SPORTING.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 318, 19 June 1875, Page 3

SPORTING.

From our latest Australian files we are enabled to glean that the total number of entries for the Melbourne Cup amounts to 88. The total number of animals that have been nominated for the Champion Race to be run at Melbourne on January Ist, 1876, is no less than 78, being 16 in addition to the names of those we have already published. Owing to the illegibility of the telegrams sent us some few errors have crept into our published list, viz. : —ln Melbourne Cup entries, Moddo (?) should read Madalo, Wanhope as Ivanhoe, Waiberriman as Wenberrimin, Emperor as Imperial, Ntxmmy as Nunnykirk, Leakore as Seakale, Cawden as Camden, Alia as Ella, Columba as Calaba, and Lord Lytton in one case should be Lord Lyon. The names of Risk and Playboy must be struck out, and Dilke and the Deer take their place. With regard to the sixteen additional nominations received from Sydney for the Champion race, their names are as follows : C by Kingston— St. Heliers Valetta Connaught Reprieve Rose d'Amour Ringwood Goldsbrough .Sentinel Melbourne Kingsborough Rose de Florence Valentia colt Hyperion Sylvia 'colt Barbara Sour Grapes colt.

ROBBERY OF A RACEHORSE.

Alluding to the circmmstance of the Tace-horse Duke of Athol being stolen, the Sydney Town and Country says: "About the most sensational item of intelligence ever published in a sporting paper here ia the mysterious dis-

appearance of Mr J. T. Tindale's imported horse Duke of Athol, from his stable at Bylong, on Wednesday night last week; and not only a sensational item, but a very serious affair to Mr Tindale, who only a couple of months since gave Mr G. F. Want 2000 guineas for the horse. It is not many weeks since we published a woodcut of Duke of Athol, together with some description of him; but as it is well that everybody should know the horse thoroughly well in order to stop the thief, we give to-day a few of his particular points. He is a very remarkable horse, having more white about him, probably, than any other blood horse in the colony, and is a golden chesnut, with light mane and tail; the white on his legs runs up very high, that on his off fore leg having no well defined line between it and the chesnut, but blending with the darker color until it shades out above the knee joint. But supposing his mane and tail to be cut, and his remarkable white face and legs to be dyed, the shape of his head cannot be altered, and that is enough to swear to him by. He is very deep in the jowl or cheek, and his lower lip is considerably shorter than the upper, the latter projecting over the former, which is unusually small. If our horsey readers throughout the colony will bear this in mind, some of them may be instrumental in restoring to Mr Tindale his valuable property."