SPORTING NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3187, 26 November 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES

[By Le Noun.] Walk.vto brooders will have every reason to be proud at having the services of a good horse like Muskapeor placed ;it their disposal this season, ho having proved his ability to go) racehorses. T.otlie, who was shod by Muskapeer out of Ladybird, has shown thftt she can gallop. At the A.li.G. Meeting, out of four starts, she won three and r*n second to Coahcuttle in the Prince of Wales Hnndicfip. Lottie wns bred by Mr J. Livingstone, of Hiiinilton, and is now the property of Mr J. MoNicol, a thorough genuine sport, and 1 hope that she ■will carry his colours to thd front in many another race.

Fifteen hundred guineas for eight stage coach horses just out of regular work is indeed a record. This aggregate was reached recently at the sale of the " Magnet " stock (London and Reigato) at Aldridge's. Thirty-six animals realised -101(3 guineas, or an all-round average of 111 guineas, eight making 1500 and odd guineas. Pygmalion is one of the handsomest and one of the worst plucked horses in Victoria. First King, the hero of a Champion Kace and conqueror of tho great Chester, was recently sold in Australia for 100 guineas. The stakes wen at tho V.R.C. Meeting total £'27,510, and of that sum £0,79G was won by horses trained in New South W.-iles. Trenton, tho New Zealand-bred horse, was at tho head of tho list of successful sires at the V.R.C. Meeting with four winners. Chester and Marfini-Honry, another New Zealand horse, comes next with three each to their credit.

The Argus comments as follows on the Steeplochaso run on tbe concluding day of the V.R.C. Meeting : — " The public had at least the consolation of seeing tho favorite win tho big event with consummate ease, and a good many people doubtless will regard their ' rosovery ' as more than a compensation for possible catarrh. In one case, however, an uulucky backer will have cause to rage over tho mud which bespattered the jockeys from head to foot and made the colors completely indistinguishable. In the Foal Stakes Azim, who led into the straight, was mistaken for Wolf, whoso colors were very similar. ' Wolf wins !' was the cry from a party of bookmakeis us they watched the leading horse draw away from his companions. Just as the horses passod the judge's box—in fact, after the race was over—tho keener spirit of tho party discovered the mistake, and bawled out, ' An even fiver against Wolf.' Tho wager was instantly accented, and next moment Azirn's number was hoisted."

Says the Napier Telegraph :—Frequenters of the Taradalo racecourse could not repress a smile yesterdav Avhen a Chinaman, who is owner and trainer of the well-known racehorse Seventy Eob, elected to ride the animal himself in one of the races. Prior to the race there was a great deal of preparation, the horse being saddled and fixed up by another Chinaman —a diminutive vendor of "cabbagoe, callotee, lnbub, and wegetablc malla," who appeared to know all about it. There was a third Celestial there whose duty it "was to put a pound on the machine, and he did it after tbe fashion of a knowing sport who is alive to what ho is about. Seventy Bob was the last to leave tho paddock, and lie was tho last homo—not an unusual thing, for he has never been ahead of a horse in any race at any time. His rider is consequently always in a good position to see the whole of tho races. After Sing Lee dismounted in the paddock yesterday, he was asked how he enjoyed his ride. " All litee," he replied; " some day Seventy Bob makem fluke win, aud pay plenty money totalisator." The Victorian racehorse Accident, which mot with such injuries during tho struggle for tho Coburg Stakes that his death resulted, was a most aptly named and strangely unfortunate animal. Whilst a foal Accident was streck by lightning, and nearly every hair on him singed off. Later on he mot with another mishap, and had an eye knocked out. Then carec the crowning blow, for the son of Newminstor fell and had his forelegs broken, the aid of a so-called friendly bullet being invoiced to end his troubles. Accident was a full brother to Lomond, who was also a most unlucky horse, for, after giving evidence of being worthy to be classed with our best three-year-olds, the camel-backed bay injured his spine, only to recover and fall in a race which will be his last.

One of the surprises of tho V.E C. Meeting (says the Sydney Referee), was the defeat ot Trieste in the Oaks. At tho home turn Triesto started to go up to Etra-Woonie. who was leading, and it was thought then that tho Chester filly would win easily. Moore 3oon started to ride his mare, and it was at once apparent that there would bo a good raee. The two drew away and ran locked together to tho finish. Triesto lost a little through j uinping over tho the white starting mark, and towards the close it was asserted that Moore made an unfair use of his whip by flourishing it in front of Trieste. Immediately on their returning to weigh in Huxley lodged a protest against Moore for interference during the race, a charge that covered the double offence of threatening tho favourite with his whip and boring her out towards the finish. The latter may have been accidental, for both were all out and rolling somewhat, but to many of those watching the race there seemed some justification for the latter charge. The stewards postponed a hearing until after lunch, when the protest was dismissed, but the owners of the favourite were still dissatisfied, and have appealed to the V.E.C. committee.