SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1294, 9 March 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

VaaffMiixi Antutta RMei. (PER VIfITED PRESS ASS6OIATIOK). WANGANUI, This Day. The weather is splendid for the races. The following are the results WaxoAirui Cvr. King Quail 1 Buzzard 9 Fame ... 3 Flying Handicap. Dan 1 Hinemoa ... ... ... ... 0 Consultation 8 Maidzn Plate. Leonata u. 1 Parera 2 Landseer 3 A good race, won by a length, 2nd and 3rd horses almost a dead heat, Tim* I 9 mlns. 47 2-sth secs, Handicap Hurdles. Reform 1 Lady Bab 9 Dhudeeu 8 New Year, Dlomedes and Parnell were scratched, won by two lengths. Time i 4 mins. 53['secs. Wanganci Stakes. King Quail 1 Buzzard 2 Dan 3 —A good race. Time : 3 mins. 46 secs. Victorian Raolntr Olnb’a ▲utuux JteBtin®. [By Cable.—Reuter’s Telegrams]. MELBOURNE. March 7. The third day’s races of the above Club's Autumn Meeting took place to-day, with the following results Grand Stand Stakes. Willeroo 1 Sweet William 2 Belmont ... ... 3 There was a grand race between the first three horses at the finish. Commotion, who was a warm favorite, was beaten at the distance. Cunnamulla also started. RXDING A WAXTiyq RAOU. Tnz following interesting account of the H Murder of Julius,” from a London sporting paper, may serve aa a warning to some of our riders who are in the habit of lying too far away from their field in the early part of a race :— H Julius was ruined as a racehorse precisely as we believe Foxhall to have been ruined. We doubt whether two worse races were ridden this season than by Cannon on Foxhall at Ascot, and by Fordham on Tristan at Goodwood, and, having had so much in our time to say of the deeds of these brilliant horsemen, we can afford to make these remarks without being accused of writing in a carping spirit. We cannot think that it is good policy to lie 200 or 300 yards from the leader hair a mile from home, and we are quite certain that far more races are lost than are won by it, to say nothing about ruining the horse. This argument brings us to that sensational race at Stockbridge, for which the Duke of Newcastle started Julius and Gomera to make up the required three, the other runner being Birdseeker. It was , the last event of the day, and being virtually, ; as we believed, a walk over, the bulk of the [ people left the course, and thus missed a race |

that U-Ul for ever liva in the menory of those who zaw it, Though no deaaration wa» made oil the part of the Duke o! Newcastle, it wm Assumed that Gomera, yho, it must be borne in mind, was equal U winning the Goodwood Stakes with the tip weight on her back, wm merely running to rtl*ke A field, And so thought Johnny Duey on Jullnt, He rode as though there were no sucli anlnial as Gomera in the racb. Toni French, wHii as a jockey never Had a superior, had the mount on Gomera. What little betting there * was was done at the rate of lOOto 2 on Julius, and such a certainty waa,thejrace regarded that bookmakers did not refute to pick up a couple of sovereign* on theic term*, ana amongst the ntnnßer wm phor old Billy Marshall, who had laid 100 to 9. We were standing with him while the rtce wm being run. When the flag fell away went French on Gomera a* hard as he could go, and Julius remained behind, trotting alongalde Birdseeker, who wm generally believed not to be trying. Such a lead m Gomerik held we never before saw in a race, and when the turn was made, half a mile from homo, we are afraid to say how far (he wm in front, 1 Tom will pull her up direetly,' *ald Billy in his most sententious manner; Instead of doing so, however, he wM seen to fdirly ride the mare, and all at once Daley perceived what wm tn store for him, Ho then let eivt Julius, and the speed the horse showed ae he went in pursuit wm terrific, and he came along hand over hand. Billy Marshall, a* he ocreamed in agony, 4 Juliua I* coming I Julius is coming screwed himself up m though he were riding the hone himself. French wm all thia time hard at work on Gomera, amidot ouch a acen* of excitement mwe never before witneaaed. • Juliua is coming I JuliUa is coming I' continued to scream Billy, and then, m with one tromendoua effort, the hone seemed fairly to leap put Gomera m they passed the post. Marshall brought hie flat down on our shoulder, and exclaimed, in a yell that could be hoard at Andover, ‘ Juliua has come-I*’ So he had but it wm too late, and Gomera had won fay a head. That race may be said to have terminated the racing career of JiiUiia, for just m he had smMhed up Lady Elizabeah and Hermet he wm himself smMhed up. This running should, we think, act m a warning to those jockeys who are so fond of lying off 4 at an unreasonable distance, and who ini reality give their opponents a start of a hundred yards or so in the last half-mile.”