CONDENSED ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 272, 13 June 1888, Page 4

CONDENSED ITEMS.

Krihi'iile i> in work again at Fletnington. It U imported that Mozait i< to be relegated to the -tnd. Mr W. A. Long has disposed of Che-hum to Mr R. Rouse, jun. M. Carmody li.b got a job a>- trainci in a Tasmania!) "-table. Mi H. lied wood ih removing from Spring (.'reek to his old quaiters at Nelson. Lord Koiney'e tuif caieer h likely to come to a clo^c before the end of the seaeon. Roddy Mels or, the tint New Zealand owner and jocke\ , has filed his schedule in Melbourne. In the Hut die Race on the first day of the D.J.C. Winter Meeting, Tie* Sec badly bioke flown. <iiiildforrl (a full brother to aScu =steadi, who vi an eaily two year-old was highly thought ot. lias been added to the li-t. Say? a Sydney >eribe : — The New Zealand hoi &c Tetford appears to be coming on, and U> now doing good work at Randwick. Huxtable heads the list of winning jockey in Canterbury this season with 26 win* to his credit. Snapshot was ofleted at auction in Dunedin, and found a purchaser at 62 guineas. Mr Ta\!or, ot ChrLstchurch, was the buyer. Rewi is said to be the oldest hor.-e now racing on the flat in Kew Zealand. He won the Bawke's Bay Couneas in 1880. The atroci usly-namecl Australian horee Meoderrdooderrdoo is to be shipped to India. The Hon. 0. McLeans eoit St. Clair is to winter in ( hristclnm-h, and will be tiained by Cults for the X.Z. Cup Meeting. Mr R. »S. Wakely, the Victorian Racing Club judge, and Mr -Joseph Thompson, the prominent booknmker, are iepoited to be on the eve of a trip to Europe. Ayrshire, the Epsom Derby Two Thousand hero, won a Post Stakeb of 200sovs each at the Kew market Ciaven Meeting, ktaiting at 8 to 1 on, and defeating his only opponent by twenty lengths. When the mail left England F. Barrett .stood at the head of the list of svinning jockeys with 16 \ietovies to his credit. Loato*> and J. Watts came next with 13 wins apiece. The Tasmanian sport&man, Mr Charles Kiushka, lia.s determined to settle down in Victoria. The tight little inland thus loses one of itb best and most straightforward hnortHneii. Maud, by Musket— l/ Orient (imp.), and Bellihsima, by Musket — Pulchra (imp.), are both to come under the hammer in Melbourne at an early date. They are the property of the Hon. E Mitcholson. Mr K. Kennedy, the owner of Soldier Bay, has entered an action against the Victorian uiilway commissioners for injuries received by his horse while travelling between Kilmore and E&sendon. Soldier Bay was po knocked about that he was unable to run as intended at Moonee Valley, and damages are laid at Cl9O. According to a reliable Sydney tout, since the A..J.C. Autumn Meeting Cranbrook appear*- to have improved and actually grow somewhat. Ho is now doing slow work ; as also Abercorn, Aberdeen, Ensign, Volley, and Plutarch. Playfair, the winner of the Liverpool <!rand National, was amongst the runners for tho International Steeplechase at Sandown on April 14, but spoiled whatever chance he po««e<sKed by running out directly

he had descended the hill tho second time round. The English Jockey Club have ridded themselves of the Chetwynd-Durham case, which ha.-j reduced itsolf to one of arbitration, but how it will be settled it is difficult to say. Wood's case against the "Licensed Victuallers' Gazette" is still going on, and there is no sign at present of the Jockey Club granting him a license. Mr J. Stevens, of Wanganui, is taking a shipment of horses to India in connection with Mr A. Thompson, of Oamaru. His purchases number over 100, and most of them were obtained from the Hawera district. Mr Stevens leaves Wellington with the horses on Tuesday next. AL the annual meeting of Chrietchurch Tattersall's Club the balance-sheet produced by the Hon. Treasurer was adopted and tho following gentlemen were appointed a Committee for tho year: — Messrs G. G. Stead, C. Loui?son, H. Thomson, C. P. HuJbert, G. P. Williams. A. Boyle, J. B. Gresson, P. Campbell, E. H. Deacon and R. C. Bishop, with tho Hon. Treasmer, Mr E. W. Roper, as a member ex ofh'cio. Every mail brings accounts of further shipments of thoroughbreds from England to Kio Janiero, and tho Brazilians are turning a lot of attention and capital to racing. Upwards of ninety thoroughbred.*, were imported to Rio last year, and a number of unexecuted orders from tho same place arc still in tho Home market. The extensivencss of the racing establishment belonging to Mr J. B. Haggin, the owner of Sir Mod red and Darebin, may bo imagine I from the fact that at the Monmouth Park Meeting hU nominations number 368. The progeny of the Australian hot'eos ought to be heard of this season in Ameiicn. Tlu Ta^nmnian three-year-olds Hazeldoane, by Lapidist — May Queen, and Lorna Doone, a daughter of Albort and Maoii Chiefs dam, the properU of Mr 0. S. At^new, aie to be placed in tho hands of a Yietoiian tiainer. R Mason tells " Ma/eppa" that Maxim, Loohiel, Hipey King, Sextant-, and Russley are at present running in a paddock. Sextant has something amiss with his foet, and has suffered more or less from this ever since Mr Stead has bought him. Mr S. Gardiner, the Victoiian breeder, m-ently ;?ent a shipment of yearlings to ! Brisbane for sale, but they brought poor prices. The highest price was 64 guineas, which Mr C. Smith gave for a colt by ! Suwairow out of Miss M&ribyrnong. The very unusual spectacle of a dead heat for first place among three horses was witnessed at the Sydney Turf Club amateur meeting at Rand wick, when Mitchell, Lady Roodee, and Glentworth were so close together at the finish of the Veterans' Race that the judge was unable to separate them. At a -n\c of thoroughbreds held at Mulgravo (X.S. W. ), the brood maie Coreen, by tho Marquis Kosc d'Amour, fetched the highe>t price, namely, 50 guineas, and was knocked down to Mr W. Forrester. Mr F. Reynolds seemed Old Wife, by Piscator— Ragpicker, at 30g.°. "Vigilant ''calculates that last season 5, 300 racehorse?, including a few trotters and a tew Now Zealnnders. were laced in Australia. Allowing, say, T)00 lor the trotters nnd tho New Zealander.s, we get a total of 4,800 racehorses in training during the season 18C6-87. This is as near aa possible double the number of the English horses raced last Mr R. Topping, a well known English bookmaker, who was recently in Australia, thinks the Australian courses not quite so good as the English ones, but the accommodation there is perfect, and the general appointments are vastly superior to those lound in tho Old Country. The nominations for the "Dunedin Champagne Stakes number 33. The morning after closing day a telegram was received from the Cbristchurch Middle Park Company nominating seven more joun^sters, which tho Club had no alternative but to refuse. At the recent meeting ol the Queensland i Turf Club, both the Brisbane Cup and Moretou Handicap, the chief events in the programme, went to outsiders, Sirius, by Rainswoi th from Starlight, winning the foimer, with 7st6lb, from Theorist, Bst 131b, and La Grange, 7&t 81b, and Marinea, a daughter of Vespasian and Miss Pitsford, won the Moteton Handicap, with 6st 131b, the cup winner Sirius running second, with 8-st 21b, an 1 Adair, 7b t 41b, being third.