BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 439, 22 January 1890, Page 3

BITS OF TURF.

Harry Thompson received the nice little cheque of £BO for riding Tirailleur in the Great Northern Derby. The Canterbury Jockey Club Meeting on New Year’s Day resulted in a loss of about £2OO. On the other hand, the Dunedin Jockey Club made a profit of about £I,OOO over their Exhibition Meeting. Power heads the list of winning Australian jockeys from Ist August to December 28th, 1889, with 94 mounts and 27 wins. Hales had 17 ride 3 and eight wins. From Sydney comes word that Huxley has been elevated to the position of first jockey to the Hon. Jas. White, Hales having decided to do less riding than formerly. ~ Fileraaker’s jump of 6fb 9Jin has just been beaten in Chicago by two Canadian horses* and Rose Berry, who cleared a vertical distance of 6fb lOJin after several trials.

At the C. J.C. Midsummer Meeting some of the jockeys wore crape on their arms out of respect to the memory of the late Mr E. G. Griffith. Cynisca is now located at Napier, having been brought up from Christchurch. The mare is solely owned by Mr G. Hunter, who has purchased Mr G. H. Clifford’s halfshare. Chief Justice Higginbotham gave it to a welsher named Stewart pretty hot the other day at the Ballarat Assizes. The delinquent was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, included in which was three weeks’ solitary confinement! Mr Justice Holroyd, at the Central Criminal Court also gave a foreigner named Canaris three months’ imprisonment for larceny of £2 which had been paid him by a man who accepted £SO to that amount about Bravo for the Melbourne Cup. Senator Hearst, who commenced the last racing season in America with a big string of horses, managed to win only £6,500 in stakes. Of this sum £3,000 was secured by Tournament, the colt by Sir Modred from Plaything, and £I,BOO by Ballarat, the colt by Sir Modred from La Favorita, while King Thomas, for whom the Senator paid £B,OOO as a yearling, failed to win a single race. Referring to the recent yearling sales, the N.Z. “Referee,” in a leading article, says :—After the records they pub up last week in the matter of sales of blood stock, the respective proprietaries of the Mount Wellington and N.Z. Stud Co.’s establishments need have but little fear for the financial future of either breeding stud. At Bairnsdale (Gippsland), on Boxing Day, the Musket—Leila colt Whitworth won the Bairnsdale R. C. Handicap for the Hon. W. Pearson.