SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3112, 25 June 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By I,e Nord.] Mr Dan O'Brien's cast-off Whimbrel (Set 111b) won the Bay View Handicap of lOOhovs, one mile, at the Williamstown (Vic.) meeting on May 28th. For about the first time in his life (says a Sydney writer) the handieapper acted leniently towards Whimbrel, and put this hitherto most hardly dealt with horse in the Bay View Handicap at a weight at which he had a chance. Being very patiently ridden by H. Wool, an Indian jockey of considerable repute, the son of St. Albans came through, when Wiora and Leyland had run one another to a standstill, and won comfortably at the finish. W. Windsor, who rode Miss to victory in the Handicap Hurdles on the second day of the Auckland meeting, and also piloted Scaltheen when he won the Hunt Club Steeplechase at the Pakuranga Hunt Club Meeting, since his return from Australia some eighteen months

ago, has started in nine steeplechases, with the result that he has steered the winner home on six occasions, was once third, and twice fourth. Not a bad record for an amateur, considering the horses he rode were all new at the game on the first occasion he rode them. He also trained them for their engagements with two exceptions. The books must have had a wonderfully bad time of it on the first day of the Adelaide Birthday Meeting. A draper's assistant took 1000 to 1 from the well-known metallician, Bob Phillips, that he would name the winners of the four leading races, which he succeeded in doing. Mr Sam Hordern, of Sydney, continues purchasing good mares. The latest acquisitions to his stud are Grace Darling (winner of the Caulfield Cup), by The Devil, from Zoe, and Legerdemain, by Epigram from Legend. Colonel North, the English millionaire, cleared £7000 last year in stakes on the turf, and has decided to devote the whole of the sum to charitable institutions. A nutnbtr of observant horsemen have been trying to get Colonel H. I. Thornton to put a price on his Darebin—Carrie C colt, but so far he has withstood a number of exceedingly tempting offers for the youngster. J

Mr Wilson, owner of Father O'Fly in, winner of the Grand National, won £35,000 in bets orer the race, and Captain Owen, his rider, who is an amateur, threw in for £10,000 in addition. Scarcely a book-maker missed laying his full book against the horse at long prices, and lir started, as is already known, at 20 to 1 against. W. Delaney, who has hitherto been known in Mr Oxenham's colours, has severed his connection with the Sydney sport, and will in future ride for ths Hon. D. S. Wallace, M.L.C.,from whom he has received a retainer as ''first jockey." Discoursing on the subject of pedigree as regards horses, Colonel Sir Nigel Kingscote. K.C.8., observes that it is fresh in everybody's memory that Doncaster. just "dead at eighteen years old, was sold for 14,000 guineas, whilst Blair Athol was sold by auction for 12,000 guineas, and Ormonde, grandson of Dor caster, went abroad at 15,000 guineas. So much, he adds, is the blood of Ormonde esteemed, that it has lately been proposed to form a company with a capital of £30,000 to bring him back again. Colonel Kingscote confesses he hopes the effort will not succeed. Lord Rosslyn has secured third claim on George Barrett's services. The Kingsclerp stable has the first, whilst Lord Dudley stands second. Charles Rawlineon, the Epsom jockey, has gone to Germany to ride, but this will be the last season that he will go to the continent-

| " Eunonyhareenyah "is the name of p, horse in charge of the Melbourne trainer, R. Howie. It is not generally known (says Lioansed Victuallers) that in the later years of his life Captain Middleton was as deaf as a poßt. Yet, for all that, he was an inveterate theatre goer. It was amusing to see the poor chap watching for the applause of his fellow satellites, and then joining rapturously. His deafness was produced by the many acoidents and falls that he had in the field. Baron Hirsch is a liberal man. He has decided to devote the whole of hia turt' winnings of last season, amounting in all to £7000, to hospitals and institutions of a kindred nature. The North«Weat London Hospital is to receive £1000, and University College, the London, the West London Hospital, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormonde street, will receive £700 eaoh. Other institutions are also to benefit according to their needs and claims to support, without regard to religious or other distinctions. Says the Melbourne Sporting Standard of May 31stSince he arrived here some six months ago the New Zealand crosscountry jockey Cameron, has certainly proved himself a real good man over fences, but ho has never ridden a better race than he did on Melville, whose vie torv in the Steeplechase was almost entirely owing to the manner in which he was ridden. From Melbourne comes the news of the death of the jockey M. Griffin, a lad 19 years old. Griffin rode Lord Hopetoun at Caulfield when the horse ran a dead heat with The Doctor, a case which, it will he rememhered, has caused a great stir recently in turf circles over there. The cause of death was from injuries received in a fall from a horizontal bar. The New South Wales pony, Nolan, winner of the Lansrwarrin Handicap at Moonee Valley the other day, boasts of a pedigree which would put many animals who aspire to greater achievements to the blush. He is by Grand Prix from Diana, by Robinson Crusoe from Luna, bv Lord of the Hills. He was bred bv Mr E. De Mestre, of Shoalhaven. His dam, Diana, was fancied for Narina's Maribyrnong Plate, bnt she tailed to get a place. Writing of punters at Home, an English exchange says : —At a period when the late Fred. Archer was carrying all before him, an itinerant vendor of sweetstuff " ran into money " by persistently following the great jockey's mounts. Beginning with small silver investments, he progressed by degrees, until at length he operated extensively "on the nod" with the leading metallicians, and the settlement of his account at Tattersall's on Monday became such a scandal that a well-known sporting baronet sought to secure his election as a " member." The whilom sweet-stuff merchant was, however, rejected, and not many months afterwards became once more "reduced to the ranks" of petty punters. The latest specimen of this type of backer, and who obtained the sobriquet of " Jubilee Juggins," burnt the candle at both ends, since, not content with plunging heavily in the ring, he, for a brief span, kept a large stud of comparatively worthless horses in training, and extended his investments to pigeon shooting and the card table. The plunger in an absolute nuisance, who spoils sport and benefits one class only—the leading bookmakers. To owners who back their own horses he is indeed a perfect bugbear, and when, as is inevitably the case, he comes to grief, none, save the bookmakers, regret his fall.