SPORTING NOTES,
(From Exchanges.) The champion of the “ stars and stripes,” Iroquois, has just sustained a signal defeat on the Newmarket course for the Champion Stakes, won •g by Bend Or (9st. 41b5.,) Scobel out- ’ pacing him for second place at even weights (Bst. 41bs.) By the breaking down of Amulet, Messrs. Mason and Valance have experienced very hard luck. The colt at the time was first favorite for the Canterbury Derby, and his owner had backed hun to land a good stake. The Yattendon—Peeress colt, who was in the same stable as Amulet, was sent for the event, and the narrow victory of The Dauphin goes to prove that if the son of Charm had kept right he would certainly have squeezed home » winner. The Peeress colt does not appear to be of the gamest, for we are told that he swerved directly Derritt used the whip. The “ inevitable dog ” cropped up just when the final struggle for the Melbourne Cup was about to commence. Wheatear was the one he selected, and he brought the colt down heavily, Suwarrow', who was galloping -f behind, coming down also, the latter breaking his rider’s leg. Wheatear nor his rider were not injured by the accident. What the result of the Cup might have been if the colt had stood up it is hard to say, for he was in the same stable as Zulu, and was trained by Lamond. He is reported to have put the winner through on more than one occasion in his gallops. The Canterbury Jockey Club intends to enforce the following rule : — “ If any person be detected watching a trial, or be proved to the satisfaction of the club to have employed any person to watch a trial, or to have obtained surreptitiously information respecting a trial from any person or persons engaged in it, or respecting any horse in training from any person in such service ; or, if any person be guilty of any other corrupt or fradulent practices on the turf in this or any other country —every person so offending shall be warned off the Canterbury Bacecourse and other places where these rules are in force, or be liable to a fine of not less than £5.”
The Sporting Times of London thus of Eordham’s horsemanship : — “We all know George Fordham’s peculiar style of riding, which is unlike that of any other jockey, past or pretent ; but we never heard it hit off so w ell as at Windsor, when he was riding the Calphurnia colt in the last race. ‘ Bed Hazard wins I’ was the cry, as the horses approached. ‘ No, he don’t!’ shouted a backer of Mr. Crawfurd’s unnamed one. ‘ No, he don’t. Calphurnia lobs in. Don’t you see Fordham’s got ’is ’limp up ?’ And it is quite true when George shrugs his shoulders, and low-ers his head, he has a nice little bit in hand.” That Somnus did not win the Victoria Derby is not a matter of surprise, for we have invariably noticed that our New Zealand horses have required to be located in Australia for some considerable time and become acclimatised, before their true merits can be estimated. Such was the case with Lurline and Calumny, and subsequently with Le Loup, and we shall expect to see Prince’s team running to more advantage in the autumn. It is sufficient for us that they have not disgraced
themselves, and although Somnus was not placed in either the Derby or Cup, took a prominent part in both races and ran well and gamely. But still Canterbury can claim the parentage of Darebin, the winner of the fastest Derby on record; for his sire, The Peer, was imported here from England by Mr. E. Moorhouse in 1859. And to Mr. Lancelot Walker belongs the merit of having selected in England and imported here both Traducer and Mermaid (in 1862), of whom Lurline, the dam of Darebin, is the progeny.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1004, 26 November 1881, Page 3
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657SPORTING NOTES, Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1004, 26 November 1881, Page 3
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