SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

VICIUIiLLV GRAND NATIONAL. Received titli, 0.5 p.m. Melbourne, July 0. Cold, line weather prevailed for the Victorian K.C. winter meeting. Results: (Jrand National Hurdles: Bribery 1, ■ Solano 2, South Head 3. Seventeen started. Retting: 4 to 1 Solano, 7 to 1 i Uuu Heart, and Red Sea, S to \ Preston Pans. Lion Heart endeavored to win from end to end, and held a commanding lead to the sheds the last time round, when South Head, Bribery and Superstition won- on terms. Bribery led into the straight, and, coming awav, won by five length*. Lion Heart finished in the rear. June. 5.,j3. SALE OF THOROUGHBREDS. -Mr F. SI. Mills submitted his thoroughbred hordes to auction on Saturday at Mr. Newton King's Haymarket yards, Air Fred. Watson wielding the hammer. There was a large attendance of buyers, and bidding for the various lots was fairly brisk. The bay gelding Southern Cmss, <i years old, by Day Star —Tonga (full sister to Boreas) a with engagements at Wellington and C.J.C. National meetings, was knocked down to ] Mr Stuart SlcGuiness at £7O. The Seaton Delaval—La Dauphine mare Pan* f garoa, 7 years, '.vent to the same buyer at CIS. Silver Star, brood mare, bv Sylvia Park—Patience, and stinted to * Cordon Rouge, gue.s to a Stratford buyer, her price being t2."i. Sir A. Alexander c bought the brood.mare Goleonda (Insignificant—Tonga), stinted to Day Star, at £l4; and a black hack gelding, by l.bnny, at -C4O. Mr XV. F. Hawke offered the top figure ( CM) for a nice old filiy by Insignificant—Pangaroa) and another .'{-year-old filly by Davstar longa, at C3ft. Mv W. J. Gray secured r a Uhlan—Silver Star filly, 2-years-old, - for 10s, and a Uhlan eolt, six months, at £H, A rhlan —Tonga filly, rising 2- 11 years, was sold to Mr Tlenry Putt at I t:2!I. A Malatua—Sellingcr colt, 3 years, unbroken, was bought bv Sir W. C. Phillips at £33; a Daystar—La Dauphine eolt, 4 years, by Mr A. N. Slills at £lO Lis; and a 3-year-old colt (Dav- S Mar—Duchess). unbroken, by Sir N. Robertson, at £l.~>. A harness mare, by The Si|uire, brought £3O. On account oi other buyers a black pony mare, first prize winner at the Tarnnaki show, sold ] for €l2 10s, to Sfr Clark; a bay trotting filly (Chief Justice—Comet), unbroken. Cor Cl2 l.ls, to Sir SI. Jones; P a chestnut filly (Jersey mare) to Sir 0. Davev, t!/ 10s; and the black gelding ( St. Iluliers (St. Clements—Midnight) to Sir Fred. Jones, £l7. Others sold from ( C\ to CO 10s. The once famous American jockey, Tod Sloan, appears, so a. New York writer 1 stated recently, in a despondent mood. u When flu- authorities barred him from racecourses lie ran a billiard saloon. 11 Then be drifted .(<> the vaudeville stage, in immaculate silk hat and evening I dress. When the vaudeville houses tired t of liirn. Sir Hearst's newspapers made Mm racing editor. All la at season he c gave tips to the evening paper reputed * to enjoy three-quarters of a million eir- i (illation. Somehow the horses persisted l in running wrong regardless of bis predictions Later on, he was said to be galloping horses at Rennings, the famous I Washington race track, while he after- -< wards published in one of the newspap- I ers a page of "confessions," the burden j of which is that one of the worlds most-falked-of jockeys owes his downfall to c "swelled head" and high living. "[ had Cl 00.000 five years ago," he says. "I have lost, it through unfortunate speculations and false friends. When I was in England I was invited to hunting parties and week-ends. I met lords and ladies apparently on equal terms. Indeed, they would remain perhaps two < days and F for a week. I forgot that * 1 was only a jockey: that was how T developed a big head. STost jockeys/' be declares, ''have a poor knowledge of • pace. It was pace alone that won for me on Caiman at Newmarket in 180 D. M-ornv Cannon, nn Flying Fox. was coni sidered invincible. Tfc let me >,teal five 1 : lengths at tie- -tart. I gradually slow- i ied down, and did the others. They i i waitod fur me {o run my horse off it's < 1 feet and conic bark to them. Xearitlg r tile finish T let Caiman down with plenty i of speed in reserve, and thev did not < discover the trick in time." 1