Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 61, 20 November 1888, Page 3

Sporting

The following particulars of the race • for the Melbourne Cup. including the narrative of the winning jockey, were telecraphed from the Bluff by the special correspondent of the Christohuri'h Pre«s«: —The Melbourne Cup this year was favoured by the most lovely weather, and the attendance was unprecedented. The estimate places it at about 110,000. You will have had by telegraph full particulars of the great race, which need scarcely again be deacril>ed. Mentor, with the famons Mick O'Brien in the :*ldle, had it in hand from the distance, tnouyh Tradition, with a fast run, kept him uoinn all the way to the post. VI r Cook's two horses The Yeoman and Cyclops, were third and fourth, and the New Whakawai, was a Rood fifth, Bravo and Chicago sixth and seventh. The race was, in the matter of accidents to the horses engaged, exceptionally unfortunate. Just after the horses passed the judge's box for the first time those standing near heard a report like the crack of a pistol, and Spade Guinea im> mediately swerved to the outer fence and ran into it. It was found that the m&re had broken her shoulder, the noise heard feeing that of the fracture. When the bone fare way the mare was galloping on the outside of the field, with nothing near her, *o that the accident was purely the result of over reaching or some such misadventure. Within 100 yards of the finish Ensign wheeled to the inner fence in the same way, and it was at once seen that the Derby winner ha i utterly shat* tered his off foreleg at the fetlock ; in -what way neither Hax ley, who rode him, oor those standing near, could conjecture. The leg had to be tied up before the horse could be got back to the paddock, where, with Spade Guinea, he was at ■on.cc shot. I'ick Swiveller, who went out in bandages, and looked anything but sound, also broke down in the race. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Pliß UNITKD PKRSB ASBOCI KflON.) Sydney, November 17. At Newcastle races to«.day two horses collide!, and one of the jockeys named Waldrun vas killed, while the other was k seriously injured. CHBtsTCHtTBCff, November 19. The nominations for the Canterbury Jockey Club "Welcome, 1889, aud Canterbury Jockey Club Derby aud Oaks, received on November 10th, were made public to-night. The nominations for the Welcome numbered 77, one more than those for the present year, and the largest ever received for the Stake. The Derby has received 65 nominations, a total -which exceeds the previous list record by 8. The Oaks total is 43, which is 21 in excess of the last nominations. The New Zealand Stud Company, Middle Park tud Company, Major George, and Mr G. McLeaa are the largest nominators, but most of the principal breeders and racing men of the Colony have horses eugaged.