SPORTING.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 21, 29 July 1884, Page 3

SPORTING.

— ' — •» ■■"" — l- „Jo 'i ! Mr^eoikii'- Sorse '. , *j I The Xad f ",!ia eWdently one of the": right sort, his rectird 3rup i» l the' present 1 being uni eqi^dJi^iTew- 'ZealaAd,'lie having won 1 5 races in succession, eight of which were steeplechases, three hurdle -faces.- and four events on .the fiat. As his. owner generally has a trifle on his horses, he must be a considerable winner this past season. • The New ' Zealand horses in the MelbpTtrhe Cup have , nothing to complain, of this year in. the. matter of the allotted, to them. Welcome Jaot, * our xhampionv with'Sst 21b, is placed on » equal terms with MartiniHenry, and as he is a year older should about. dp the " gnu," and as he-receives 101 b from Commotion, 71b from'-Malna, and 21b from Le Grand, he cannot be considered badly treated, in .comparison with the top weights at any rate, y Oudeis, however, is to my mind the.' New Zealander that has a very big'sriy. . Our best four-year-old, in receipt of 121 b from the best Australian, should be "in it." It is a question Whether a better horse than Oudeis has been bred in this colony, a,ndit will be very interesting to see him go to the other side to measure strides with . the Australian cracks. Estates and Liverpool are both allotted 68t 81b-. and at that weight should, if they went over, b e backed to win a large stake, but I think their Canterbury engagements are too good to allow of their going over the water. The latest betting on the New Zealand Cup and Canterbury Derby is as follows :-^Gup — Sou'wester, 100 to 15; Oudeis, Vanguard, and Ike, 100 to 8 ; Johnny Faulkner and Nonsense, 100 to 7 ; Tasman, Captain Webster, and Trenton, 100 to 6 ; the rest, 100 to 5 to 1 1. Derby — Trenton, . to 1; Krupp and Liverpool, 6to 1 ; Eskatos and Charmer, 100 to 15 ; Necklace, 100 to 12. Since the visit of Mr Weiss, the champion billiard player, to Feilding, it may be of interest to some to know the conditions of the tournament which, is to,.be played in Melbourne in October next. Each player deposits _250THid pfcsysone game against every other player engaged,' 'all starting from seraiclS/tlie witingr of the greatest numbpr-pfgap^es taking the^ sweepstake (less £50 to the second best) and a __l€0i» billiard table presented by Messrs Alcock arid : Co. The gate money will be equally divided between the players, after deducting a third, which goes to the Melbourne Hospital. Such a liberal programme should attract all the best players in the colonies. - - - - - -