SPORTING NEWS. [By Hippona in the "Auckland Star."]

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 362, 24 April 1889, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS. [By Hippona in the "Auckland Star."]

jNIi-D. OBrien is submitting the whole of his racing and thorough hied f-bock to auction next week. He tells " Sir Launcelob" that he will certainly eco over to A r ictoria and train there, providing he gets decent prices for his horsey, but he does not intend to give them away. It. 3vidd, the well-known light weight, writing to an Auckland friend from Tasmania, say.-, 'that he has never had such luck in his life. He has 'won oicrhn out of ten mopnt?, added to which owners pay pokeys veiy liberally. Kidd states that in one instance he leccned £24 tor winning an -180 race. At a meeting of the Victoiia Racing Club, it was decided to increase the added money of thn Melbourne Cup to 5,00050v5., with a sweepstake^ of sO?ovs. each. It was further decided to add trophies to the stakes ot the Victorian Derby and Maribyrnong Plate. An Australian writer remarks that if the totalisator 'was irolrotkiced in Victoiia, thousands ot lazy \agabonds would havo to toil tor tneir bread, instead of living in debauchery at the expense ot the fools who • knock down their earnings at Flemington, Caul held, and other racecouiscs. To judge fiom the tone of the leading sporting journals in Victoria and New youth Wales, pony and galloway racing is • not poprlor, and the '' Loader's " correspondent winds up an ar-ticle on it by saying :— " '• All- well- wishors of the»'ttsrt will, asrrce with me in raying that the V.R.C. has done the right tiling in alienating itself from a lC&pon^ibility v. hicli was neither dignified noi essential, and I will ventui*e the opinion chat pony racing, now that it is to be left to its own resources, will cany on a very precarious existence and perhaps die a natural death."' The negotiations which have for some time pending between the "Duke of minster and the gieat horsobreeders at Buenos Ayres have been concluded, His Grace agreeing to accept the sum of four teen thousand pounds for Ormonde. This is precisely Lhe amount tboDukc gave Robert Peek for the crack sire Doncastei, and a capital bargain it hast turned out,, though peoplfc did open their eyes wide ah the time. The firm which" ha? purchased Ormonde, two years ago bought Gay Hefniit and Si". Minn, and are going in extensively for highly-bicd mares. The Australian Jockey Club are moving in the matter of licensing trainers. Applicat'on must bo made annually ; and any tiainor may have his license withdrawn for breaking the rules, or for any misconduct on the turf, oi in matters connected with it. A Sydney paper says the small sweeps and consultations lecently inaugurated, in New South Wales, and Victoria have reduced the attendances at all the suburban meetings. They absorb all the shillings that previously paid for admission to the couises. Tho Dunedin Jockey Club has approved of the recommendations of the Napier Conference, but suggested that the place of meeting of delegates for the revision ot the rules be loft in abeyance for the present. It turns out that little Bernie, who won the Nursery Handicap "at the Warwick Farm (Sydney) meeting, is not by the New Zealand Cheviot, but by a horso of the same name, by Adventurer, imported from England by Mr Andrew Town.