SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1141, 7 September 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

The Hon. Sec. of the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club, Mr M. H. Smith,, announces that the annual meeting will be held on Tuesday night the 12th inst. We expect to see a large attendance of members as the election of officers is to take place. Mr M. G. Nasmith has just imported a very handsome sterling silver cup for the Makaraka Jockey Club. It is beautifully chased, and will be a most acceptable prize to the winner of the Corinthian Cup, advertised in the programme. On one side is depicted “ a close finish,” and on the other a blank space whereon to inscribe the name of the winner, owner, rider, date, etc. It is, without doubt, the handsomest, most tastefully designed, and valuable cup ever yet offered in the Bay as a trophy. It will be on view to-morrow in Mr Nasmith’s window. Wellington Racing Olub. [By Telegraph.] WELLINGTON, This day. The Stewards of the above club have decided to hold a Spring Meeting on St. Andrew’s day, the 30th November. The amount of prize money will be about £3OO. There will be a trotting match included in the programme.

The Oamaru Jockey Club has fixed their Spring meeting for the 15th and 16th of November, when a programme of £515 will be offerred.

A Melbourne paper says :—A great run has been made in Sydney on Cunnammulla for the Melbourne Cup, lie being backed to win £70,000 up to 100 to 7. Alaric, the winner of some good races at the last Wanganui meeting, is now in Auckland, where lie is going to run a match on the flat with the great Lonehand, from whom he receives a concession of a stone in weight, The sporting public of Melbourne feel sorry that the New Zealand horses didn’t accept for the Cup. Considering how well Somiius was backed by the people over there both for the Derby and Cup, as well as Sir Modred for several races, New Zealanders will also regret it. At all events they have in Da ebin a first-class representative of The Peer and their favorite mare Lurline. As some interest is at the present time being caused by the arrival in the Colony of several American trotting horses, the following account of the records made by horses on the American turf is given : —Sporting lists show 68 horses to have made a oetter record than 2min. and 25sec. in trotting one mile. Goldsmith Maid’s time, 2min. 14sec., made in J 874, remained unbeaten for some years, but since 1874 that time has been surpassed by between 4 and ssec. Dexter, a famous horse, did his two miles in 4min. 56isec., and Ethan Allen three miles in 7min. 3£sec. Four miles took the Californian horse Longfellow lOmin. 34isec., and 5 miles were trotted in 1874 by Lady Mac, at San Francisco, in 13miu. Trotting records show that Steel Grey, a Yorkshire noree, trotted 10 miles in the saddle, in 1875, in 27min. 56|sec. 20 miles were done by Captain M‘Gowan, a Boston horse, in 58min. 255e0., and Ariel did 50 miles at Albany, N.Y., in 3hr. 55min. 40£sec. Conqueror, on the Union course, Long Island, trotted 100 miles in Bhr. 05min. 53sec., in harness.