Sporting.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8103, 1 June 1906, Page 7

Sporting.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Per Press Association.) SYDNEY, May 31. Hon. J. D. Ormond has withdrawn all his horßes from the Derby. Solution has been nominated for the Epsom, Metropolitan, and several weight for age events at the A.J.C. Meeting, also for engagements at Caulfield and Plemington.

Silverlene's performance in the Hack Hurdles at Wanganui (in which she ran second) was most extraordinary. She was running third, when the two leading horses crashed into a hurdle and carried the top portion away. One of the battens swung back and fouled the surcingle of Silverlene, who raced home carrying Bft of batten. Pritchard, her rider, tried to pull the timber out, but there was a nail in the end of the batten, and he gave up the attempt. Many people, seeing the timber, believed that it had entered the body of Silverlene. In the circumstances, Mr Hodge's mare put up a great performance, and many people thought that, under ordinary circumstances, she would have beaten Ability. On Saturday morning says the H.B. correspondent of the Sporting Review, a good deal uf excitement was caused on the Hastings racecourse by the veteran steeplechaser Blackberry running away with the small son of his trainer (A. Goodwin) on his back. The horse had been exercised, and the boy was put on over the rugs to ride him along the walking track. The old fellow, apparently excited by the horses galloping around him, took off at once, and made straight for the sod wall, which he negotuted safely. He went on at top speed to the big post-and-rail fence, which proved no more formidable than tho sod wall, and he took the obstacle in his stride, the boy sticking gamely to the saddle. Coining up the straight, Blackberry was turned off at the double, and took to the sand track. The boy, becoming exhausted, fell off in front of the scraping sheds, escaping with a few bruises, while, on getting rid of his pilot, Blackberry Btopped almost immediately.

Mr G. P. Donnelly's mare, Queen's Messenger, in trying to negotiate a fence in a paddock at Ngatarawa, fell and broke her back, and she had to be dertroyed. The fact that Jolly Friar and Garry (advertised for sale at Wanganui) have come back in to v Mr Gravestock's stable at Taratahi, has knocked on the head a meditated trip to Australia by the local trainer. " Sid " Reid his principal jockey, will, however, go across, and will probably be accompanied by G. Price and his brother, and Hewitt (late rider for G. G. Stead). Reid will be back for the Canterbury Grand National meeting.