SPORTING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 476, 31 May 1890, Page 5

SPORTING NEWS.

(By Hippona.)

Auckland, May ‘27. TROTTING CLUB FOR AUCKLAND. At a meeting field at Wattle’s Hotel, Epsom, yesterday, a Trotting Association was formed, and it. was decided to affiliate with the New Zealand Trotting Association of Canterbury, and to adopt the rules of that body. It was agreed to bold a meeting on Saturday, June 21st. To make the Club popular and attract general interest, it is intended to bold one meeting during the season on the Epsom, Takapuna, Avondale and Otahuliu racecourses. The Club at present has a membership of about sixty.

THOROUGHBREDS FOR AMERICA.

Air T. B. Alerry’s first consignment of thoroughbred mares, selected by him in Australia for the Hon. L. J. Roll’s Los Ange’os stud in California, were on board the mail s:earner Alameda which left this port on Alonday last. The consignment numbered eight, and consisted of cli m Elsie, by Grand Flaneur, from Daughter of the Regiment ; eh m Hester, by Derby from Milliccnt ; b m Phoebe Marks, by Kingsborough from Lady Audley ; b m Lady Alice, by Musket from Erycina ; b f Heiress, by St. Albans from Queen Mary ; b m Ke/.ia, by Darebin from Lady Fanny ; and b f Amba, by the Drummer (imp.) from Alay Queen. Elsie, Hester, and Kezia have each secured winning brackets in good company, and the breeding of each and every one of the consign man t shows excellent strains of blood. The mares arc under the supervision of Air Wilson, of Alessrs R. Towns and Co., during the voyage. A second consignment wifi be forwarded by the steamship Mariposa next month, consisting of b c by Waxlight, from Judith (full sister to the Melbourne Cup winner, Qalaiifiia); br f Pyinpess Royal, by Golcjsbrough, ‘fjoni Queen’s (dam of t|ie speedy Prince Imperial); b m llaniiony, by he Drummer (imp.) from Mari tana ; Spinac|i, by Atlantic from Sea Witch ; h m Judith, by Maribyrnong from Luna ; and b fby Jove from Heron. A third batch, consisting of b f Ricochet, by Alusket from Erycina (to b,e mated with Roodeej; b m Catherine Wheel, by Wellington from Ehizgig (pup.) (tp be mated \yith Nordepfeldt); ch m Bessie, by Jobii Bull from Avalanche, will be' des patched to New Zealand, thence tQ be transshipped to California, after the lastnamed pair visit Nordenfeldt.

MR T, PAYTEN’S CHARGES.

“ Martindale,” the Sydney scribe, lately paid Tom Payten a visit in his quarters at Lower Randwick. Mr Hangar’s recent purchase, Carlyst, has lately met with a mishap to one of his shoulders. The lamoriess has worked right dowm the leg, and is now' fast disappearing. In the next box was a bay gelding called Mario, by Robinson Crusoe fiomA E.I. He is a 4-year-cld, and won the Maiden Plate at Hay. The yearlings are a good-looking lot, taken as a wdiole. A bay filly by Chester from Lorraine has a good back, and will be easily distinguishable by lop ears. The chestnut gelding, Syracuse, by Martini-Henry from The Solent, is a good, strong sort ; as also the bay filly Corvette, by Martini-Menyy fyorpf Lady Vivian. She possesses gopfl ftaeik yjbs, is a good fength, and has splendid quarters and a good back*. The brown sister to Rudolph, by Martini-Henry from Rusk, gives one the idea that she will be like her brother, possessed of plenty of pace, and may not unlikely stay with it. The chestnut colt Albermarle, by Chester from Angora, reminds me very ‘ lxiucH o’f Dreadnought at his age. ’ ’ lie Ras gof all the pp.ints of a gooff o.ne—legs, Back, ’and fißs bping all of the right sort, gooff colour, and a look about him that woulff lead to the belief that he will not be shook off without a great fight w-hen the whips are cracking. The brother of Lava and Volcano, Stromboli, is brown in colour. He promises to be the biggest of the lot, and, it is possible, will not bp speii to advantage till Ipte m tfig season, The bay colt Bengal by Cheater fromGymkana, is a powerful-looking colt, while Menangle, by Chester from Goldfinch, thus being halfbrother to Morpeth, is a good-looking sort. A chestnut filly called Coogee, by Phil Athol from Jewel, Morok’a dam, is not a bad-looking sort, though a trifle slack across the loins, while a chestnut colt by Phil Athol from Dixie, called Dixie’s Land, has the long pasterns of his sire, but looko a speedy customer. With such a lot it will be more than curious if Mr Tom Payten does not turn out a winner or two during the coming season, and I shall not boat all surprised if Albermarle is the pick of the basket.

QUEEN’S PLATES,

“Queen’s Plates,” in Englanff, wlffch were abolishe 1 some years 1 ngo, as novfiilfilling the purpose for which they Were instituted, nliihely, the imprbvemPnt 'of the thoroughbred, were once great features of the Old Country, turf; ’grerifc winrtriih of Queen’s Plates Wrire Caller Qp, 34 ; Lilian, 27 ; Fisherman (aftervyarffs im* Australia), 26 and Rataplan, 19.

) lln a work entitled “ Winners of Royal I Plates in 1837,” we find that in England and 1 Scotland these “ Plates ” were 34 in number, and nearly all of them over three or four miles of ground, interspersed occasionally with two-mile heats. As a rule, three-year-olds which took part in them carried from 7st 91b to Bst, while the burden imposed on font-year-olds and upwards was generally from lOst to lOst 71b. Thus, at Newmarket, in the October of 1837, the Queen’s Plate was run over the Round Course (three miles four furlongs, and 139 yards), and won by Mr Sowerby’s St. Luke, 4 years, 10st.71b.

A MELBOURNE CUP CANDIDATE.

A Launceston paper says that a party of well-known sporting men recently paid a visit to Richmond Park, entrusted with a commission to purchase the two-year-old Highlander. An.offer of 1,000 guineas was made but declined, it being tlio laudable ambition of the owner to win the V. R. C. Derby or Melbourne Cup—or both.. If the colt had been purchased his destination would have been Sydney. Those who viewed the colt are enthusiastic in their praise, and state that in appearance he looks more like a four-year-old. He is remarkably well developed, and from every point of view looks a racehorse, and should more than maintain the reputation gained by his brother Siivermine.”

BUS OF TURF.

Toe Royal Stakes is run at Rand wick this afternoon, Teksutn has been scratched, so Antelope will represent the stable. A private cablegram states Hilda has advanced to 6 to 1 in the betting on the Birthday Cup. A “ new stable ” has sprung up at Mangere, J. Fletcher being at the head. Hercules, a colt by Lcolinus—Lady Ravensworth, and Transit, by Hippocampus— Venus Transit, are at present being handled, and the other occupants of the stable are Killarney and Ingorina

J. R.'ie left Titokowaru and Guv Fawkes in E. Kelly's hands. Cissy, Cynical, and the two-year-old colt I.eolantis are just now' being indulged in a spell, and are turned out during the day. Harry Howe is looking after the trio. A telegram from Wanganui states Auckland was scratched for all engagements at the Wanganui Meeting at 2.40 p.m. yesterday. Mr R. Burke is having a couple of yearling fillies broken in at the North Shore, viz., Lady belle, by Brigadier out of Belle, and Bombardier, by Brigadier—Kate, Lady Belle is very in-bred, both her sire and dam being by Musket, but nevertheless she is well-grown with plenty of bone, and has no end of good points.