SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3115, 2 July 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Le Nord.] Amoxc the entries for the Egmont Sires' Hfick Produce Stakes of SOOsovs., for ISO"), appear the names of the following Waikato-brcd horses :—Mr C. Lake's br o, by Natator—Kit; Mr C Lake's ch f, by Natator—Rosalind ; Mr W. M. Douglas' ch c, by Natator— Reckless ; >Ir \V. M. Dougias' ch f, by Natator— Merc6k-s; Mr \V. M. Douglas' oh c, by Nntator—Unu. The latter, who claims Scukheen as a half brother, is spoken of as a very promising colt, and one likely to be lizard of in the future. ! The N.Z. Referee says :— The filly by Lochiel from Nonsense in Poulsham's stable has been named Loehness. This if; rather an encroachment on the rights of the New Zealand sportsman, Mr D. McKinnon. iicooidina to the Sydney Bulletin, Adams, the sweep promoter, has as much as £50,000 of unclaimed prize money in his possession. The annual revenue to the New South Wales postal department derived from the sweep business is said to be £9000. Bungebah, while galloping one morning recently at Randwick, broke a blood vessel in the head. Consequently the straight-legged chestnut has been thrown out of work. An American authority says that short, sharp brushes, and not too many on one trip, are what the youngsters need to develop their trotting powers. The Field and Farm is responsible for the following, and we (N.Z. Referee) reproduce it without thought of malice, but then jt is always as welt to give credit for WLh as this. Fish and snake stories can't beat it : " An Abilene (Kan) man owns a mare which recently foaled a colt with four feet already shod. He is breeding the mare again with the expectation of securing a foal harnessed to a sulky at the next equine crop." There is no jockey at Newmarket who is making his pile more steadily than C. Loates, who has still further added to his house property. The blunt straightforward manner of C. Loates in giving his evidence in the famous Jockey Club enquiry contrasted strongly with the shiftiness of many of his fellows, and ho owned up candidly to having two or three sovereigns on his mounts when he fancied them. It was on this occasion that he was asked whether he would like to have hie license renewed, and, taken off his guard, ,he blurted out with his now famous answer, " What do yon think ?"

Hendricks, who rode Freeman to victory at Sydney, will accompany the horse back to Fiemington, and ride him in any future Victorian engagements for "Mr O'Brien.

IdaTium has not yet been sold by the party who took him to America, and an offer of £1500 was made for him and refused.

L. J. Rose, of California, owns a grand looking- bay colt by Sir Modred, dam Teacher, that Las shown very fast trials, and by some experts is deemed the best two-year-old that will come East this year.

Sylvia, whose name will long live on the pages of the history of the Australian turf as the dam of Goldsborough, MartiniHenri, Robin Hood, etc,, is this season in foal to Hotchkiss, a son of Musket and Petroleuse, dam of the bad-tempered Gatling. Sylvia is twenty-nine years old and very feeble ; and, as her legs are bent and knarlod, it is feared she will never carry the foal to maturity.

Commenting on the London Sporting Times' surprise at the poor show given at the stud to Musket's son Petronel, the Australian Star makes the following carping remarks :—" The Times evidently forgets that Australia is well supplied with Musket stock, both with respect to stallions and dams. Of course we cannot have too much of a good thing.but enough is as good as a feast, even though it be first-class horse flesh. New. South Wales possesces Nordenfeldt. and a few leaser lights ; Victoria, Trenton and Cβ. ; while New Zealand has a few left Petronel is undoubtedly a good horse, and so was his sire Mueket, but everything Musket threw could not race, and plenty of evidence is at hand to prove that all his male descendants will not turn out jroo d sires. There is no occasion for an alarm about Musket's name dying ont in a hurry, and a few different strains from the old country, provided they are up to the mark, would perhaps be more welcome than Muskete. It would mix better, and the result would, as a consequence, be better likewise."

Rickaby, an erstwhile prominent English trainer, , and who prepared Wild Dayrell for the Derby ot 1855, died in Lamboume Infirmary a few weeks back. For a long time he was in receipt of an annual pension of £50 from the Roue Memorial Fond. Young Rickaby, who is at present well up in his profession aa a jockey, is a prrauf'son of the deceased. It is reported that old Dirriwell, the Melbourne Cup winner of 1879 i was one of a draft of horses recently sold in Queensland to go to-the Gnlf of Carpentaria at £4 10s a head. This is a most inglorious wind up for a Cup hero ! The Australasian reports that Winifred, for whom Mr Morris Jacobs crave 2000 guineas a few days before the Newmarket Handicap, met with a serious accident a little time hack. Alarmed at a noise outside the stable, Winifred reared up, and in falling broke one of her legs. Winifred, who is by Golds--boroueh, from Lady Hooton, will not, of course, race again, but there is a probability of her being saved for breeding purposes. A Sydney scribe writes :—Famous, horses, like famous men, are never forgotten ; they may die or pass out of public gaze, yet if they have left a record of great achievements behind them, or if their sons and daughters have achieved fame, their memory will be ever dear, and will be cherished by those who were interested in them in the days of fheir triumphs..

This is the way an English turF writer looks at the American trainer :—Trainers congregate in knots on the track in the early morning while their horses are at exercise, gossip, chaff, and above all, time the horses of others. They make it their business to knew what other horses can do rather than what their own can accomplish. They will tell you what your horses have done and make little secrets about their own. If any fast time has been made, the secret is in possession of everyone in about half an hour, but it is often soon forgotten. An English trainer could throw dust in the eyes of the army of touts with the greatest ease, because he knows that 71b makes three lengths, and three lengths a second. Thus, with 141b extra, he might have done a splendid trial and the touts would be none the wiser, and would pronounce the horse a bad one. Trainers only feed . three times a day in Yankee land. They themselves eat only three times a day, and why should horses require to be fed oftener ? An American exchange says:—When a borsa trots a dead heat with another horse the time made constitutes a record ; but, according to a recent decision of Secretary Steiner, when a horse trots a dead heat with time, that is, when he equals the time he started to beat, it is not a record. This does not seem right, and step* should be taken to secure a decision from the executive boards of the American and National Association that will specify whether or not a record shall be obtained by a performer against time under the same conditions as when the contestant is another horse. M Steiner. )». his dual capacity of Secretary of the American Trotting Association and Registrar of the Registrar Association, has made some decisions that invite considerable criticism, and that, to some people at least, appear tyrannical and indefensible. It would seem to be a more satisfactory course if the Registrar Association wouldlraake and clearly define their rules and then let the Registrar carry them out instead of having that pei'stn every now snd then announce that some new condition must be complied with before his etook oa» be regie* tered.