SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 August 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

RACING IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, August 8. Mayo was scratched for the steeplechase, having sustained an injury during the final gallop to-day. DISCONTINUING THE DOUBLE TOXALISATOR, Per Press Association. Christclmrch, August 8. The committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to discontinue the double event totalisator at future meetings.

TUKF TOPICS. Accoivliiig to the London Sportsman, a Belgian backer caused some sensation in the chid ring at Epsom on Derby Day. Clad in quite a cheap suit of clothes, his appearance was not such its to encourage belief in his being iji a position to bet in large sums. One layer, with whom he proposed to bel 1100 to 400 on Slieve, (iallion, politely hinted that lie was not acquainted with his ilnanciiil standing, oil which "le brav I Beige" pulled out a'roll of twenty Bank of England notes of £1001) encli and put four in his hand to let him see that they were the genuine article. The layer, however, wanted 050 to 400 and in that insLanee it was no deal. The punter soon melted some of the notes, and, as lie persisted in his intention of supporting the. favorite, he did not leave the course with the whole of his capital. At Lewes (England) last month the New Zealand jockey, 1,. 11. llewitt, won n three-year-old handicap on Claretoi, who was not oven mentioned in tlie bettin#. The following ffity Hewitt won a two-year-old race on a filly named Lucy Ashton, and when lie scored the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot on Lally that horse started at 100 to 6, and beat twentyfour others. Any backer following Hewitt's mounts since his arrival in England would probably be a good deal ahead of it, as at least three of the winners lie has ridden have started at outside prices, and his winning average is a good one. Armilla, dam of Ringlet (who won in Melbourne recently) has been unlucky with her progeny, as though they sold well as yearlings, most of them met with accidents which prevented their appearance on the tnrf. In successive years Mr G G. Stead gave 700gs and Nogs respectively for colts out of Armilla, but the high-priced one failed to stand a preparation, and the other was so badly injured when being broken in that he had to be destroyed. Volume.wlio was sold last week, is engaged in the Epsom Handicap (one mile) with Bst 111b, and in the Metropolitan Handicap (one mile and a-half) with Bst 91b. If the son of Sylvia l'ark captures the last-named event, it woulil make the third year in succession that a New Zealand-bred horse has claimed the attention of the judge in the Bandwiek race, and also that the winner of the Hawke's Bay Cup has followed up by capturing the Metropolitan Stakes. Maniapoto and Solution are the New Zealand winners referred to. In connection with the sale of Volume some little curiosity will naturally lie evinced as to the price paid for the son of Sylvia l'ark. Acting on behalf of a Victorian firm, Mr 11. O. Nolan, of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, I ("Phaeton") am aware, some few weeks back opened up negotiations for the purchase of the colt when he was placed under oiler for three days at IOOOgs. No deal resulting, Mr Goodwin quitted Volume in another quarter, the sum involved being, it is currently stated, 000 guineas. Mr Goodwin has good cause to rejoice over his connection with Volume. When the colt ran at Wangnnui last spring, he was placed under offer at £3OO, but as i the would-be buyer declined to budge over £2511, the colt remained the property of the breeder. In the interval, Volume piled up quite an attractive winning record in Mr Goodwin's colors, and with the Keilding Cup, New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, Ilawke's Bay Cup, and Ilawera Cnp, besides several other races down against his name, his earnings in stakes run out to a solid figure. Amidst a round of very general good wishes, Mr 1). O'Brien left Auckland on Monday 'for Sydney by the Mokoia, with Maranui and Chamadc, who, all going well, will be set to carry the rose and black stripes at the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting in October, writes 'Tliaeton" in the Auckland Herald. The pair that Sir O'Brien took to Australia were bred by their owner in Tarannki, and that circumstance will, of course, create additional interest in their doings in Australia. Maranui has no public form to recommend liiin, but it may bo said that on the score of looks he can be alTorded a first-class certificate. Indeed, it can be said that he is entitled to be viewed as one of the finest-looking colts that has ever left the shores of Maoriland; and if he does not win some honors for Mr O'Brien I shall have to acknowledge myself greatly mistaken. Chamadc is a two-year-old tilly by the Cuirassier horse Uhlan. She has rather a common look when placed with Maranui, but it may, I think, be safely inferred that she has shown galloping ability, for Mr O'Brien knows what it will require to win tho Breeders' Plate. In addition to his Randwick engagements, Maranui is also in the Mellxmrne Cup, and if the son of Malatna should win the A..T.C. Derby, Mr O'Brien may have another try to win "the greatest race of the antipodes." What a ring of joy would come to Hew Zealanders if Mr O'Brien were to land the Melbourne Cup! Messrs Itoss and Bradshaw report the following business:—New Zealand Cup—--12 to 1 Elevation, 16 to 1 Seal Rock, 1 Master Delaval, Apa, Volume, Mahuta, ' Armistice, Tru£C, 20 to 1 Aeolus, Starl ina, Coniform, 25 to 1 Downfall, FircJ iron, Grand Slam, Harvest, Mystifica- , tion, Montigo, Marguerite, Maniopoto, • l'aritutu, Seaman, Sir Tristram, Ziml merman, 3,1 to 1 Astrakan, Bonny Glen, .1 'Frisco, Grafton Loch, GlenuUin, Lapland, 1 Oxton, St. Joe, 50 to 1 Koran, Landwern, Waitapu, CO to 1 Chatterer, llippolytus, > Maharanui, Rendrock, Abberratiou. Ani- ■> boiso, 100 to 1 Auratus, Buccleugh, Fandango, Gazcley, Gold Thread, Ivanoff. I Moloch, Probable, Signor, The Rand, Sa- ; gn, 150 to 1 Culmination, Crichton, 1 King's Lynn, Silkwcb, Miss Advance, '• Outlaednr, Paragon, Stepping Stone, So- " inartcria, Waionc, b.g by Conqueror, r b.g. by Eton.

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