SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1985, 5 July 1880, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

IB* Simbad.] Mr S. Horsfall also intends settling at Wanganui, whither he hag already taken King Quail and Ratcatcher. Among the entries for the approaching Maribyrnong Plate are Mr P. Dakin's colt Darebin, by the Peer —Lnrline, and Mr Morrison's Spite, by the Peer—Calumny. Mr Keith has taken Mr J. W. Jackson's stables, and has engaged Albert Lyford as trainer. There are at present in the establishment Soukar, My Dream, Ada, Hard Timeß, Venture, Mr H. N. Harrison's b o Woodpecker (a trro-year-old full brother to Soukar), and another two-year-old belonging io the same owner.

" Spectator" informs his readers that a wellknown trio of racing men intend fixing their headquarters at Wanganui. The first is Mr R. M'lvor. who has leased the St. Albans stables in St. Hill street. There he has located Grey Momus, Loch Lomond, Balmoral, Marie Stewart, Mr Hately's Derby oandidato (whatever that may be), and another un named one.

" Augur " has the following :•• Sir Hercules Robinson has purchased from Mr T. Lamoud the two-year-old filly Lady Emma, and the yearling filly by Rapid Bay from Q-ipßy, so that it would appear as if his Excellency meant to race in Now Zealand. Lady Emma is a good filly, and I hear good accounts of the Rapid Bay filly. Australians will be delighted to hear of their success in New Zealand."

A very curious match was decided in Paris at the Horse Show in the Palais de l'lndustrie. M. Baudry d'Asson, a member of the Prench Chamber of Deputies and an ardent disciple of Nimrod, had undertaken to jump a hundred hurdles 2ft 6in high in half a mile without knocking down more than twenty, and to accomplish the distance under ten minutes. The feat was performed with almost a minute to spare. We have mentioned (says " Figaro") that Elizabeth was the winner of the One Thousand Guineas ; but it is not perhaps genenlly known that a difficulty has arisen as to Petronol'a victory in the race for stakes of double the above value. The noble owner naturally thought that 2000 guineas meant 2000 guineas. Fancy his surprise, then, after the race at receiving only half that sum on account of the stakes, with the remark, " Hero is 1000 guineas, whioh, as you have won already, makes two!" The Duke is still " won "-dering what can be the meaning of it. In reference to the newly established Tattersall's Club in Chriatchurch, " Old Turfite" in the " Auckland Weekly News" has the following :—" It is quite time that something of this kind should be done in Auckland, or or at the least let there be a branch club, under the same rules and committee, so that all disputes can be referred to them. No time should be lost, as complaints are daily made of the way bookmakers are treated, and as things ore at present there is no redress."