SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1161, 28 September 1882, Page 2

SPORTING.

At Mr Allan McDonald’s stud farm yesterday morning, the well-known mare Hatred, —the mother of The Squire, and Mr F. K. Carden’s Edward James—dropped, a very handsome foal to the Auckland Stud Company’s horse Musket. We trust that the youngster will repeat the doughty deeds of its sire and its uncle Petronel, and that jn this shapely descendant of a most aristocratic strain of blood Mr McDonald has secured as the Barb was generally termed “ The .Demon.” [By Tele gea pnJ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Libeller has been scratched for the C.J.C. Handicap. The A.J.C. Derby was run in 2 min. 48$ sec., which is a long way better than Wheatear's 2m in. 52sec. of last year, and | of a second before Woodlands’ time in 1877, when he beat Chester, but it is not up to that of Grand Flenaur, Richmond, or Loup Garou. An extraordinary tricycle journey has been accomplished by the vice-president of the Lyons Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife on a two seated “ machine.’’ The travellers went from Lyons, through Nice, Genoa and Rome to Naples, returning via Florence and Turin, the whole journey representing a distance of some 23000 miles. A swimming contest for 1000 dollars a side and the championship of the world, between Captain Webb (of British Channel fame) and Thomas Rile (champion short distance swimmer) took place in Boston harbor on the 23rd instant. Webb won easily. What has been termed an extraordinary performance under the circumstances was lately accomplished by Mr W. Risen, of Bega, (N.S.W.), who fora wager of £5O, drove a pair of horses in a buggy from Bega to Bombala —a distance of 50 milos (some people say 53 miles), of which nine miles up a mountain road—under five hours. The actual time was a trifle under four and a-half hours.

Mr R. Rouse, the owner of Sting, has been getting “ j’ubbed the wrong way ” over a little piece of business at the late Hawkesbury Meeting. On the first day he started his two horses, Sting and Spark, in the County Purse of 1{ miles, the former having 9st. and the latter 7st 51b. Directly it was seen that Sting would be a starter, those who were acquainted with the capabilities of the horse backed him to win. But the supposed moral did not come off, the favorite being nowhere, Hastings just beating Brian Born on the post. In the Hawkesbury Handicap, Sting ami Brian Boru met on relatively the same terms as they did in the County Purse, both having a stone less to carry, a fact which somewhat more favoured Brian Boru. It is now a matter of history that Sting landed an easy winner in the fastest time for 1| miles ever run in Australia. “ Caspian,” writing aneut that barefaced affair, says he “ recollects the case of Mata, which resulted in the disqualification of both horse and owner for ever.”