SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Lb Noun.] TitE following iiro the largest stakes over computed for : — Amprica : Futurity Stakes, won by Potomac, £13,500. England : I'Vdipso Stakes, won by Ayrshire, £11,10.;; Prince of Wales" Suites, Leicester, won by Donovan. £11.000 ; Lancashire Pluto won by Seabreeze, £10,222. Australia :'Melbourne Cup, won by 'Carbine, £10,2:30, including a trophy 1 value £1.30. The Cap-n-nie gelding "\ an guard won the Hurdle Race at Warwick Farm Australia on July 2:3 rd. He carried 9sfc 111b, and finished a head in front of Pro Consul (lOst 31b). The time for the two miles was Sunn

OO3OC. . Rcdleap's win in the Grand National Htirdle lines, in Australia, has brought comfort, to a lone wi low who dispenses fermented and spirituous liquors at the Rainbow Hotel, Geelong west. She was the lucky holder of Eedlcap m Tattersall's consultation, and draws £2700. . Gaga, winner of the Austrian Derby, must be considered a good colt, as an English, owner has offered SOOOgs. for him. Mr Tom Wilson, the big backer, is reported to have lost more money over the Derby than anybody ever did before. It is said that Mr Wilson lost over £20,000. He backed Orme, and tried to get it back over La Heche. What's in a name ? A lot ? says the Licensed Victuallers' Gazette. The Derby Sweepstakes at the St. George's Club was won by a member named " Luck," and at the Army and Navy the £100 " sweep " was landed by a gentleman named "Money." Mr Easton, the American purchaser of bloodstock, during the last few months, has sold 474 yearlings for an average of 220 guineas, and 53 Belle Meado yearlings for £22,000. This, as Mr Easton adds, is "creeping up to our own prices." C. Kudings would appear to have a useful horse in Accident, who has recently credited the 'erstwhile New Zoalander with several stakes. At the Caulfield Meeting on July 23rd, he won the Mnrrumbeena Handicap of 200sovs. H. Cusdin rode the horse.

An English jockey named Hall, attached to the Eothschilds' stable, met a horrible death at Buda Pesth on May 19th, He was riding in a race, and while the horses were going at full speed the animal on which he was mounted stumbled and fell, and the jockey was thrown violently to the ground. Before their speed could be checked, or they could be turned aside, seven of the other racers had trampled upon the jockey's prostrate body, injuring him in a frightful manner. Hall was picked up dead. In mentioning the fact that Percy Martin was shortly going to pay a visit to New Zealand, a writer in the Sportsman, states that Mr Gollan's trainer says there are plenty of better horses than Kimberley running in "hack" races over in New Zealand.

J. Gardner, the well-known Victorian trainer and rider, has received an offer to go to the United States to train and ride for an American owner of rrxoehorses. Gardner has not yet mate up his mind as to what he will do, but he considers it likely that he ■will try his fortune on the American turf - , ,T Writes "Spectator" in the New Zealand Eeferee:—One of Chester's mightiest sons, no other than Dreadnought, has been purchased by the Hon. J. D ■ Ormond for stud purposes, and the Napier sportsman is to be congratulate* on his enterprise in securing such a high-class horse for the country. On breeding lines he cannot be beaten, as he comes from the most successful strains of racing blood in the world. On his sire's (Chester's) side we have the famous Yattendon and Stockwell blood direct, and on the side of his dam, Trafalgar,'we have close relationship to the great . Musket, for her sire was the mighty Blair Athol and her dam the dam of Musket. Dreadnought, as a two-year-old, won the A.J.C. Maiden Stakes, one mile and a quarter. At the A.J.C. Wycombe Stakes, one mile and three-quarters ; the Victoria Amateur Turf Club's Caulfield Stakes, one mile and one furlong ; the V.R.C. Derby ; V.R.C. Foal Stakes; V.R.C. St. Leger ; Australian Cup in the fastest time on record in the colonies, viz., 3min. 59isec. for the two miles and a quarter; and the A.J.C. St. Leger, his total winnings being £5218.

Allusion is thus made to an English horseman by an American exchange:—The imported jockey Pickering and the imported English mare Fauvette made sorry exhibitions of themselves at Gravsend. had the mount on Patron in the fourth race, and so well did the ownet of the horse think of the chances that all his friends played the colt and he went to the post favourite at 2 to 1, but, had he been the equal of the mighty Salvator, it is doubtful if he could have landed the money, hampered by such as the so-called jockey, Pickering. At the post, previous to the start, Pichering never desisted during the whole twenty minutes' delay prodding his mount vigorously with the spurs and seemed to use his best effort to harass and excite the horse; then, when a start was effected, he got away I badly; and in his crazy-headed effort to close up the gap, permitted his mount to stumble and almost fall to his kaees, after which brilliant effort, Patron and Pickering quietly subsided and finished good, and when Hayward, a competent jockey.bestrodo him in the race for the Brooklyn Derby, he beat his previous vanquishers without an effort.