SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1145, 12 September 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

Australian Jockey Club’s Ssrlu? Meeting: (BY CABLE.—PE TER*S SPECIAL). SYDNEY, September 11, The Settling for the above Club’s Spring Mee' ing took place this evening. The total amount of stakes paid away to £6083. Mr R. Rouse’s ch. g. Sting, syrs.» by Grandmaster—Queen Bee, winner of the Craven Plate, Rand wick Plate and other good races, was offered at A ict’on to-day, and after some spirited bidding, was knocked down for the sum of 1600 guineas.

The Australian steeplechase horse Himalaya has had to be destroyed in consequence of the injury he sustained at the v.R.C. Grand National meeting.

“ Numa ” in the “ Hawke’s Bay Herald ” says :—The Squire and Foul Play put in easy work, with a run home, the veteran shaping splendidly. The Hatred Gelding and Morning Star did long steady work ; the former has improved very much in his style of going. . . Mr McDonald’s horses were not upon the ground this morning, owing, I am sorry to say, to the illness of Bill Proffitt, who is suffering from a severe attack of bronchitis.

In a late number of the “ Spirit of the Times ” the beneficial results or otherwise of running two. year-olds, it states, has been put to a practical test in New York. The question having been revived, a correspondent of that j urnal sent out letters to the principal trainers in the States, containing questions relative to the matter. Summarised the queries were as to experience to validate their opinions ; proper time to break yearlings ; earliest period of the year to run two-year-olds without injury to them j the advantage, if any, of an early foal over a late foal ; if the early foal had an advantage over a late one at three years old ; and was it considered that a colt that had run as a 2« year-old as is likely to improve with age as one that had not run, and was 2-year-old racing injurious to a colt. From thirteen experienced trainers there seemed to be almost a unanimity of opinion. Replying to the first question, six of them favored August (American season), three September, two July, one June, and one October. In answer to the query re the early foal, all agreed that it had tlie advantage over a late one at two years old. Regarding this difference at three years old three stated that the early foal had only a slight, and six that a decided advantage was gained, To the supreme Question, which called upon trainers to decide as to the effect of 2-year-old racing upon horses, eleven of them declared it to be beneficial, the others only hesitating conditionally. The combined statements are a thorough endorsement of’youthful racing, and such as to clear the question in the great Continent.