SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2594, 31 July 1882, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

[IEOM THE 11 WEEKLY PBEBS.”J

We regret to announce that the popular suortsman who races under the came of Mr Hereford has decided on retiring, at least for a season, from the turf, and has thereupon leased for the above term all his horses in training, which of course include those two beautiful fillies, Siesta and Nonsense. With the exception of Holderness, who has gone into Dan O’Brien’s stable, the lot have been leased by Messrs Mason and Vallance j and while we are sorry at losing so thorough a sportsman as Mr Horsford, wo are g’ad on the other hand that the horses have fallen into such good hands, and trust the lessors will find their new venture prove a profitable one.

The report of the committee of the Wanganui Jockey Olub, presented at the general meeting on Wednesday last, shows a loss of £l5O 18s 7d made during the past year. This is attributed to the falling off of the attendance and subscriptions, owing possibly to the fact of the numerous country meetings held in the district during the year. The report goes on to state that—“ The subscriptions have been reduced from £4ll 15s in 1881 to £340 in 1882, the receipts for the sale of privileges have slightly increased The club have paid away in stakes £2/72, as against £2774 last year. The amount spent on improvements il much less, being only £176 9* Id, as against £357 14i lOd. This was for alterations to the stewards’ buildings and for mation of training track ; the carting of soil and manure has been charged to the charges account, as well as the wages of the custodian. This brings the account up to £6lO 11s, as

against £370 3s Si. Ibis account is also IB— - creased by the heavy expenses attending each meeting, the printing and advertising aloao costing £174 14i 83. The debit balance at the Bank is now £7OO 13s 4i. If this is to be paid off daring the current year, your committee can see no other way exsept by reducing the value of the stakes. This course the committee are loth to recommend tbe club to adopt, bat as the responsibility of tbe accounts rest on the shoulders of two or thres members only, it appears unreasonable to ask them to continue tbe liability. Your committee suggest that the incoming committee should the responsibility. Since tbe formation of the o’ub in its present form they have spent on parmanent improvements £3487 15s Id, and have paid away in stakes and charges during the same p.-riod £15,944 15s 9d, making a total expendi'ure of £19.433 10s lOi, leaving only the present debt, including liabilities or future Derby*. £B9C 18i 4d.”

The Waverley Waitotara Racing Olub’s annual meeting was held on the 19ih ultimo, when a satisfactory balance-sheet was presented, which in duo course tv as adopted. After the election of officii* and other business had been transacted, it was resolved that a Spring and Autumn Baca Meeting be held, the first-named on the 9th November and the Autumn Meeting on the 17 h March. Tb« following programme was adopted for the Spring events: —Waverley and Waitotara Guineas, of 105 sovs, one and a belt'miles; Hurdle Race, two and a quarter miles, of 60 sots ; Hack Hurd'e Race, of 10 sots ; Plying Handicap, six furlongs, 50 sots ; Maiden Plate, one and ahslf miles,4o sot* j WaverleyWaicotara Handicap, distance two miles, 160 sovs; Forced Handicap, cf 25 so vs, once round. Nomination* for handicap* to bs made on the 2nd October ; weights declared on the 12th October ; acceptance* a..d general entries the night previous to Wanganui Spring Meeting. We again remind owners and trainer* totha fact that acceptances (2 sovr) for the 0.J.0. Handicap, nominations (2 eovs) for the Canterbury Oup, and also nominations for the Otago Hunt Club Steeplechases all close on Tuesday next, August Ist. Owners of jumping bones should also bear in mind that on Saturday next, August 6th, nominations close for the North Canterbury Steeplechases.

At a meeting of the Cromwell Jockey Club about a fortnight ago, after electing the officers for the ensuing year, the committee resolved on holding a Spring Race Meeting, limiting the amount of stakes to £BO, Details of programme were then gone into and adopted, the date of the fixtures being left in the hands of a sab-commutee, Meiers Dawkins, Bhearwood, Stackpole, Smith, and Partridge were elected hancicuppire—three to form a quorum. The year’s balance sheet showed a total indebtedness, including improvements, of £139. Messrs William O. Tuille and Co. report having mid, nn account of Mr Wm. Irving Winter, Noorilim, the imported harm Vasco di Gama, by Beadsman from S damarea, to Mr Allan M'Lean, Havelock. Hawke’s Bay ; Haw Zealand. Vasco di Qana is foil brother to the English St. Leger winner, Pero Gomez, who has also been successful at the stud ; Peregrine, who won the Two Thousand Guineas and ran second for the Derby, being a son of his, “Phaeton” states that W. Edwards, who rode Te Whetu in the Auckland Steeplechase, has been engaged to train for Captain Bussell, of Napier, owner of Kingcraig, Leonora, Ac. Wo last week received a copy of Mr J, S. Miller’s sporting pamphlet, a little work published yearly in Melbourne, containing the last season’s principal performances of all the horses nominated for the three great spring handicaps and Champion Stakes, betides the list of entries for several of the principal great two and three-year old events. The work also contains comparative time tables of winners and placed horses in principal handicaps, the fastest and best records in rr.cing. trotting, pedestrianism, fte c To mate a work of this character usef pains should have been spared in having it ” perfectly reliable and aesurate. This, we are sorry to say, is evidently not the case in the volume in question. Per instance, nothing like the whole of the principal performanoes of the New Zealand horses engaged in the Spring Handicap are given—Salvage’s principal performance of winning the 0.J.0. Autumn H« n iioap being ignored a,ltcg;tu3S l « Vauguaid’s only performance worth mentioo* ing appears 03 baring ran second in the Welcome Stakes won by Siesta, and so on. Again, in pedestrianism similar inaccbracie* appear. In future editions we trust Mr Miller will take a little more pains to guard against like errors, when his work should become a most useful Ruide to sportsmen generally. The Bangitikei Host Club Steeplechaser take place on September 9tb, and will consist of four events.

A Spring Meeting, under the auspices of the Loburn Sporting Club, wiil be held os October 20 h.

Eighteen of the Auckland Stud Company's mares are said to be in foal to Masket and five to Anteros.

The home correspondent of the “Australasian” says that Archer wanted Lord Falmouth not to run Dutch Oven in the Derby, but to keep her for the Leger, aa it was hoping against hope to believe she could be at her beet eo eoon after her severe iUnete. Lord Falmouth however determined if possible to give the public a run for their money, and eo the fidy went for the race. If Lord Falmouth had listened to Archer, the champion jockey, would have been Been on the back of Brace, who in that case would hare ae nearly as possible won the race. Mr Bymill told me he would not let Sammy Mo-dan stand down for any one but .Archer, and Mordan himself, 1 believe, wished Archer to have the mount. As it was those who bached Bruce for a place have great cause to grumble, as Mordan stopped his horse a few yards from the poet, and allowed Webb, wtio rode the Yankee horse most vigorously, to snatch the place of honor from him. This waa’hard lines for Mr Bymill and his friends, for it seems they backed the horse for a piece for nearly enough money to save their other outlay. '* r - It was the fact that Mordan was to have the mount which caused the bookmakers to field so strongly. That be lost hit head there seems little reason to doubt; if Archer had been up wa should have beard nothing about the horse shying at a piece of paper. The South Australian Jockey Club hare

obtained a lease of the Morphettville course, and in future will carry on racing on their own account, apart from the Company. The A.R0.1 at a late meeting, resolved upon adopting the new rules of the V. 8.0., being those which were recently adopted by the 8. A J. 0., and that the S.A.J.O. have been informed of this fact with a renewed request that the ABC. advertisements be inserted in th * S.A.J.O. Bacicg Calendar.

“Augur” states that Prometheue was not sta-ted at the A.B C. meeting because he bad slightly injured one of his feet. Mr BounSfrvell, it is said, intends to send the colt early to Flemiagton to prepare for the Y. 8.0. Derby, and he may not, therefore, etart for the S-A JC. Derby. I believe the celt's owner was so impressed with the manner in which he won the Victoria Cup that he hac determined to defer bis visit to England until ho sees Prometheus fulfil his Y.R.O. spring engagements. The same authority stateslt has been whispered abroad that there is a screw loose with Navigator. Some reports go so far as to say that he has broken down, others that ha is suffering from temporary lameness. What tru-.h there is in the rumor I cannot say, ,bnt as the colt has been rather weak in the market lately, perhaps it will be found that ihe old proverb relating to the smoke and the fire will once more receive an illustration.

The following is the list of horses chosen by “Augur” from which he thinks the Cup winner may come :—Commotion, The Sweet William, Bosworlh, Koh-i-noor, Sarrfa Olane, Gudarz, The Gem, Paul, Lohetlgriu, Sfcockwell, Hereford Bay, Saionara, Bigot, Attache, Ooorena, Prometheus, Ooiatoan. King of the Vale, Wizard (Paterson’s), Hilltop, and The Qaesn. Ores wick has been scratched for the Melbourne Onp. A Sydney paper chronicles the death of ths imported horse Stookdale, by Btookwell from Hesse Homburg, Very little is doing, according to the latest “ Australasian,” in straight outright betting on the Derby and Onp. The following are the quotations :

TBC, DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Segenhoe (off) 10 to 1 agst Navigator (off) 10 to 1 agst Prometheus (off).

MKLBODBNB CTO. 100 to 4 agst Gudarz (tk) 100 to 3 agst Hereford Bay (tk Bad off) 100 to 3 agst The Gem (tk) 100 to 3 agst Sweet William (tk) 100 to 3 agst P*ul (tk) 100 to 3 agst Prometheus (tk) 100 to 3 agst Segenhoe (ofi)