SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1407, 9 July 1881, Page 4

SPORTING MEMORANDA.

The two Darebins and the two Monmouths appear to be most in favour for the Victoria Derby and Melbourne Cup, and each colt hus already been backed to win the double for more thsm £20,000. At Adelaide, sixteen of the Rapid Bay stud yeai lings brought 21 1<5 guineas, the \lmmi filly" topping the list at 400 guineas. Mr W. Filgate, junr., is going to settle m Adelaide, and is erecting training stables there. Camballo has been purchased by Mr Weeks for India. Mr Byron Moore hab consented to undertake the duiiesof Secretary to the Victoria Racing Club. His salary is stated to bo £700 per annum. "Augur " states that the list of applicants was reduced to Mr Moore and Mr George Fennier, and that there was only a narrow majority in favor of the former. Colonel Carlyon, an English horse owner, who was recently in Auckland, has arranged with the Auckland Stud Company to send out four of the best brood mares in England to Musket and Cap-a-pie, the progeny to be the joint property of the contracting parties. The agreement extends for seven years. A cablegram has been received that the balance of the mares selected by Sir Hercules Robinson were shipped for Auckland on the 16fh. Sir Thomas Elder, of Adelaide, has sent Ins two yonngsteia to M.mton to be ti amed. Bond Or's time for tlio City and Suburban, according to Benson's chronograph, was 2mm 7&ec. Last year Master Kildare won in 2mm 14s, while in 1879 Paiole'ii recoid was 2inin lo'sec. Pciegrino, winner of the Two Thousand, and second m the Derby, was bred at the Enfield Stud Farm, and was only a foal when the stud biokc up owing to the decease of Mr G. Payne. It was there tli.it Mr Taylor Sharpe purchased him as a speculation for 175 guineas. Mr Manse afterwards purchased him as an untned t\\ o-year-old for 700 guineas last November. I bee by my Australian files that the Gold Cup at JSpsom was won by the Duke of \Vebtminster's eh h Bend Or, who it will bo remembered won the Derby last year, Robeit the Devil also finishing 1 in the same relative position as he als>o held in that raee — second. The result of the Gold Cup proves that Bend Or's victory in the Derby over Mr Brewer's horse was not after all the fluke that it was suppobed to be. — Smbad.

Blue Gown.