Sporting News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 111, 7 November 1895, Page 2

Sporting News.

It is reported that a day or two before the New Zealand Cap was run, Mr Craig was offered and refused iIOOO for Euroclydon. We (Standard) hear that a Feilding sport was lucky enough to back tbe winning double in the New Zealand and Melbourne Cups, Euroclydon and Auraria, winning £'500. The investments on the starters in the New Zealand Cup were : — 740 Gipsy Grand, 656 Tho Artist, 601 Lady Zetland, 581 Impulse, 569 North Atlantic, 431 Skirmisher, 388 Marino, 380 Chaos, 300 Aldershot, 287 Sternchaser, 274 Pegasus, 264 Euroclydon. ! (Per Press Association). t Melbourne, Not. 6. Following arc Auraria's performances last season as a two-year-old : — Adelaide : August — 2nd in Fulharn Plate, 3£ furlongs, Bst, time, 44J-sec. September — 2nd in Nursery Handicap, 4£ furlongs, 7st 81b ; time, 59£ sec. S. A. Tattersall's Meeting, October— Won Juvenile Handicap, 4£ furlongs, Bst ; time, 59sec. V.R.C., November — Dead heat in Nursery Handicap, 5 furlongs, Bst 10lb, with Maie ; time, lmin ssec ; won Fletnington Stakes, £ mile, 9st 31b ; time, 50 [sec. Adelaide, May— 2nd S. A. Stakes, 7 furlongs ; time, lmin 32 2-ssec Won Elder Stakes, 1 mile 1 furlong, 6st 111 b ; The Possible 9st, 2nd ; Port; Admiral 9st lib, 3rd ; time, 2min. Won Fisher Stakes, 1£ miles, 7st 21b ; The Possible 9st 7lb 2nd ; Maroon 9st 3rd ; time, 2min 13 2-ssec. May — Won Parkside Stakes, 1 mile 1 furlong, 6st 111 b; The Possible 9st 2nd ; Successor 6st 131 b 3rd ; time, 2min o|sec. As a three -year-old on Saturday last, 3rd in the V.R.C. Derby, U miles; Wallace Ist ; Osculator 2nd ; time, 2min 46 sec. Auraria is trained by T. H. Hill at Adelaide.