SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2187, 28 February 1881, Page 3

SPORTING.

DUNEDIN ANNUAL RACES. [PBESS ASSOCIATION TELE QUASI.] DUNEDIN, February 26. The weather was again fine and the attendance large. Great disgust was expressed when it was known that Natator and Luna had been left in the Forbury Handicap till past eleven o’clock this morning and then scratched, especially when a report had been spread that the former had left for Christchurch by the morning’s express train. There was also a good deal of talk on the course about certain racing men last evening publicly taking “ Shleuter ” wagers, in order to benefit the bookmakers, and possibly themselves. The following are the results of the various events : Handicap Steeplechase of 100 aovs; three miles. Agent, 12st 1 Sailor Boy, lOst 21b ... ... ... 2 Carrigeen, 9st 3 Little John, lOst ... 0 Clarence was scratched. Betting—3 to 2 against The Agent, 2 to 1 Sailor Boy, 4 to 1 the rest. Carrageen and Sailor Boy went away with the lead, and took the in-and-out jump at the stand simultaneously, Agent and Little John following a few lengths off. Before a mile had been covered The Agent had gone to the front, and was holding a slight lead of Carrageen, with Sailor Boy third. Little John half-a-dozen lengths behind the last named. In this order they came down from the sand hills and over the gorse hedge. At two miles Agent still held the lead, but Little John had gone up, and challenging the favorite, first one and then the other appeared in the van. At the sand hills the second time The Agent and Little John were side by side with Carrageen, coming up very fast, and Sailor Boy last. Here the first accident occurred, Little John falling at the gorse hedge. Agent then turned into the straight with a slight lead of Carrageen, and os Sailor Boy now made his final effort, and came with a great rush, an exciting finish resulted. Agent, however, had most left in him and he won ultimately by a length; Sailor Boy second ; Carrigeen a fine third. Time—6 min. 36*ec. £522 was in the totalisator, of which £273 were on The Agent. Forbury Handicap of 150 sots; one mileand a half. Randwick, 7st X3lb 1 Atlantic, 7st 121 b 2 Betting— 2 to 1 on Randwick. Atlantic led for a mile and a quarter, when Randwick gradually closed on him, and heading him in the straight won by a neck, but with consummate ease. Time —2min. 51 secs. There was £761 in the totalisator, of which £591 was on Randwick. Queen’s Plate of 80 sovs; two miles ; weight for age. The Governor, 7st 121 b ... ... 1 Sylvanns, 7at 121 b 2 Lady Emma, 7st 101 b 3 Nautilus, 7st 101 b ... 0 Betting—3 to 2 agst The Governor, 2 to 1 agst Lady Emma, 3 to I agst Sylvanns, 6 to 1 agst Nautilus. The lot were sent away well together. The first to show in the front was Sylvanue, next to whom came Lady Emma, with Nautilus and The Governor bringing up the rear. After going half-a-mile, Lady Emma took the lead, and The Governor ran up into third place. By the time once round had been completed, The Governor had taken a clear lead, with Sylvanns second, Lady Emma third, and Nautilus last. At the mile and a-half, the three leaders closed up together, but approaching home The Governor began to draw away. The whip being pulled out to Sylvanus and Lady Emma, the semblance of a race up the straight took place, but The Governor came on full of running, and won comfortably by a length, Sylvanus second, Lady Emma third. Time, 3min 51i-a(cs. £490 was in the totalisator, of which £206 was on The Governor. Flying Handicap of 80 sovs ; one mile and a distance. Luna, Bst 1 Talent, 7st 7ib 2 Legerdemain, sat 71b 3 Mischief, 6st 51b 0 Nautilus, 6st 41b 0 Cassivelannus filly, 6st 21b 0 Betting—3 to 2 against Luna, 2 to 1 Talent, 4 to 1 Oastanette filly, 6 to 1 any other. After several breaks away, in one of which Legerdemain went half a mile, the flag fell to a capital start. Talent and Luna cut out the running, with Oastanette filly close up, and this order was kept, with the exception that Luna went slightly ahead of Talent at the back of the course, for nearly a mile. The Oastanette filly then began to drop back, and Legerdemain took her place, but she could never get on terms with Luna and Talent, the former of whom won rather easily by a length. Talent was second; Legerdemain third. Time 2 min. 5 sec. £984 was in the totalisator, of which £592 was on Luna. Consolation Back. Talent beat six others. Hurry Scurry. Swagsman beat four others. SPORTING NOTES, By Sinbad. I am pleased to learn that after a long but unavoidable delay arrangements have been come to by the Canterbury Jockey Club with Messrs Stocks and Stenhouse, to commence the erection of the now Grand Stand. The work will not commence before the autumn meeting, but the necessary timber, &c, is already ordered, and will be shortly on the ground, Mr Stocks, it will be remembered, was the contractor for the branch lino to the racecourse, I remind owners and breeders that nominations for the VYanganui Derby of 1884 close on Saturday, April 2nd. Considering the progress made in Wanganui, not only in the excellence of the programmes, but in breeding and racing generally during the last two years, it would seem likely that in 1884 those who have nominated a good three-year-old will not regret having sent Mr Jackson the 2 sovs required on nomination. Harry Copeetake, who has had some experience in Taranaki as a horse trainer, has been engaged to bring Monk and King Don out for their engagements. These horses are now located at Lower Rangitikei with Mr Scott’s team, Lady Mary, Oamelio, and a two-year-old from Cornelia. Mr P, Byrnes has now only Messenger in hand. Owners are reminded that nominations for the Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap of 500 sovs, to be run at the Metropolitan Meeting in November next, close to-morrow evening, at 9 o’clock. I am indebted to “ Spectator ” for the following items The Wanganui horses Dsn and Haven returned from their WellingtonWairarapa campaign on Sunday. The former was badly treated in the big handicap at the latter place, having to give no less than 181bs to a horse of Danebury’s class. The result of the race in question should lead the handicappers to think twice before they again take liberties with horses such as this. Danebury, I am told, won by 100 yards, and could not be pulled up till ho had performed a third circuit. Raven’s ill-luck at Wellington followed him to Wairarapa, where it appears he had things all his own way in the Hurdles till he fell near homo with Molvor, who had rather a naity mishap. [I may aB ere the Wellington paper, whoso reporter had it that Raven’s rider fell off.] Both horse and rider came to grief, each receiving a heavy shaking. Mr Alex. Baird has Gang Awa, own brother to Chandler, Whitefoot, &0., and

Myrtle, the crack hack mare, at Para wan ui. It is about time higher game than hack races were aimed at with this pair. The former should make a fine cross-country horse, and the latter is fast enough for some of our country meeting handicap prizes. The Wanganui hack Dun did the Consola-

tion mile at the Wairarapa races in Imin. 45sec. with 9st 71bs up. Currying 9at ho ran second to Danebury for the Wairarapa J.O. Handicap, 3 miles, in smin. 30seo. The local paper referred to Dun as the “ crack visiting horse.” We have not heard whether ho is to go back to harness work. “Spur,” in the “N.Z. Mail,” writes: — “Really, I can’t understand those Wanganui people,” said a friend to me on the racecourse after the Hurdle race had been run on the second day. “ They bring down a hack and ho runs into third place for the great event of the meeting, and might have won it with a better jockey on his back ; and then they put a cub horse into the best hurdle company, and it is only by a fluke that ho does not win an he likes.” This is no doubt true enough, but there are probably few places in New Zealand where such horses would have been put to such use, as were Dan and Raven in Wanganui. The former’s time of Imin 48sec for a mile at Wanganui, carrying 6st, was telegraphed all over the country, and yet in Wellington he carries over 2st more, and boats that time by 3soo, coming in hard held. Of course, ho had Derritt on his back. Raven’s foot certainly astonished everybody, and he will yet make matters warm for some of those that came in before him in the Handicap Hurdle race. By what I have seen of him, ho is a most useful handicap horse.

I see the Wellington papers don’t seem to speak over favorably of J. Webster’s riding in the Consolation Stake at the recent meeting at the Empire City. As I have known the lad in question for several years, and always as a very steady straight boy, I should be sorry that any mistake should have occurred as to his riding on the occasion referred to. The real facts of the case told me by several good judges who were present, are briefly as follows :—Towards the conclusion not only of this, bat of another race in which Mischief was engaged, she showed temper towards the finish, and it took Webster, who is a good horseman, all his time to keep her on the course. The supposed pulling, which was wired all over the colony, turns out to be only the lad’s efforts to keep the filly out of the rails. This is allowed by the sporting correspondent of the “New Zealand Mail,” and I think it right, on the lad’s account, to give the matter publicity. A Northern correspondent writes mo expressing a wish that Slanderer, who is now in Mr. Yuille’s hands for sale, should be repurchased. Slanderer, he says, stood one district in the Northern district, but left some of the right sort, making first-class hacks up to any weight. Yentnor, by Buccaneer, out of Maid of Derwent, who is said to be a very handsome horse, has been purchased by an Indian Rajah, in the Bast Indies.

The thoroughbred bay horse Raiser, foaled 1870, by Skirmisher, dam Regina, by Ring Tom ; 2nd dam Mammifer, by Brymus, out of Ma Mie, by Jersey, &c., has been sold by the Oobham Stud Company, to go to Poland. Raiser was a good racehorse, and as a three-year-old won six races for his owner, viz., the Prince of Wales Stakes and Second Ascot Biennial, at Ascot; the Tenth New Biennial Stakes, the Groat Yorkshire Stakes, and the Newmarket St. Leger and Derby. SPORTING NOTES FROM HOME. [By "Robin Hood,” the Sporting Correspondent of the “Australasian.”] LONDON, December 17. Now that the racing season is over for 1880, statistics rule the roast, and, truth to tell, there is little else to write about, so, I hope without wearying my readers, I will plunge at once into what few I mean to descant on.

Of winning jockeys, as I last week wrote, F. Archer once more heads the list, so I now come to winning owners. Here Lord Falmouth heads the list with £16,061. He has won twenty-one races to realise that sum. Bal Gal, the crack two-year-old, has, as will be seen presently, mainly contributed to the position held by his lordship. Next to Lord Falmouth comes Prince Soltykoff, with £13,135. The Russian Prince has won twenty-two races, and Mask and Scobell have been his mainstays, though Luoetta’s Cambridgeshire was a great help up. Mr Orawfurd’s two-year-olds Thebais and Bt. Louis go a good way towards aoconnting for the £13,087 which stands to his credit; whilst the £12,571 taken by Mr Brewer is accounted for at once by “ The Devil.” Really, Mr Brewer’s famous son of Bertram and Cast-off puts his owner at the top of the tree, for the figures I have quoted only include English races, so that the £6OOO odd which the Grand Prize of Paris was worth has to bo added ; thus Robert the Devil, in stakes alone, landed close on £20,000, Mr Jardine takes £11,904 ; he hag been very successful in handicaps this year, taking the Ascot Stakes, the Goodwood Stakes, and the Great Yorkshire Handicap amongst others. The Duke of Westminster gets £11,200. Bend Or’s Derby win accounts for £7OOO of this. Count Lagrange is low down this year with £6722. Rayon d’Or won him a rich race at Ascot, but his two-year-olds have been far from Al, and he has no crack three-year-old. Lord Rosebery, although he has won twenty-five races, only gets £6263. His best animal this year has been Cipolata. As far as number of races won goes, Mr Jardine is far and away at the top of the tree, for the blue and silver has been thirty-nine times carried first past the winning-post j no one else has won as many as thirty races. We now come to winning horses for 1880, and here of the two-year-olds Bal Gal heads the list with eight wins out of nine attempts, her failure being the Middle-park Plate. The eight races place £10,666 to Lord Falmouth’s credit. Second in the list came Thebais, a chestnut filly by Hermit out of Devotion. She has won ten races out of twelve, of a total value of £SBIB. Bhe is not engaged in the Two Thousand, Derby, or Leger, although she is in the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks. Bal Gal, I should have mentioned, is by Adventurer out of Cantiniere, and is engaged in the Two Thousand Guineas, One Thousand Guineas, Derby, Oaks, and Leger. St. Louis, by Hermit oat of Lady Audloy, won but one race, and lost two. The race ho won was, however, the Middle Park Plate, worth £3520. Sir Charles, by Pero Gomez, stands fourth ; he won three races and lost one, the sum he annexed for his owner being £2882. Of the three-year-olds of course Robert the Devil heads the list; he has run eight times and won five in England, the value being £12,571 j this, as said before, does not include the Giand Prix de Paris. The valuable states taken by Robert are the Leger, Ccesare witch, Champion Stakes, and Second Great Foal Stakes. Bond Or, by Doncaster, ran five times, and_won twice, viz., the Epsom Derby and St. James’ Palace Stakes at Ascot; these two races produced £7625 ; he was second to Robert the Devil for the Champion Stakes and Great Foal Stakes, and nowhere in the Leger. Petronel, winner of the Two Thousand, placed £5641 to the Duke of Beaufort’s credit, and Elizabeth, with six wins out of eleven, took £5534 for Mr Walker.

Of the four-year-olds, Exeter, by Cathedral, heads the list; be won three races and lost two, total value, £3204. Isonomy, by Sterling, heads the list of five-year-olds with two wins and no defeats ; his victories were the Manchester Cup, a handicap over one mile five furlongs, when he carried 9st 121 b and won by a neck from The Abbot, a three-year-old wish 6it 9!b, and the Ascot Gold Cup, when he beat Chippendale and Zut, If, is worth noting that the crack two-year-old Ba! Gal and the three-year-old Robert the Devil have between them won as much (about) as all the six-year-olds and aged horses at present on the turf. True it is that no less than sixty animals of these ages have won over a hundred apiece, but, as said before, the whole sixty have hardly taken as much as tha beet two and three year old alone. Only three six-year-olds have won as much as £IOOO, and only one aged horse, Advance, has got four figures. So there can ho small room for wonderment that under existing regulations owners should so heavily engage their yearlings in the two-year-old and throe year-old events, whore the prize plums are really to bo plucked. A glance at the following figures will show for themselves where the money is to bo won, thus : The six best two year-olds have won £28,000.

The six best tbree-ycar-olds, £41.000. The six best four-year-olds, £12,500. The six best five-year-olds, £l2 500. The six best six-year-olds, £6500. The six best aged horses, £SOOO. So that we find that Robert the Devil has won more than the twelve best six-year-old and aged horses, added together.