SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1284, 27 February 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

Sale of Raolntr Stock. (I’KR UNITED PREHB ASSOCIATION), DUNEDIN, This Day. Adamant has been sold for 140 guineas to Mr Smith, of Riverton. Cassivalaunus stock fetched from 13 to 21 guineas. Satirist was passed in at 257$ guineas. Wanffanul Trottlag Btoas. WANGANUI, This Day. The following are the entries for the Wanganui trotting matches Maiden : —Kiore, Lucy, Dou, Dots, Solicitor, Kate, and Fatima. Acceptances Handicap, Single Harness Darkie, and Jack. Handicap Saddle Kiore, Jack, Our Pony, Darkie, Dore, and Fatima. Tandem :—Little Nell and Jack, Millie and Rambler, Our Pony and Darkie.

Au English paper says that Palmbearer, who ran second to Sir Bevys for the Derby of 1809, has been sold to go to New Zealand. Palmbearer is got by the Palmer (own brother to Rosicrucian, son of BeadsmanEglantine. )

The betting about Adamant in the paddock on the Cup race was 100 to o against him. The lucky investors in the totalizators netted capital dividends. In one were 7 on Adamant out of 470, and on the other 6 out of 286 ; both of these were £2 shares. The £1 totalisator showed 5 on him out of £348. Mt Fleming, part owner of Adamant, is is stated to have won about £3OOO. He had one wager of £lOOO to £lO since since the weights appeared. Two Napier “ sports ” met with a sad disappointment on the Dunedin Cup. They had wired to a friend in Dunedin to invest in the totalisator for them on Adamant, and when the news came that that horse was the winner they were naturally quite jubilant, and shouted ” for several friends, expecting that the dividend would be a large one, as indeed it would have been, for the £2 they had sent by telegraphic money order would have brought them £l2O. Their feelings may therefore be imagined when later on they received a telegram from their friend at Dunedin that he had been unable to invest their money. —H. B. Herald.