SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1435, 13 September 1881, Page 3

SPORTING MEMORANDA.

Cambridge /Races. S The following are the nominations for the above race? }tf ' { Handicap Httrdle ! Raoe. — Rawenata, Harkaway, Matau, Sportsman, Doric, Maidsn Race.- -Saint, • Loaf ei I , ' Harkaway, Tommy Dodd. Cambridge Spring Handicap. — Grand Duchess, Slander filly, s Gilderoy, Rawenati.lEitfrf iQHail,? Robket, .Redeemer, Stanley, Maon. > Stewards Handicap. — Redeemer, Stanley, Orakau, Maori, Miss Domett, Rawenata, King Quail, Urand Duchess, Slander filly, Oilderoy. „ ■ Cambridge Steeplechase. — Harkaway, Sportsman,. Matau, Doric. . Walter Scott, Secretary. Mr HorsfalPs King. Quail, in splendid condition, passed through Hamilton yesterday afternoon, en route for Cambridge, in order to prepare his "toilet " for the Spring f meeting, which takes place on Thursday, 22nd inst. Mr Prince telegraphed from Melbourne the pleasing intelligence that the Te Anau had a fair passage , over, "and th'a.t ,Sir Modred, Somnus, Idalium, and Hilarious were landed without a scratch on them. T^e team proceed to Abe Davis stables near Flemington, where boxes have been taken for them, and Messrs Prince and Goodman will take up their quarters on the spot. The programme for the Auckland Summer races is a fine one, the stakes amounting £1850, or £250 more than last season's. There will be three day's racing, and the principal stakes will be the Cup, of 300 soys ; R.O. Handicap, of 200 soys ; Plate, of 150 soys j and Steeplechase Handicap, of 150 soys. Besides these there are ten stakes of 100 soys each. Musket's fee is fixed by the Auckland Stud Company for one mare, 35 guineas .and 30 guineas each for two mares belonging to the same owner; Cap-a-pie 10 guineas, and 7 guineas respectively. ENGLISH ITEMS. ( , Harry Adams, a well-known steeplechase rider at home passed away on the Ist July. Peter treated the spectators at the Newmarket July fleeting to some more in-and-out runftingr, declining 'to J try in the Cup, but winning the Bunbury Stakes as he liked. ' St. Marguerite, who won the Chesterfield Stakes is full sister to Thebais, winner' of the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks this year. " Charibert has now won the July Cup two yearsjn succession. After the conclusion of the racing at Newmarket, a match was decided between Sir J. D. Astley and the Duke of Portland the latter winning by three lengths. The time for the July Stakes, 84 yards short of three quarters of a mile, was lmin 122 sec. Bal Gal last year occupied lmin 19isec; Mask, the previous year, lmin 26seo; Rupperrs, in 1878, lmin isfsee ; while in 1877 and 1876, when Strathfleet and Warren Hastings were the winners, the time taken was lmin 188ec. St. Marguerite won the Chesterfield Stakes in lmin 6aec. Last year Iroquois took lmin 13sec to do the five furlongs in. Mr L. de Rothschild, who was on a previous occasion blackballed, has on a second essay been elected a member of the Jockey Club. Rowell has shown himself a leader among leaders, easily the master on the racecourse of any man this world has yet produced. But it is doubtful whether we shall ever know what he might accomplish in a six-day race, as he says he will not start in another. In the fall he will return to his country and will stand prepared to go twenty-four hcurs against any man living. The Astley Belt, typical of the long distance championship of the world, has passed into the possession of Charles Rowell, Chesterton, England He has thrice in succession held it against all comers, and has won it four times in all. His scores in the four races are as follows : —New York, March, 1879, 51)0 miles 180 yards ; New York, Sept. 1879, 524 miles 77 yards; London, Nov. 1880, 5G6 miles, 63 yards; London, June," 1881, 281 miles. Mr Hutching", the professional champion short-distance runner of England offers to run any man in the world 75 to 100 yards, for £100 to £500 a side. Mr L. E. Myers, the great American sprint runner while in England takes his practice spins with Mr Hutchinga, whom he pronbunces the fastest man in ' the world. Blue Gown.