SPORTING ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING ITEMS

(From the Sydney Referee). Miu,eu boat Ashworth in 100 yds, race for £IOOO. G. Elliotc, the trainer for the Rajah of .Tahdporc’s stables, lias 1.10 horses in hand. Australian horses had things all their own way at Singapore. The whole of Cliinisidu’satud will bo submitted to auction. Idalia lost twin foals to St. George at the Middle Park Stud Company’s farm. £IO,OOO to £IOO has been laid against Silver Prince for the Melbourne Cup, The wager of £SOOO to £5 Silvermino and Bravo for the double of the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, has been taken at the Victorian Club. Buccaneer, a famous stallion, for which the Austrian Government once refused an offer of £20,000, has been shot on account of old ago. The most successful betting man on the Prenoh racecourse is an Englishman named LalTery, who began life as a drygoods salesman. Ho is worth over £200,000. The Charters Towers J.C. meeting was a great success, and will result in a profit of £(100.

Mr R. Blackham, of Hew Zealand, has a nomination for the Victoria Waterloo Cup. The Cup is worth £500; the runnerup gets £250. The celebrated Hungarian mare Kincsem was only 13 years of ago when she died, having been bred in 1874. , Axe, since his arrival in New Zealand from Victoria, has cost about £BOO to his owner for entrance, acceptances, etc,, and has not a win to his credit as a contra. Word comes from Victoria that tho famous sire St. Albans has produced a grand looking youngster from Foaming Bell, who is likely to come early. Morrison has the oolt in hand, and groat things are expected from him. The A. J. C. Derby is worth £IOOO more this year. Sir R. Sutton’s Yacht Gonesta won the Jubilee International Yacht Race.

Mr S. Emery is said to have made £IO,OOO by Dry Monopole's victory in the Brooklyn Handicap, America. Horses are bringing big prices in America. The other day a yearling colt by Hendoo, out of Nannie, brought £IOOO. At tho same sale thirty seven yearlings brought £IB,OOO.

Tiio English-bred raare B I' I ]at lias a most prolific record as a brood mare on the continent. She. was twenty-three years old last year, and had given birth to nineteen foals, of whom sixteen are still living. Her progeny had won £12,000 in stakes on the continent. F Sharp, a twin sister purchased with her, gave birth to twelve foals, and died last year. It is no uncommon thing for a tendency to increase and multiply in this manner to run in a certain strain of blood, and the Clarence district people should be rather pleased to hear that Anteros is related to the twin sisters B Flat and F Sharp. Both are full sisters to Arosta, the dame of Anteros, who will be represented in the big spring handicap by Naiagra and Silver Prince.

Tub Mni.liouriXE Cup.—Mr Barnard has started his work with 31b. less than Mr Soarr, and has placed the two New Zealanders, Trenton and Nelson, on the scratch, viz., Ost. 01b. each, a circumstance worthy of note by the inhabitants of the “quaking” islands, as showing how highly their horses are thought of in Australia. Indeed, ho could not do otherwise and do fairly. There are several cases of wide difference of opinion existing between the two loading framers, and the (lib. taken off Abner in the Gnp should be an additional inducement for him to go for that event. The three top-weights are not harshly treated, and following down the lines those who present themselves as deserving most consideration are Silvermine, The .Towel, Abner, Kitawa, Crossfire, Hortcnse, Aborcorn, Matador, Yabba, Moorehouse, Niagara, Meteor and Peeress.

Bui prices for “ fancy” stock have been “ the order of the day” in England during the last twelve months. Quite recently an Antwerp homing pigeon was claimed at his catalogue price of £‘so. A welsh terrier 9 months old was claimed for £2OO ; and 1000 guineas was refused for a 10 months old St. Bernard puppy. Mr Clarke, the owner of the champion fox-terrier Result, refused £2OO for a fox-terrier dog (Rextcm), ami Mr S. Boddington, who picked up the champion collie Motchly Wonder for £lO, refused Mr A. H. Mogson’s offer of 200 guineas for this beautiful dog—perhaps the best collie yet exhibited in England. At the last Birmingham show Captain Heaton sold four black-red game pullets for £SO each, and purchased at auction at the Crystal Falace show the cup winner, a black-red cockerel, for £IOO. Jacob Enko is a well-known sportsman in New Zealand, and by birth is a native of Russia. He has a colt by Musket —Lady Ravenswnrth, and as it is customary to call all the offspring of the famous sire, after some class of firearmsor ammunition, Jacob remembered the Russian name of Paschkd, when the time came for giving the equine a name. The colt in future will he known by that Russian name, and it is to bo hoped that tlie liberty taken with ttiat barbarous language will bring fortune to Mr Enko. Hitherto this sportsman lias been very unfortunate with his thoroughbred purchases, for both Jamaica, by Cadogan—Lure, and the jumper Ngata both broke down without winning a copper, though big prices were given for them. Wild Boy, a recent purchase from Wanganui, where ho had a big reputation, turned out as bad, and was parted with for a fiver. The Referee, in alluding to the untimely death of Thos. Chirnside, of Werribee Park, Victoria, says The family is one of tlie oldest and most prominent sporting connections in Australia, and it can be said of the deceased that lie followed the sport purely tor the love of it, and his loss is on that account more keenly felt on the turf. It was only the other day that the late Mr Chirnside purchased at considerable cost a batch of the most promising young blood in New Zealand, at Mr Town’s sale, and two of them were placed in the hands of Mr T. Lamond, of Sydney, to prepare. Mr Chirnside is inseparable from the memory of tlie famous raare Alice Hawthorne, the speedy Newminster. Among others that did well under his colours wore Haricot, a Melbourne Cup winner ; Zambesi, Sultan, and Spinningdale. It was the deceased who imported in 1848. the English horse Dclapie, and it was a relation that took home Sailor to run in the Grand National at Liverpool, but was prevented by an accident from facing the starter. The deceased' was particularly fond of coursing, and in his kennel are some of the best dogs in the colonies, while the deer on the estate have long afforded game for the hounds of the Melbourne Hunt Club.