SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1391, 2 June 1881, Page 3

SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Tj:\ thousand people attended the Birthday Racing for the St. Leger Stakes at Adelaide on the Queen's Bnthday. Only thicc hoibeb .staited for the race, Progress winning easily by 15 lennths. Laycock won the Champion Sculling 1 Race aftei a splendid tussle with Rush by halt-a-length at Sydney, on the 24th. Messenger was third. The C.J.C. new stand in course of erection will cost about £4,500. and is to be completed for the next Spring Meeting. I am sorry to state that the filly foal belonging to Mr Walters', by Hippocampus, out of Yatterina, got into a ditch a frw days ago and died. This is a serious loss to Mr Walters' as ho had been offered and refused £250 for it. Sportsmen throughout the island will learn this new s with regiet, as the owner no doubt looked tor great things from this grand contribution of blood. Mr Laing-'a Blink Bonny won the Handicap Hurdle Race at the Kai Tumutumu Races on the 24th ; Loafer was second and Stella third. At the same meeting" the Kai Tumu Cup fell to Pepa's Kai Namo easily, with Blink Bonny a bad second. I hear that a very interesting hurdle race match is to come off on the Papakura racecourse on the I9tli July, between Mr Roulston's Bid-a-weo and Mr Rutherfoid's grand old steeplechase horse Sportsman Stakes, £50 a-sido, and the weights same as the Papakura Handicap Hurdle Race. Great interest is evinced in the forthcoming match, and no doubt a good deal of money will change hands. It seems as if Fred Archer, the wellknown English Jockey, has taken a lease of the City and Suburban Handicap. Five winners in six years, and three in succession ip something extraordinary. The will of the late Mr Bagot, secretary of the V.R.C. has been proved under £4000. The Goodwood Handicap at the late Adelaide (S A.) Meeting, was won by a rank outbid er, and there was only one invester on the horse in the totalisator who pulled off £836 as a dividend. The only thoroughbred Australian horse that has retired from the turf unbeaten, is Grand Flaneur. Mr Long has rented a sister of hei m s for racing her career, the figure being 1000 guineas. The sporting fraternity of the Waikato will read with regret the announcement of the death of the local racer Sunbeam. It will be remembered that an accident befell this promising young mare when running at the Piako races in March last. Since the time of the accident, which was of the nature of a sprain, the unfortunate animal had exhibited no signs of recovery, and her owner having abandoned all hope of her coming round, she was shot on Sunday last. Sunbeam was the property of Mr 0. Brindle of Cambridge, and prior to the accident, had made good racing on the local courses. Last year's Derby winner has again come to the front this spring, It always takes a clipper to win the Epsom Derby, but Ben Or's last achievement — that of pulling off the City and Suburban Handicap with 9st up — proves heyond dispute that notwithstanding his defeats by Robert' the* Devil, the 6ou of Doncaster and Rouge Rose is not much inferior to the Ledger winner. Foxall won the second place for his' Yankee owner, and Mr Y. R. Graham's Post Obit, a, son of sterling f wag third. A grey horse oaljsd Buchanan was, 1 when the mail loft, first favorite, on the strength of winning; the Lincolnshire Handicap.-

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