Sporting News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 119, 15 November 1894, Page 2

Sporting News.

WINNER OF THE MELBOURNE CUP. Kaimaka 9st was omitted from the published Hat of weights for the Hack Hurdle Race at the Feilding Jockey

Club's Spring Meeting. The racehorses Musket, King John, Sunbeam and Oaklands, in charge of R. Kingan, left Awahuri yesterday for Wellington to fulfil engagements at the Wellington meeting next week. The tracks on the Feilding race course are now in splendid order for the coming spring meeting. We understand R. Kinqjan has lea,Be^ stables in Feilding and' will take up big quarters here with his team immediately after the Wellington meeting. The Referee says :— Epilogue will win a race shortly; perhaps at Feilding.— There is a Maori - owned Magazine amongst the Feilding nominations. This is a duplication that should not exist. The Maori mare was the first named.— Revolt, the brother to Rebellion, is entered for the Hurdle Race at Feildjng,— That ' the Feilding Jockey Club is held in high favour with owners oan be judged by the nomination lißts for the spring meeting whioh appears in this issue. For the fourteen events no few than 261 have been named, which is 49 in excess of tie number entered for last year's spring meeting. The quality of the entries is very good, and if but a fair proportion of those engaged find their war to the ground on the convincing day the sport should be of an attractive character. The winner of the Cup was tipped a week before by Mr O'Snlhvan, M.L.A., for Qneanbeyan, N.S.W. This gentle, man with five or six others tried a table turning seance, with the result that Patron waß given as the winner of the, Melbourne Cup four or five times m succession. Mr O'Sullivari informed over a dozen members of the House last Tuesday as to the result of his experi* nients, and several members who were induced to put their money on the spirit's tip have won sums ranging from £50 to £500.