SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3632, 13 October 1874, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

{By our Sporting Contributor )

The doings of the hordes engaged at the ensuing Canterbury Metropolitan meeting are exciting a good deal of interest at .Christ* church. “Binbatl.” sporting writer to the Press, after v;siting the training ground last week, s .ysMr Redwood's filly Toi does not show the slightest family resem* biance to her elder brother Kakape, She is, however, a big mare in a little compass, with grand quarters, and will bear plenty of pi king to pieces. Titoko is not a good mover, and must alter a good deal before 1 should feel inclined, to fadcy her miiph in anything like first-class company. Wainui, Batter, and,' ISgara went together once roqqd at a i ir ,.? a f Qe ’ Derb y favorite going in splendid form. 1| Ngara’s pace is only proportionate to her style of going, she will make some of them travel for it. Old Tam went a slow gallop of about four, miles : ha looks very healthy and well, and though it d i°j 8 ? 0t S^ y ver y mucb for our three-year-olds! 1 can t heip thinking he will be very near Winning the Cup. Martyr is a loose built horse, and very [green at present. Parawhenua and Roro went a serviceable gallop Of about three miles, the former stripped. The big c?lt is still a long way bigger than he was in Auckland, and as I think he ran as well there as ever he is likely to run again, I should imagine ' Martin will have to get a lot more off him before the imeting. Roro has curious action, and of the three fil ies I most certainly prefer Ngara at present. Remnant and Tadmor went about a mile aud a-half both going w.ll, but Tadmoi’a action scarcely looks like staying. Traitor did a good strong gallop of about twe miles, pulhng up well and going very strong. Dick Richardson sent Malvina a slow once round. This game little mare is improving every day, and will, if she come fit and well to the post, take a lot of beating in the C. J C Mr Webb’s team wire out aud did moderate work. The Ada colt L like better every time I see him. The Caledon ,oo!ts are dently doing good work, and the Emmeline co;t is looking very blooming, though he will have to travel a bit taster than he did in the Champagne to be amongst them this time.” “ Uruid,” writing in the Lyttelton ‘Times,’ says “ Wainui, out of the celebrated Waimea, although a fine mare to look at, has a way of going Ido not like; unless she improves, J don’t tliink she will’scofe many wins to her owner’s credit. She certainly won the Campugne stakes here very easily in April, but when the company that was behind her is examined it will be seen that to beat that lot a very first-class horse was not required. I shall, then fore, unless she alters her ways, be much surprised if she is m the front rank in either Derby or Cup • moreover, the Waimea fillies have never as yet been able to race, though her colts have been some of the best in the southern hemisphere. Toi takes very much after her brother Kakapo, who, last [November, proved himself no mean horse, both as regards paoe and carrying weight, and again at the autumn meeting he won the St. Leger as he liked. y’ er P' y havens worth, out of Simplicity, I do» t fancy at any price. She appears to me all wrong, and I don’t think she can be brought fit to the post. She comes of a good racing family, but whether she can race is another matter. None of Phoebe’s stock have as yet taken after her. For the Cup everyone has hie own special fancy, aud a horse that is not a little fancied is Uld Tam, who has no end of admirers. Templeton, also, is not without bis friends; but I think be will find twp miles and a-quarter rather farther than he will care to travel, unless much altered since last year. Malvina, although very much improved in appearance, will also be in Templetons company from the same complaint, Pertobe, not having yet put in an appearaace, 1 can say nothing about him, so Khali pass on to Traitor, the horse 1 fancied would last year have won the Derby, but coins wrong m his feet the last fortnight he was unable to get along at all. A long rest may have got oyer this defect. If it has, and he comes fit to the post, I shall at this die- • ime look no farther for the winner * of the Cup. There are five three-year-olds in this race, and if they are real good Ones they should have a show, as they will have all the best of the weight; but I cannot see anything approaching a winner amongst them, unless it is bonnambula, end of hep

pretensions T cannot at present jud;e, not having seen her. MrDebmain keeps Hercules to his own private gallop, so 1 shall have bat few oppo; {unities of seeing him. I hear him talked a 1 out a good deal as the coming bore for the Derby. His pedigree 1 cannot look upon as good enough tn win ► either the <Vp or Derby j and Mr*« ««<’« colt Meteor, I cannot have at any price; much as 1 should like ro tee h:s owner once mo v e S?T e m a - tu,n of ,uck ‘ For -he J. C. Handicap n * <Tu m lle, l ds liat w ‘ itb tbe Bti-adi-r of 9at 91bs, which will quite put a stop to his facing the starter. Fertobe, with 9st 21 i>s, I hear is very doubtful about accepting his impost. Malvina has Bst 13Hs, which is rather more than she can well carry for the distance. Templeton, with B>t, is one of those hordes that some people take an extraordinary fancy to ; why, 1 fail 1o see <>n this course he has always been beaten on his merits. In Dunedin, last year, he won, but there, I believe, in another race Tambourini gave him 3st and beat him ; so, unites he is much improved, he will not be my tip for this. Neither will Batter, who, although much improved since last races, w ill yet need a great deal before she can carry Bst to the front. Iraitor is let in rather cheap, and has, I think, decidedly the best of the weights over all in this ; and if he is the co t 1 take him for he cannot w ell lose Titoko and Boro, the Nelson fillies, have frtainly not been very leniently dealt with by Mr ‘ ance, who, I presume, imagines that Mr Redwood's stock cau, as of old give Weight to all coiners, as he has given them the top weight of the three-year o ds. Bernsant, out of old Guana, though a smart little mare, will h>, re, I am afraid, have little show. I have not seen her since the Champagne Stakes, when, though tadly out of condition, she ran a respectable second to Wainui. Mr Studhnlme's Zig-zag colt, by Caledon, is a useful sort of animal. “f*inbad” hears from Mr Prince, the wellknown bookmaker, ; vho has just returned from Victoria, that in the Melbourne Cup Mr Watt has backed Lnrline and Papapa to win him LS.i'OO, at 1,000 to 40 against the mare and 1,000 to 35 against the colt.