SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1101, 18 July 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

(From Exchanges.) Mr Joo. Gallagher has sold his steeplechase horse Cateh-’em for £9O. The Melbourne Cup Raoo will bo run on Tuesday, the Slat of October. Promctheuus is greatly fancied for tho Melbourne Cup and Derby. Iroquois ha* broken a blood vossol. It will bo some time before ho sports silk again. Vampire, by the Barb out of Rushlight has boon relegated to tho stud in the Auckland district. Joe. Williams, the jockey who was disqualified along with Randwiuk, has gone to Sydney. Eighteen of tho Auckland Stud Company’s maros are in foal to Musket, and flvo to Anteros. The talked of three-mile match, over sticks, between Why Not and Canard has fallen through. Mr E. E. Jones the Australian Leviathan, has laid £70,000 to £lOO, against Sensation for tho V.R.C. Derby and Cup. There is very littlo betting going on about the Champion race in Melbourne at present’ Darebin is first favorite at a nominal price of eight to one, The books are shy of 1000 to 50 for Segenhoo in the double, Melbourne Cup and Derby. The colt is a firm favorite for tho Derby at four to one. The progru nine for the Taranaki J.O.’fl December meeting include* :• -Spring Handicap, £l5O ; Flying Handicap, £lOO j Publicans’ Purse, £5O ; and Steeplechase, £5O. The Hawke’s Dqy Jockey Club have increased the Hr. .vkv’* Buy Guineas for 1881 from 100 to 200 snv#, with a sweep of lOsovs, each added. This gives a rich prize for the 1881- three yearrold*. Mr 11. Haines' Euclid, and Mr F. Wentworth.s Sardonyx, have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. It is not at nil unlikely that Darebin and Commotion will be the nex) to follow suit.

Mr O. C. McGee, of Auckland, has purchased the disqualified horse Randwick, for stud purpose*. The price paid was £3OO. This horse ought to be :i grand success as he is by Barbarian, dam Gipsy Girl, and is a half-brother to Zulu, the winner of tho last Melbourne Cup. Sylvia is as good as tho goose that laid the golden ogg to the Auckland Stud Company. She cost them £2OOO, and has alreidy prodnuG.d two foals which have been sold for £2,171. Thu company refused £l,OOO for the last filly the other day, and the mare is again heavy in foal to Musket. One of the most remarkable races over run (says an English paper) was a hurdle race in which there were three starters and no winner at all. Soon after starting one of them slipped up over a fence and strained herself so severely that she could not complete the journey, and limped slowly homewards. The favorite waa leading a long way, and as the second wont the wrong side of the flag when they were nearing home, the rider, seeing there was no chance of getting up, and knowing there was no money for second, did not pass the post, but turned aside when his rival had aleirod tho last hurdle, and made for the paddock. Tho favorite centered in triumphantly, but when his jockey got into tho scales ho could not draw the weight, and was of course disqualified.