have alluded, the New South Wales contingent won heavily over the c lebrated greyhounds I have mentioned, and I strongly suspect that although the celebrated Tam O’Shanter — Kathleen litter were nominally owned by John O’Halloran, of the Post Office Hotel Goulburn, a couple of jolly Catholic priests owned a ver.

good part of them. At any rate, I surprised the reverend fathers on one occasion, engaged, as I innocently imagined, dividing and seeking further comfort from a flask that certainly looked the picture of comfort. It is not owners like these that stuff dogs, complain of slippers, or slander judges. The following are the nominations for the Auckland Coursing Club’s June Meeting : —New Lynn Maiden Stakes: Handcock 1, .Philpot 1, Wilson 2, Turner 1, Mack 1, Stevens 1, Cavanagh 1, Frost 1, O’Hare 1, Hannigan 1, Whitten 1, Barton 1, Enwright 1, Lynch 1, G. Proudfoot 6. Puppy Stakes : Handcock 1, Wren 2, Carlyle 1, Edgar 1, Turner 2, Barley 1, Taylor 1, Morton 1, G. Proudfoot 2. Avondale Cup : Sty ch 1, Wilson 1, Wren 1, Carlyle 1, Appleby 1, Stevens 1, Thompson 1, Whitten 1, Whitten 1, Speer 1, Furlong 1, G. Proudfoot 2. The draw will take place to-night.