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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 193, 23 September 1864, Page 3

Till! following paragraph, extracted from tho JS'ehon Examiner , will doubtless prove interesting to our sporting readers The list of mares entered for the .Nelson Trial Stakes for ISGB, numbers twenty-three, which mai be consideecd a satisfactory number, and shows that the feeling among our sportsmen to uphold the Nelson Baca Meeting has in no way diminished. Of tho sires, Towtou has, as might have been expected, the largest number of marcs, namely, nine ; Oliver Cromwell is debited with six; Golden Grape and Risk have six divided between them ; while Potentate and Bay Middleton have caeh one. But few of the mares, we understand, are likely to prove barren ; and of this small number old Princess is one, she not having bred for the last three years ; Corona, a splendid filly, by Tow ton, rising three years old, being the last foal the old mare had. Mi*. H. Stafford lias again been unfortunate with Symphony, the mare having, as in 1851, dropped dead twin foals to Towton. Symphony has been a great disappoinlmant as a brood mare; for although she has been at the stud nine years, she lias only reared three foals, one by St. George, and two by St. Aubyn ; and, considering the character of the mare on tho turf, and her size and blood, her stock have been Jar different to what might have been expected. The Towtou stock, judging from the young ones preparing for the forthcoming season, promise to be useful animals ; but, strange to say, Potentate, though now a stud horse for four years, has not been very successful as a stallion. This may be no fault of the horse, but through having ■an inferior class of mares sent to him. \\ e must make an exception in favor of Potentate’s son, Oliver Cromwell, out of Phcebe’s dam, which we regard as one of I he finest in New Zealand. It was unfortunate that lie was disabled from ever being trained, through an injury which lie got to one of his pasterns by a kick, when a colt. This horse was sold with Mr. itedwood’s other horses, and is now in Canterbury. There are two or three yearlings by Golden Grape, which, we are told, show promise, and us Mr. Neweombe lias sent bis horse to liu> Awalere. he will very likely get a good season there. Bay Middleton, this year, wul probably be thought better of as a sind horse than hitherto, as ihe, exlremeiv good running last year of his daughter Azalia, wiii° necessarily cause tile sire to rise in the estimation of breeders. There is a probability, wo believe, of our seeing a colt by Touchstone,'out of a sister of Lord of the Isles, arrive in Nelson from England m the course of a few months. “ “See iiere, mister,” said a lad who was treed by a dog, “if you don’t take that dog, I’ll eat up all your apples." 1