BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 414, 26 October 1889, Page 3

BITS OF TURF.

Major George's two-yoar-old filly Miss Cole ran into a wire fence at Ellerplie the other morning, but fortunately did not sustain any serious injury. • Late ach ices from Napier state th*»t YV. Clifford will be sufficiently recovered from his accident to ride at the forthcoming N.Z. Cup Meeting. The Takapuna Jockey Club have drawn up an attractive programme for their Spring Meeting, fixed tor Saturday, 30th November. Nominations for all handicaps close with Mr R. Wynyard oh Friday, Bth November. I learn from Sydney that tbo stallion Chester has returned to Rand wick from Kirkham tor thu second and perhaps last time, and will do stud duty in future at Newmarket. When at Kirkham he refuses to lie down and kicks his box to pieces, for what cause is not known. Mr F. F. Dakih, the well known Victorian trainer, has entered the Jists of public handicappers. "Augur's" fancy for the A.R.C. Derby is Singapore or Dreadnought, while he favours Singapore and Silverton for the Melbourne Cup. The sporting scribes on the other sido fancy that Singapore is the superior of Dreadnought under Derby weights, but the betting points the opposite. Mr G. H. Clifford has been nominated by the Canterbury Jockey Club to succeed the late Hon. W. Robinson as a trustee of the Riccarton Racecourse Reserve. The ex-Auckland Musk Rose (says a Tasmanian writer) is likely to prove a success \ at the stud, if one may judge by the foals dropped at Calstock this year, which are without exception a splendid lot &o iar, and some of the best mares have yet to foal. Mr Field has wisely reserved the horse for his own mares. Mitrailleuse is to be mated with Mentor, the Melbourne Cup winner, thia season. The rumour that Mr J. Whito intends sending Abercorn to England is said to be without foundation, and the well- performed chestnut will ere long go to the stud at Kirkham. • Among the entries for the A.J.C. Summer Cup, run on Boxing Day, are Man ton and Dunkeld. Tho list of " missing friends " has been increased, by a recently-elected member of Sydney Tnttersall's Clubfailingtodischargo his liabilities over the late A.J.C. Spring Meeting, and his absence is deplored by the too con tiding rtngtnen to the tuno of £1,400. - According to the last issue of tho "Canterbury Timrs," Major (Jeorge'a Vendetta, Reprisal, and Fiesole have recovered from the effects of the journey down, and are in better favour a.t Riccarton.

Aronoel, the name of Captain Rupsell's two-year-old filly rby Apremonfc from Leonora, which seems to cause telegraphists and prca«mon so much trouble, is simply Lsono'ra spelt backwards: Mr W. Lang has been compelled to destroy the well-known old blood mare Nortna, dam of Pollioknd StornaVay. Norma,' who had passed fho age of 25, was by Athos — . Tricolor, by the Premier— Nora Creina, and won the Australian Cup so far back as 1870, a feat repeated by her son Pollio in 1882, and in 1886 her 'other son, Stornaway, ran, third for' the sanie race to Malua and Cerise and Blue. The negotiations for the' purchase of Forester by an Australian sportsman have fallen through. The horse's owner (Mr P. F. Tancred) intends to race him at Christchinch if properly treated, and afterwards dispose of him in Auetr&lin. Bravo beat Oakleigh in a trial at Ballarat i over the Caul field Cup distance, hence the strong support accorded the former for the race. A rinpmen's union has been formed in Victoria under the title of the "Australasian Bookmakers' Association." Membership is restricted to the Victorian and Bowes' Tattensall's Clubs in Melbourne, and Tattersairs Club in Sydney, and it is nnderstood that when the Adelaide Tuttercall'e Club ie revived its members will also be admissible. The Association is to be goveined by a committee of 11. One by one the pioneers of the Australian turf continue . to disappear, the latest depletion in tho ranks of the veterans being Mr l\ H. Mostyn, one of the fathers of Australian sporting journalists, and Mr Thomas Coker, at one time one of the leaders of the ring.