SPORTING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 12 July 1890, Page 5

SPORTING NEWS.

(By Hippona.)

Mr Stead has written another lona letter in reply to tho final circular issued by the Dunodin Jockey Club. We may now look upon this long voxed handicapping question being at an end, for inter alia he says : “I will, as yot.r Committee ask mo to do, give ell'ect to the last paragraph of my letter of 24th May, by recommending the owners interested to resume pleasant relations with your Club. This I trust will suffice to show that 1 bear no ill-will over the trouble. The task of carrying on a strained correspondence ha* not been a pleasant one, but having had to act for others as well as for myself, I have done, without fear nnd without prejudice, that which I havo deemed best for a largo section of owners throughcut the colony, and I believe that the ventilation given to this subject will not prove barren of good results.” The fancy wager of £20,000 to £I,OOO has been accepted by the owner of Titan that tho trainer of that flyer train* tho winning double of V.R.O. Derby and Cup. That means Titan and Prince Consort, and Titan and Carbine.

W. Wade, who was for several yeais employed at Middle Park, Christchurch, is now engaged at Mr W. R. Wilson’s St. Alban’s stud.

The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club made a profit of £2OO over their recent Steeplechase Meeting.

Maxim goes to the stud this season, but it is understood he wil net do any service outside his owner's own marcs. Auray, the brood matron lately purchased in Austra’ia, is thought not to be in foal to Monmouth. Including the amount she won at the Egmont Winter Meeting, Jenny, up to the present time this year, has won in stakes £6ll 10s, made up thus Egmont: Hack Hurdles, £2O; Hack Flat, £25. Wanganui : Bracelet, £SO: Auckland : Steeplechase and eicor.d in Hurdle Race, £256 10s. Napier: S'cep’e< liaso, £260. A friend informs “Gipsy King” that Recluse i 3 beginning to p ek up again, but that it is not intend'd to put him in active work till about September s > that his starting in the New Zealand Cup is problematical. Tho Wanganui scribe a ld3 that much credit is duo to Mr Halstead, the Auckland vet., for tlie manner in which he has succeeded in bringing Recluse round. Oeo, the winner of the Napier Paik Steeplechase, is well known in Christchurch, having taken part in suburban meetings there a few years age. 110 was ridden by Sam Fergus. The Australian Jockey Club are out with the conditions of their next Metropolitan Stakes and Epsom Handicap. The Epsom, run for at a mile, is a sweep of lOsovs with l.OOOaovs added ; while the Metropolitan is a sweep of 20sovs with I,ooobovs added. Nominations for both close on July 14th. Mr Arthur Coventry, the new starter for the English Jockey Club, is a relative of Lord Dcerhurst, who gained some fame in Australia. He succeeds Lord Marcus Bereeford, who is going to train the horses of the Prince of Wales and Baron cteHirseh.

By the last trip of the s.s. Mararoa from Lyttelton, Vorra, Investigator, Golden Hope, and the trotting pony Tiny, were shipped for Melbourne, C. Stratford going over in charge of them. Tho horses were purchased by Mr F. Puncti, and will ; robably figuro on suburban and country courses in Victoria.

The great racing sire, Hermit, whose death was announced recently, is to have his memory kept green, not by a statue, but by a preservation of his natural form as ho lived, or in other words, he is to be embalmed. Mr Rowland Wood, F.Z.S., has undertaken the work, which will, therefore, be of an artistic character. The hoofs will be mounted in silver.

One of the first of tho get?, Musk Rose (tho Musket—llor.etto stallion) has been nominated for S. A.J.C. classic events to be run during the ensuing season. The daughter of Alusk Rose has been named Lady Rose, and she is owned by Mr A. Tennant, another Silver King, who intends entering into the sport of kings with some of his own youngsters. The filly is out of the West, the dam of Occident.

Mr P. Campbell, who contemplates taking a trip Home, will shortly resign his post as starter to tho Canterbury Jockey Club, and Mr John Cresswell, 6f Hororatn, is spoken of as a probable successor to tho office.

An English exchange publishes the following table, showing the winnings of the stock of the defunct stallion Hermit up to the time of his death :

We have thus a grand total of £343,311 as the winning results of the twenty years of Hermit's stud life. Friar’s Balsam, by Hermit from Flower of Dorset, is now tilling his box at tho Hlankley stud. Memoir, who ran in blinkers, might have beaten her stablo companion Semolina in the One Thousand Gninens, but tho Duke of Portland having declared to win with tho latter, tho “ second string ” was eased up. Mr Stead has sold Crozier, the threeyear old gelding by I.colinus - Sister Agnes, to Mr H. Lunn.

The London “ Referee,” comparing English and Australian racing, eavs :—“ There is no park or other enclosed ground in England, even though we select the very best of them, which comes within measurable distance of Australia, so far as the comfort and convenience of visitors are concerned. To go racing in Australia is really to go out for pleasure ; that is perhaps why the class who are most persistent in staying away from racing here are there most in evidence, In England nobody thinks of going racing—except to one or two Cockney outings—unless be is a great swell or a regular professional, a thief or a busker. In Australia racing is the pnsttime of tho well-to-do classes. In America it is the same ns in Australia, with just this difference, that the Australians are thoroughly at homo on the course, and know the ins and outs of everything that is happening, while tho Americans are nil abroad, and know nothing about anything.”

A Napier lady thinks there should bo special facilities for the immigration of unmarried young men. Is marriage a failure ?

The Emperor, in addressing the workmen at Krupp’s manufactory, at Essen, in Rhenish-Prussin, announced that ho intended to persevere with his labour poMcy. It co=ts £661,000 less now than it did seven years ago to supply New Zealand colonists with alcoholic liquors. London “Truth” states that Lord Balfour of Burleigh is to be the successor to Lord Carrington a« Governor of New South Wales.

We observe that women more *.nd more stand up for themselves—even in trains and trams.

1073 V 100 1882 ,-e .. 45.5SS 1874 .. 4.690 1883 .. 31,469 1875 .. 3.748 1384 .. 3’,062 1876 .. 9.U9 1835 .. 32,073 1877 .. 9,060 1886 ., 19,565 1873 .. 14,835 1887 .. 31,393 1879 .. 7,577 1888 .. 15.536 1880 .. 79,622 1889 .. 14.241 1881 .. 27,776 1390 .. 2.617