Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 41, 19 September 1889, Page 3

Sporting

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, September 18. The following horses have been scratched: — For the A.J.C. Derby — Stockdove, First Lady, W.D., Merrie England, and Hurrah ; for the Metropolitan Stakes— Tourbilion. At Tattersalst this evening there -was a fair amount of wagering over the Metropolitan Stakes. Abercorn was backed to win a couple of thousand at 4to 1. Wyconibe and Ellerdale were supported to the extent of £5000 each at st> 1. All the money in the market was taken about West Lynne at ICO to 7. Tradition was backed for a small amount at 100 to 4, and £1000 at the same price was taken about Locksley. Keith was nibbled at 100 to 10. 1 Augur,' who recently paid a visit to, Mr W. Hickenbothani's establishment, writes as follows thereon : — ' The champion, Carbine, I found in grand buckle, much improved iv appearance, with grand development over the loins and quarters, as bright as a newly-coined sovereign. His forelegs are neither better nor worse than when he won the Champion Stakes, and though I do not for a moment imagine that he can win the Melbourne Cup with lOst upon his back, he had thickened out so much, and seems so capable of carrying the extra weight, that even with such an impost it is quite possible that he may run into a place. His temper has improved considerably too In the autumn his trainer often had a dim culty in getting him to work on the training track, but now there is not tkie slightest trouble with him, and he fairly revels in his work. Mentor was looking as blooming and mellow as a welJ -ripened pear. There is rill however, a thickness about the sheath of the tendon of the near fore-leg, but his trainer has 6trpng hopes of the hofse*. standing another preparation; and : should he succeed in bringing him to the post fit and well, he shall again