SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3103, 4 June 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Lk Noku]. The Australasian my-. ih;it in Cnrbino'n [Kidiu'rei- there arc 124 strains of I'clip c •2(7 M'l-iti-.s cf Hero,!, {M 0 sfMins of th--<;.■,!-.!;.Mm .Atvibi.tn. 1 S-I.'i ■hvnns «.f fh. , f'virl.v Tiirl,-. iinrl I'l iiti wv* orth/> Dar'.cy Ar<n.i::u Jones lo a Ki'ntuckian riding a bpauiilnl bay saddle horse. " Pretty fair boss, , ' responded tin,. Kpntuckian with affected indiff renp.e. "Thoroughly trained us it saddli' hoiw, 100, ain'r, Ik. , ?"' "Knows all r.lie motions, }„■■ doiv." " '.Vh.., f ,],, yon .Mil },)i:i :"' " Thob.'S." '■ Thebes! That's odd. I never heard sue'i a name for a horse before. What do you call him that for?" •• Hec'iusi! ho has a. hundrod iriiit*. of course. Doii'f. you '--.low ari'i- i>t history ?" Two in:ported Percharon stallion:, rosti»K TOOO'lol, "inka down n Se-uu b-twem them at Kansas mid engaged in a battle. The fiulit was the most furious on record. The.y hit and toru out pieces out of eaph other, Hud their kicks find strokes with their fore feet were terrible. It was im-poa-iblo to do anything toward parting them, and the owner was compelled tn look helplessly on while the enraged brutes fought. One of tho animals was about 2001b heavier thnn the other, but what the lighter animal lost in strength he made up in agility, and his attack was go rapid that ho finally got tho horse down and kicked and pawed him to deuth. The rictor was so badly beaten that he, too, died in a few hours after the fight. It is rumoured in Melbourne that an attempt will shortly be mad'" to have the rules of racing there altered so as to increase the minimum weights iu all handicaps. Another proposal to be made is that the English practice he followed of raising the horse next in order to tlm top weight, iu the case of the latter retiring, to his position in the handicap, and the others in proportion. The best foot-dressing to preserve the hoof and assist it in retaining moisture is given by the California Breeder and Sportsmau as follows :—Beef suet, two parts ; beeswax, ono part ; tar, two parts ; honey, one part ; whale oil, four parts. Mix and melt over a slow fire, and apply to sole and wall of foot twice a week. There is a son of Del Sur in California that they call "The Los Angeles Del Sur Woudev," but known, for short, as the "hearse horse." He was bred by an undertaker, and used for a while hauling the hearse. Ho was found to be rather faster than was nneded to keep at the head of the procession, and being trained trotted a 2.20 {.'ait and paced in 2. IS. j Longfellow heads the American winI niu£! sires of 1891, just topping St. Blaise by the small margin of 22SMols. The total amount won by his sons aud daughters during the pa?t year aggregated 139,334d0!, and the sum total of the earnings of his get since they first appeared in public in 1870 foots up to 1,059,779d01. Thomas Ray, a stable boy in America, was in March about to commence a law suit against. Albert Cooper. The boy claims that Cooper compelled him to ride, at exercise a crazy-headed horse which he was fearful to mount, and to which he objected, The horse threw him, and he sustained very serious injuries, and places the damages for the same at 50,000d01. His skull was fractured and his leg broken. Writing of the Flying Handicap at the Warwick Farm Races on May 7th, "Early Bird " says .-—Silver Kcight is owned by a straight man, who would be pleased to win a stake alone, and so good were his prospects thought to be that the thrte-year-old son of St. George —Rupee was entrusted with an untold amount in the Flying Stakes, The colt is well enough bred for auything, but does not shape well in public. It may be that he requires age, and I think he does. Mr McManus has given him every opportunity and plenty of chances, but it appears to be all the same. Silver Knight started first favourite for the Farm Stakes, and ran forward until a furlong from home, when he was passed by several.

A Melbourne solicitor who paid Sydney a visit io connection with the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting is credited with havinglost; nearly jguOOO. As this gentleman was in a position to gain bettor information than m»st pc-ople it only goes to further illustrate how badly backers fared —particularly those who could not gro into the " know." It sometimes happens however, that one gets to know toorcueb, and flint's the tioublo. Harry Barker, the English Steeplechase jockey, was unlucky in connection with this year's Grand Notional. He was at one time to have ridden Father O'Flyun, the ultimate winner, and then he had the mount on Partisan, who fell and hurt him badly. Captain Owen was good enough to present Barker with a present as some recompense for the dimippoiutment. After hist full Barker was being .

attended to by the doctor, when Captain Owen, wealing , a big , smilo, came to in--quire after him. Barker, however, wns well enough to reply: "Don't forget, Captain, that by right it is I who ought to be smiling now." It is not often that such a ease happens as that in connection with the death of the hurdle horse Ktiierald, who dropped dead in the Hurdle .Race at the second day's meeting in connection with the Brisbane Tatrersall's Club races last month. The horse, it is said, fell in the Hurdle Race on Saturday, out his stifle badly and injured himself internally. He suffered considerable pain from the time he fell until he started for the second race on Monday, and eat nothing in the meantime. In the face of this he was aent to the post. He got badly away at the start, and was never able to approach the field, and fell back further and further as the horses raced in front of him. Aa be passed the stand he rolled and laboured for breath, and when near the seven furlong post he dropped dead, vaiuly, but gamely struggling to the post. Minting Queen, Mr Maple's Brocklesby Stakes winner at the Lincoln Meeting, cost her owner at Mr Botterill'a sale last July.- She is said to be very much like her own sire Minting, but is on a very much smaller scale. Minting Queen has eome rich engagements this season. Tom Cannon has been turning some good ernss-couDtry horses out lately. After winning a minor race with Sea Wall, and selling him, he disposed of Omerod for 2000gs to Captain Whittaker, who won the Grand Military Gold Cup.