SPORTING.
Mr A R Blackwood, the owner of Vengeance, tbe winner of the Australian Cup, has been on a visit to New Zealand, and last week purchased the hurdle racer, Ixion, from Mr Rutherford for £3OO.
The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, it is Baid, made £l6O out of its late meeting. MrD O'Brien has sold Wbimberel the three year old son of St Albans and Curlew to a Victorian sportsman for 800 guineas. Tl>erc is some talk of tendering a complimentary race meeting to Mr Henry Redwood, "the grandfather of the New Zealand turf."
Hazel's time (2min 37sec8) in the Great Autumn Handicap last week is the fastest time in which that race hag been run.
The Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club has invited applications for the post ol handicapper, thp saUry for which has been fixed at £l5O per annum.
The statement that Wolveriue has been withdrawn from the New Zealand Cup is incorrect. Tiraillerie is being backed already in the South for the N.Z. Cup,
Prime Warden has been scratched for six months for suspicious running in the Sockburn Handicap at the recent Autumn meeting.
Mr George Cutts considers Impulse the best quartered St Leger he has seen.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3785, 14 April 1891, Page 2
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