SPORTING NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3181, 12 November 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES

[P.y Le Noiuj.]

A I'illy foul by Philanunon was recently sold in Ireland for 1 TSOgns, the highest price ever paid in that country for a foal. N'"aroo was one of the strongest tips For ii Caulfield Cup ever known, but the calculations were a great do/il astray when he was unable to inalse- a decent bid for the race at any part. Lamplighter, the sensational American three"year-old colt, by Spendthrift out'of imp. Torchlight, has passed from the hands of Brown and Rogers into the possession of Pierre Lorillard, the consideration being 27,000d0]. Lamplighter holds the record at a mile and a-lialf—2miu. 32fsec. Pygmalion's tiial for the Caulfield Cup was a better mile and a-half than either Strathmore or Zalin3ki ever showed the St. Alban's trainer.

At the Sandown Park meeting on October 13th, iEgyptus, formerly the property of the late W. Clifford, won the two principal races, the October and Sandown Park Handicaps, on each occasion being followed home by Lady Zetland. Speaking of TheTlook, an American writer says :—" I saw an old black horse the other day at the Santa Anita Eancho, that used to be owned at Bundoora Park, Victoria. Hs is called The Hook, being by Fishhook out of Juliet, the granddam of Goldsbrough and Nordenfeldt. He covered last year 11 mares, and has nine living foals, in addition to one in whirjh mother and foal both died in parturition. He is now 21 years old. This year The Hook served 14 mares, among them several that are old and well proven as dams. His foals are very handsome, seven of the nine being fillies.

The Sporting Standard says :— Sternchas'er is a bit of a conundrum. One morning he shapes like a pig, and next time gallops like a racehorse, but I am afraid he is not to be trusted, for he decidedly "cut it" one morning while galloping with Glenloth; and, dead or alive at Epsom (run before the Caulfield Cup) had no possible chance of winning. Last Thursday afternoon ho was brought out with his shoes off. and was ridden clean out over a mile and a quarter—nine furlongs, with Glenloth, who was badly beaten, in lmiii. 59-fsec— a pretty fair go. In the Eijsom race when the betting opened, Sternchaser was at 6 to 4 but retired before the flag fell to 4 to l. He was beaten out of place, the race being won by Vilbers. This from Man of the World:—Advance Australia! Another success, and this time our champion "middleweight " has gone down. When may we expect our " nose to be pulled " at Epsom by these all-eonquering Colonials ? But th»y have a £10,000 stake of their own, so don't perhaps care to come so far to win but half the amount.

The Gimcrack Stakes at Ascot is named after a stout little grey of a century and a quarter ago. Gimcrack. who ran and won his last race at eleven years old in 1771, -was only just over 14 hands high, and in 1760 ran a match in France of 32* miles within the hour for a large sum, after which he returned to England. An American paper statea that " Kildeer, a big brown filly, by Darebin, from Lew Lauior, carried Bst 41b recently, and ran the straight mile at Longbeach in lmin 37sec, which is the fastest mile ever ran between horses. Salvator covered the same ground in lmin 35Jsec two years ago, but he only carried 7st 121b, and ran against time. She boat a field of eight horses, and if you make the allowance for sex, 51b, actnally gave Salvator 111b. At the same time the pace was not fast in the first quarter, but the last half-mile is stated to have been a regular cyclone." Maud S. was bred to Ansel some time ago. and for some time was believed to be in foal. Then Mr Bonner bogau to doubt, and the doubt becoming a certainty, Maud was bred again to the same horse. Ansel is by Electioneer, and has proved himself some what of a sire. Antella, 2min 26Jsec, as a two-year-old, by him, won the oOOOdol purse at Sturgis, Mich.

In speaking of Nancy Hanks' record, Eobert Bonner says:—"l am having a special bicycle-pneumatic-, tire sulky built under my own direction. It will be built ot steel. There is little doubt that I shall take a shot at Nancy Hanks' record with Sunol some time before the end of the season. Isn't it almost certain that Sunol, always superior to Nancy Hanks under ordinary circumstances, will lower the record when she, too, has th 3 advantage of a pneumatic tire, ball- bearing sulky ? I will make no prophecies; I never indulge in that luxury. I will not give Maud S. another chance this year. Next year I may take another shot at the record with her ; that is, of course, if she fails to produce a foal, I still think that Maud §.'s 2min. Sjsec. on an ordinary track with an old-fashioned sulky is intrinsically the best ever known."