SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1749, 27 September 1879, Page 3

SPORTING.

GEEALDINE EACE3. [By Tblegbaeh.] Fbidat, Septbmbeb 26. The Geraldine races -wore again well attended, and the events as a rule well contested. The following were the results Geraldine Cup, 100 sova. Messrs Mason and Vallanee’a Pinfire, Bst 81b 1 Mr Waddell’s Eangatira, Bst 11b 2 Mr Walter’s Libeller, 6st 121 b 3 Hack Hurdle Back, 10 sots. Mr Primmer’® Johnny 1 Mr P. H. Duncan’s Milo ... 2 Ladies’ Purse of 25 sots. Mr Walter’s Libeller ... ... 1 Mr Butler’s Te Whetu 2 County Plate of 30 sots. Mr Mundell’a Julia 1 Two others ran but did not come in. Consolation Handicap of 10 sovs, added to a sweep of 1 sot, to go to the second horse. One mile. Mr Lnnn’s Milo, 9st (Clifford) 1 Mr Lunn’s Eobin Hood, Bst ... (Bradley) 2 These were the only entries, and Mr Lunn declared to win with Milo, and the horses merely cantered round except in the finish, when a couple of horses joined those named in the race. For the Hurry Scurry for whip and spurs, an entrance fee of 10a each added, one mile, nine started. Mr P. Duncan’s Milo, capitally ridden by Clifford, won easily. This concluded the programme. SPOETING NOTES. By Sinead. A Sydney correspondent writes me as follows : —“The racing season is now well under weigh—Hawkesbury, Tattersalls, and the A.J.C. Spring Meetings being over. The racing has been unusually good, and the fields exceptionally large. Outsiders, Kinsman and Secundns, won the Hawkesbury and Metropolitan. Kinsman started a very warm favourite for ‘the Metrop,’ bat was unfortunately jammed against the rails, which threw him out entirely. Lord Burghley, who was second, carried six pounds overweight, and was very indifferently piloted. With a good horseman up and his right weight, he would have been very close. Strathenm, the unfortunate, had to be content with her usual third place. The Metropolitan was not fast, owing to the heaviness of the ground after the late rain. As it was the meeting was the wettest ever held on Eandwiok. The Derby was a magnifioent contest between the first three. I fancy Piggott on Falmouth made rather too much use of the colt in the early part of the race, hut in the Maiden Plate he easily disposed of his opponents. In the Craven Plate, both he and Baronet had the great Chester in trouble a quarter of a mile from home, and had the ground been harder I think both colts would have beaten the crack home. The jumping races were poor, but the Members’ Handicap was a grand race, resulting in a dead heat between Pontiff, Caractacus, and Belladrum. Pontiff, after making a waiting race of it, won the run off by a neck from Caractacus. The Free Handicap, the last race of the meeting, was run in a perfect hurricane. The riders of Brilliant and Hurricane, the only two placed by the judge, were both three pounds overweight on coming to scale from the mud they brought with them. A circumstance occurred in the Squatters’ Handicap that considerably marred the success of the day. The rider of Black Swan ran Jasper and Moonbeam against the rails The former horse broke his leg, and had to bo destroyed, while Moonbeam’s leg was fractured. Moonbeam is the property of Mr Wentworth, and was trained by J. Monaghan, well known in New Zealand. Monaghan had another piece of bad luck at the meeting, as Adventurer, a really grand colt, split his hoof on the first day, thus Monaghan lost the two best strings to his bow. Mr Wentworth intends selling off shortly, and going to England, and I believe in this case Monaghan will return to New Zealand? I should like to call your attention to the fact that at the Tattersall’s Spring Meeting the starter fined the jockeys to the tune of £175 during one day. In one (a two-year-old race) he fined every jockey except one a fiver. There were thirteen starters, so that was not a bad rise for the Club funds in one event alone. It may interest you to know that Trickett won his race from Layoock with great ease, and the people here are very sanguine about his beating Hanlan should he come over. Drake and Weston, two of your New Zealand metalliciana were present at the Metropolitan, and I fancy got along pretty well,”

The imported English mare Petrolense last week threw a fine colt foal to Leolinus at Russley. This is the first of the progeny of Mr Stead’s horse.

It would appear that the negociations in reference to the amalgamation of the two Hawke’s Bay Clubs have not turned out satisfactorily. The Racing Club refuse to accept the olive branch held out by the older established Jockey Club, and at a meeting called to consider the question, passed a resolution to tho effect that “at present the Racing Club do not consider it advisable to entertain the proposal.’’ It is to be presumed that the Hawke’s Bay Racing Club have good and sufficient reasons for the course pursued by them, but to an outsider it certainly seems a most injudicious one.

The Dunedin programmes are to hand. The stakes in many of the events at both meetings have been reduced considerably. Tho Cup, however, still remains at 500 sovs. added. The Maiden Plates have been omitted in both meetings, and a Free Handicap substituted. With this exception the events are the same as last year.

I.ord Rosebery and Mr Leopold de Rothschild are the contracting parties to a couple of sporting matches to be run at Ascot in 1880 and ISSI. Each owner names three in either match, to bring one to the post each year, and the conditions are £3OO a side, 100 ft, and a hogshead of claret p.p. As two-year-olds the matches will be run on the T.Y.0., and in the following season the affairs will come off over the Old Mile.

At Epsom Summer Meeting, 1880, Lord Rosebery’s Sir Reginald against Mr Leopold de Rothschild’s b o by Carnival out of Madame Strauss, both three-year-olds, 9st each, one mile, 300 sovs, 100 ft. The Indian correspondent of the “ Sportsman ” informs us that the total collections for the Umballa Derby Sweep amounted to £13.572. Sir Bevys was drawn by the Zooloo Confederacy (three assistants in Messrs. Hight and Co.’s office) at Rangoon, and was worth £O6OO. Palmbearer fell to a Parsee gentleman of Bombay, Mr Ardeahir Rustumji Moonsey, commission agent and broker to Messrs. King and Co., Bombay, and was worth £3350. Visconti was drawn by “One for Luck,” Khakoul, and realised £1673.

The colt by Victorious out of Seclusion offered at the Middle Park sale, but which failed to reach the reserve of 2000 guineas, has been purcha-ed privately by MrC. Bush, and will join Bowler’s string at Beverley House, Newmarket. The colt has be n named Lord Chelmsford.

Lord Falmouth has presented Happy-go-Lucky and Katarina, both three year-olds, to F, Archer. F. Archer rode his hundredth winner of the season on M.P. recently. A correspondent of “Turf, Field, and Farm,” claims that he has the oldest and best horse in New York ; the horse was 35 years old on June 10th. The Grand Prize ©f Paris, 1881.—For this important three year-old race there are 392 subscribers, a number far in excess of any previous year, those for 1878-79 80 being respectively 286, 323, and 353. The table appended will show at a glance the number of French as compared with the English and other foreign nominations : Total. French English, &c, 1878 ... 286 .. 162 ... 184 1779 ... 323 ... 220 ... 103 1880 ... 353 ... 234 ... 119 1881 ... 392 ... 262 ... 130

The news that Mr G. L, Lorillard ia about to ship a number of horses to England has an interest for racing men, especially if Sensation is to be one of the consignment, and if, again. Sensation be as good as is represented. According to authorities on the other side of the water he is by far the best two-year-old in America. In the July Stakes, run at Monmouth Park, he got on badly, full forty yards behind the rest in a field of twelve, but he wontherace, nevertheless, in a manner calculated to alarm opponents. Lord St. Vincent died, recently at Courtless, near Canterbury. Lord St. Vincent’s name on the turf was associated principally with Lord Clifden, for whom he gave M Mr Hinde 5000 gs after the horse had won the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom. The year before this, however. Lord St. Vincent purchased for 5000 gs a half of Klarikoff, just previous to the Derby, in which he was left at the post; but worse was to follow, as the horse was barnt to death In a horse-box on the Great Northern Railway, when returning to his training quarters at Malton, Lord Clifden was a great winter favourite for the Derby, and retained bis supremacy to the fall of the flag, 4 to 1 being accepted about him in a field numbering thirty one. The race was a most exciting one, but ended adversely to the brown and white cap. Lord Clifden appeared to be winning until the last half-dozen strides, when he stumbled, and Macaroni defeated him by a head. After defeating Jarnicoton for the Great Surrey Foal Stakes, Lord Clifden was kept in reserve for the St.Leger, for which he was of course a great favourite; but, in consequence of the circulation of reports detrimental to his well-being, he was up and down in the betting in the most mercurial way, 4 to 1 being accepted one day, and perhaps 30 to 1 offered against him in the next. He was under suspicion until arriving at Doncaster ; but, when seen, he so pleased that at the finish 10 to 3 was accepted about him, and he won the most sensational St. Leger ever witnessed. Literally left at the post, he was so far behind in all the early part of the race that preposterous odds were laid against him. Gradually, however, his long stride told, and, passing his opponents one by one, he ultimately defeated Queen Bertha by half a length. With the exception of The Orphan, Forager, Little Star, and Zetland, for all of whom he gave large sums, Lord St, Vincent owned nothing of repute, and, although he has always had a feW horses, they belonged rather to the plating order. Of late years Lord St. Vincent has been more identified with the coursing field than the racecourse. THE PAST RACING SEASON, 1878 79, [By “Pegasus.”] Table showing the Number of Race Meetings

I 164 135,621 The amount of the sweepstakes for the various races is not included in the above, so that the full value of the stakes run for is not represented. The table shows an increase over the previous season of seventeen meetings and £4790 in stakes. Otago is again the largest prize-giver, though Auckland had the greatest number of meetings. The only provinces which show a decrease are—Westland, which has fallen off by £675 ; Marlborough, which gave a little less than last year ; and Nelson, which has been unable to sustain even its ordinary paltry meeting. Table showing the Added Money given by the Principal Jockey Clubs in each Province, the largest amount (£2290) at a single meeting being given by the Dunedin Jockey C.ub at its principal gathering. I . i

3 Of the above the Hokitika Club is the , only one which has reduced the amount of r its stakes from the proceeding season s figures. , Table showing the Winnings, in Stakes, of those Owners who have won over -£SOO during ' the season. ;

1 116,446 Last year Mr Kay headed the list with £2490. Mr Redwood, who then rant' close with £2401, is now of course absent from the roll. Mr Walters has dropped from £I4OO to his present small figure; and Mr 0. C. M‘Gee, who in 1577-7 S won £1197, is an enforced aosentee this time. Th( Yaldhurst stable, managed by Messrs Ma» n and Vallance, have secured a large share of the good things; while the Maribyrnong stable have also achieved a respectable total. Mr Butler is well up, and Mr Stead bids fair to occupy at some future day the position vacated by Mr Redwood. Mr Mallock has been fairly successful with his select string of horses, and Mr M‘lvor’s useful lot have won for him a substantial sum. The only Otago winner of any note is Mr H. C4oodman, who although repeatedly disappointed of a good thing by Chancellor, has managed to secure over £IOOO. It is needless to detail here the horses which have won the above money for their various owners, as the tables which follow give that information fully. Talile showing the Horses which have won over £2OO in Stakes.) o |g Name of Horse. <f Breeding. g £ 1 £ Mari tana aged Tradncer—Hypatia 2 ll 5 Pinfire 4 Dead Shot—Queen of the South 1385 The Agent ... 5 Oliver Cromwell ... 1330 Mata 4 Dead Shot—Kaupo 1010 Fishhook 6 Tradncer—Laurel ... 833 Nemo 3 Albany—No Name... 701 Chancellor ... 4 Tradncer-Sweetbriar 077 Templeton ... aged Tradncer Bello of the Isles... ... 660 Foal Play 4 Tradncer—Fancy ... 591 Otawa 6 Tradncer—Ladybird 515 Longlands ... 4 Totara-Marchioness 492 Te Whctumarama aged Tradncer — Ladybird 475 Sinking Fund ... 6 Towton—Phoebe ... 415 C-unballo 4 The Friar —Belhair 419 Merlin 3 Blneboy—Malice ... 415 Laertes 6 Maribyrnong-Magic 395 GreyMomna ... aged Tradncer Patricienne 390 Slander colt ... 2 Izak.Walton-Slander 376 Danebury ... 5 Tradncer—Ada ... 371 Loch Lomond ... 4 By Day Dawn ... 360 Ariel 6 Dainty Ariel—Una 340 Izaak Walton ... 6 Dainty Ariel—Fanny Fisher 320 York 3 fradncer-Moss Hose 315 Lalla Eookh ... aged 310 Betrayer 2 Tradncer—ldalia ... 305 Malvern 5 305 Sportsman ... 5 280 Natator 3 Tradncer Waterwitch 278 Bribery 5 Tradncer—Ethelred 255 Lady Ellon ... 5 Khottingly—Zigzag 249 Native (J. Cameron’s) aged 235 Ghillie CaUnm ... 6 The Bark—Eobina... 220 Lnna 4 Tradncer-Flyingfish 271 Blue Peter ... aged Lightheart—Jenny Lind 215 Haricot aged I 215 Table Showing in Alphabetical Order the number of times that the principal winning I horses have started, the positions they have run into, and the money they have won:— 1111 I - I

j. uiujnuu cuil ... ...I *Jb a 1 X ... uj ' York | 16 1 7 1 3 I 2 1 4 ) 315 j WINNING SIRES. j It ia a difficult matter to calculate the i exact amount of the £33,261 given in stakes j that should be credited to each sire, owing ( to the breeding of winners being seldom i given in race reports in this colony. In the I list of winning horses given above there are ( however the names of tw'enty sons and i daughters of Traducer who have won £9150, ] and taking into account the large number of i small winners of his begetting not included ( therein I may safely say that the old horse’s ] progeny have again won in a single season ] over £IO,OOO. Dead Shot comes next, a ] long way off, but his £2,395 is made up by | only two horses. Oliver Cromwell can doubt- i less claim the paternity of many horses at i praient racing in the colony, but the Agent j is the only one that I know of, and £1330 ■ represents his winnings alone. Dainty Ariel is much lower than usual with only £ll4O. ] Towton lays claim to £SG4, Albany to £704, i and Totara to £652. Blneboy, Day Dawn, i Knottingly, and Ravensworth are smaller i winners. Four Australian sires—the Friar, i Yattendon, the and Maribyrnong—are ( represented by one winner each, and of these 1 Camballo is the largest, f

held in each Province, and the amount of added money given by Jockey Clnbs. Province. No. of Meetings. Added Money. £ Otago... 41 8311 Canterbury ... 33 7423 Auckland 45 735G Wellington ... 17 5732 Hawke’s Bay 13 2740 Taranaki 7 1627 Westland 5 1115 Marlborough 2 457 Nelson 0 0 Grand Steeplechase ... 1 500

Jockey Club. No. of Meetings. Added Money. Canterbury ... 2 £. 3245 Dunedin (Otago) ... 3 3145 Auckland 2 2180 1 1440 Wanganui (Wellington) 2 1275 Oamaru (Otago) 1 900 Taranaki 2 875 Marton-Rancltikei. Wellington ... 1 665 Timaru (Canterbury) Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club 1 630 1 620 Hokitika (Weetland) 2 565 Hawke’s Bay Racing Club 1 545 Duntroon (Otago) 1 535 Wairarapa (Wellington) ... 1 525 Grand National Steeplechase Club 1 500 Greymoufch (Westland) 2 490 Waikato (Auckland) 1 480 Patea (Taranaki) 1 445 Marlborough 1 405 Poverty Bay (Auckland) 1 400

Owner’s Name. Province. Amount Won. Mr E. Eay Canterbury £ 3875 Canterbury 3039 Yallance Messrs W. F. Neilson, D. O’Brien, and W. RobinCanterbury 1883 Mr P. Butler Canterbury 1725 Mr G. Stead Canterbury 1502 Mr J. W. Mallock Canterbury 1295 Mr B. M'lvor Marlborough 1015 Mr H. Goodman Otago 1012 Mr W. Walters Auckland 555 Mr W. H. Gibson Taranaki 515

Name of Horse. Started. | First. | Second. 1 Third. j Unplaced. I Amount [ won. Ada 5 2 3 £ 90 Agent, The 27 15 5 4 3 1330 Atiel 2 1 1 340 Atlantic 3 1 2 70 Awahou 10 1 2 6 1 60 Banker 11 2 5 1 3 55 Bell of the Isles 8 4 3 1 78 Benjiroo 10 3 i 3 3 70 Betrayer 1 1 305 Blazing Star 11 4 3 2 2 80 Black Prince 10 2 I 4 3 120 Blue Peter 22 7 4 7 4 215 Bribery 10 4 1 5 255 Bundarra 8 5 2 1 93 Camballo 12 5 i 2 4 419 Chancellor 27 8 10 3 6 667 Cloth of Gold 10 2 2 6 100 Danebury 5 3 i 1 371 Deceiver (Smeaton’s) .. 11 6 4 i 145 Deceiver (McDonald’s) 10 4 2 i 3 100 Diver, The 9 5 1 3 150 Doctor 9 4 2 i 2 100 Don, The 10 1 3 4 2 50 Elfin King 7 2 2 2 1 170 Elsa 14 5 2 2 5 180 Eversley 10 1 5 1 3 115 Exile 1H 5 4 4 5 125 Expectation 18 4 5 4 5 140 Fishhook 9 5 1 2 1 833 Folly 6 1 4 1 150 Foul Play 14 5 3 3 3 951 Ghillie Galium 14 3 2 9 220 Golden Crown 9 3 3 i 2 120 Grey Momus 20 7 5 3 5 390 Hailstorm 6 3 1 1 1 105 Haphazard 4 1 1 1 1 130 Harry Mount 12 8 1 1 4 125 Haricot 8 7 1 215 Hero 7 3 3 i 105 Huntingdon 12 6 2 2 2 135 Ika 9 3 2 4 70 Jzaak Walton ... 15 5 5 5 320 Jack the Flat ... 12 6 3 3 170 Kensington 12 5 5 2 120 Kildare 5 2 2 i 120 King Quail 6 1 1 4 70 Lady Ellen 19 4 6 2 7 249 Laertes 14 3 4 7 395 Lalla Kookh 16 6 3 i 6 310 Lara ... ... 12 7 2 3 85 Loch Lomond 26 9 2 1 14 360 Longhands 6 1 1 1 3 492 Luna 9 3 2 2 2 217 Malvern 10 7 2 1 305 Maritana 18 10 3 5 2415 Mata 5 3 1 i 1010 Merlin 12 6 1 5 415 Mufti ... ... ... 2 1 1 100 Natator 4 1 2 i 278 Native (Cameron’s) ... 11 6 5 235 Nemo 12 4 3 5 704 Noma ... 7 3 2 2 155 Omega 4 1 3 148 Otawa ... 18 6 7 2 3 515 Otupai 5 2 3 105 Parawhenua 10 2 8 50 Peep-o’-Day 10 2 3 5 175 Pinfire ... 16 12 2 1 i 1385 Pungawerewere 8 2 2 2 2 HO Batcatchar 11 3 2 2 4 115 Kedeemer 10 3 1 1 5 105 Eesolution 9 3 1 5 130 Eoyalty 5 1 2 1 1 185 Sapphira 13 4 3 2 4 70 Silverstream 11 4 2 i 4 130 Sinking Fund 9 4 3 i i 445 Slander colt 9 5 3 i 376 Sportsman 8 7 i 280 Tamatia 5 2 i i i 125 Templeton 10 1 2 4 3 GG0 To Whetumarama 21 10 3 3 5 4/5 Titania ... 6 2 1 3 100 TJira 9 4 2 3 175 Vampire 12 2 5 1 4 165 Venus Transit 14 2 4 6 114 Worm, The Xantippo 9 4 1 1 3 120 20 3 7 2 8 180 Yatapa ... 15 3 4 3 5 170 Yatterina colt 4 2 1 1 65