SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1659, 14 June 1879, Page 4

SPORTING NOTES.

By Sin's ad. At the recent meeting at Kaikora (Hawke’s Bay) Wanganui carried off the two principal events, while at Aramoho, near Wanganui, Orlando defeated his opponents both in the Innkeeperi’ Purse and Flying Stakes. The Steeplechase was won by the Don, Medora being second. At the Waikato Autumn Race Meeting Sportsman defeated Loafer in the Hurdle Race, but neither in this or any other of the events are the weights given. The Te Awamutu Cup was won by Golden Crown, beating Lady Godwin and Lalla Rookh. The latter carried off the Consolation, and Orakau the Ladies' Purse, in which Golden Crown was second. As if to atone for tha ill health which has ao far attended Mr Lorillard’s American crack Duke of Magenta, that gentleman appears to have another uncommonly good string to his bow in Parol«, who, carrying Bst 2lbs, won the City and Suburban from Bidotto and Cradle, to both of whom he was conceding weight. Parole also carried off the Great Metropolitan Handicap and the Newmarket Handicap, in which last, carrying 9st 41b, he gave Isonomy Gibs and a beating. His last performance was winning the Chester Cup in a cantor. Parole is by Leamington out of Maiden, who is also the dam of Papoose, a mare who, in Mr Lorillard’s colors, has already won the First Spring Two-Year Old Stakes of 500 sovs at Newmarket. So far the American contingent has done remarkably well, and should the Duke of Magenta recover his usual form he will certainly prove a most formidable antagonist to the best |of the English horses, as the American sporting papers all agree as to his being the noblest Roman of Mr Lorillard’s string. At Sandown—so late telegrams inform us—Jackal has in the Grand International Steeplechase turned the tables on Liberator, his victor in the Liverpool Grand National. Speaking of the horses in training at Flemington, “Augur” says the colt by the Peer from Calumny is growing into a magnificent fellow—growing too fast, perhaps, to do much good with him in the spring, albeit he may stop in a month or so, and enable his trainer to give him a preparation for the Maribyrnong Plate. He has capital bone, and the straight hock which many good udges like. It appears that before the new Australian weight for-age scale is finally adopted another alteration is to be made. It is proposed to use the half-mile scale for six furlongs, and the six-furlongs for a mile, leaving the mile-scale for a mile and a q iarter as it is now. At the recent half-yearly meeting of the Marlborough Racing Club, Mr Rayner gave notice of motion that the Club appoint a paid handicapper. If a few more clubs of a similar kind would adopt the same course there can be little doubt but that shortly we should have one paid handicapper throughout New Zealand, a consummatian which is, in every respect, devoutly to be wished. “Nemo,”of the “ Sydney Mail,” has gone to the trouble of showing the number of duplicate names used on the turf in the baptism of horses. For instance there are six Alices, six Baronesses, five Bismarcks, eight Brunettes, six Colonels, nine Coquettes eight Doras, seven Floras, six Jewesses, six Kingfishers, seven Mischiefs, nine Princesses, seven Sunshines, seven Twilights, and so the thing runs on, which to print would take a full page of the paper, Really owners and breeders might find some new and original names for their stock, and so they would if a proper registry of names was kept, and a fine of 10 sovs imposed for adopting a name already in use. A New Zealand rportsman reading the above could truthfully say of his own colony, Mntato nomine de te falvla narratin'. Names here are rapidly being duplicated in a manner which says little for the originality o owners and breeders : and the confusion which will eventually arise in the case of the progeny of mares of the same name will surely, when too late, convince the erring ones that the oft quoted remark of one William Shakespeare as to a rose smelling as sweet when called by another name, applies applies to thoroughbred horses as well as to the queen of flowers.

Since 1863 Lord Falmouth has won the Derby twice, the Oaks four times, the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes twice, the One housand Guineas Stakes four times, and the ti Leger twice.