SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 1 November 1907, Page 3

SPORTING.

RACING IN AUSTRALIA. Received Oct. 31, 8.11 p.m. Melbourne, October 31. The latest quotations for the Melbourne Cup are:—3 to 1 against Apologue, 0> to 1 Mountain King, 13 to 2 Poseidon, 8 to 1 Mooltan and -Tartan, 10 to 1 Welcome Trist, 16 to" 1 Dyed Garments and Spinaway. There is no alteration in the others. The betting on the Derby is:—2 to 1 on Mountain King, 3 to 1 against Welcome Trist, 7 to 1 Master Foote. Gold Mount lias apparently been left in by mistaEe. TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") New Zealand Cup to-morrow. Master Delaval coming on. "Mr Preston" has paid up for his two horses, Ana. and Frisao, in the big race. Southern Cross with only 0.2 lo carry in the Spring Hurdles would make things merry if he were only himself. .1. llall will ride Mack Reynard in his Ritcarton engagements. The best price obtainable in Christchurch about the favorite combination, Master Delaval ami Mtmjeet, is 15 to 1. Contender, who is a quiet tip for the Stewards' Handicap, arrived at Riccarton on Saturday last.

Apologue promises to start a ''redhot" favorite for the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday next. Gazefey should take some beating in the New' Zealand Cup if the going is at all '•bedding." Sen Sim was shipped to Riccarton on Monday night, and will be ridden by If. Telford. The chestnut is in good fettle, and may account for one of tiie hurdleraces before he returns home. The winding-up gallops at Riecarton yesterday were particularly interesting. Gold Crest showed good form over six i furlongs. Bucclcuch covered a mile and a-lialf in fair time, but did not impress the watchers. Master Delaval easily settled Mahuta in a strongly-run tenfurlong bout. The Cup favorite is in great nick. Monartjj ran away from King Billy in a six-furlongs "go," and St. Aidan finished in front of Diamond Star in a four-furlong sprint. Frisco just beat Apa and St. joe in a slashing run over oue mile and a-quarter. Asteroid performed pleasingly over a similar

distance. Elevation finished ahead of Zimmerman in a mile and a-half gallop. Probable gave Armistice no chance over the same distance. Gazeley, ({rand Slam, Paritutu, and Maniopoto covered ten furlongs nicely. Paritutu seems very well. One more great English racehorse, after winning many races in his own country has been sold to do stud duly in a foreign land. Slieve Gallion, the favorite for the last Epsom Derby, has been sold 'for £15.000 to an Austrian buyer. Capt. Greer's famous eolt scored many triumphs as a 2 and 3-year-old, I his principal victories being the Doneas-

ter Champagne Stakes, the Newmarket Middle Park Plate, the Two Thousand Guineas, the Craven Stakes, and the St. James' Palace Stakes at Ascot. It is probable that his new owner will let him fulfil lus important engagements in England this season, after which he will be taken to the Kisber Stud (Austria) as a stallion. He was a brilliant sprinter, but let his party down heavily when he failed to "stay" the Epsom Derby distance, in, which he was unexpectedly beaten by Mr. "Boss" Croker's Orby, and only finished third.

The "sljng" of the racecourse is a weird and wonderful thing. As a "slangular" Yankee once put it, "Slang's the cheese now, and it makes talking beer and skittles for all of us. An ordinary man can cook up and hand out in a minute a bunch of intelligible talk that would take Webster two hours to dope out.'' In "the States" they speak of a "mudder" or a "slick article on a hard bottom"; "the also rans," "the never could and never would" "the is nows," and "the has beens."

P. J. Flannagan reports the following prices on the New Zealand Cup:—4 to 1 Master Delaval, 5 to 1 Elevation, 7 to 1 Apa, 8 to 1 Paritutu, 10 to 1 Armistice and Mahutn, 12 to 1 Grand Slam, Buccleugli, Frisco, Gazeley, and Maniopoto, from 20 to 1 upwards the others. The double is still open on the Cup and Stew- ( ards', good prices being the rule. |