Sport in Australia.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 810, 14 September 1905, Page 10

Sport in Australia.

(By

“Atlas.”)

Sydney, September 5. A meeting held on Saturday under the auspices of the old-established Hawkesbury Club served as an appetiser for the important spring meeting of the Australasian Jockey Club, which commences at Randwick on Saturday, and will be in full swing ere this appears in the “ Sporting Review.” The outing on the banks of the Hawkesbury proved a pleasant one, and the time was when it was one of the most interesting gatherings of the year, but somehow the city now monopolises racing, and the sport in the country has suffered. Chief interest in Saturday’s racing was centred in the Spring Handicap, one mile and a-quar-ter, in which a number of Epsom and Metropolitan Handicap candidates were engaged. There were only five starters, Tatterdemalion being elected favourite a: 7 to 4, while Lucknow was at 5 to 2, and Dumont at 7 to 2. Old Lucknow, who claims the ex-New Zealander Russley as his sire, never looked better, and fairly made hacks of his opponents. The quintette ran together for two furlongs like a troop of cavalry. Then Lucknow, notwithstanding his big impost (9st 121 b), was taken to the front, and stopped there to the end. The favourite came with a good run in the straight, but Lucknow only played with him, and his form delighted those who had supported him for the Epsom. At Caulfield on Saturday, J. Wilson, jun., captured two races with Boabdil uid Oporto. Boabdil, who won the Memsie Stakes, run under weight for ige scale, in good style, is engaged in the Spsom Handicap with Bst 41b, and the Metropolitan with Bst. The son of iJoabdil, it will be remembered, rah third n the last Doncaster Handicap to Fanous and Mack. Oporto is a four-year-old mare by Bill of Portland out of L’renton, and is engaged in the Caulfield Jup with 6st 81b, and has 11b more in ;he Melbourne Cup. The capable but unlucky horseman, J. Montgomery, has had his full share of nisfortune. A few weeks back he had iis nose broken in a fall in a hurdle race it Canterbury, and in the hurdle race on Saturday he was again among the unfor;unates. He was riding Superior, who ippeared to have a winning chance unil he struck a hurdle and came down, jiving Montgomery a heavy fall, fracuring both collar-bones. The coursing season at Kensington was round up on Saturday, but little or no nterest was evinced in the fixture. How he club can make coursing pay is a >uzzle to me.

The Kalgoorlie Jockey Club’s annual jeeting was a great success from a finanial point of view. During the four Ays of the meeting the totalisator tur Liver was £76,550.

In the billiard match between James and F. Smith, 3000 up, the former won by over 200 points. In Rugby football South Sydney continue to lead the premiership contests, Glebe being a point only behind them. Ford and A. Towns, brother of the exchampion, have been matched to row on the Hunter River in ten weeks’ time for £2OO a-side. Ford will be trained by Stanbury. I hear Towns has approached Stanbury with the view of having another match with him. The latter has promised to give Towns a show as soon as he has received a reply from Durnan in America. Stanbury has offered the latter his expenses to row him a match in Australia,