SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1900, 27 March 1880, Page 3

SPORTING.

<s> THE AUTUMN MEETING. The following acceptances were received on Thursday evening for The Free Handicap, of 3 sovs each, with 50 sovs added; for three-year-olds and upwards. The 3 sovs sweep to he paid at 9 p.m. on Saturday, 27th March. One mile. Mr G. Fraser's Le Loup, 9st Mr H. Goodman's Chancellor, Bst Mr H. Goodman's Tera, 6st 71bs Hon. W. Eobinson's On Dit, 6st 41bs TARANAKI RACES. [Bx Telegraph.] NEW PLYMOUTH, March 25. The following general entries and acceptances have been received: — MAIDEN PLATE. Penelope I Lottie Robin Hood | Forest King STEEPLECHASE. St. lb. St. lb. Motu 10 7 Penelope ... 9 0 Billy 9 6 Stella 9 0 Harlequin ... 9 0 Robin Hood ... 9 0 TARANAKICUP. Laertes I Resolution Nnma | Redeemer Rocket I Banshee JOCKEY CLUB HANDICAP. st.lb. st. lb. Nnma 8 9 Opawa 7 0 Laertes ... 8 6 Confident ... 7 0 Resolution ... 8 3 Catchem ... 612 King Quail ... 7 6 5 Maid of Honour 610 HURDLE RACE (HANDICAP). Bt.lb. Bt.lb. Motn 10 V Stella 9 0 Ratcatcher ... 9 6 Robin Hood ... 9 0 Harlequin ... 9 4 Lottie 9 0 Penelope ... 9 2 AUTUMN HANDICAP. Isaac Walton Confident Catchem Pinfire Opawa Vampire Marie Stewart Leita Balmoral Endymion Sinking Fund Loch Lomond Ariel Laertes Resolution Nnma King Quail Lapland Otawa Wild Rose SELLING RACE. Confident | Forest King ladies' PURSE. Opawa Rocket Numa Banshee Hard Times Penelope Catchem 1 Resolution

KOWAI PASS BACKS. The following nominations for the Handicap Hurdle Race and Springfield Plate were received last Thursday night:— HANDICAP HURDLE. Kensington Magic Moonlight Alice Grey Zazel Tawera Te Kooti Lagmhor Swindler SPRINGFIELD HANDICAP. Elfin King I Albany Filly Mireille I Marie Antoinette Orange Peel 1 Bandwick Huntingdon \ Lagmhor SPORTING NOTES. [Br Sinbad.] The result of the two Hawke's Bay meetings goes far to prove that, sporting place as Napier is, it oannot fairly maintain two clubs. The Hawke's Bay Eacing Club issued a really capital one day's programme, but the attendance appears not to have been commensurate with the liberality of the bill of fare, and the racing does not seem to have been over exciting. The big event of the meeting was won by little Vampire, whose luck seems to be in the ascendant. Grey Momus won the Grand Handicap Hurdle Bace, and Billingsgate the Ladies' Purse. The meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club seems to have been more successful. Soukar carried off the two principal events of the meeting, but, with the exception of defeating Vampire on the Srst day, his performances cannot be regarded as very good, as the company was indifferent. Libeller, the unfortunate, had to be content with place honors throughout, with the exception of his win in the Consolation. I was glad to notice that Mr B. Parmer, of Longlands, won a couple of races with Paramena, and I hope before the year is out to be in a position to chronicle many more succosses for the same gentleman, who is certainly one of the best sportsmen in the North Island.

The Greymouth meeting seems to have been a great improvement on those held for the last few years, and it must have been a great source of gratification to the veteran secretary, Mr Jameß Payne, who has occupied that position for so many years, to run a meeting which must have reminded him of the good old times. Satellite, who, to the best of my belief, has beon so far to fame unknown, won both the big handicaps, while Bore (Mr Bedwoof.'s colt, I presume) appropriated the Trial and Bailway Stakes. Blazing Star, the everlasting, also was credited with a couple of winning brackets. The fields at Oamaru for very obviouß causes were limited, but the various events seem to have been very evenly divided. I notice that Mr Sherwin's recent purchase, Adamant, was credited with the Novel Bace. The Port Victoria sportsmen had a pleasant meeting on the 17th, the main feature of which was the successful running of Swindler and Reindeer. The two virtually divided the stakes of the meeting. I hear the former, who is a very useful looking son of Golden Grape, is likely to bo placed in W. nankins' hands, to be trained for the forthcoming Grand National Steeplechase. The Oxford meeting passed off well, though the attendance was scarcely so largo, owing to counter attractions, as in former years. Old Middleton, winner of tho Christchurch Maiden Plate and Metropelitan Handicap, was amongst the contestants. His name also appears amongst the nominations for the North Canterbury Handicaps to be run on Easter Monday. The programme of the Kowai Pass meeting is to hand. The date is fixed for April 15th, and the principal events are the Handicap Hurdle Race of 20 sovs. and Springfield Handicap of 40 sovs. These nominations were made last night, but the general entry is due on Monday, April 12th. I remind those interested that the settling for the Autumn Meeting will take place on Friday, the 2nd inst., at the Commercial Hotel, at 3 o'clock.

The English horses of the Seventieth Lancers and the Dragoon Guards sold wonderfully well in Natal, prices averaging from £SO to £IOO per animal. The colonists competed keenly for the big Irish mares, with a view to increasing the size and quality of the colonial horse, which, although a good animal for his inches, is not up to weight if ridden at any speed, and but a poor draught boast for either light or heavy work. Of all the remarkable instances of " spotting winners" (says "Rapier" in the " Sporting and Dramatic News ") that ever were known, nothing has, so far as I know, equalled the strange buccoss of Charles Dickens, who happened to be in Doncaster one Leger day. The story is told in Poster's Life. "He bought the card, facetiously wrote down three names for the winners of the three chief races (never in his life having heard or thought of any of the horses, except that the winner of the Derby, who proved to be nowhere, had been mentioned to him), • and,' " he says in a letter to his biographer, "• if you can believe it without your hair standing on end, those three races were won one after another by those three horses !' " Our late English exchanges, says the " Turf, Eield, and Farm," report the death of the once noted racehorse The Wizard. He was bred by the late Lord Durham, in 1857, and was purchased in 1862 for the Imperial Stud at Graditz, by the late Landstallmeister Von Gotzen, where, after doing good service in the stud, he was recently destroyed, in consequence of his infirmities. The Wizard was sired by West Australian, dam by The Cure, Becond dam Elphine, by Emilius, out of "Variation, by Bustard, Ac. He made his first appearance at Goodwood, where he won his maiden race, in the Ninth Bentinck Memorial Stakes, from Trovatore and Emily, with 4 to 1 bet on him. At the York August meeting, he was beaten by Lord Zetland's Vanquisher, in the North of England Biennial. The next year, as a three-year old, he obtained a hollow victory in the Two Thousand Guineas, beating Tom Bowling and other noted cracks. He started as first favorite for the Derby, but was beaten a length and a half by Thormanby. In the Great Yorkshire Stakes he was second to Sabreur. He, however, won the St. Leger, but was beaten in the Doncaster Stakes, and was third to Buccaneer for the Don Stakes. At the Newmarket First October Meeting, he won the Grand Duke Michael Stakes easily from Thormanby, Thunderbolt and High Treason, among others, and the next day won the Newmarket St. Leger. As a four-year old, he ran ten times, winning six of his races. Among his victories was that of the Great Northern Handicap, but he was beaten by the American horse Stark for the Goodwood Cup by a head, after a desperate raoe. Wizard started first favorite for tho Doncaster Cup, when Kettledrum and Brown Duchess ran their famous dead heat. He was defeated in the Cambridgeshire. As a five-year old, his only success was his victory over Asteroid for the Stewards' Plate at Stockbridge. As a stallion Wizard was considered a failure. In reference to the above, it may be interesting to note that the Wizard was the victor in the Two Thousand, for which Traducer was such a favorite. The Wizard was a failure at the stud, while Traducer has been a great success, and has outlived his contemporary.

Writing of the English stables in view of the coming racing season, " Vigilant " in the English " Sportsman," has the following : "When writing of the Newmarket stables, I had not seen a Hat of the horses that Mr Lefevre has placed in the hands of Thomas Jennings, junr., to train. These are thirteen in number, all two yoar olds except the aged Ecoßsais, who heads the liat on ipaper, and is an admirable pilot for the youngsters on the Heath. As the equine babies have only arrived from France since the commencement of the new year, I have not yet seen them, but it is a remarkable fact that with such fashionable stallions in his stud at Ohamant as Mortemer and Flageolet, M. Lefevre should have so extensively patronised Cymbal that of the twelve two year olds now at Newmarket five of them are by that grand looking son of Kettledrum, who is now owned by Mr Waring, of the Beenham House Stud. M. Lefevre is, I consider, one of the very best judges of horse-flesh that I ever saw in the skin of a purely-bred Frenchman, and as the youngsters at Newmarket were got when Mortemer, Flageolet, and Cymbal were all standing at Ohamant, it speaks volumes for his opinion in favour of the first-named as a sire of racehorses. At that period, too, it should be considered that before the lot of two-year-olds by Cymbal were got Ohamant, the son of Mortemer, was a three-year-old who, having won the Middle Park and Dewhurst Plates, was first favorite for the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, and won the race over the Rowley Mile. Lord Eosebery has no fewer than forty horses in the Bussley team, of whom Bosbaoh, Ehidorroch, and Kaleidoscope are all 6-year-olds, «ind I believe still quite sound. In all, R. Peck has sixty-eight racehorses in his stable