Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 104, 24 February 1891, Page 4

Sporting

(Notes by Crackshot.) \ On Wednrsday next the Dunedin jockey Oiub will commence the three day's racing in connection with their Autumn Meeting. It gives every promise of beiug an inierprovincial gathering, as most of the principal provinces %s-ill be represented. The piece de resistance of the meeting, of Ciurse is the Duuedin Oup, of 600 soys', 2 milns and a distance I consider Hilda, 8 9, who waa no,t very, pi uk when she last met Crackshot in the Auckland Oup, will turn the tables on the colt, as he is now conceding her lib, -thus being allowed Blbs for! : acting aarunuer-up to him. Crackshot-. was in rare fettle last JBoxiug l)ay, but unfavorable reports are cur- ' rent' at present with reference to his condition for such a long race. Hilda should hold Occident, 8-B,?safe. The latter, however, has been doing some a&und work lately, and will run a big horse on Weduesday. Freedom, 8-3, is-all- there at staying, as his last visit to iEor bury . proved. He ran a good colt; in the Midsummer Stakes at the G.J.G. meeting recently, and with a pound less thau. he then canied, and ; as ; he has been improving since, he 'should about win. lv the race above mentioned, he ran second to ■ Prime VVarden, 7-12, who put 'up the ; time of' 2-88 for ]£ miles, and Freedom's jockey had the misfortune to loose his whip before the straight was :• -reached. ' Wolveriue, 8-0, being very :^ :fit, might " do the trick;' for there is i o i.-. gainsay about his fctayiug powers, and if the going is heavy I wwuid vote for hischauce. With 7-3 ;PiiuLie Warden ia •• fancied in some '''circles; but , I doubt ; - his ability to ; get' the distauce, al- . though 1 would not be at all sur•,priseu to see him haridyat the finish. • \ Nothing else in the list strikes my - -eye as capable of winning a Dunedin > 'Oup and my selections are — ;■ ; FREEDOM . . 1 ■..■'■■ ''■'-.■ HiiJ)A '■'■.. . . . 2 ■Occident or Prime Warden 3 At a meeting of the.; Committee of _ MJanaAvatu Baciug Club recently, * >it ,was decided to add a Cavairy Eace, 'dl2o,.sovs, to the programme for the ■vVHqicfcTMeefi'ng P u ;• March 28th, pro- • videcl'.the Metropolitan Club approved '^o!f the addi'tiua. Mr L. Proctor was .^apppiuted ,o'lerk of the Course vice "^ Mr ; : ''W."K.ey>, ! wtio wiil be uuable to -attend the meeting. r A(Jrackshot has. been nominated for ■fie;Syduey, Cup., to be ruu at Easter time. Carbine, who has woa the race -two years in succession, is among the ' •'entrants I,'1 ,' and so is his stablemate-T- - addition to Crack-■'-■■.sfibty-jNew Zealand is represented •directly by VVolverine and indirectly ■ vby Gatling. The entry list totals 47. • - airaCcourita the racing was very ..^gppd at Eg"mout last week, and some •^gfobd maiden horses were brought *!-i)u'tP : Ar'- ; good v c6lt 'was' exposed in . Fraternite, by The Dauphin—- Sissie, winner in .- -the; Bapiiug:Btakest the day, but '-could not get no nearer than third the -r-second -day-when- conceding Eosef eldt ; and]Gretdnne 6ibs, each, which was a >.gobd performance. Nganeko, another .maiden, beat Worth and 17 others in i th.^'l- mile and : aidistance Hack Race, nunning-the dikance"in 2-3." The -Peer, who has figured with varied f success, : in ; hack flat races, made a . eood show on his first trial in " big" , f company, as he ■ managed to run ■; second to Jenny in the- Hurdles the ..first day, but the second day he won ; the:h'urdies rather easily. .Before the ■'.. race was run, Mr D. Munn purchased ;. Th.e.Peer for the /sum- of £120. His ;first:veature in his. new ; owner's name was therefore successful. . r iMr Ward, of Feildingj who bought .Kissing Cup, .a : mare, by Somnus, Lreceutly for £15, has matched her ,;againßt a'gelding of Mr S. Beattie'sfor a small-stake. The match is to come ••* off early next month, when another ijninor match is to be decided betweeu ;t wo local hacks. ; . i r'.iOn Wednesday evening at Hawera A. Higgie, for mauy years handitcapper to. the Bginont iiacing Club, ■was presented with ah illumiuated ad- - dress thanking him for his past services, -.and; he was given a handsome locket --•carrying with-it a life membership of ithe Club/, ■ W. E. Wilson, the "Silver IKihg/.' has' 100 mares . located at his /St Alban's Stud, which is the largest ,in existence in the Southern Hiiinis.phere. • V A' Papapa 5-year-old gelding is . being '" fi^ed up" by Mr J. Euther,ford td couipdte at the Sandon hack graces. He is a compact horse with .good" quarters, and I should think ■ . that stayrng would be better his fuite -than sprinting. I notice that the " old horse." Car- •• -bine, is engaged in the Essendon Stakes, 1 mile 2£ furlongs, to be run at the forthcoming Y.ii.G. Meeting, which commences on Saturday next. (PKE UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION). Melbourne, Febuatj 22. The Victorian Ama'eur Turf Club's Autumn meeting was held at Caulfield tP-day. Oakleigh H•A^pICAP; h furlongs. —Wild -Hose, 7-5 1; Epi, 7-6 2 ; Badoo, 7-12 3. Wild JEtose won easily by a length and a half in the phenomenal.time of;lmin7sec. Thirtylour horses B tar ted. :■} J : • Later. In the; Oakleigh Handicap, Sadim .. finished fourth, followed by Lady Golightly, Bothwell, . Ginger, and Investigator in that order. A 6trong breeze^was blowing behind the field, ■which: assisted in registering such . fust time. . are signs of both Churchill . Fernando hardening for the ..Newmarket Handicap.