SPORTING NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 79, 28 July 1896, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

WELLINGTON . STEEPLECHASE MEETING. The following race came to hand after we went to press yesterday Final Hack, 6 furlongs. Sir Agnes ... ... 1 The Friar 2 Princess Cole ... ... fj Springtime, Disraeli, Tupu, Acme, Langdale, Crescent, Otakapau, and Barossa also ran. Won rather easily. Div., £5 15s. C.J.C. GRAND NATIONAL. Chbistchuech, July 27. The following acceptances have been received:—

WALLACE'S CHANCES FOR THE MELBOURNE CUP. "Asmodeus" writes as follows of Carbine's champion son : —I must say a word concerning Wallace, who has been set such a big task in the next Melbourne Cup. He has improved immensely since last in public, and does not show the slightest trace of the many severe battles he has fought during the present season. He has thickened out almost beyond recognition, and is no longer the small horse some people think him. Mr Leslie M'Donald very truly remarked, " They'll not know Wallace next time they see him on a racecourse." I have seen much improvement in some horses in a very short time, but I have never witnessed similar advancement to that made by the champion 3-year-old, who has improved even in color, he not being nearly so washy as he was a couple of months ago. It would almost seem as if Carbine's famous son knows perfectly well the herculean task Mr Dakin has set him in the Melbourne Cup, and that he intends to exert his utmost endeavor tc accomplish what his illustrious sire failed in as a 4-year-old, and after holding audience with the Champion Stakes dead heater, a feeling stole over me suggestive of the consciousness that I had committed an error in not including him in my Melbourne Cup team. He eyed me in a way to tell me as inaeh, and I retired with the thought, "If you win with 10si, old fellow, you are a greater horse than ever jrour dad was." It is hard to conceive it possible for two Carbines to make their appearance in the same decade, and yet Mr Dakin has given Wallace a weight which suggests as much.

N-Z. Cxkand National Steeplechase. St. lb. st. lb. Liberator ... 12 9 Timothv .. 10 4 Mutiny 1-2 4 Gillie " .. 10 .3 D. McKirmoii 12 3 The Joker .. t) 9 Kulnine 11 13 Dromedarv 9 8 Tiritea 11 8 Nat ... ' .. 9 7 Rarnardo ... 11 0 Narrate 9 7 Booties 10 11 Cyrus II. .. 9 7 The Plug ... 10 6 Tippler 9 7 N.Z. Grand National Hurdles. Liberator ... ll£2 9 Fraternite .. 9 11 Kulnine 12 9 Ilex 9 10 D. McKinnon 12 5 Zanzibar 9 9 Mutiny 11 8 Kauri Gum 9 7 Kapua 11 7 Naarate 9 5 Tiritea 11 2 Nat 9 0 St. Kilda ... 11 0 Lobo 9 0 The Plug ... 10 9 Mainstay .. 9 0 Westmere ... 10 0 Regret 9 0 Balquither ... 9 13 Tippler 9 0 Rangipunehu 9 18 Docility . 9 0 Dummy 9 12