SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2034, 31 August 1880, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

Br Shtbad. The recent heavy rain hat made the going on the course very heavy, and trainers hare in consequence restricted their teams to alow work during the w eak. On Monday, Hilarious. Ruination, Sir Garnet, and Sir Modred did steady work. Clarence went twice round stripped, and Luna and Laertes were sent a mile and a half. Foul Play went two miles at. a moderate pace. The Governor and Bagardus did slow work, while Maritana and Mischief strode together for about two miles at, a fair pace. Marie Antoinette, Grip and. Natator did slow work, as did also Mr Webb's team. On Wednesday slow work was still the order of the day, and the plough being very heavy, the work was all done on the inside. Hilarious, Ruination, Sir Modred, Pinfire (the latter stripped) went a long gallop. Hilarious was pulled off at the end of two miles, the other three going on for more than twice that distance. After & preliminary canter, during which Grip, who was very fresh, got away with the boy, Higgott on Feul Play went a nice striding gallop of about three miles, at about half speed. Then Grip and On Sit, both with the rugs on, were sent about three mile*. Natator and Marie Antoinette did about the same distance at a fair pace. Derrelt took Clarence, stripped, a long steady four miles. Amulet, in clothing, did steady work and moved very well. Fugitive and Levant did s'ow work. The latter, who has just been placed under Milne's care, is a half-sister of the cross-country mare Venture, and will probably make her debut at Geroldine. Laertes in clothing did slow work, while Jangler was restricted to walking exercise. Kosciusko was in physio, and did not put in an appearance. Hybla and the two-year-old Tantrums oolt went a good strong gallop in company, but a better performance was the work done by the rest of the Bash Inn team. Badsworth stripped and Holderness, and Virginia Water, with the rugs on, went a very serviceable gallop of over three miles. All three went in capital st-10. Xhe Crisis Lodge string worked on their own ground. The course recently laid out by Mr F. Pavitt for the Heatheote Racing Club has been well ploughed, and will shortly be laid down. I understand the club have received many offers of liberal support for their meeting on Boxing Day, and in addition to a 100 sovs. handicap on the fl it, & good stake will be added to both the trotting and hurdle race handicaps. At a meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, held on Friday, 20;h, of which a report appears elsewhere, a considerable amount of business was got through. The club decided to recognise the decisions of Tattereall's Club, a step which backers of horses and racing men generally will be glad to note. Letters were read from the secretaries of the Auckland and Dune din Clubs in reference to the appointment of a handicapper for New Zealand, and, as a notice of motion to the same effect formed a portion of the business of the meeting, the matter was gone into at some length, and a resolution carried empowering the committee to co-operate with the other clubs in the matter. In reference to the circular issued by the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, suggesting the advisability of subsidising a " Turf Register," the idea met with the universal approbation of the meeting, and it is to be sincerely hoped that the other New Zealand Clubs will take the same view of the case. The utility of such a work cannot be over-estimated, but the experience of the gentleman who edited the only volume issued so far ehow9 clearly that without some aid from those most immediately concerned the transaction would not be a paying one. I have made allusion above to the appointment of one handicapper for New Zealand. When the matter came before the C. J.G., Mr Lance took the opportunity of stating that, having purchased a half-share in Mr Robinson's horses, it became nacurally a matter of impossibility for him to continue to hold the position of handicapper. The committee were authorised to engage an interim handicapper for the Club until the arrangements for what may be called the colonial handicapper be perfected. It is to be hoped they will select a good man. Meantime the thanks of the Canterbury Jockey Club and many similar institutions in both islands are due to Mr Lance for his many and arduous labors in connection with the post he has just resigned. Mr Lance has ac'ed ub handicapper for a number of the clubs both in the North and South islands. I think it is not too much to say that he has given such satisfaction in that capacity that many of the outside clubs will hear with regret that they will no longer be able to avail themselves of Mr Lance's services. I hear it whispered that a very good man is likely to come forward as a candidate for the proposed appointment; but until matters in this connection became more settled it would be premature to mention names.

Mr Redwood writes me that Norseman, Amy and Mies Domett are doing good work, while the Dauphin, the F-iir Puritan colt, and the Raupo colt, Mataku, are going well. The last-named already moves in grand style, but it is not likely he will make a public appearance, except at Blenheim, until he is three years old. Taking advantage of the kind offer of the owner of Russley to have a look over the horses, I accompanied that gentleman during the week to the ror familiar farm on the Fendaltown road. It only wanted a few minute] of stable time when we arrived, and we utili-sed these by interviewing Leolinus, who was running in a small paddock close to the stables. He looked very healthy ard wall and was not, I was to observe, too gross. Too many stallions here are killed, so to speak, by over kindness and go to th=> show ground in condition more fitted for the shambles than anything else. As we returned from the paddock we met a youngster who was evidently just commencing his education. This was King Arthur, by Anteros out of Lidy Rnvensworth, a mare who, when in Mr Redwood's hands, ran under the name of Parenga. She was purcha«ed . by Mr L. Walker, to whom the colt belongs. He seems from the very cursory glarce I had of him, a powerful, well shaped youngster. Ooming to the horses in work, we first enteied Louis d'Or's bos. This son of Rupee has evidently done a considerable amount of work, and will be probably one of the most forwaid in condition when, carrying the yellow jacket and black cap, he makes his debut in the Welcome Stakes. Le Loup was looking the picture cf health and must have done a heap .)f work since I saw him last. His neighbour Betrayer is also improving very fast, and if he train on without mishap no horse on the ground in November will strip more pink than the gallant little son of ldalia. The powerful Hinemoa, who had just come in fr<m work, was as well aa could be wished, but for looks there can be no doubt the pick of tho basket was Lure. She stands now quite 16 hands, and haß developed into a beautiful mare. She has so far been

doinf capital work, and from her present appearance I do not think the publis were very far wrong when they mode her share the supremacy of the Darby odds with Bir Modred. Crossing the private coarse we interviewed Miss L»<ira, Petroleuse, L'Orient, and Amohia. All ttese are in foal to Leolinus, a? are Lure 8 Bister, Naiad, and Equation, in tho next paddock. Hero, browsing among some very high bred Ayrshire cattle, were Titania (who, I am Borry to •ay, is not in foal), and her owner's two recent importations, Pulchra and Crinoline. ■JTo more patrician mare than Pulchra ever came to the colonies, Bhe being by Rosicrucian out of Formoßß, and, though anything but a big 'un, fetched 1500 guineas when sold as a yearling. Her shipmate, Crinoline, Bt a Bimilir sale, fetched 100 guineas more. Bhe is by Lord Lyon out of Orinon, and is built on a much bigger scale than her aristocratio companion. Both have wonderfully improved since landing, and will of course visit Leolinus daring the coming season. Some of that sire's stook were playing in an adjoining paddock. Of these the most remarkable, both in size and good looks, was Leos, a big raking ohesnut colt out of the handsome Petroleuse. Close to him was a chesnut fiily out of Gosßip, and a very nioe filly too, reminding one a good -deal of her mother, particularly about the head. Her name, I believe, is to be Leonora. Elaine, a filly out of Equation, came next. I am not clear what the connection between Equation and the Lady of Sbalott may be, but at any rate this is a very oompaot round filly, with plenty of power, and one who is improving fast. I must own, however, a preference for Aid a, a daughter of the imported ■tare L'Orient. As the quartette galloped down Hho paddock this young lady showed a tremendous turn of foot, and on looking her over closely she appears liko racing all over, and after Leos I like her the best. A turn among the draught stock, a visit to my old friend Moray's Fancy, and a walk through the paddocks, in one of which were a number of purebred Lincolns, brought a vory pleasant visit to a conclusion. Our general meeting (says my Hororata correspondent) was held in the schoolroom last Saturday, to settle the programme of our race meeting and sports, &0., for 31st December next. In consequence of the heavy rain, many wishing to attend the meeting were precluded from doing so. However, the meeting was very influential, all being of the " right •ort." The following is the list set down for the ooming meeting of 31st December:—A Maiden Plate (dis'rict), 1 mile, welter weight for age, for horses that have never won an advertised race; Rakaia Gorge and Hororata Handioap, open to the Road Board districts of Courtenay, Eist and South Malvern, Malvern, Eak»ia (north) and Lake Coleridge, 3 miles; Trotting Handicap, open, 2 miles, no weight under lOst; Hororata Cup, handicap, district, 1J miles; Hurdle Race, handicap, open to same district as the Rskaia Gorge and Hororata Handicap, distance H miles, lowest weight to commence at 10jt 71b; Ladies' Purse, district, 3 yrs lOst, 4 yrs 12st, 5, 6 and aged 12st 41b, distance 1£ miles, riders nonprofessionals, winner of Hororata Cup 71b penalty ; Consolation Handicap, 1 mile. The meeting would have liked to see their way to have inserted an open race to all comers, and hope to do so next year; but the times are so bad at present that they have had to defer such an item till things become better. The usual men's sports will also be included in the programme, which are open to all comers. At the time when everyone is discussing the feats of Bend Or, Robert the Davil, and Mask, it is not without interest to look baok at last year's Derby, and recall the exploits of the first half dozen in that oontest. _Of course there are any number of explanations for the faot that few of those half-dozen distinguished themselves, but the fact remains. Sir Bevys ran once afterwards in the St. lieger, won by Riyon d'Or. Palmbearer, second in last year's race, ran six times subsequently, and was only once successful, when he beat two horses in a Queen's Plate at Leicester. Visconti, the third, ran six times after the Derby and never won anything. Victor Chief, the fourth, oompeted once, and was fourth out of five horses in a Biennial. Zut, the fifth, did better, for in the eight races he has twioe earned brackets ;_ but Falmouth, the six' h, only made one bid, in La Merveille's' Cambridgeshire. Cadogan, the favorite, was not seen again on a racecourse to the end of the year. It thus appears that the first eix in last year's Derby failed altogether to distinguish themselves subsequently. The prioe of that noblest of noble ammals, the racehorse, does not seem, as a rule, to be high in America. Twenty-two horses, mostly two, some three, and a few four-year-olds, the property of Messrs G. L. and Pierre Lorillard and Mr Belmont, were lately Bold in New York. Pawnee, a four-year-old by Leamington—Maiden, and own brother therefore to Parole, fetohed 600 dollars, and another colt by Leamington 500 dollara ; but the twenty-two only brought 5155 dollars, an average of 234 per head, which in English money is about £43 3s. At the sale of the Preakness y"earlings at Mr Sanford's farm in Kentucky, however, things were better, and for a colt, brother to Minnock, Monitor, and Mirth, Mr J. R. Keene gave 3000 dollars <*625.) . , v , It is not often (says "Rapier") that men cheer a win over which they have not won money, and that many who had not backed the winner of the Two Thousand should have Bhouted lustily for Petronel is a very striking proof of the estimation in which the blue and white hoops are held. A curious feature in connection with the race is, that the Duke of Beaufort did not know of his success till the numbers went ud. On these wide oourseß there are few besides tho judge who can tell exactly how a finish has ended, and his Grace was not well placed for seeing the result at the supreme moment. Fordham's magnificent rush everyone noted, but not the precise effeot of it, asd it was believed by many that Petronel had not quite got up. The Duke himself wbb under this impression. "Ten yards farther and I should have won!" his Grace quietly observed, putting down hie field-glass. But the judge speedily rectified the misconception, and then with one accord Newmarket Heath cheered. A friend tells me, sayß the same writer, that he enjoys a little innocent excitement at race meetings, and in addition pays his personal expenses by playing with the sportsmen who have three little thimbles and one small pea. My friend is accompanied by other friends, lest it should be necessary to get out of an awkward place. Perhaps, for the benefit of the simple-minded, it may be well to say that the main difficulty of fipding the pea arises from the fact that it is not there, under either of the thimbles. A trick of manipulation removes it before the victim is allowed to begin his search. My friend, however, eimply knocks over two of tho thimbles and points to the third. The sharper must pay up or Bhow that the pea is not on the table ; and_ unless very confident in the strength, of his supporters he pays up.