A RECORD OF SPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 767, 17 May 1877, Page 2

A RECORD OF SPORT.

(Written specially for the ' Waikato Times.) May 12, 1877. (Concluded from our last.)

The Timaru meeting was principally noticeable for the good racing aud the good form at last shown by Cloth of Gold, who won the Tockey Club Handicap, doing the two miles in 3min 43sec (very fast time), and the Timaru Cup, two and a quarter miles, in 4min 18sec. His opponents included Tenipleton, Puugawerewere, Danebury, Tibania, and Eclipse, so that he beat some of the best ' cattle ' in the colony.

' The Dunedin Birthday meeting has secured some good entries. The trotting race included in the programme has attracted no leas than \

nineteen, among which ia Dolly Varden, a Cup candidate. How are the mighty fallen !

The following are the names aud pedigrees of the brood mares just imported by the Middle Park Company ;— AglaWf ch m, by Knowslej out of Miss Wilkinson by Cossack — Knowsley by Stockwell, out of an Orlando more j Fleurange, ch m, foaled in 1872, by Consul out of Mademoiselle de Fontenoy — Con-sul-by Mona"rque out of Lady Lift \ En Avant, b f, foaled in 1873, by

Lord Lyon out of Lady Mavy, by

Orlando — Lord Lyon by Stockwell out of Paraliigm j Strenua, br f,

foaled in 1874, by The Duke out of Mellona by Teddidgton — Duke by Stockwell out of Bay Celia by Or-

lando ; Rupee (late Half-a-Cro\vn), b m, foaled in 1871, by Dollar out of Minouche by the Baron — Dollar by the Flying Dutchman out of Payment. Aglaia is universally pronounced the best \ Strenua is highly spoken of; bub "Sinbad," of tho '■' Canterbury Weekly .Press,' says he is disappointed with the highborn En Avant, who is a half sister

to Gang Forward. The other two are spoken of as serviceable wellbred mares. The Middle Park Company are evidently going in " big licks." At Mr GrifKiths' sale the other day they bought Traducer for 800 guineas (very cheap in my opinion), and tbvee valuable imported English mares — viz., Idaiia,

by Uambusca-n j Maria Theresa, by Rataplan ; and Hammock, by Orestes. They only sold three yearlings at their late sale, but io must be remembered they have only started about ten months. Their

other sires are Castaway, and Daniel O'JRorke. 1 have not seen it, but I

am told their place is not particularly well adapted for rearing delicats young stock : it is too level and

has too few trees for shelter. On

the day that the Park yearliugs were sold a lot i of Mr Noswortby's were

put np afid realised tfair prices. This sale waß'rendered noteworhyby tlie price fetched by tne- 2-year^oJd Le ; Loup,a full brother to LurlineV'and eulogised by *the b^st. judges as superior in looks and racing qualities to any 2-year-Old in the Southern hemisphere, though that, as the Georgian stump orator observes, 'f is a big -word." There 1 haft- been' a rattling competition .for r his jposses- '• sion between Messrs 'Walker,' Stead, and Snider, the bopkmake^/.and any one who says that the " metallician's" is a loshig game need only have seen the cool sang froid with ■ which- SYiider - Offered !^^ thojisa.hd and : fifty," to have been cpnjv^ed on the instant .. .Ho vrpver, .Messrs Walker and Go had determined to ' have the colt, « and ;theyl bid/ 1,1.00 guineas, sat5 at which Silider!'" caTved." ,Le, Loup has been placed .in ]tfr Webb's liands for training^ ; Hejis 'entered in almost every race of im- ( portance in this colony, and also in j Australia. . Right Bower has succumbed to the injury he met with while running in the Dunedin Cup. He died a few days ago. He was a sOn of the Peer, and was imported from> Victoria, two and a-half years ago. Cricket has given way to football, a sign that winter is approaching. The season has been opened- in a business-like manner by : aianeeting of delegates of the various clubs, at which a list of fixtures for the year has been agreed upon, rules—Rugby Union— arid method of scoring settled, and several, other matters of general interest .arranged. You will see that the date of the Waikato match; is the 14th 'July-;, of course. this is fixed subject to. the approval of your club.