SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1388, 26 May 1881, Page 3

SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Walter's totalisator paid, a £28 7s dividened over the Adelaide Cup, The V.R C. will receive applications for tho vacant secretaryshid until the lsc proximo. Otiinaru Steeplechase are fixed for the 9th June. I have not seen the particulars, but learn that £210 will be given in stakes. The charges brought by the police agninst Mr Abbott, of Auckland for promoting consultations, have for the second time fallen through. Mr Scott has (flays the Rangitikei Advocate) sold his mare Lady Mary to Mr Donnelly, of Napier, She is being trained for the Wanganui meeting. Gorton, the Thunderbolt — ' yra colt, has been brought to Dunedin, and is quartered at the Forbury under Keans care. He is a regular strapper. Following tho Auckinnd Satins? Club, the Dunedin Jockey Club have disqualified the horse Golden Crown, his owner (Mr Byera), and his jockey (Byers, jun.), at the recent Panmure meeting. Totalisator won the Adelaide Cup, carrying sst 71b. He i-< a three-year-old colt, belonging to Mr Hill's stable, and was got by Bluegown from Deceptive, by Yelverfcon — Blossom, by The Swede — Violet, by Gratis. His best performance as a two-year-old was io beat Pawnbroker and Alethe in the Northern (S.A.) Allaged Stakes. Sir Thomas Elder's horses arrived safe and sound in England. The enterprising South Australian may find encouragement in the partial victory of the Yankees in the Two Thousand Guineas to persevere even if unsuccessful for a while, in,endeavourinsr to win for the Colonies some of the good things going ou in England. ■ Eight hundred and thirty-six pounds was the dividend ,paid by the totalisator ovor the Goodwood Handicap at Adelaide, One man got the total invested,' minus the uspal 10 per cent. He, was the only speculator on D.O.D, It is the, possibility of such, an occurrence as this that, makes the totalisator popular, "with, 1 those who only do ready-money betting in, email sums,. I hope eomo decent hard- up fellow got it. vl , „, , i [ , , , , 81/ OB GoYTX.,

At a meeting of the Waipahi School* Committee la«t .week 'Mr Froit'' proposed that prices should be* given for afcten- , dance, When three'trieinbers of committee ' at once offered a'pvizo "eaOh^ ;/'' / l> i The rabbii l UuUmoe%\ im'aki^ 'itself ■felt in the Waitakf J distribi;^nowr. For some time, .^apk ,a. numb^ jof nje^riftrej eamea a, living* 'by f f sending/to jnarkei killed iu^Ue/'^ni^bf Kuroy, but bunny is on the increase nevertheless..