SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2205, 21 March 1881, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

By Sinbid. The Kowai Pass and Ellesmere Clubs intend, it seems, having their fixtures on the same day. Surely at such an open date this might be avoided. Three or four days would make no difference ezcept to increase the number of entries in each* case, and the club that was second on the advertising field should be the one to give way, though whioh of the two that may be I am not in a position to judge. I'hreo of the mares purchased by Sir Hercules Bobinson at the Middle Park sale have safely arrived in Adelaide in the Sikh, viz., Olytemnestra by Blair Athol, out of a Birdoatoher mare ; Mersey, by Knoweley, out of Clarence, and Sister Agnes by Rasicrucitin out of Penance. At Messrs Finlay's reoent sale" of yearlings in Victoria, Mr Yuille purchased a colt by King Cole out of Fenella (the dam of The Mute) for 125 guineas for a Now Zealand client, whose name is mentioned. The highest prica obtained was for the filly by King Oole out of Frou Frou, which brought 500 guineas. An Australian paper states in connection with the report that Grand Flaneur was likely to go home that suoh is not the case, bat it is said that Mr Long would match his oolt against Bobert the Devil if the owner of the English crack would meet him half way, say at Bombay. This match is not likely to oome off. I have received by last Australian boat the first number of a new journal dedicated to sport, whioh is called the " Sportsman," and which is published in Melbourne. In " Sterling's " opening remarks, he says, that in marsy of the best papers sport is only an appendage to the general business of the journal, and many items of interest are sacrificed to the requirements of space for other topics. In the " Sportsman," however, he informs us suoh considerations have no place. Sport is lord of all, and in the " Sportsman" the smallest item of news, whether it be re the avorite for the Melbourne Oup, or tbe result of a match at ' Warraoknabeal or Lake Hindmarsh, will all receive their due share of attention. Suoh a • paper will no doubt prove a most useful addition to sporting literature. An Adelaide contemporary says:—" The 1 exiled Mata will, in the event of receiving a 1 fair weight, be a competitor at the Queen's 1 Birthday Meeting. He has been recently purchased for the Indian market, but he will 1 have a final flutter on the old course in May " before he departs for fresh fields and pastures ' new." As the V.E.C. did not pay the Ade- ' laide Baoing Olub tbe compliment of apprising 1 them of Mata's disqualification, the comfc mitteo has determined to give them quid pre 5 quo by quietly ignoring that body's deoision, • and accepting Mata's nomination. 9 A prospectus has been handed me (says the . sporting correspondent of the "Leader") oi r a general stock assurance company. It sot: . forth that it has been formed to assure thi 9 lives of valuable stock from year to yeai } against loss by death, either accidentally oi from natural causes. Suoh a company hai proved most successful in England, and there e fore why should it not do so here ? It ma} ~ certainly be the moans of inducing many mei e to speoulate in horseflesh when they knov ■ they can insure them. Traders to India wil e also be able to insure their stock, although i e mentions that marine risks and railway trans a port of stook will only be accepted at special t prices.

The celebrated racehorse Baranaka has been sold to Mr John Croizer, of South Australia, for a satisfactory figure. Savanaka is by Kingston from Sappbo, by Sir Hercules out of Sappho, by Marquis, &s.; Savanaka is therefore brother to Tarquin, Lecturer, and Kingsborough, and half-brother to Emily, Nellie, Bertie, and Spiuningdale ; therefore, when-

ever he goes to the stud, he will have a fine pedigree to back his many brilliant performance!. It is not yet decided whether ho leaves or remains at St. Albans. At all events he is to be continued in training. His principal victories wero a Midsummer Handicap, Australian Cup, Sydney Gold Onp, and second to Chester in Melbourne Cup, 1877. . The entries of foreigners for the great three-year-old races continue to increase), there being in the five great three-year-old races of the season a total of 166 foreigners out of 869 entries, as against 126 out of 904 lust season. In the throe principal races the entries of strangers are as follows :—ln the Darby, out of 241 animals nominated, there are 26 French, 13 Americans, 2 Bussians, with a German and a Hungarian, making 43 in all. There are 27 foreigners among the 185 entries for the Oaks—lß Frenob, 6 Americans, 2 Hungarians, and a Russian; and the greatest proportion of foreigners is found in the St. Leger, where the 236 entries include—23 French, 13 Americans, 3 Hungarians, 2 Bussians, and a Gorman. Turf statistics have been examined and turned over and looked at from every point of view lately, which is natural enough, seeing that there is not ranch of turf matter to write about; but I have missed—and possibly a good many readers have missed—tho calculation which shows that during the last five years Lord Falmouth has won in §tul:es the very respectable sum of £121,709. It is impertinent to write praises of a gentleman fur following the dictates of his conscience, and, in fact, behaving like a gentleman; but, summed up in the vulgarest and moot direct manner, it may be added that the turf, followed as Lord Falmouth follows it, must be a much more paying speculation than it is found to bo by certain owners who lay themselves out for grand cvupt which very often indeed fail to come off. The Derby Candidates.—Tho English sporting press (says the " Turf, Field, and Farm ") in foreshadowing the prominent candidates for tho Epsom Derby, make occasional allusions to Mr Lorillard's entries. As it is too early in the season to commence the " touting " business, the American stable is not honoured with any favourable predictions. This is not at all strange, however, for at this same period of the year in 1879 that " eweshaped brute," Parole, was so little thought of for his spring engagements that odds were accepted at 45 to 1 against him for the Newmarket Handicap. The " Sporting Life " of January 19th, however, is rather more outspoken than usual, and says :—" Five animals engaged in the Derby, and not in the Two Thousand Guineas, but are very likely indeed to figure in the field for the Epsom race, arc Althotas, Tunis, Strelitz, Barrett, and Worthing." After reviewing the turf career of Althotas, the " Sporting Life " says : " Taking all things into consideration, he must be classed as a likely Derby outrider." It says : —" Worthing's claims rest principally upon his good looks, as his public fame is by no means recommendatory. He is trained by W. Goatar at Frendon, and was beaten in the only two races in which ho took part last year." Of Mr Lorillard's entry, the " Sporting Life " says :—" Barrett is an Amerioan colt, the property of Mr Pierre Larillard, and is said to have been one of the best—if not the beet—two-year-old in the States. Indeed, the Amerioan papers epoak in terms of tho greatest praise of Barrett, who is by imp. Bonnie Scotland, out of Sue Walton, and who will forfeit some valuable engagements in his own country in order to strive to win the English Derby for his plucky owner. If Iroquois keeps in form this year, Mr Lorillard should bo able to make a fairly good estimate of the chance of Barrett against the pick of tho English three-year-clds, and it may be, indeed, that the colt will make a sufficiently good name for himself in this country before the D<rby to justify his being regarded as a dungerous oppononi. It will be noticed that this week a bet of 1000 to 15 was noted to Barrett, of which the taker should have the beßt if the oolt is anything liko bo good ee represented by his transatlantic admirers." Tunis is regarded as a colt of fine speed, and although he finished his season last year in ir; proving form, " a shorter cut will be morn to !i* liking than a mile and a half of Epeoni Downs in Derby company." Strelitz is dispatched with the rcmnrk that he i* " well in with the best of them.' It should be understood that the five above-named are > o olassed among the favored fow who are at present the reigning favorites for the Derby viz , St. Aiouis, Bal Gal, and Geologist,