SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1096, 6 July 1882, Page 3

SPORTING.

(From Exchanges.) The Adelaide Biithday Cup, won by Darebin, meant £1145. That well-known performer Democrat is now being used at the stud. £5OOO to 50 has been taken in Melbourne About Baasanio for the Victorian Derby and Cup. The South Australian Jockey Club, and the Adelaide Racing Club made a good harvest out of the totalisator. Mr George Watson, starter for the Victorian Racing Club, receives a salary of £350 per annum. Reform, who won the steeplechase at Adelaide recently, was sold after the race for £2OO. Mr J. Gallagher has sent to Australia for A hurdle-racer, Mr Harry Haines being entrusted with the commission. £2OOO was asked for Cyrus after ho ran Second to Seaman in tho Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase. Pat M‘Coy, the well-known cross-country rider, has settled down at Manaia, where ho runs a combined shaving establishment and tobacconist's shop. Ho will not, however, entirely mve up his old occupation. Mr Mayo who was disqualified from racing horses on the Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and other courses, has decided upon retiring from the turf. The Gem, who ran very forward last season, has been sold for £4OO.

Prometheus, who is a half-brother to Darebin, is so favorably spoken of by the Australian Turf writers, that people in New Zealand, who hare backed him for the V.R.C. Derby and Cup, have not the slightest desire to lay their money off. The Skdded money for the new C.J.C. meeting on New Year’s Day will be £lOlO, Tho Club has resolved to increase the value of the Derby in 1884 to £5OO added money, and make the entrance 25 sovs. instead of 15. This will make three races of £5OO in the Club’s programme. Mr Weston, of Christchurch, has offered to back Why Not to run Canard three miles ©ver eight flights of hurdles, each horse to carry 12st., for a £lOO aside. Tho owner of Canard however refuses to allow his horse to run, as he thinks 12st is rather much for a four-year-old to carry against an aged horse. Mr A. K. Finlay, the son-in-law of Sir Hercules Robinson, and owner of the Glenormiston Estate and old Wellington, together With Captain Osborne, the owner of that

; grand three-year-old, Wheatear, have passed through New Zealand, en route for America j and the Old Country. Lord Manners, who rode Seaman to victory in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplec : ase. is the third Baron Manners, and was born in 1852. He succeeded his father, John Thomas Manners, second baron, in 1864. Was educated at Eton, and in 1872 was appointed sublieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. His lordships arms bear the somewhat significant legend, Pour y Parvenir— “ in order to accomplish.” A few months before the race he took £15,000 to £lOOO that he would win it on a horse of his own, though at the time of the wager he had no horse. He then negotioted for the purchase of Seaman, for whom 2000 guineas was asked; but as the veterinary surgeon would not pass the horse, the match’ fell through. Subsequently, however, he bought him as he stood for £2OOO, and Seaman only lasted just long enough to win the race, for he split a pastern just at the winningpost.