SPORTNG MEMORANDA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1554, 20 June 1882, Page 2

SPORTNG MEMORANDA.

North's defalcations are assuming vast proportions as time goes on. First we were told that he cleared away from Wellington with £4000, the ostensible amount ofthesweep; novr the A mtr alas ian fnforms us that he took £8000 with him. As a matter of fact, however, North had sold only about 600 tickets at the time he levanted. The Victorian Trotting Club offer a purse of lOOOsovs. to be ttottecl for in mile heats, first three in five, in January next. The lace is not open to gelctings. Ted Joiips, the boss bookmaker, whose last coup was £3500 on Euclid down at the lecent Adelaide sace meeting, is a compositor by trade. Like Archibald Foi Les, he has found his true vocation. He still considers himself as a representati\ c of the Fourth Estate, and there is some talk of the Athcnreum Club giving him a bdiujuet when he returns to Sydney. An English jockey named Saunderson was a passenger by s.s. Orient, which arrived at Melbourne on Saturday last. Sanuderson, who can scale ahout 7st, has been employed in one of the leading stables in Yorkshire. Pollio changed hands directly after he won the S.A. J.C. Handicap at Adelaide, that irrepressible purchaser-; Mr Edward Weekes, having give 5000 guineas for him to take to India. Mr Weekes also purchased Belladrum for 550 guineas. "Tout Coala" writes anent the race for the Adelaide Cup : — The feat has, if my memory serves me right, only once been rivalled in our previous turf history — of three animals running a dead heat for second place. And, singular to say, this strange result occurred iv connection with the same sportsman, Mr Harry Haines, one of whose horses then, as now, came in first. I refer to the Newmarket Handicap of 1879, when Diomed won a closely-contested race, the three immediately behind him finishing iv a line— viz, Le Loup, Tocal, ancf Bob Sawyer. Blue Gown.