SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3178, 5 November 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Lk Noud.] \mono tho onirics for the Handicap Rtoojjloeluisi! sit tho A.R.C. Spring erecting iippcars tho names of Tnpara, Noro m°(l Yum Yum, tliico Wnik-ito

Mr Stead has secured tho services of Dcrrett, the premier horseman of New Zealand, for the Yaldhurst stable. Although over 40 years of age, Dcrrett still rides in his old form.

Ash worth, an old time Australian horseman, mot with a painful and serious accident a few days ago on one of the suburban racecourses in Sydney. Ho was noting as elork of the course, and when in the exercise of his duty his horse collided with one of the horses in a nice, the result being that his thisrh was broken. Mr J. Gretton has refused an offer of 10,000gs for Gonsalvo, who last season won the Alexandra Pluto. Mr D. O'Brien lm* selected the name of Ultimate for his colt by Dunlop from Result. The same owners filly by Richmond from Bis Bis has been named ltcspond. In the course of a chat with " vigihnt" (s:iys ''Spectator" in the N.Z. Referee), Mr Redwood expressed the opinion that Dudii was the best mare ever bred in New Zealand, and one that conk! have defeated Lurline over a distance. Her son that first saw h>ht of day last week as a pledge of affection to Apremont should be valuable. The chief event at tho Leopordstown Summer Meeting, the Grand Prize of lOOOsovs, run on Angnst •2-hid, was won by Capt. Machell's two-year-old Erin, the only iuiima' ihiit crossed the channel to compote. Miiui, who was at the top of the chree-ytarolds of last season has been mated'with Galopin. As a yearling Minii was sold for IOOOgs, but 4500gs had to bo given to restore her to the Sledinere stud. To signalise the successes of his horses while under John Porter's care, Baron Hirsch has expressed his desire to erect a cottage hospital at Kingsclere, which is close to the Park House training establishment. A Sydney paper says that old Frsd Martineer who has not in a race for fourteen years, donned silk at Warwick Farm and rode a winner. Sy the way in which the old-timer managed hi.s mount, ho showed plainly that he has lost little if any of the brilliancy he was noted for twenty years back, and the demonstration accorded him on returning to the scale was. as might be expected, very nattering. A peculiar question cropped up the other day at Montone says the Sydney Telegraph -.—Eleven horses started in the Flying Handicap and Eadoo won from Submission, while Brown Bess was third. A protest was then entered on the ground that when the start was made Eadoo was in front of the post, and the stewards, upholding the objection, ordered the race to be run over again. Radoo's owner refused to go on and gave no.ice of appeal to the V.E.C. At the second go Submission won from Allurement, and Brown Boss was third. The appeal being made known, the bookmakers refused

to pay. The question that now arises in this :—ln the event of the appeal to thoV.E.C. bein<? sustained and Eadoo awarded the stakes, what becomes of the bets made on the second run when Submission was successful • They will probably be declared off unless the raco be declared a fresh engagement. Says an exchange:—The breeder who for advertising purposes relies largely upon the recollection by the general piiblic of the greatness of his stallion," courts certain disappointment. How quickly the name of either horse or man sinks out of public sight and mind when once dropped by the public Press has been the bitter realisation of many a one before now ; and the same will be the experience of many hereafter who mislead themselves into the erroneous belief that because an exemplified merit or fortuitous circumstance brings a great horse before the public eye for a brief instant once, that the animal necessarily thereafter remains permanently a living reality before that coquettish member. Not so; for there is nothing so uncertain and fickle as the public memory, and he who fails to learn this important truth and to I supply a substitute therefore fails to bring" to bear the support and improvement of his business enterprise one of the most essential of all successful elements. No matter how great an orator, statesman and politician a man may be, when he drops out of the newspaper he is forgotten by the world. And the same is true of the trotting-horse world of the sire. No amount of notoriety which he may have attained this year can stand in lieu of judicions advertising of him next year. The theory that a great horse will advertise himself is false in general, with the exceptions barely numerous enough to prove the rule.