Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 43, 25 September 1890, Page 4

Sporting

If '{&€»' time cabled for the Craven c Btaltfw of t i' miles be correct, Carbine -. at tne A.J.O. meeting lowered the - Australian , record for the. distance. Last' NoVeinber Abercorn lowered it ■- at Ftemlngtori to 2min 7£sec, and now-Oarbine ha3 cut that by half a bringing it within half a ■ second of the American record made lastgrear.; Megaphone, as a two-year-old, seventeen occasions, winning eleven races, the last seven being successive wine; j Caifbiiie has how won nine races of! . ; the reel. t > • Messrs Baker and Co. writing from 7 Hasting's H.B. state that Antelope Minnie and^Dream) has been visited by Somnus, *Mr Lothbridge's mares, Fame (dam of Dudu), her half -sister, Foam, and Effect, have been sent over from Wanganui to Somnus* harem, and other visitors to him will be Misdeal, by King of Clubs — Gossip ; Lady Artist, Wairuareka, Denbigh, and other Painter mares? 3 . Mr D. J 8i Wallace has purchased ihe New Zealand-bred Galloway Kariri for : losgs. Kariri, who was foaled in 1985, is by Musket out of Atalanta, the dam of Faddy and Teddy Yuille.. , The v same, gentleman has ' aisio purchased ' Megaphone for £3000. -- ■■ • - Mention' was recently made of the lowering; of the American record for a xnile^rid a quarter by Salvator in his mato^with Tenny, the time registered being 2min. skec: Since then a horse vnameii by Eayon d'Or, has reduced- the record to 2min 3|sec. The -crack American two-year-old, Amblulance, is ■ credited with having run six furlongs in imin. 11 sec. Of the 1500 sovs xrhieh will fall to "the lot r of : the winner . of the next Caulfield Cup, owners have already 'subscribed a sum amounting, to over r!200 bqvß,;so that by the time the : .final:.£ayment of 10 sovs becomes due the winner's stakes will be more than fpr. Probate has been .granted of the .will ipfith© late Hon J. White, the *state;behig valued at £349,741.