CAPAND JACKET

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 4

CAPAND JACKET

. «. By Dainty Ariel. *

NOTICE. Secretaries of Clubs, owners of horses, and turfites *T*are requested to forward announcements and items o f new for this column. Questions affecting tht Turf, ttc, will b gladly answered, and hets decided. JLll communications to be addressed to the "Editor

RACING FIXTURES.

NSW ZEALAND. "Feb. 26, 27, and 28— Dunedin J.C. Autumn. March 5 and 6 — Wanganui J.C. Autumn . March 17 and 19— Hawke's Bay J.C. Autumn. March 17— Henderson's Mill J.C. Autumn. March 25 — Egmont B.C. Autumn.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Inquirer. — 1. The Newmarket Handicap is to be run on the 28th February, and the Australian Cup on the sth March. 2. £ mile. 3. 2± miles. Angler. — 1. Sir Garnet was originally known as The Hebrew.. He is by Countryman out of^ Tinfinder, and therefore full brother to thef Melbourne Cup winner in 1882. 2. He has never won- a race, but has run second repeatedly. 3. 5 years. j Hales is recovering rapidly from his late illness. I see Mr Weston has Azim entered for the hurdles at the C. J.C. Autumn. " Flaneur " thinks the winner of the Wanganui Cup will come from Tigredia, Sir Bedevere, Forerunner, Clogs, Bayard, and Ahua. Brown and Rose, the game little mare who so cleverly appropriated the A.J.C. Summer Cup for A. F. Smart on Boxing Day, is only a mere pony, measuring under the standard,, exactly 14. 2. Sir Garnet (late Hebrew) is now first favourite for the Newmarket Handicap. He has been backed straight out to win £17.000, and in the double with Le Grsfeid for the Australian Ci#for £15,000. The Sportsman of the 11th hears " that "Welcome Jack and Clarence will be in Melbourne this week." This looks as though Jack was going for the two big autumn events, the Newmarket and Australian Cup Handicaps. Messrs W. Lyons and J. Gallagher, the well-known metalicians returned this week from Wellington. They say business was very " quisbee," and they lost money (of course). Lyons escaped laying the roan fraud, but Joe was not so lucky. •'Vigilant" says that a boy named Saunders, who has been riding well lately, having no fewer than five wins at Greelong, is the coming light - weight of Australia. One bookmaker has taken £150 to £100, and backed him to make the beat average this season. A testimonial is being raised to Mr Harry Giles, a Victorian bookmaker, who, by aid of his great strength, saved several lives at the Cootamundra railway accident. Upwards of £200 was raised in a ; quarter-of-liour at the Victorian Club-room in furtherance of this object. They have a Derby over in Persia (6ays an exchange). A lot of men enter their horses and deposit the entrance f&e|s with the Shah. The race is then run, after which the Shah takes possession of the winner, and sticks to all the entrance money. There is- a businesslike simplicity, about sport in Persia which speaks for itself. " Vigilant " says : — " Welcome Jack (9st 71bs) is probably the greatest horse tiiat New Zealand ever turned out, not even excepting Sir Modred, who, with 9st 71bs on his back, would be voted a moral for the race under notice (the Newmarket Handicap). There are few in the race whose prospects seem rosier than the Maorilander's." The following is the latest Dunedin Cup betting up to Wednesday night : — 400 to 100 ! against Wapiti; 400 to 100, Vanguard; 100 to 20, Trenton ; 100 to 20, Lady Emma ; 100 to 12, Sou' - wester ;. 100 to 12. Captain Webster ; 100 to 8, Oudeis ; 100 to 8, Johnny Faulkner; 100 to 6, Nelson; 100 to 5, Adaman, Poet, Minerva, and Salvage. The feature of betting is the advance of Trenton, who has come into the market to-day. Oudeis is also in demand, and has been backed for several hundreds. Writing last week anent equine nomenclature, I called attention to the fact that some fellow down Lawrence way had dubbed his trotting crack "Maud S." I also in i another par said — " Old Foul Play heads I the Lawrence Handicap with 9st lOlbs." I now find that the latter is another instance of this stupid habit, as the Foul Play turns out to be " late Coburg." I wish the owner would give somebody a chance of using some Coburg* cloth. N.B.— lt is frequently used to cpyer coping ! The^papifully ignorant ass who compiles by ,-fehe aiW.p^scissors and paste a "brief men- * -"tion ''-"column for the Bulletin, takes exception to'iny writing of Fred Archers deceased wife as "., ''"'his. ', year-old;. bride." I did not write year- 'olcl ! female,' or .girl, or woman j you yob !

I put bride. As she had not been, two years in the business, it was perfectly proper, and read right enough to any educated person. But then a man who would attack a par. on such a sad subject, and written in such a sincerely kind strain, must be an ignorant fellow, anyhow. *" After totally discarding a great crowd of cattle he says have not a fifty-to-one chance of winning, "Vigilant," in the Melbourne Sportsman of the 11th inst., picks Malua, Le Grand, Welcome Jack, Archie, Mozart, Soldier Boy, Sir Garnet, Prometheus, Coningsby, Dirk Hatteraick, Middlemarch, Ghost, Meander, Surprise, Velocipede, Lavington, Zantippe, Prince Imperial, Bohemian, Bonnie Scotland, Bonnie Dundee, or Leperelio to furnish the winner of the Newmarket Handicap, and finally pins his faith to Coningsby and Middlemarch. " Flaneur " writes in the Yeoman as follows : The visitors are all back from the .Wellington races, and some funny tales do, ihey tell of " biters bitten " and pots boiling over, to say nothing of the horses running with the clogs on at one meeting, and without them at the [ other, winning in the latter case with the most ridiculous ease. Oh ! it is a funny game, this horse racing, as played in Wellington, which a friend who knows the ropes has J always declared to be " tlie thievingist meeting in New Zealand, sir !" Rubina ran consistently throughout, and repaid the confidence^ of her backers, as she landed five races for her party. I hear of one owner who got flatt^ed out, by consenting to stiffen%his horsef and backing another. Bob Derrett was put up on the supposed stiff 'un, and horrified the owrfer by winning. Bob had no other instructions, and would not have accepted the mount had any other been tendered, but it was a fearful sell to the party, who declared he had been " done brown " by the unlocked for viciory of his own horse. The hardest part or^the affair was having to accept the ! congratulation's of the lucky (?) backers of his horse, who rallied round him, to wish him

The Olihuhu Racing Club hold their first meeting on the nice course selected on Saturday (to-morrow). As a train will run special at 12.40. which will land visitors considerably near the course, and from the nature of the entries, good sport may be expected. A large attendance can be relied upon. For the principal events the following are left in : — Steeplechase : Whalebone, list; Sunray, lOst 121bs ; Alaric, lOst lOlbs ; New Tear, lOst 81bs ; Banana, 9st 71bs; Marmion, 9st 41bs; Lilly Langtry, 9st. Racing Club Handicap : Fishwoman, Bst lOlbs ; Mystery, Bst; Victoria, 7st 71bs ; Linda, 7st olbs ; Revolver, 7st 2lbs; Snake, 7st; Winnie, 6st lOlbs; Mignonette, 6st 21bs ; Nanny, 6st. Hurdles : Nigger, list; Whalebone, lOst lOlbs: Alaric, lOst 71bs; Bushman, lOst olbs ; Worm. lOst ; Marquis, 9st lOlbs ; Frivolity, 9st 61bs ; Sham, 9st slbs; Cricketer, 9st 41bs; Over the Hills, 9st. Publican's Purse: Mystery, Bst 4lbs; Revolver, Bst ; Victoria, 7st 12lbs ; Worm, 7st 81bs;. Snake, 7st 61bs; Otara, 7st olbs; Winnie, 7st ; ■ Mignonette, 6st 81bs ; Phoebe, 6st 71bs ; Catch-em-if-you-ca,n, 6st 61bs ; Luna, 6st 4lbs; Little Nell, 6st 41bs ; Nanny, 6st 21bs. Sunray should win the Steeples, unless Alaric consents to go for once like a decent horse and not like a march hare. If he chooses the former he will be too good and too fast for any of them. The R.C. Handicap should fall to Mystery (Bst), with Victoria and Linda as her nearest attendants. The Hurdles should be won by Alaric, with Nigger and Worm about. The Publican's Purse should be a good struggle between Victoria, Mystery and Revolver-, the latter for choice.

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