SALE OF RACEHORSES.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1222, 29 April 1880, Page 3

SALE OF RACEHORSES.

At the Haymarket on Saturday, a number of racehorses which competed in the Auckland Racing Club's Axitmnn Meeting on Thursday and Friday, were put up for sale. The first offered was' Sannterer, a 3-year-old chestnut colt, owned by Mr Vallance, out of a Riddlesworth mare by Sator. He was bought by Mr Gallagher for £61. The next put up was the wellknown racer Vampire. He was started at £50, and bidding went up to £105, at which price he was withdrawn, the owner reserving him at £150. The steeplechase horse Eversley was started at £20 and run up to £40, but was withdrawn •at a reserve of £50. The 2-year-old colt Hilarious was then put forward, and a good deal of interest was manifested in his sale. The first bid was the moderate one of "£5O, from whicli bidding jumped to £100, and then ran rapidly to £180, when a pause occurred ; but a fresh start was made and bidding ran up to £240, which was Mr John Smith's offer. There was no advance, and the owner withdrew the colt, stating that the lowest he would accept for him was 1000 guineas. A bay yearling oolt out of Occult by Pacific, bred by Mr Stafford, of Nelson, was offered, but was withdrawn, the highest bid being only £31, while the reserve was £60. A bay yearling colt by Papapa, out of Una (own brother to Ariel), was withdrawn at £70, the reserve being £150. The'gale) as will be seen,' was not a successful one, as out of the lots offered only one was sold.— Herald.

COUBTING UNDEB DIFFICULTIES. — He came up a little late, stepped in without ringing, and striding softly into the parlor, dropped into an easy chair with the careless grace of a young man who is accustomed io the programme. "By Jove," he said to the figure sitting in the dim obscurity of the sofa. "By Jove, I thought 1 was never going to see you. alone again. Your mother never goes away from the house nowadays ; does she, Minnie?" "Well, not amazingly frequently," cheerfully replied the old lady from the sofa. " Minnie's away so much of the time now, I have to stay in." In the old hickory at the end of the house the moping owl complained to the moon much in its usual style, the katydids never sang more clearly, and the plaiotive^pry.of the whip-poor-will filled/the night withjpoetry, hut he did'nt hear any of it, al! the* same/ "And by George," he said to a friend fifteen minutes later," if I didn't leave my hat on the piano and my cane in the hall, I'm a goat. Think of 'm ? Forget 'em ? Strike me blind if I knew I had any clothes on at all. What I wanted was fresh air, and I wanted about thirty, acres of it, and mighty quick too 1"- l\; ( . -