Sporting

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 3 September 1891, Page 2

Sporting

(per united press association.) London, September 1. The betting is 5 to 4 on Common for the St. Leger. Melbourne, September 1. The following are the latest quotations for the prinoi al spring events : — Caulfield Cup, 100 to 8 against Bungebah ; 100 to 5 against Teksum, Sir William, Paris, and Gladstone. — Melbourne Cup, 100 to 7 against Megaphone, Vengeance, and Melos ; 100 to 5 against Paris, Carbine, Malyolio, and Correze. Sydney, September 2. It is announced here that Freeman, winner of the Grand National Steeplechase in New Zealand, has been purchased on behalf of T. Corrigan, the well-known cross country horseman of Victoria, for 350 guineas. Napier, September 1. The following nominations were received to-night for the Hawkes Bay J.C. Spring Meeting: — First Handicap Hurdles, of 100 soys. Two miles. — Prospect, Ival, Gaylands, Somnambulist, Kaimanawa, Lochnager, Otaieri, Couranto, Violet, Worth, Chester, Tauraekaitai. Flying Handicap, of 75 soys. Six furlongs. — Whisper, Hakimana, Kosefeldt, Krina, Fraternite, Triton, Boulanger, Cynisca, Kupenga, Strephon, Aronoel, D_olosa. Thame, Dreamland, Heather Bell, Kaihora, Pearl Powder, Cissy, Irene, Queen of Trumps, La Petite Fille. Spring Handicap, of 250 soys. One mile and a half. — Whisper, Cynisca, Lenore, British Lion, Hakimana, Kapua, Strephon, Rosefeldt, Namoa, Irene, Captain Webb, Pearl Powder, Krina, Aronoel, Huerfana, Hilda, Cissy, Dolosa, Fraternite, Maid of Lome, Hippomenes, Free Lance, Triton, Thame, Clanranald, Boulanger, Dreamland, Burd Helen, Queen of Trumps, Dishonour.