SPORTING NOTES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 635, 19 June 1874, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

—o—(Colonist.) Tamhourini, or “ Old Tam,” as he is generally called, is turning out a mine of wealth to his present owner, Mr O’Brien, who purchased him of Bob Ray, after his defeats at the Canterbury Spring Meeting. Although “ Tara ” 3tots! no chance against Mr Redwood’s clinkers at the great meetings at Christchurch and Dunedin, he has been carrying all before him at several country meetings in both Provinces, where the “ great stable of the north” was not represented. Besides winning some handicaps in North Otago, he won the Cup at Timaru, giving a lump of weight to Templeton ; and the Free Handicap, making heavy concessions to Malice (sister to Lurline) Malabar, Madras, Alice Grey, and No Gentleman (late Reliance). But he sustained a defeat in the South Canterbury Handicap at the same meeting being beaten by Malice, at » difference of over two stone in weight. At Ashburton “Tam" won two handicaps, conceding 141b and 171b to Templeton and 201b to Envy ; and at the Ellesmere meeting he carried off the Cup from the Revoke Colt, with which Mr Webb had fondly hoped to win the list . Canterbury Derby, conceding to him 71b. If “ Tam ” is not quite first-class, he certainly ranks at the head of second-class race horses bred in New Zealand. His dam, Opera, w'as by 11 Barbiere, out of a daughter of that celebrated turf matron,

ing qualities of the Emiliua blood, which he inherits from his grandsire. Tewton his sire, promises, we think to show him. self a better stud horse in his old days than in his younger ones, if we may judge from the rising yearlings and two-year-olds bred by Mr Redwood from him and the daughters of Sir Hercules. It will bs remembered that Manuka was by the Peer (full brother to Towton), out of \V a i. mea, and a larger combinat : on of the inestimable Waxy blood nows in ms veins than in any horss we know of. He is descended from the Vi haltboae branch of the family through Camel, Touchstone, and his grand-dam Cinizclli while Waimea is also descended from Whalebone, through Sir Hercules, Paraguay, and the colonial Sir Hercules. Cap-a-pie, sirs of thcjlast mentioned horse, was by the Colonel, son of Whisker, the founder of the second branch of Waxy’s family, and the same horse(Cap a-pie) was a grandson of the Duchess of York, one of Waxy’s daughter. Mated to Waiuieaand her daughters, and other Sir Hercules mares, we may expect to see in the produce of Tow ton (now 24 years old, but fresh anil vigorous) more than “ Manuka ”to carry the black jacket and red cap to the fore. MrH. Stafford, by disposing of Tamborini when a foal—the best he ever bred—shared the luck which befel Lord George lientinck with Surplice. After striving for several long years to breed a Derby winner, his lordship broke up his stud with a foal in it that not only won the “ blue ribbon,” but the [Leger also.