SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1120, 11 August 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

The trotting match arranged to take place to-morrow between Mr M. H. Smith’s Shooting Star, and Mr W. Proflbt'ii My Pony, hai been adjourned sind die, in ooniequerice of thd indisposition of Mr Smith’s nagi

(Fnoir Exchanges.) Tho Sydney Tout, are not st all in love with Segenhoe, though he is doing nice work. Pride of the Hills, winner of tho V.B.C. Mares’ Produce Stakes of 1870, and of the Champion Race of 1877, is dead. Ho was one of the best horses of his day. The well-known steeplechaser Clarence has boon nominated for the Campbelltown Steeple chase, of 2,500 aovs,, to bo run in Tasmania on the 25th of September, 1882. •' Beacon ” says ido not like Musket’s young stock—with one or two exception., they want size and substance. Martini-Henry which the Hon. J. White gave 1250 guineas for, will, J think, never make a racehorse ; he is pigeon toed—still they run in all shapes. It has boon whispered abroad that there is a screw loo.e with Navigator. Some reports go so far os to say that he has broken down, others that he is suffering from temporary lameness. As the colt has been rather weak in the market lately, perhap it will ‘.be found that tho old proverb relating to the smoke and the fire will once more receive an illustration.