AUCKLAND CUP, 2¼ Miles.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 205

AUCKLAND CUP, 2¼ Miles.

I Run ok Tuesday, 26th December.

CONDENSED ITEMS. >-Some of the Southern horses are expected to &weby the Botomahana, 'due to-day (Friday. ,-" Sir Launcelot " thinks Tim Whiffler one of 68 most leniently treated horses in the Auckland Cup. *-In answer to two correspondents, Turquoise * Welcome Jack do not carry penalties in the Auck**Cup for their recent wins. —The pencillers were pretfy busy at the Taka- ** Meeting, but the public had the best of the "Seringa ■ J-One of the bookmakers in the paddock at J* Takapuna Meeting laid £50 to £5 that the Merlin *rainty would not come off in the President's Plate. !>Sir Modred, Lady Emma, Somnus, Tasman, * Vanguard are most in demand for the Dunedin Cup. flatter has already been backed by the stable to win '•Boa round sum. Mode, the Christchurch Welcome Stakes &«■ o£ 1880, has beeu put to Hornby. La Mode is fester to Lurline and Le Loup, being by Albany ™P'J, out of Mermaid (imp.) •bCaptain Filder, of Devonport, writes comg&ng of a Musket colt bred by him being unfairly Sps?d because he was conduced to a gelding. He "s it impertinent on the part of certain people. >There was a deal of feeling over' the win of ?TOop in the St. Andrew's Handicap, and efforts J™made by several sports to match Lone Hand Jfiw the game little mare, same distance and weights. f, Whin? came of it. >Ibe special meeting called by the Wanganui ***?. Club (on requisition) to consider the advisability a committee to act with Mr Hately in SWgxhe Handicap for the" Autumn Meeting, turned y Wmect fiasco, none of the gentlemen who signed Ij^owition turning up. After some discussion jKt«ecwed by those present that no altertion be r ?.if the.xiresent system of handicaps.

— The Weekly Press says the Auckland Cap is the best handicap issued this year, and thinks the big event of the Wellington Summer Meeting is at the mercy of Bundoora. " Sir Launcelot " also thinks our Cup handicap is a creditable production. — Mr Snider, the well-known metallician, informs " Sir Launcelot" that he has opened a £500 book on the Canterbury Derby of 1884. The owner of the winner will thus have an opportunity of doubling the 500 soys. added by the C.J.C. to the vhree-year-old event. — "Where on earth is the starter ?" was the cry at Takapuna previous to the running of the principal events. The horses and jockeys were kept waiting fully twenty~-flve minutes, and in the Steeplechase it was suggested on the stand that they should start themselves. .-,„.-" -^.'™J;s^~t»«~ — Weights for the Canterbury Jockey Club Cup and Sprint Handicap, run on New Year's Day, were issued at the latter end of last week, and in the Cup, Salvage Bst 31b, King Quail 7st 51b, Emir Bey 7st 31b, and The Poet 7st 21b, appear to me to have the best of it. — Mr Adams informs me that a little over £11,000 went through the totalisator at the Takapuna Meeting. The new stand and arrangements for procuring tickets and receiving dividends proved a great boon, and. it is Mr Adams' intention, to erect something similar for our Summer Meeting, a fact which those who patronise the instrument will no doubt be glad to hear. — Major Morse, the well-known Wanganui sportsman, whose death was telegraphed the other week, was the breeder of one or two good animals — notably Ladybird by Sir Hercules, and whose dam, Moth, he purchased from Mr Redwood, who brought the mare down from Sydney in 1852. Ladybird was a real game bit of stuff, and among her many achievements she won the Australian and New Zealand Champion Eace held in Dunedin in 1863, when she met and defeated the crack horse of Australia, Mormon. In 1873 Major Moxse settled in "Wanganui, having in his stud the brood mares Chance, Fide 3, and Fortuna. From them he has since teed a few fair animals, among whom were Venture, Lost Chanco, Confident, Sincerity, The Gem, Astronomer, and Odd Trick,

Sewing Machines. — Singer's improved, "with cover and all extras, £5 5s j Wertheim, £i 10s j Home Shuttle, £3; Knitting Machine, £7 (Howe, White, Davis, &c), always in stock at D. S. Chambers', 70 Queen-street, Auckland, Wholesale and Retail Sewing Machine Depot.

Odds. Horse and Age. "Wgt. Trainer. St. lb. gto2o "Welcome Jack, 3yrs 7 8 Lunn 99- 14 Turquoise, 3yrs 7 4 Mason 8&- 10 Fitzhercules, 4yrs 8 4 French BO- 10 Eewi, syrs 6 7 Thornton w- 10 Vortex, syrs 610 Eaynes g»- 8 The Poet, syrs • 7 7 Higgott W- 8 Piscatorious, 6yrs 8 8 French W- 8 Soukar, aged 7 2 J. Munn ■ w- 8 Dewdrop, aged 610 J. Laing w- 7 Louie, 4yrs 8 0 Chaafe g- 7 Kalo, 3yrs 7 4 D.Taylor w- 6 Tim Whiffler, syrs 8 0 Bowlands *~ 6 Hippodarnia, 4yrs 713 Birchall w- 6 Merlin, aged 710 Wheeler gp 6 Virginia Wate^, Syrs 812 Proffifct W- 5 Moonstone, syr-s 6 7 J. Laing g- 5 Eingask, 3yrs 613 Profiitt *p 5 Minerva, 3yrs 6 8 Higgott gp 4 Pishwoinan, 3yrs .6 10 Birchall Jp 4 Lara, aged 610 D. Taylor Jp 4 Amazon,. 3yrs 6 8 Millison «p 2 Contractor, 3yrs 6 7 Kelly gp^ 1 Gilderoy, 6yrs 6 7 McKinnon