SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1149, 16 September 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

We were very sorry to learn that Mr Philip Bond’s well known trotting st*'Pion Merrylegs is to leave Gisborne by to-morrow morning’s steamer for Auckland. This horse is admirably adapted for the requirements of the place, and it is really a pity that we are about to lose him. BTOZ and. O’CONNOR. Champion Mlle Base, a side(BY TEI”' P kPH). DUNEDIN, This day. The betting is at present level about the return mile race between Burk and O’Connor which is to be run to-day. DONCASTER St. LEGER. (BY CABLE.—REUTER’S SPECIAL). LONDON, Sept. 13. The above race was run to-day and resulted as follows :— Dutch Oven 1 Geheimniss 2 Shotover 3 Martini-Henry has been withdrawn from the Maribyrnong Plate on account of the colt having an attack of the strangles. Sting was formerly engaged in the Melbourne Cup with 7st albs, but by his victory at Hawkesbury he has incurred a 51b penalty which brings his weight up to 7st lOlbs. The victories of Navigator and Sardonyx at the A.J.C, meeting, is good news for the Auckland Stud Company, as the former is by Robinson Crusoe—a full brother to the company’s mare Onyx, and this highly bred mare is the dam of Sardonyx. Onyx is in foal to Musket. The English correspondent of the “ Canterbuty Times ” writing on the horses engaged in the Doncaster St. Leger, says :— “ I see no chance of an outsider winning this season, and if I were asked to make an attempt to place the winners at the finish, I should put Shotover Ist, Quicklime 2nd, and Geheimniss 3rd.”