Sporting News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 15, 18 July 1893, Page 2

Sporting News

r ; Ipy ci^cKsHdr.) v . ■■;: . Th^! " Hbferea| understands 'f^t pegotifitioßS are for th#lhile ! or Freedom, who will most probably ;n find a home in the North Island i during the coming season. Auckland advices state that St. Hippo is not likely to go to the post for the New Zealand Cup, and that he ] will be kept for engagements at the back end of the season. ] I The following lines have been , written about the New Zealand Cup , iti ehristchwwf-^iwr'td Tiptnir ■ The Workman ; 100 to 6 Hippouienes, ' Saracen and ClaihranaM ; 100 to 5 , Riversdale ; 100 to 4 St. Anthony and Gitano ; -100 to 2 i&ady-Zetiaw!?'"' H In Dunedjn a good many speculators fcro taking the comparatively short odds of 100 to'l about the double, Melbonrne and New Zealand- Cups. " Veiai "in . the SyUney I j^tee] says that Torpedo is a fair hors'e,' but' he has never been, given a ; flecent chance to win, since l\e came over this side. ,", . , , ; There is some talk of a trotting club being formed, in New Plymouth. Meddler, owned by the late Mr A. Baird, was recently sold, in England for £ 1 4,500. The following „ high , prices have been paid for performers on the English turf. . CojDnrcm, £15,000; Doncaster, £15,000 j Blair Athol, £ 1 3, 1 2 5 ; .Kangaroo* £12,0QQ; ; and St. Gatien sire of Meddler changed hands at £15,000. Ormonde was sold to go to America at £12,000 and was afterwards purchased by a Californian sportsman for £30,000 ] and St. Blaize, an English bred hor^e, also changed hands ill Ainepca"at £20,000. In Au'^bralia „ tliti^highest price paid for a thoroitghbred was 5000 guinies, given byiMf Sl'Hordern for Nordernfeld. ' " - One of the rare instances of a jockey " rounding on his : master rie-, petitly took; place in "San 'Fraticiscgi. The jockey ;in question, a lad named Ristine, was asked to ride a good performer- naffled Stoneman not to win, and straightway told the authorities what his instructions were. Another jockey vaa then found for the horse, which won the race, and the owner, -MrW.i Sinclair, was roled off for life. Were jockeys ia^ certain^other parts to " rat " as Ristine did, Uind with, a. similar result, there^wouJd hardly be sufficient owners left to run a race meeting (writes an. exchange),As showing what a good horse Redcap is, he won the "V.RiC. Gtfand National Hurdle Race, distance abotit three miles, in 5 min 53| sec, and Carbine's time when he secured^ fclie A.J.C. Plate, over three miles on thq Hat, was sinin.43£sec. J. B. Williamson has trained the winner of the Great National Steeple-' chase in three successive years, he trained Parnell and Shillelagh, and this year Despised came from his stables. An analysis of the published criticisms on the Melbourne Cup handicaps, shows that a majority of the racing writers throughout Australia vote : Strathmore 9st 101b, Ronda Bst 61b, Paris 9st 21b, Sternchaier 9st; Cre : morne 9st 71b, Mahee 6st 111b, Carnage 7st 71b, Swbrdbearer' Bst 71b,' Penance Bst 51b, and Zalinski 9st, as being the ten most favorably handicapped hor'ses engaged in the Race. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) » Sydney, July 17. The following nominations have been received for the Metropolitan Stakes : — Brockleigh. Alexander, Launceston, Dan O'Connor, Drolga, Efchelbert, Projectile, Impulse, Oxenham, Melinite, Cremoroe, Pans, Bel Giorno, Chatham, E.K., Emin Pashn, Grenadier, Loyalty, Bungebah. Magnus, TJlnc, Aureo, The Dreamer, The Swell, Solanum, Pearl Powder^ Anta?Uß. Birriboo, Cnrrandoolf , Joweller, Marhee, Blue Peter, Lady| Trenton, Salutation, Warpaint, Donation, Sundial, Miletoo, Stepniak, Sunshine, Trenchant, Donezetti, Corinth, Selkirk, Sir William, DoQca?ter Empire, Tranter, Pharamond, Glitter, Kedhill. Little Bernie, Eostellan and Gingham. Melboubwk, This Day. The following entxies have beea received for the Metropolitan Stakes ir-Ducrow, Oxide, Aecot Vale, Tyre, Corrize, Sainfoin, Elvmas. ' " "' - '