Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 88, 15 January 1891, Page 4

Sporting

Discussing the respective performances of Sheen, Prince SoUyhoff's ifa'mous Horse, arid^Carbine,- the w ellEnglish writer, 'Augur,' remarks thus in the columns of tha -.Sporting' Li fe> — Taking the time test ■asatnir reliable we are able to form a still closer estimate of : Carbine's •ability v as we ban readily compare his '^performances in the : Melbourne Cup with Sheen's moat '-brilliant victory in •the Ce3arewitch. Both are great records, 1 au'd by a sum in simple proportion we find that, the merits of the 1 performances are wonderfully Carrying lOst 51b in the Me libourue Cup (tlisfance exactly two miles}, Carbine ran the course in Smin. 58jsec, or (leaving off the odd •Squarter of ';a second} at the rate of 13 *cc. per furlong. In the Cesarfewitch (distance two miles two furlongs and : thirty-five yards), Sheen^when cai ryr .ing 9»t 21b poyeredr the ground in 3ujin. 54 ; 3-ssee., or leaving out the •fractional, portion /of and the b o Jd thirty-five : yards, at the same rate — uamely , '" 1 3sec. per furlong -- as Carbine. It will, be- at onoe evident that; the merit j of these two performances, is /marvellously equal, as Garline carried 171 b, moi-e 'than Sheen, Prince Soifykoff's had to ; iarry his'burderf an extra quarter pf 'a mile. That bo h are tremendously • -.'• fine perform;! ncfs is evident from the fact that so good a colt as Queen's Birthday, when carrying lib, under . in -the second of the 'Bose' handi- - : caps (distance, one mile and three quarters), travelled a trifle slower than • either Carbine and Sheen. If choice there is between Carbine and Sheen ;;it seems to ; re*t with Mr Wallacefs horse; and though I would not like to thiuk that on tLe turf, as in other departments of sport, our colonial breturen are ahead of us, I am sorry that we have not had an opportunity 'of. seeing this magnificent sou of Musket i"n England..'