SPORTING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 465, 23 April 1890, Page 5

SPORTING NEWS.

BITS OF TURF. The double of Titan and Prince Consorb has already been backed for tbe next V.R.C, Derby and Melbourne Cup to win a big stake.

The annual meeting of the Pakuranga Hunt Club was held yesterday afternoon, Air VV. Pereival, master of the hounds, presiding. The balance-sheet showed receipts to be £752 0s lid, including £8 12s 5d from last year. The expenditure left a balance of £39 4s 6d in hand. The secretary, Mr H. H. Hayr, was granted £ls as a recognition of his services. Air W. Percival was re-eiected master of the hounds for the ensuing year, Mr R. Garrett re-elected treasurer, and Messrs E. D. O’Rorke, S. Williamson, Thomas Hayr, and H. Harris were elected a committee. Air H. H. Hayr was re-elected secretary. At the Timaru races yesterday, La Rose won the S.C. J.C. Handicap, Sfc. James and Quibble filling the other places. La Rose also annexed the Stewards’ Stakes.

The Taranaki Jockey Club made a profit of £4O over their Anniversary Aleeting. This is the way a Sydney paper sums up Carbine: - “ Abercorn was a great horse if quite well, but for consistent excellence Mr White’s chestnutmustgive place to Alusket’s best son. And he’s such an unassuming quadruped. You never see Carbine gavottiDg around the paddock or playing up at the post. No frill about these real tiptoppers, as a rale. Carbine gives O’Brien one look before he mounts, a look that means : ‘ Jusb knock when you want to come in and I'll endeavour to get there.’ Whab a rare old son of a gun ib is !” Air T. Daly’s two-year-old filly Yasmeen, by Sardonyx—Jessamine, fell in the First Nursery Handicap at the recent A.J.C. Aleeting, breaking one of his legs, and had to be shot. Halo also fell, bub with the jockey escaped uninjured. “ Auckland Star,” April 19.