SPORTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 38, 8 October 1912, Page 5

SPORTING.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 9.25 a.in.) Sydney, October 8. Nimrod fell, broke his leg in the Randwick Steeplechase, and had to bo destroyed.

An offer of £50,000 lias been refused for the racehorse Prince Palatine, a four-year-old, by Persimmon—Lady Lightfoob. Prince Palatine’s sire, which was bred and owned by King Edward VTL, earned £127,000 at the stud in 10 years Of Palatine, who won the Jockey Club Stakes of 10,000 sovs at Newmarket, a sporting writer says: The result of the second of the “ten thousand pounders” is merely a repetition of that of the first, namely, the Eclipse Stakes, run at Sandown on 19th July, in which Prince Palatine and Stcdfast also filled the first two places. The decision of the latter event, however, must have aroused intense enthusiasm, for in the Eclipse Stakes Prince Palatine only squeezed home by a short head, after a. great struggle over the bust furlong. The two colts were then racing over a tenfurlong course, whereas yesterday they met over a lengthier journey. There can no longer be any doubt that Mr Pilkington’s representative, who was bred by Mr IV. H. Walker, is the better of the two.