SPORTING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1589, 23 December 1885, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

I [By^ Martini.] ! From the New Zealand Mail.) Up at Palmerston they .have cracked the weight on te Administrator, who ,is asked to carry 9st 4 m the Guineas, while Ascot is honored with 9st 21b. , I notice that thit speedy mare Germaine is only given 6st 51b (over a mile and a half I believe), and she will probably have a biff say m it. Bayard, 7st 121 b; and Speculation, Bst 121 b; are also well m. The Auckland Cup to be run at Auckland on Boxing Day has attracted a good deal of attention m Wellington, and m the betting which has been done (Chere has not been a great deal), Stoneyhurst is slightly the favorite. Capsize j has also been backed to a great extent. I am inclined to think that when it h all over, Turquoise will be thereabouts, with Stoneyhnrst and Tasman as the next best. Capsize has a big outside show, no doubt. | Fred Archer, the celebrated English jockey, has again topped the 200 m his winning mounts, for when the mail left England he had won no less that 210 races. He reduced to 8s 81b to ride Paradox m the Champion Stakes at the Newmarket Second meeting, and, as he won, he received 300 sovereigns for hie trouble. This year his income must have been something between £12,000 and £15,000. Regarding the alleged tampering with Commotion and the Hon. Mr Pearson's" reward m connection therewith,*the Sydney Herald says:— Shortly before the Melbourne Cupi Mr F. Dakin, the trainer of Commotion, one of the warm favorites for the Cup, discovered that the horse was suffering from injury to the i sinews of his off fore-leg. Treatment was resorted to without avail, and the horse was scratched for all engagements. It is stated that a stable boy had received £200 to lame the horse by striking him with a heavy blunt instrument, probably a hammer, on the fore-leg. The horse is lamed for life, Competent •judges, however, persist m saying that the injury is the result of an accident x on the wet course. Mr Pearson says that on October 2 the horse did a magnificent gallop, and Mr Dakin, the trainer at Flemington, was so pleased with it that he Bent and informed the owner of it. On that night, when Mr Dakin went into the stable he noticed that the horse was limping, and he could not, make out what was wrong, but next morning the horse's fore-leg was so much swollen that he sent for Mr Pearson, and applied a hot fomentation, which reduced the swelling. He found two big bruises, one m front tinder the knee, and another just below the fetlock. The .horse was thrown out of training, though thousands had been laid on him. Mr Pearson tried to find out who had done the mischief, and offered a reward of £500, as he had no doubt m his mind but that the horse had been tampered with. He then placed the matter m the hands of the detectives, but nothing came of it, and he now offers a reward of £1000 forthe conviction of the culprit. The only re-, cent development of the affair is that one of the stable boys hag mentioned to Mr Dakin that he knows the man who committed to injury.