SPOUTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3091, 7 May 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPOUTING NOTES.

{By Lf. Noitii). Ar the Moc:inny races h.eld on I Turr-dny, f r:! I-Mi, Mr J. Booth's jwi.y ww h-site:; l.y a hi-.-.d m tiie Myiiig Ilaniliea:: ;,f s.jv.-,. alter a ['!■( at. i with I he Sing. L'.i'onel ]';a-:er, the wvl!-kiiOWli cport, is now i .lit; i of the Thames AdvcrUiel'. He once owned two tall hi' .theis to Tirailleur l.'it line got drowned and tho other got his leg broken in a lenee. John Mackey was deligh'C'l witn Maxito wi'.en he lands! (■ ays a California!! scribe). " Th.i chcaprst iio.vc on the continent," was his remark when the ir'aehels \vt i"e oil the big hew ,'v.y.andi r. A New land horso, M:.i-ihyi-iiong, taken aeioss i..» An. Iwlia l.y W. il. Keith, won the hurdle race at. Mordialloo the other day, with 10 up, b.V ten lengths. Il only won a; iraiiy good races in Australia as his full sister Cynisca lias done in New Zealand, he would he a veritable gold mine to his owner. At the Canterbury Park races recently, Collins, who rode Mr J. C Booths pony Too .Soon in the Welter Handicap, was suspended far six months for coming with a sensational "late run." A jockey named Albert Coe was thrown while schooling Miniee over hurdles at Morphctvillo, Adelaide, last week, and had his neck broken. Melos, the property of Mr William Gannon, secured both first and champion prizes for blood stallion at the Ro\ r al Agricultural Show. Whakas\ai, who was once a sensational favourite for the Melbourne Cup, has gone to the stud in the Alburv district. St.romboli was not. backed for a penny for the Sydnoy Cup in His win caused a great; su,'prise, and Stral.hmoro's poor performance is thought to be accountable owing to the colt being - off. Mr Dan O'Brien, remarks the Australasian, is a good buyer, but a better seller, Few men have sold horses to such advantage. For Trenton bo gave SOOgs. and sold liim for 3300gs ; ho gave £320 for Gipsy King (bought out of a celling race) and IGogs for Sextant, and sold them coupled for 2'loogs ; ho gave 640g's for Carbine, and soil him for SOOOgs ; he g.ive 210gs for Dunkold, and sold him for lf>oogs ; and Gatling, for whom he gave 2Gogs, he sold for 2000gs. Mr Pallin, an Irish sportsman, who won tho Grand. Military Gold Cup, has made a novel bequest of it after his death (writes an exchange). He has three sous, and lie has left it in his will that on the yoiingrest becoming 21 they shall ride a steeplechase for it, and the winner to have the cup. Thus there will be no jealously for the possession of this coveted trophy, and it is but few, and those only of the ri<*ht sort, who would have thought of such a way to dispose of it. A melancholy occurrence took place at the Dandenong (Australia) races recently, when "Tommy" Williams, a well-known cross-couutry rider, was killed. He was riding Dirty Dick in the Selling Hurdle Race, and after landing over a hurdle his horse stumbled and knocked him against a post, dashing his brains out. His young wife and child were present, and witnessodt.be tragic occurrence. Williams was a fearless and skilful rider, n wellconducted jockey, and a light-hearted and jovii»l little fellow into the bargain. His untimely death caused a painful sensation in racing circles. The sport at the Dandenong meeting was of a poor description, and after the regrettable occurrence mentioned above had taken place, very little interest was manifested in the proceedings by those present.

Recently a paragraph was printed which gave the incident of an attachment between a horse and a lamb. Now we hear of a mare that has a three months' spell every year, and in each of the holidays forms acquaintance with some other animal. Once a cow was her pet, then a ram, afterwards a pig, and this year a lamb. Mr E. Gates, of Grove Farm, Ashburton, who bred Sultan, Prime Warden, Catamount, and others, has a filly by Maxim—Miss Kate, to whom he has just given the name of Lady Mannlicker. She is said to be a very promising filly. " Augur " says that Mata's dam Raupo was to have been made a present to Mr Aldridge by Mr W. R. Wilson ; but, believing that the old mare had slipped her foal and would never breed again, she was sold at a weeding-out sale last year for the paltry sum of Sgs. A few months after, to the disgust of her previous owner, it was announced that Raupo had thrown a fine colt foal to Nordenfcldt, and you might have knocked Mr Aldridge down with something lighter than a crowbar when he heard this recently for the first time. From Western Horseman (U.S.) The oldest mare whose history has come under our notice was Tansey, owned at Millersburg, 0. She was foaled January 4, 1845, and died April 24, IS9I, and was therefore 40 years 3 months and 20 days old. At the age of 20 years she produced a foal, and at 32 gave birth to twins. At the age of 45 years she was again stinted and appeared to be in foal. If all these statements can be verified this is about the greatest record ever made by a brood mare in the line of fertility and longevity." In an old chronicle of the " sport of kines there is this description of racing in Italy, that may suggest a way of deciding the finishes that the ardour for racing causes to be made in dense fog or in the dark. "At Ancona they have a singular but very admirable method of determining tho winner. Across the course, at the coming-in post, a thread is stretched saturated in a red mixture, which the first horse breaking leaves a mark upon his breast, which mark, whenever it is a near thing, is deemed decisive of victory.