SPORTING.
(Reuter's Telegrams,) Melbourne, October 27. Tho acceptances for the Melbourne Cup, announced to-nipht are as follows: Acolyte, Arsenal, Bosworth, Blink Bonny, Britisher, Brown and Rose, Cerise and Blue, Coriolanus, Courtier, Cyclops, Despot, Dunlop, First Chester, Grace Darling, Hilltop, Honeydew, Impulse, Kit Nubbles, Lesbia, Liverpool, Lord Exeter, Lord Wilton, Metal, Minerva, Nordenfeldt, Oudeis, Palarenda, Plausible, Prime Minister, Prometheus, Remus, Sheet Anchor, St. John, St. Lawrence, Stornoway, Thunderbolt, Tom Brown Trenton, Uralla, Velocipede, Warwick, Winchester, Wing, and lellowhammer, being a total of 44 horses. Melbourne, October 28.
The following are the latest' betting quotationsCup.—Despot, 100 to 8; Sheet Anchor, 100 to 5. Derby.—Nordenfeldt, 7to 4; Dunlop, 6to 1; First Chester, 10 to 1; others unchanged. This day. The Nun is quoted at ten to one, and Blair Gowrie twelve to one for the Maribyrnong Flat, The Age this morning states that it is highly probable that the Hon, James White will start Nordenfeldt for tho Derby,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2132, 29 October 1885, Page 2
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155SPORTING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2132, 29 October 1885, Page 2
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