SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1739, 16 September 1879, Page 4

SPORTING NOTES.

By Sinead. The weights for the C. J. C. Handicap, which appeared last week, seem scarcely to meet the views of all concerned, and for once I think some of the discontented ones have a little cause for grumbling. Templeton has nothing to complain of in his impost, which he has thoroughly earned, but I much prefer the chances of his stable companion, Fishhook, who, I should think, also has a bit the best of Mata in the weights. Mari, tana is fairly treated, while Mr Lance has certainly not erred on the side of leniency with dangler or Sinking Fund. The on Dunedin running alone, must be dead out of it, and is by far the worst treated horse n the race. Natator is one of the best treated horses in the Handicap. After getting away with the worst of starts in the Autumn Handicap, he finished a close second to Longhands, to whom ho was then conceding 51bs. Ho now meets Longlands at a pound, and unless the extra distance prove too much for Natator, I should think he held Mr Fraser’s horse safe enough. Taking a line through the same race, I think he has a bit the best of Mata also, evc n allowing that the Dunedin Cup winner was not wanted on that occasion. Pinfire has a nice weight, and nothing to grumble at, but I doubt his being quite class enough for the company he will be likely to meet. Foul Play never has got two miles yet, aud until I see him do so I shall decline to put any faith in his staying abilities. York is another hardly-used animal; why he should be called upon to give weight to Titania, Chancellor, and several others lower down in the list, I cannot quite understand. His last season’s performances certainly do not entitle him to such an honour, and in his case, os well as that of Sinking Fund, I should any “the subsequent proceedings would interest him no more.” Titania is fairly in, and should she go back to her old form should run forward. Mufti is not a general favourite, and it is, I should think, very questionable whether he can be got fit in the time. Should he favour us with a visit, and come to the post cherry ripe, there are few more dangerous animals in the race. Chancellor has nothing to complain of on the score of weight, but he is so proverbially uncertain that I cannot recommend him. Camballo at 7at 71b is quite out of it. Rangatira we of course have not seen yet, but his credentials are not of the highest, and l shall be surprised if he prove formidable in such a race as this. Laertes in his Australian form would run a grand race with 7st 51bs, but, with the exception of his Wellington running, his last season’s performances were of a very indifferent kind. He is anything but an easy animal to bring out, and is certainly better suited over a snorter distance. Dundee is another horse who, were we to judge by his last season’s running, would not attract much attention, but he has wonderfully improved, and goes now like a racehorse. A big four-year-old like him, with only 7at 41bs on him, ought to run well, and, if he be the chosen representative of the Bush Inn, I think he will, Soukar (late Peep-o’-Day) is, I hear from those who know him, likely to prove a useful little handicap horse, but will be out of his place in such a race as this. Fiction is a colt who has only run one race up to the present. This was in Auckland, and being quite out of sorts at the time, it is quite impossible to judge of him by his performance on that occasion. He is at present doing good work, and with 7et only has nothing to complain of; which remark in a greater degree applies also to Oberon, whoso impost is the same. Betrayer, the Champagne winner, naturally heads the three-year-old division with Cat 131bs, and here I must decidedly agree with the opinion expressed last week by my confrere “Druid” that a Champagne winner should carry at any rate weight for age. The chances are that Betrayer will most probably go for the Derby, but should his owner elect to start him for the Handicap for preference, I should consider his chance was a particularly good one. Of Naiad’s capabilities I know nothing, but her impost is light enough. Volunteer is another probable Derby colt. Atlantic has certainly met with liberal treatment, which remark also applies to Maid of Honour, to whom I consider the handicapper has been more than kind. The two-year-old running of Mr Smith’s filly on the other side was of a very high class, and here she is only called upon to give two pounds more to Miranda, an untried mare. Of the other threc-year-olda engaged, perhaps the most likely are Mr Walters’ selected one, Edward James, Adamant, and above all St. George, to whom Norseman, Edward James, Piscatorious, Libeller, and even Grip, who cut up so badly in the Champagne, have to concede weight. Numa is not good enough, and even were he twice as good as he is, no six stone boy could ride him. At present, without considering the Derby starters at all, I like the chances best of Fishhook, Mata, Natator, Dundee, Betrayer, and Mr Walters’ representative, which I fancy will prove the Libeller. I paid Ted Cutts a visit recently at Chokebore, and the first animal I saw was Mata. The Dunedin Cup winner has wintered well, and is doing plenty of good work. He looks well and healthy, and as sound as a bell. His Autumn Handicap opponent, Natator, is also looking in rare nick, and is well forward in his preparation, though not too much so. Should he train on as I anticipate, he will take a lot of beating in the big handicap, and with Mata to ask him any questions that may be required, Cutts should he able to get a good idea of what his chances may ho when the time draws closer. The two-year-old colt by Goldsborough is plainer looking than his stable companion by Yattendon. I should take him to be one of the speedy sort, while I think the Yattendon colt will be found the best for a distance. Sir Modrcd, the Traducer-Idalia colt, recently purchased by Hon. R. Campbell, is a beautiful, truly-shaped colt, show, ing any amount of quality, and built on a larger scale than Betrayer. He moves like a racehorse, and I think will prove to bo a right good colt. On the same day I had a look in at the Bush Inn stables, which are well filled this season. In Daisy and Edward James Mr B. Farmer has an uncommonly nice pair of three-year-olds. The former shows to more advantage when going than in tho stable, though she is far from a bad-looking filly. She goes in capital style, anil shows, so far as one can see from her work at present, a good turn of foot. The colt is also a pretty mover, and a very well-shaped one. After Betrayer, I fancy his Derby chance as well as any, and more than most. In the next box to him is a stout-looking colt by Antcros out of Lady Florence, tho dam of Middleton. He is a good colt, but I preferred his neighbour, also a two-year-old by Anteroa from Revoke. This is a grand colt all over, and quite tho pick of tho Bush Inn two-year-olds, all of whom arc decidedly a long way above the average. The Albany-Ada colt is a very even youngster, aud, like his two contemporaries, very well grown and furnished. His half-brother Adamant occupied the next box. This brother to Danebury is looking aud going as well as any horse in the stable, and I cannot but think ho will do more than reverse tho opinion that may have been formed of him from his two-year-old running. Miranda, tho threo-ycar-old sister to Templeton, has grown into a beautiful filly, and is quite a picture to look at. She is, unfortunately, not engaged in tho Derby. Her neighbour, Betrayer, is looking as well as his most sanguine hackers could wish, and the one who heats him in the Derby or Cup will have to travel for it should all go well with him up to November. Dundee has evidently done a lot of useful work. He ia engaged at Duutroon, whore I feel sure he will run a different animal to last season. From his present appearance I should say he was tho most improved animal in Mr Webb’s stable. In the last box is a big three-year-old colt by Knottingly from a Tom King mare, who, I believe, is doing good work. Taken as a whole, I don’t think Mr Webb ever had so good a lot in his stable, and it is satisfactory to add that up to the present not one of tho whole team has been sick or aoiry. The nominations for the Geraldine and Waitaki Handicaps, which appear elsewhere, are very satisfactory. Nearly every stable has a representative engaged, and it will seem that Lone Hand is nominated both for tho Waikato Cup and Hurdle Race. In the latter race, as at Geraldine by tho way, it seems there is a Robin Hood and Little John engaged. General entries and acoepthe 20th, and

I learn from private telegrams that Onyx and Sylvia, the marea recently purchased by Mr Sam Morren in Sydney, nave arrived safely in Auckland by the Hero. The Summer programme of the Auckland Racing Club appears elsewhere. On the first day the Maiden and Railway Plates have changed places, but with this exception the programme is exactly the same as last year. Nominations for the Auckland Cup, Racing Club Handicap, and Steeplechase close on October 31st. It will he seen that Mr Lance has been again appointed handicapper. Mr Stead is erecting a new set of boxes at Russley, which will prove a great improvement to that stable.

The nominations for tho Hawke’s Bay Grand Steeplechases appear elsewhere, and are ten in number. The majority of them, it will be seen, are old performers. In answer to a correspondent from Otepopo, I may inform him that All Fours was a chesnut horse, and was the property of Mr Orr.

With commendable caution (says “ Mazeppa ”), the Duustan Jockey Club have resolved to cut their coat according to their cloth. At a recent meeting it was resolved that tho amount bo given away in stakes at the spring meeting shall not exceed £65 The following gentlemen were appointed office-bearers: Major Jackson Keddril, judge; S. Welsford, starter; C. Attfield, clerk of course ; and Messrs. Joss, Leahy, Macgeorge, B. Stewart, Welsford, Attfield, Waddell, W. G.Rees, and Aris, stewards.

Mr P. Lorillard’a bay colt Uncaa has gone hopelessly lame, his near hock being tho seat of the trouble. His training has been stopped for the season. Parole has been backed for the Cambridgeshire Stake to win £IB,OOO, at the odds of 45 to 1 against him. The race will take place during the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, October 21. Graf Eugene Kinsky, of the old Czechian nobility, is a noted athlete and runner. A friend of his in Pesth was the other day singing the praises of the celebrated Orloff trotters, who lately figured so well in the Vienna trotting races at Prater. Tho Graf, says the “ Globe,” made a big bet that he would beat this pair on foot at a short distance race —-viz., half a length of the Pesth Rondeau, some two hundred yards. The race came off, the Count getting well away at starting, and coming in some fifteen feet before the horses, much to the disgust of their owners.

Another candidate for honours on the British turf presents himself in the person of Mr James B. Keene, of New York. Mr Keene has entered five colts and one filly, yearlings, in the English Derby, Two Thousand Guineas, and St. Leger, and the filly in the Oaks of 1881. The sires represented are Virgil, Monarchist, imp. Australian, King Alfonso, and Enquirer, the youngsters being from the fashionably-bred matrons of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky.

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