SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3166, 8 October 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Lk Nord.] To-DAV tin , racing se-tson opens in the Waikato, when tlio Waikato Hunt Club's races tukos placo on tho Claivlelands racecourse, Hamilton, and given fine weather thi.'io is sun. , to be a large attendance of tho public. There are seven events set down for decision, and as fjood acceptances have been received, some largo fields may be expected for the various events. The following are my selections : —Hurdles : Tarraman. Maiden : Walt/er, Farmers' Plate : Ledbury. Steeplechase: Yarrarnan or Dcfamer. Bracelet : Sceptress. Flying Stakes : Castanette or Waltzer.

A backer who, after La Flecho had won the Nassau Stakes, eagerly snapped up £8000 to £1000 that Baron de Hirsch's filly would win the St. Loger. What a good wager it turned out.

Mr S. Miller recently received a cablegram from England asking him to put a price on Rcdlcap. The reply sent was money will not buy JJodleap, and so the matter ends.

The Sporting Standard says Titan's chances in the Ciiulfi<;ld Cup may bo dismissed at once, at'tui- his miserable display at Epsom. Ho seems inevitably destined for the fate " Augur " predicted for him. Up to the end of the Goodwood Meeting St. Simon was a long way ahead in the list of winning sires, as sixteen of his stock had won twentyfour races worth £31,500. The Bond Or's have won the most races, as nineteen horses have captured thirty events worth £12,500.

Writes " Ajax" in tho Sydney Referee : — The advancement of Camoola into the position of first favorite for tho V.R.C. Derby has caused as much sensation in Melbourne) turf circles as it has in Hydncy. Camoola was no doubt a very brilliant two-year-old, but was not such a consistent performer as Autonomy, who. on all public form, was entitled to the position of which ho has now been deprived by Camoola. Backers of Autonomy need not altogether despair though, as tho stable have thn double, Autonomy and Camoola, well backed for the Derby and Cup, and if Autonomy keeps wall I shall iiot be surprised to see him first favourite again before tho day of tho race comes round.

A London exchange says:—The offer of 11,010 to 10,000 recently niiirlu against Onno for thu Loger points to tho fact that, at least one individual exists who has not lost his head ovor that somewhat too highly appraised animal.

Mr D. O'Brien, as is well known, is greatly opposed to the totalisator, and thinks it does not assist racing. He has given " Veiax " of tlio Sydney Keferee his ideas on vhe subject. Mr O'Brien says : —lf a man came to me and said •' Has your horse a chance to win P' I should tell him what I thought about it, and then he could please himself as to whether he b.icked him or not. But, suppose there was a totalisatov working on tho race tho horse was engaged in That would make all the difference. If I had M tickets on tbn horse, and I told people who asked me if I thought tho horso could win, they would at once back it. and every msii that putii pound on would reduce my odds against my own horse, Tho only way for an owner to obtain the long odds on tho totalisator which they are quite as much entitled to as the backers, would bo for him to say nothing about his horse's chance. Now when I or any other owner back a horse with the bookmakers we get a fair price, and tho public money put on afterwards does not lesseu the odds wo have obtained. Say I got £100 to £10 and the public money goes on it shortens tho price, butdoisnot reduce my £100 to £10, as it would on the totalisator.

The four-year olds, Buccaneer and Orvieto (runner up to Ormo in tho Eclipse Stakes), have been matched Over a mile aud a quarter course, the race to take place at the Newmarket First October Meeting. The match is for £500, and each horse to cany 9st. Buccaneer has boon further matched against Col. North's Nunthrope over a like distance of ground, even weights, for a £1000, the match to take place some time after Buccaneer's trial with Orvieto.

This from the Melbourne Sportsman : —Thy othor day Messrs Yuillo and Co. sold a colt, by Musk Eoso, named Musketoon. In the V.E.C, Marib}'rnong Plate, to be van in the spring, Mr W. Forrester has a colt, by Trenton from Monti, engaged therein with a similar name. In the same event there is a colt named Cnstor, and in New Zealand an imported stalliou bears the same patronymic. Oh, originality, when; art thou !

" liibbledcn" in tbo Austriilasian says ; —The steeplechaser Bodlenp bad, it appears, a narrow escape of losing his life when a foal. Two days af lor birth lie slipped oil' a bridge on Mr Millar's property at Broadlands, Bacchus Marsh, and fell 150 ft into a creek. An attendant rescued him, and carried him in his anus to a place of security, but it was some days before t,li3 youngster recovered from the effects of tho accident, Mr Miller did not learn of the incident until a day or two ago. It is understood that Mr W. Jl. Wilson intends sending his filly Tretonia to England. The well known jockey, Fred Barrett, has left England under an engagement as first horseman for an Austrian sportsman.