AUSTRALIAN SPORTING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4237, 25 September 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SPORTING NOTES.

(From our Exchanges.) The correct list of horses killed on board the s.s. City of Melbourne is as iollows : Robin Hood, Burgundy, the Marquis-Sylvia colt, Sovereign, Nemesie, Poacher, Eros, Etoile du Matin, and the Gwendoline filly. The only two that were landed alive were the Chrysolite colt and Redwood (by Manuka). The A. J.C. Derby winner was so frightfully knocked about that he had to be carried ashore on boardp, but at last advices —five days later—he had recovered sufficiently to stand on Lis foet. The eleven hordes shipped must have been worth at least L 30,000, and most of them had been heavily backed for coming events. The consequence of this sad accident is that Newminster, who has been put into work again, is firmer than ever for the V B.C. Derby, and anything over even money is eagerly snapped up. 4tol is offered about Tocal, who has taken the place of the Chrysolite colt. Several new nameß are noticeable in the quotations for the Melbourne Cup, Impudence, Rapid Bay, and Imperial being amongst them. The following is the latest betting:—

- Mr J. Tait's five-year-old horse Melbourne, who ran so brilliantly as a three-year-old but, has since been under a cloud, injured himself seriously while running in the Sydney Handicap at Randwick. Ho came in contact with the new railing which runs {round the inside of the trick and he is reported to be so badly hurt that he will not appear i again in public for some time to come. The Committee of the V.R.C. have held an investigation into certain suspicious circumstances connected with the late illness of Newminster. The colt's trainer, Mr F. Dakin, had cause to suspect a lad named . Leary, engaged in his stable, and a bookmaker named Zucker was also implicated in the matter. The latter was accused of tampering with the boy, and the result of the committee's inquiry was that Zucker and the boy were disqualified and warned off the Jlemington course.

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