SPORTING NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10234, 26 June 1883, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

1 ■' ' [ByFuineub-] y. ''■'■■ The Hawke's Bay' Steeplechase.meet-, ing, set down for the 28th instant 1 , promises fair to be a most interesting tryst, as several horses which performed at different meetings on Queen's Birthday will meet there to try conclusion's. Of the twenty-three noniinated"ior the chief event no fewer than seventeen have cried ~. " content "; . the non-contents being Canard, Barbary," A.G., ,PhudeeD, ' Feai-not, and Weka. Game old Clarence,-*: ' tbe .hero of .many a, hard-fought race, • over stiff, .country,, heads the; list :.with a .steadier of .12st:l 21b,'. whilst Soud, Pas* tirae,)andi-Oalitimty;. bring np the rear with but lOst. ', >Of .Clarence's ability to ■ carry, his impost to ■victory- there are many believers; and lam'htilf Hticlined to thinthe : can myself, seeing thpt his niostvdang'erous opponent, ! "Canard, is M 6t J g6ing for-it.*- But then'tEejVeteran jnaj not, be thp 7 pne ," intended .V ,by his .party, who iii'ay pin' their faitfi toQuam•byj' i the.'T'iBaiah.ian; : with 1 "his ''moderate 'tiureUn' of _llst;Glb';.'a!',weignt' "lie° should ,b? ( quite master, of. That Quamby will be .brought to, the.p ost. in. Butler's best style,, and be piloted ..by- a first-class cro^s- country, horseman,: is pretty certain, as it is not. likely -he,, would be takenso far from home -byi aoi good a judge as Patsy if- not in igood^ buckle; Next comes Mount with list 51b, which is a very fair impost. If the official' time for the Grand Stand Steeplechase,,jvhich he won here on the 24th May ."carrying 12st 31b, is correct, he ought to, bo very handy at the finish on tbe 28th, as he did the three miles 12sec. faster tlwn the dead-heater in the big race on that date. LochJ Lomond, list 31b, can .hardly get home first, as Buahine ' wifcK a 'nound less, who carried llst'9lb to yictorjrhere after a dead heat with' Dhudeen, lOst 71b (l am including the over/wdights of the two latter), ought to hold the Day Dawn horse safe at the weights. Eet'orm, list 21b, .must have; better luck than he had here to .carry, tie Keitt^ colours to victory on the 28 th ; whilst- 5 * Diomedes with list, or 71b less than he carried here, has a'good outsideisuow'if he has improved as he ought in. the interval,_as it was only want of. work that kept him from scoring a win hero on the Queen's Birthday. Chandler, '-'list, ' cannot be said to be over weighted,' but I think the company, will be/a 1 little too good for him at Napier. ' Lady ißab at lOst 101 b is 111 b better of? than, sjiei was here, and ■ should run : , very 'forward, if fitand able to ieep her feet. Tartar,, lOst 81b', I don'c. fancy,- . J b,ut.,l\rgata, lOst 71b, if Frewen is up;,oughtjj;qiiave a show, as he cau travel: and. jump too when he likes. He is very- fit d: tear, c< and no one would grudge the doctor a '" victory, as he is a true lover of sport, and gives the public a square run for their money, a thing to be- chalked up in big letters .in those days of running to suit the owner's book. Morning Star, lOsfc 71b, has no cause of complaint, nor has Fashion,' lOst 61b, but'' neither of them in my opinion will get a place. Wild Dayreli; lOst 61b, I know nothing of. Scud, lOst, has a lot to learn:'iri : the jumping business, I fancy, ■ before Af unn will score a big win' with him. .Pastime is let in very light ati-lOs&'.'and ■< as he can both jump and gallop X fancy he may give a better account of himself at Napier than ho did here, that is to say if he has picked up in his condition during the last month. Calamity; if she could only be kept- from rushing so headstrong at her .jumps -with only lOst to carry would have a>note of mine on her on the "machine," if trusted- to a resolute horseman of cool judgment. - To sum up I fancy Clarence, Quamby, Mount, Ituabine, Diomedes, Weata, and Pastime; will furnish the placed horses, and I think tho winner will be either CtAKEA'CE, QtJAMBY, or MOUNT. If anything? up sets tliis it will beJSTgata or Diomedes, but I expect to see either Clarence or Quamby hailed as tbe winner when all is over. For the Maidon, Diomedes, Pearnot, find A.G. are to my^tnind the most likely to, fill the places irythe order • named j' as Mr Stevetis's horse will start fresh for it, it being the first race on the card, & For the Ladies' Bracelet, I-J miles oa •,the.: flat, welter - weights, gentlemen riders, sixteen have been entered,, and I have no doubt the race wi'l be an interesting exhibition of " geutlemep," and if. not gentlemanly riders, as the term ." gentleman rider '!; r seems ■•-very-. -J elastic at snail country meetings, at one • of which I saw the veteran of Aramoho with a broad grin don silk as a " gentle^ man " jock,' whilst at others again I have scan nien weigh out who. strongly reminded me of poor Allan Gordon's well known Hues • — ; ' £ A gentleman xilop—a-ell I'm an outsider,^^' Bufc if h-/s a gent, who th.o lni^chicrs a 30'ck? I think it is about time the farce ; ww stopped, as in ue.trly every race of the kind I have seen men ride who were " professionals " pure and simple, although they wero voady to perjure themselves and swear they did not ride for hire. Oh ! dear no, but they always bud a befc of something handsome 'to nothing about it from the horse's owner or trainer oa their books. For the New Zealand Cup Tasman is at the head of the betting, 100 to 12 bsing his price, whilst Welcome Jack ig at 10 to 1. Matanaka has been pretty heavily backed, and now stands at 100 to 8. Nbnsenso and Leopold, the pro--perty of the Christchurch sporting medico who races under the norn d* course of Mr H. Horsfold, havo been leased to the Hou. W. Bobmson, who knows a good horse when he sees it, and kno'vs bow to malro racing pay like everything else ho embarks in. Leopold is a two-year-old; by Albany from Hermaid; and full brdihor to La Mode and ■ half brother to La Loup, the former of -M whom won tho Woloouio Stakes as a two-year-old, and the latter tho C.J.C. Handicap, Canterbury Cup, aud Christ, ctiurch. Plate at l\e Canterbury Sprino--uieoiiug, ISSO. Leopold tliurfforo cornea from ,1 winnir.s; family, as all Mermaid's proton/ havo tlistinguivhdil themselves

the first -water on the turf, but a veritahle Golconda in the, paddock, having produced the -mighty Darebin to the Peer. . If Leopold is worthy of his high lineage the Cheviot' squire will serve him up very warm before he has. done with him. , . ' - • • The Harrison - Churton dispute has ended amicably, and the cause of it has j been handed over to the owner. Twelve of the horses nominated for the Hawke's -Bay Steeplechase are Wanganui bred.