SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1133, 29 August 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

King Quail has arrived at Christchurch from Auckland. The Dauphin has been scratched for the C.J.C. Handicap. Navigator is going well again, and pleasing the touts considerably. The Auckland Stud Companys horse Cap-a-pie was shipped from Auckland last week for Wanganui. A steeplechase meeting, under the auspices of the Hunt, Club willtake place in Auckland shortly, in the vicinity of Cambridge. The Melbourne sporting papers advertise “ consultations ” of the aggregate value of £114,000 on the forthcoming Sydney and Melbourne races. Segcnhoe is going grandly in his gallops, Darebin and Gostwych could not keep him going over the li mile, at a trial held lately, and neither of these are slow. “ Beacon ” says the Makaraka (Poverty Bay) Club is the first in this Colony to adopt the Victorian Amateur Turf Club’s highly successful idea of a Ladies’ Race. “ Sir Launcelot ” in the “ Canterbury Times,” says :—“I regret to have to announce that Mr G. G. Stead’ finding it impossible to pay as much attention to his stud as is necessary for its successful management has decided to submit the whole of his splendid collection of thoroughbreds for sale in November next. The lot to be offered comprises 3 stallions, 20 brood mares, 6 two-year olds, 6 foals out of the recently imported mares, 8 yearlings, and 5 horses in training. It may be safely said that since the days when sportsmen gathered near the grave of Fisherman, and witnessed the disposal of the Maribymong stud,no finer lot of thoroughbreds have ever been offered at a colonial sale. ”