SPORTING NOTES

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2718, 26 December 1882, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES

The whole of the late Mr W Walters’ blood stock will be offered by public auction on January 3rd, the day following the Auckland Summer Meeting. The list includes Piscatorious, 5 yrs, by Traducer Fanny Fisher, engaged in the Dunedin, Wellington, and Wanganui Cups; Fishwoman, 3 yrs, by \attendon Fanny Fisher, engaged in the Wellington and Wanganui Cups, &c ; Hipporina, 4 yrs, by Hippocampus —Yatterina (dam of Libeller), engaged in the Wellington and Marlborough Cups, &o.; Herculaneum, 2 yrs, by Yattendon—Peeress (full brother to Fitzherculcs), engaged in the Canterbury and Auckland Derbys. In addition to the above will be offered five yearlings from Peeress, Slander, Fanny Fisher, Yatterina, and Rosarina (sister to Libeller), by Maribyrnong. Hippocampus, and Musket. They manage racing matters in a strange sort of fashion at Makihikihi, nearTimaru. On Saturday last a small meeting was held at that place. In the first event, the Handicap Hurdle Race, Overdraft, list, and Shadow, 9st 121 b, were the only starters. Shadow came to grief at one of the hurdles, and Overdraft finally passed the judge’s box in a walk. It was then and not till then found that the judge was not in his proper place, and the stewards decided that it was no race, and that the horses would have to start again. Mr Jones, owner of Overdraft, declined, and the other horse walked over for the stakes. The District Hurdle Race fell to Saracen. A quartette started for the Cup, which was won by Swindler, 7st 91b; Magician, Bst, second. Deceiver, Bst 71b, third. Hinerua won the Maiden. Magician, 8s 41b, turned the tables on Swindler, 7st 111 b, in the Handicap. Bide-a-wee captured the Farnmrs’ Plate, and Sankey the Consolation.

Mr F. E. Dakin writes to the “ Australasian ” correcting the pedigree of the mare Edella, imported to Tasmania from England by the Cressy Company in 1826. He says :—“ Edella was bred by Mr Bruhl in 1822, and was by Warrior from Eisk by Haphazard. So far this is correct enough, but there were two contemporary sires named Warrior, one bred in 1803, got by Sir Peter from a Young Marske mare, the other bred in 1807, got by Alexander the Great from a Calomel mare, and the mistake consists in regarding this latter as her sire—a mistake not easy of detection, owing to the omission in the English Stud Book of the special identification usnal in such cases. Now I chanced the other day tobe looking through the “Separate list of winning horses in Great Britain arranged under their sires ’ in the ‘ Eacing Calendar ’ of 1826, and found Warrior by Sir Peter credited with a bay colt bred by Mr Bruhl in 1822, the same year as Edella was foaled. This seems to me to settle her paternity beyond dispute, for it is not at all likely Mr Bruhl bred from both Warriors in the same year, and, moreover, failed to discriminate between them in his returns to the * Stud Book/ As Warrior by Alexander the Great strains back to Eclipse, and Warrior by Sir Peter to Herod—very different lines of blood—the identification of Edella’s sire is a matter of some importance to breeders, particularly as she is ancestress of modern running families/ 5 Flying Dutchman, recently at the stud at Tokomairiro, Qtago, and the two colts lately imported by Mr Stephenson, are the only horses, we believe, in this colony descended from Edella. Mr W. C. Yuille writes to the “Anntralasian ” respecting the horse Derby as follows ~—.« I have received a letter from Mr Eobert William Hammond, of Auckland, in which he requests me to contradict, through your columns, statements which appear in the “New Zealand Stud Book,” to the effect that the horse Derby, bred by Mr George Petty in 1866, and got by Ferryman from Chrysolite (dam of Eobinson Crusoe), by Stockwell, &c., never left Victoria, and that a horse with a bogus pedigree died on his way from Otago to Wan ganui. All I have to state is that the above horse Derby was sold to Mr Hammond, and that he was shipped to New Zealand, where he begat several winners from inferior mares ; that in 1874 or ’5 he was returned to me for sale, and that Mr Thomas Henty, of Pakenham, had him in his stud, and while there he begat Blue Eibbon. He was afterwards sold to Mr Howie, of Ballarat, and eventually became the property of 3lr Knight, of St. Arnard, who owned him when he died. There could not be the slightest doubt as to the identity of the horse, as he bore till his death the marks he received from his accident at Melbourne when, ridden by Mr William Ban", he put his foot in a hurdle hole, and nearly killed both himself and his rider. Just before the death of the horse I was in treaty to buy him to send back to New Zealand.” The sporting editor of the “ Australasian ” appends the note quoted below, which is a flat contradiction to the statement made by “Augur” in a paragraph some time in 1879, “that Derby, by Perryman, had never been exported from Victoria.” In the face of this he writes, “We can vouch for the truth of Mr Yuille’s statement, for we saw Derby the day he was shipped for New Zealand, and the dav after he returned to Victoria.” The'Nelson Jockey Club meeting on the 28th and 29th March next £470 added money will be given in prizes divided among thirteen events. The principal prizes are Nelson J.C. Handicap of £l2O and Town Plate of £75. The Auckland Summer Meeting promises well, fudging from the numerous entries that appear elsewhere for most of the principal events. The Derby, however, has dwindled down to very small proportions, only four being now left in, and two . of these Southern horses. If Welcome Jack starts the blue ribbon of the North appears a moral for him. The Wellington Cup acceptances are far more numerous —twelve —than the 4Vellington haudicappers had any right to expect, considering what a stocking tad handicap they framed. Mischief now heads the list with Bst lib. If any mishap should attend Bundoora Louie will most probably be installed favourite, but, barring accidents, Messrs Mason and Vallance’s colt will have the race at his mercy. The acceptances for Dunedin are very satisfactory, indeed. Thirty-one have cried content for the Cup ; seventeen for the Publicans’ Handicap, eleven for the Stewards’ Purse, and a like number for the Hurdles. Mr J. Gallagher has repurchased the steeplechaser Chandler from Mr Shakespeare, and the son of Eavens worth will, it is expected, carry the cardinal and gold racket of his new owner m the Hurdle Kaco and Steeplechase at the approaching Auckland meeting. . The Taranaki Jockey Club s Anniversary meeting will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd and 4th. April next. A two year old filly? a close relative to Mr Wilson’s —of Taranaki—filly Sweet Home, won two Selling races at the late Newmarket meetings. Both are, by the sam sire, Cceruleus, the English filly? being out of Irma, granddam of Sweet Home. Those residing at a distance will bear in mind that nominations for the Timaru Cup and S.C.J.C. Handicap close on January 2nd.