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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 20 September 1872, Page 3

SPORTING.

Redwood has in training in the ~Wiarau, 5 3 year olds for the, ensuing Canterbury meeting. The "Randwick Spring Meeting commenced oh the 7th. Loup Garou was the winner of the •Australian Derby. The unexpected success, of any racehorse in.his generation has always the effect of raising the prestige of his parents, however " unfashionably-bred' he may be, according to received ideas. The victories of Favonius and Cremorne have caused a run upon Parmesan, who, though a neat little stayer was in himself never the class of a Derby . winner. Lady -.Elizabeth's brilliant two-year-old career caused a similar run upon Trumpeter, who now proves a comparative failure. Kangaroo's brief flash in 'the pan caused his dam Yarra Yarra to be unearthed from servitude, to become a distinguished .stud.matron. Looking back to far earlier years, we read in " Smith's Breeding of the Turf," that Marsk, sire of Eclipse (who was foaled 1764), was sold at the sale of the Duke of Cumberland's stud for a mere trifle,and was suffered to run almost wild in the Xew Forest. He was afterwards purchased for 1000 guineas, and before his death covered at 100 guineas. Squirt, his sire, when the property of Sir Harry ordered to be. shot, and while he was-actually ou his way to the do» kennel wsts spared at the intercession of one of . Harry's grooms.

' Galway Men ant> Hobses . Forty Yea.es Ago.—A correspondent of the ' Irish Sportsman and Farmer' sends the following interesting communication to that journal:—As there has been of late some discussion respecting hounds and hunting in Kildare 40 years ago, I am induced to give you my recollection of men and horses in the far west, and how they rode them about that period of the world's history, as far as one day's experience goes, over the plains of Mayo, with the admirable fox-houuds of Christopher St. George, of Tyrone-hall, who then so liberally and succes'sfuly'.. hunted Galway country. The worthy master and his noble pack wer? staying at New-brook, the hospitable mansion of his relative, Dennis Arthur,. Lord Clanmorris, for a few days hunting. Lord Clanmorris at that time possessed the. best stud of 25 hunters and, steeplechasers in Ireland. The celebrated Jerry and Lancet, each worth Ll,ooo, were amongst the number. George Henry Moore, M.P, of Moorehall, also ._owned some grand-horses, and was well known as a first fight man, and as a cool and skilful steeplechose rider. After a -short but fast run and a kill, schooling was, as usual the order of the day/ Lord C. and .■Gh H. Moore leading the way, six-feet walls in request—in fact, anything difficult -. or dangerous. I that day witnessed admirable riding, such as could only be in the west of Ireland; but one formidable double stone wall, 6ft. 6in. in height, a thick grass sod on the top, I saw jumped in sporting _?sj\ e ~i-?- >--.. the horses topping it for safety—by eight or nine gentlemen,' viz., Lord Clanmorris, on. Distiller-; Persons Persse, on Salmon ; Peter Brannick, on Thrasher—both of- the Newbrook Stud ; George H. Moore, of Moore-hall, on Lion ; Christopher St. George, of Tyrone, on Treasurer. ; John Dennis, of Galway, on Pluto ; Martin Blake, of Merlin-park, on Burnette ; Henry Blake, of Waterdale, on a bay hunter ;'and another, whose name I cannot recall. The height • of thi3 jump was the subject of a wager, and Lord C called on Rob Dillon Brown, who was, I remember, riding Sam ..Patch, to stand up by the wall and decide. Brown, who walked 6ft 2in., complied, and the .sod topped his head, which decided the height to be' 6ft. Gin. The most dcingerous leap of

the day was'a double irr";<s;jik<- £ ■ f c, nearly 6ft. high, taken by .£.' Moore, Martin Blake, ' and another. But the late John Denis, the far-famed and worthy master for many years.... of the Galway Blazers, was indeed the man for Galway ; his remarkable feat for a wager of LSOO, "over the .Hahasane steeplechase course, three miles with 10 double .stpne. walls, and 25 other; stiff fences, to ride at speed his horse Clinker over the course, without saddle or bridle, whip or.spur, baulk or fall, which be cleverely accomplished proving the stuff that was in a Galway man. '.Had Puncbestown been on the cards when Jerry and Lancet flourished, with Black Jack or George Henry Moore to steer them, I opine both. Plate and cup would belong to the west.