SPORTING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1500, 6 November 1885, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

"■•'■'■ .■■•'V>i,^ '„ .m ..,_: mi}!':! „io THE liBLBOURNE CUP RACE.; (BY - ELkbTBIC ' TELKGB VPH.— COPTBIOHTJ)! (SPfe'dlit TO tiNITBD pftEsS ASBo'ofiLtloN.)i Vn " ■ Oil '"" MBti^Nß^lVidneidayi 1 ! Great complaints-are made m conse j .quenQe. of similarity of colpraugedi py '] jdekeyst " m tte pap race yesterclay,! which, xaused , some, confusion.™ From! this cad&§ LWeYpbol was : "tabled* yesterday as, haying ? rnir"badly, whgreas he! was promm'enfcHnrthe/nrsj; [di vision until] near the abbattoirs, when he galloped on to Nordenf^ldtl ; whii was^atlj inter^ f ered- with during the raoe.-rQ-Brien i ( the jockey, hwi yibtoix Shget J^ncuor to his^gejtfng a ?f PJ^^cfii-l tion at the -turn b^the river* wbere Plaußib:!ejw3te d?^ Lord Exeter broke down when passing the -abattoirs; )and Itt the /same . place I the jockey oorn r Brown' ahd^ Rose 'broke his sticrup?: leather. thai Applyte was never dangerous m' the ruc«i Mne'rVaV liesbia, Gerise 1 aiid Bicie f ran great mares, but the^treihendoiis p ace'ai which the" race was ■run settled thein 5 . Nordenfelt was run into' by, Tcenion, the horses scrapi^i sides'asHhe^'gallopeQl but immediatalyiafterward '/both ihorses ran into Liverpool,, and completely blockled the hoprie turn. EHis tie.rider ofi^rl derifeldt, is extremely confident he could have^ won the race haid it been- a furloni ; further. ' The tarrifio pace comlpletely , liams, who rode Grace' Darling; is con.fident ;i he iWould Tiave W9ll by; but for his boing interfered with by Blink Bonny. The new Judge (Mr Wakeljrt) very inedmpeteni for the»pb'aitidn.'taad'made hunderous mistakes during the meeting. The Ballarat' party ihajVe ; landed good stakes by Sheet'Arijchor's iwpi, . but .itill the, book-maker's have got. weU, round their bpbks.^ | . , The nuujber of jpassftrigers carried by rail .tQ^heiCpurße yesterday waV 58,182, as against 52,950 last year. The railway arrangemehtf were perfect, and, not a "single accident was reported. ■-/■■- > - '«+- \ .. : : rBEDTEB'W .TBLEGBAMBO, ' ; :;,.,; . Melbodbnb. Wednesday. I ■' ' ' *' '* r« ■ ' .'ill I*'"* '" - i '.J \*t*i m *—"\£X .f^ jj The returns for the Cup Day show that the attendance was the largeston record. ; ;, }