SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3628, 8 October 1874, Page 3

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

(By our Sportig# Contributor,)* , .Captain’Hutchison’s favorite racing mare Little Nell has dropped a promising fitly foal to Tfadticer. The mare goes this season! we behove, to Mr ( f D6dson’s grand-looking horae.Cassivelanhu^.

(■ J'. 8 date of the Victoria Racing. Club’s Spring Meeting draws nigp increasing terest appears to be taken in,the doings of horses at training. About the’ Cup horses ” Augur” says ! -‘.°n the J?j?nd ujt, I visited Flemiagton and was much struck with tqe chapMjbr the worse in' Triton, who health in May lpstf X kwTh* Diver and walking oyer tlj 'WheW s paddqck, jl believe, they Bad several t lihorougE enthusiftt, fias both horsas looking*well, and & *35 better than these two. The Diver sometimes does his work with Lurline, and, as is customary . among the beat of judges, opinions are divit ided respecting the merits of the twdj a majority of the trainers averring that the -New Zealander Can give the colt any amount of weight and a beating too; but as Mr Dakin hat never alowed the boy to put The Diver at his top, I don’t see how. the trainers get their* Kno, From this time forth fast work will have to bs the order of the. day; and should Lurßne and The Diyfcr continue to work in company, something like a reliable line‘ may be obtained. Lurline is a ‘ grand mare to .follow, and her. companion’, Calumny, who was down with her, is not half, a i bad one to look at, Papapa was reported at »n the sick list, and was not on the ‘Course, a fter a short.canter, with theft clothes .Bon, the two. mares were stripped, i and, Lutlin e ‘ led . the ch esnut three tiraeh round the. hurdles, ■'the:-"former stealing along with beautifully oloSeand l even action;; -while Calumny, in ,hsr feat,/went like a cat nxtvhot T. Brown, whh Is training Javelin, faifcies that thvhorse’e lameness. iamerely of.ia t« m;porory character, and that dm wilt be abb tp get hifn to the post fof the/Melbourne. Cup, in the event of which he ought to carry the black and'Whfto with Credit, as Be bag'been treated far more leniently than be deserved, his weight being 8-t 51b. only. I liked Lapidist, albeit he is' full big, but then ‘he always presents this appearance. He went a sweat. Lapidist goes in that lazy care-for-nothing style, which so well ■ deceived the touts when he was training for last year’s Derby ; and as he has doubtless improved upon his three-year-old form, I think it only needs condition and 'a resolute horseman to get him into a place for the Cup. Haricot, another rf Harding’s Cup candidates, bounded along in excellent style.” The special training-ground reporter of the ‘ Age ’ says that on the 28th ult. he visited the Flemingtpn ground and saw two of fhe New Zealand horses, namely, Calumny and Papapa Ho says the former ** appears to be a very stout, useful paare, and the latter a handsome ho.se, with treat speed. They, however, only did slow Work. The Diver took a long breather, three times rovitid, going along well, and determined, the deep ground having no terrors for him as he strided manfully through it. The pace Was nob fast, but I oo'uld not but admire the w.ay he did what was to be done. The Ace went on the tan, and one thing was olear enougb, that he was well and in" good health, besides being sound and free from infirmity. Horatio walking only, having been treated to ia dose of medicine after his voyage from Sydney. Old Dagworth officiated ap schoolmaster to three colts, al 1 doing steady exercise. Dagworth would have won the Heart of any fair equestrian could he have been seen doing the palfry amble. ” F In the betting market Goldsbrough has been backed to win a few hundreds at 100 to 20, hut there does not seem to bo any desire to rush him. Horatio has been touched at 100 to 10, and Lapidist and Fitz-Vattendon may be quoted at 100 to 8 each, while Lurline, The Diver, and Fugleman have each been supported at 100 to 6, Latest quotations are as follows :

Melbourne Cup. 100 to 20 agst GoWsbrough (tk. and off,) 100 100— 8 Lapidist (tk.) 100— 8 Fitzyattendon (off.) 100 100 —» 6- The Diver (tk.) ■, 100 100 6—— King of the. King (off.) 100 100 100 6—— Rory O’More (off.) 100— 6 Mountaineer (off.) 100— 4 Speculation (off.) 100 * The Arrow (off.) 100 100—4 Boca d’Amour (off.) inn — —' Dogworth (tk.) o and upwards against any other.