Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 50, 14 October 1890, Page 2

Sporting

Say* the special Racontsur of the 2J.2k Referee : — After his runningin, the Spring I Handicap as Hawfces ;B>jr Chwtebot'* N.Z. Cup chance looks rosy in the extreme. I have always known hjor to W a good racer, and there are more unlikely things thai* bin* developing iato>a second Manton, good horse though Mantonwas*. St Andrew's win in the Hawke's Bay* Guineas (1 mile) has- bceoght him to 4 to 1 in* the New Zealand Cap totting, » pom* I longer having been eagerly snapped upas soon as news of his Napier success. I reached Christchaxch, 500 to- SO wast t ifean about' him some tune back, and a* there are no: penalties for the. HJS. Cup>. his weight stands the same. BferrW England has receded a point in conse> quence^andis now quoted at & to >l, afr which price Cracbshot is also- ejaoted. 6 to 1 has been accepted fbragMMksanx about the latter* Wolverine is firm at 7 to 1, which ia also on offisr about Tirailleur. Dudu and Jet d'Ean'meet witfi occasional support at » to 1. to wbieh price Medallion has receded since his Hawke's Bay ronmng'. ' The A.J.C. Derby winner, Gibraltar, is thus described by the Sydney Telegraph :— -'• The son of ta-aadmaeter and Algeria is a heavy, long, and thicklybuilt colt, nearly 17 hands in height^ andl chestnut of a chocolat» hne.uk: colour. He has good forequarters, de»p barrel,, and is strongly built behind with a high, croup. Gibraltar was hired by the-latev Mr W. J» Dangar at the Neotsfield stud.