Sporting.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8192, 19 May 1906, Page 6

Sporting.

A former resident of ChriaCchurch, writing from .Tftgensfontein, in Orange Bivor Colony, to a friend hero, says :~~ •• Whilst on my way homo I travelled with General Ohvier from Bloom fontein to Springfontoin, and during our conversation 1 learnt that he has one of Mr G. G. Stead's ilyer#, Altair. doing stud duties. He bought him on tho Band lor £200, and now money would not bay him. Ho ha# twolvo yoarlinge, all the dead imago of tho aire, eight col In and four fillies. Altair ia a beautiful, quiettempercd horse, and has filled out wonderfully. Another of Mr Stead's Jborao, Soringapan, lato Screw Gun, is at tbo stud in Ladybrand district, and stilt another-—Uniform, I think——ia at tho stud in Colcmberg, very mar our border, in Capo Colony, You ceo wo are well supplied with New Zealand horseflesh." Tho retention in the conditions of tho Now Zealand Cup of the provision that no penalty or penalties shall increase the weight to bo carried by a horse above weight-for ago is widely disapproved, says a Canterbury writer. It waa thought that laat year's experience would have reverted to the former conditions regardiug penalties, Fault is also found with tbo apportionment of some of tho increased stako money at the Grand National meeting, particularly with the meagre endowment of the minor steeplechases, the Beaufort Steeplechase, with 180 sova for tho winner, and the Lincoln Steeplechase, with 350 sova for the winner, being very poor encouragement for tho same horses which compete in the Grand National Steeplechase, worth 700 sova to tho winner.