SPORTING BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5177, 8 November 1895, Page 3

SPORTING BREVITIES.

Artillery will leave for Amorica at the end of November. A furthor attempt to train St. Kntheriue has been abandoned. Tho death is announced of Lass o' The Hills, dam of the hurdle racohorse Brin, Casket has been eased of his work again. The sou of Castor struck himself recently. The first race mooting of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club was held at Balhirat. Derrett Ims ridden the winners of two New Zealand Cups in Tasman and Vanguard. j Two marcs have won the New Zealand Cup. Spade Guinea in 1886 and Rosefeldt in 1893. Tirailleur was the sfrongest favourite that has ever gone to the post for the New Zealand Cup. She was drawn in the St. Albans consolation by a syndicate of twenty-live Ancklanders. The Australian Jockey Club has decided to permit licensed trainers to train ponies and galloivays. The Auckland Racing Club proposes to make extensive alterations to tho saddling paddock at Ellerslie. _ Owing to the death of Lord William Beresford's father, Paris did not start for tho Caiubridgeshiie. Up to the p'resent time the New Zealand Cup has only once been won by a gelding. Tho occasion was last year, when Impulse won. Tulloch, by Sword Dance-Wel-come Katie, has been sold in Auckland and will go to the stud in tho Wanganui district, Onyx, the dam of Nordenfeldt, lias produced a filly foal to Castor, and Satauella has foaled a full sister toStClomentsandStPaul. Tourbillon, by Robinson Crusoe, and Rosary (by Monmouth) the dam of Calculus, have both foaled colts to Carbine Artilleur is very well just now. His trainer seems at last to have discovered the proper method of treating the son of Artillery. The largest field thathasconfested the New Zealand Cup is seventeen' This number started last year. In 1885 sixteen horses went to the post. St. Hippo is making a satisfactory recovery from hisattiickofinfluenza, but will not run before the Auckland i Racing Club's Sum»ier Meeting, Rosefeldt holds ».. record of 3min 29scc for tho New Zealand Cup. Vanguard, in 1894, occupied tho slowest time on record for the raco —3min 48|seo. Huxtabie, like Derrct, has ridden tho winners of two Now Zealand Cups. He was up on Spade Guinea and Lochiel, both of whom, by the way, wero trained by It. Mason. Welcome Jack, in 1884, carried 9st 111b, the heaviest weight over borne in the New Zealand Cup, Tho highest weight over carried into a place is tho 9st 101b which Nelson had in the saddle when ho finished second to Spado Guinea, in 1880. Derrett, F. Holmes, Lawton, 0011010, 1010, Gallagher, Lindsay and G. Smith, of the riders who havo won the New Zealand Cup, are still following their profession. Huxtabie, however, has relinquished it, Dodd is dead and Thomas has loft Now Zealand. Until last year Rosefeldt held the distinction of being the greatest outsider that has ever won the New Zealand Cup. She pajd a dividend of £23 12s. hast year, however, lmpulso returned his supporters £2B 8s 6d for each pound invested qn tho outside totalisntor. Of the twelve horses which have been returned as winners of tho New Zealand Cup, Spado Guinea and Tirailleur are dead; Locniol, Manton and British Lion nro at the stud in Australia; Tasman, Vanguard, Fusillade, Wolverine, St, Hippo arc at the stud in New Zealand, and Impulse is still racing,— Lijttehn Times.