Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 57, 30 October 1890, Page 3

Sporting

The resiifts of the Victorian Derby *wd Melbourne <sup, run on the Ist and 4th -NovembeEtespectivel^ -Will be posted up Mr Donnelly's immediately oh receipt x>f the telegrams* '■: The Mouaahaki Sf«& *a ces <**« held Tuesday, with 1 t£e following re mlts :— Hurdles— Whalebone 1, Cominbtion 2. Flvin«'--She 1, White Kose 2, Mirabelle 3 • afvidend £5 Bs. MaideH—Conspiracy 1. Merman 2, Cyrus 3 ; dividend £2 9s Cup— Christmas 1, The P«er 2, Satyr 3 • dividend M 13s; Post Stakes— Kapai I,' Viola 2* dividend £20 3s. Railway Plate— Christmas .1. White Rose 2, She 3. Forced Handicap*— Javelin 1, Satyr 2; dividend £2 17s. At the (aisbbrne Races on Tuesday, Truthful and Dancing Master tan a dead heat in the Forced Handicap, but owing to the former carrying 21bs overweight, and not declaring it, he was disqualified. The race was then given to Dancing Master, who ,paid the .respectable diyi*denddf£44lls. Says the Referee anent.the .two N.Z. "Cup candidates :— Dudu is in capital =nick, and'she will run a good race for the Cup. She has never been better than she is now since her arrival at Riccarton. — Crackshbt isa good colt, and one likely to prove' an excellent stayer. He has fined dewn considerably, and when galloping'he feentjaihly impresses one as being - more thaftJaß ordinary racer. After Cuirassier won the Victoria Handicap at Auckland last summer, Mr W. R. Wilson, of 'Australia, offered J63000 for ■the son of Musket without leading co bus--mess. ■ '' ' - ' The New.. Zealander Mammoc (7-12) beat a field of seven ; in the Melbourne Hunt Club; Hurdle Race (100 soys) on the -4th instant. . : . Escutcheon has, been entered for the Second Hurdle Race at the V.R.C. Cup Meeting. A ' '. .' • The late smarter of the South Canterbury Jockey : =.Club, Mr J. Meikl«,.. of whom the •Canterbury Times made some disparaging' remarks; anent his starting, has commenced an action for alleged, libel against that jouriial. 1 -It is reported that will not accept ah apology. The BenSat^oh.al .prices , paid at the late J. Wtifee|s salej feaye riot sp. far; brought a corresponding amount of grist •to the mill. Titan, for wftom 4600 guineas were paid,4iaß<not wob a single shil--ling 111 stakes for Mr Brodribb ; Dreads nought, who was bought by Mr W. T. -Jones, for 2600 guineas, has gone amiss ; -and Litigant,, for whom the latter gentleiuau also r paid 1530 guineas, could •ouly set tjeuond 'fur- tho .Ladies' Bracelet at JMlarat. From pressat appearances it would seem that the sensatianal Sydney sale of April, last would turn out out as disastrous -to buyers as did the late Fal--xnouth'ssh England iv 1884. Mr D. Cooper has been a large norairia*tor.for thaJßuglisb. Deroy of 1&92, The five youngsters he has nominated for that race cost t&n $8000 odd wheii sold as .yearlings. the ; same race Baron :Hirseh nominated three yearlings repre- ; senting £10,000 in purchase money ; •Colonel NoriJr-fiv.e animals, which cost ■him £7000 .;■: and Lord Dudley half-a---dozen/which cost bin. £9000 at the sale ringr