SPORTING.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 184, 13 September 1872, Page 5

SPORTING.

The highest price given for one of Mr. Millward's ponies this year was. I3ogs. several fetched lOOgs. The fastest amateur time for walking seven miles is 55m. 30s. by Mr. T Griffith. The fastest four mili-s (running), 20m. 38s. -by Mr. J, Scott of the London A. C.

The (frand Prix de -Paris was run tor on Sunday, June 9; the value of: the whole was L 5528 ; the (1 mile and 7 furlongs) was run in 3m. 19s.

It is stated in the ' Sporting Life' that 13 rot her to Flurry was backed by tlie Pvfield division to win close on£loo,ooo. The colt's merits were only discovered a day or two before the Derby in a trial. . Fordbam did not ride in the Derby owing to the accident to Winslow:

Ihe fastest tune fur the Epsom Derby is Im. 435. by Kettledrum and Blair Athol, and 9m. 375. the A.J.C. Derby by Jayelin. Beeswing won the Doncaster Cup five times, viz., in 1837, 1840, 1841 1842, and 1843. '

lieveller's was the fastest St. Leger ever run, viz, 3m. 15sec. ; Sir Tatton Sy kes, 3 in. 16sec. JNo horse ever ran . a mile in a minute. lm. 435. is the fastest time in England, but it is said .that Longfellow, by_ Leamington, ran a mile in lm 405.; when he won the Saratoga Gup last year in the States. .. ivr" l ? r^ at ; act mty,". sayg the '■ Pall IVLail Grazette,' " was shown by the telegraph companies in forwarding th<b result of the Derby to different parts of the world, The winner's name was received by the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Company at 3 29 p.m.; and reached Lisbon at 3.30 p in • (Gibraltar, 3.30 p.m.-; Malta, 3.31 p.m v . Alexandria, 3.31 p.m.;, Suez 3.32 p.m.; Aden, 3.32 p.m.; Bombay 8.32 p.m. . By the wires of the IndoEuropean Telegraph Company (via Teheran) the: result reached ICurrachee Bombay, and, Calcutta, in less than one minute." Fibst and Second Horses in the Djibbx 3?oa • the Last Twenty Yeabs :• Year. _ _ First. Second. 18o3...*+West Australian Sittingbourne 1854... Andover ... .... Bang Tom j.855... Wild Dayrell. ... Kingstown 1856... Ellington ... ... 'Fellow Jack Jo?o" S} m } Bonn ? - -Black Tommy J2X"*' Jeadsnian ... Toxopholite Hf-- ... ... Marionette 18b0... Thormanby ... ... #The Wizard 186]... Kettledrum ... . . Dundee Jfpo -• - -nThe Marquis llll" , - -• +I jor d Clifden J5 ai J- A o1 "• - General Pee! *'3? I 1 r teUr - - ChristoiasCarol 1866... Lyon Savernake Kermit ••• Marksman 1868... Blue Gown... ... King Alfred *^ etend f JPero. Gomez ioZ Kingcraft Palmerston To*,' savioniua5 avioniua - oKing of the Forest 1872... Cremorne Brother toßlurry Horses marked thus * also won the Two Thousand Guineas and J the St. Le-^er a King of tho Forest and Albert Victor ran a dead heat for second place.