SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1063, 20 April 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

(FROM EXCHANGES.) Mr Joseph Ellis is about to dispose of his racehorses. Lone Hand, Whitefoot, and a colt by Leonidas out of a Gownsman mare, will be offered for sale by auction in Auckland, on Friday next. The following are the amounts won at the late Auckland Easter Meeting, and the names of the winners:—W. Walters, £222 3s 6d ; J. Smith, £lBolos ; Allan McLean £199 10s ; Horsfall, £l5B 13s ; Lennard, £126 7s ; Gallagher (of Taupo), £ll7 16s : J. Gallagher, £43 14e ; Bobbett, £76 ; Munn, £3B ; Wheeler, £23 15s ; Hateley, £l4 19s ; Kelly, £7 10s ; Martin, £4 15s; Adams, £1 18s—total, £1215 lOs 6d. It was a very near thing that Te Whetu, the winner of the last Auckland Steeplechase, was not scratched for that event. It appears that C. Warren, who was to ride him in that event, was severely indisposed, and his owner, therefore, being without a man to ride him, offered Mr Gallagher (No. 2) to pull out for £2O. The plucky Joe scorned the offer, and remarked to the owner of Te Whetu, “ If your cove is the only one I’ve to beat, it won’t trouble me much.” It will be remembered that Mr Gallagher’s horses—Rakau and Catch’em—ran second and third respectively, and it is computed that by not paying the £2O it cost the burly knight of the pencil about 400 jimmies. [Mr J. Gallagher, the owner of Te Whetu, contradicts the above statement, and says that he was not afraid of either Rakau or Catch’em beating Te Whetu in that race.] The accident that befel Matau while running in the Auckland Steeplechase on Tuesday week was a rather singular one. It appears that as the horses were approaching a stone wall in Mr Peach’s property Matau slipped.

and hung over a post, and Goodman states that before he could get him over, Grey 1 Momus cannoned against him, which had the effect of driving the post into Matau’s leg* just above the knee, resulting in a very bad break. It was really a pitiful sight to see this grand old horse writhing in agony, and the wretched weather that prevailed did not tend to enliven the scene. Mr Lennard, seeing that the case was a very bad one, gave orders for the horse to be shot.; and it was carried into effect, and so ended the Career uf as honest a horse os ever looked through a bridle, and one who had been the victor in many a hotly contested race. Mr McGee’s horse Hard Times was also found to be severely injured in bis hind quarters; and he too was shot*