SPORTING NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3190, 3 December 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES

[By Le Nord.]

Orue is not yet dead. He won the Great Foal Stakes at the Newmarket First October Meeting in a handcanter, His poor display in tlicLcger is 110w set down to a display of temper. La Fleclie added another victory to her score by annexing the Grand Dnke Michael Stakes on October 29th. A single opponent only came out to meet her, and she had simply to canter over the course. The following Now Zealand bred horses were among those sold on November 7th in Melbourne :—King William (brother to Lebel), IGOgs ; ch g Titanic, by Leolinns—Titania, 4yrs, 130gs ; Moss Rose, ITAgs ; Emerald, by Natator, 37.1g5. M. Delatre, a prominent French turfite, died on September 19th. One of his horses won a race the day previous to his death; and his long connection with the racing world is demonstrated by the fact that exactly twenty years ago one of his horses was the winner of the same event.

It is said that Tirailleur was lame when he went out for the Melbourne Cup, and his falling in the race is attributed to that. Harris, the rider of Clonard, states that the New Zealander interfered with his mount, and that, had he not been bumped about, he must have been very close at the finish. A daughter of Factory Girl, who caused a sensation on tho West Coast some years ago. is thus referred to in the Melbourne Sportsman : —" The mare. Led Astray, entered for _ the next Sandown Park races, has a bit of a history of her own, as the appended will show. She was bred away north, near Charleville, and was got by Yateley (once in Bob Batty's stable at Caulfield), out of Factory Girl. As a three-year-old she won upwards of twenty races in tho back blocks travelling some 3000 miles from meeting to meeting in six months. She was then lost sight of. Led Astray has been laid up in lavender somewhere, but will, if well, make the best of them shift when wanted."

Glenloth, the winner of the Melbourne Cup, was brought by his present owner for £±0 ). A few days prior to tho race the horse was reported to have have done a gallop equal to anything ever seen ; still tho touts would have none of him.

Eeferring to tho accident which befell Tirailleur in xho Melbourne Cup, the Sportsman says : —" When tho horses had arrived at the seven-fur-longs posts Pilot Boy crosed his legs and carne a cropper. Portsea half jumped the fallen animal, and would have scrambled over him successfully, but, unfortunately, Tirailleur was too close on him for White to pull out of

the way, and accordingly the New Zealander ran " full but " into Portsea as the latter was recovering from

the scramble, with the result that Pilot Boy, Portsea, anl Tirailleur, with their jockeys, were floundering ou the ground. Portsea joined in the race a riderless horse, but Tirailleur broke his shoulder, and found great, difficulty in returning to the paddock." Dreadnought's services are being largely availed of this season by Hawse's Bay breeders, and the Hon. Mr Ormond is not likely to have to regret his purchase of the son of Chester and Trafalgar.

Tom Payton, although young in his professon, has already trained four V.E.C. Derby winners—Trident. Ensign, Dreadnought, and Camoola. Huxley, who rode Gamoola to victory at Flemington, has not previously ridden a Victorian Derby winner, but had secured the big three-year-old event at Bandwick three times on Singapore, Stromboli, and Camoola. A two'year-old unnamed gelding who defeated Sir Modred's son, Dr. Hasbrouck, at the Brooklyn Septein» ber Meeting is credited with covering the six furlongs, over which the rice was run, in lmin. 13jSec.

Probably the best lightweight jockey on the American turf is Jimmy Lambley. He can ride at 701b, and distinguished himself not long ago by winning four races in one day. The youngster has a splendid seat in the saddle, is absolutely without fear and, like Bergen, will take almost any chance in a race. With his brother he is apprenticed to W. C. Daly, and the latter of course, takes the bulk of his earnings.

"Did anyone ever notice a somewhat peculiar circumstance which often crops up regarding tho Melbourne Cup and Derby?" says Vagrant. " I mean the fact of the letters in the names of the winner

often corresponding in number. Commencing in '611 find that Archer and Camden were successful; the next

year the winners were. Archer ani Barwon; Lantern did both tricks in 1864; then came the Bard and Seagull, the double to Briesis, Chester and Grand Flaneur; The Assyrian and Navigator were the fortunate pair in '82, then Martini-Henry, Malua and Eufus, Trident and Arsenil, Ensign and Dunlop, and now we have Camoola and Glenloth. This system of backing winners is just about as successful and sensible as many that are more highly thought- of. The only infallible system of winning money on the turf is to back all the horses in the race on the nod and forget to pay up after the event for those which did not win. The queen of the trotting track, Nancy Hanks, has again lowered her record and demonstrated that she is the fastest and most perfect piece of trotting machinery that tho world has ever seen. September 28th at Terre Haute in a match against time, she trotted in 2miu. 4sec. a reduction of her previous record of 2rnin. ojsec. This performance was made over a regulation track, and the cry of "kite" cannot be raised against it. Nancy Hanks has this season reduced her

own record five seconds and the trot-

ting recordfoiw and a quarter seconds. At Grand Eapids, Mich., on August 11th, she tied her record by trotting in 2inin. 9sec. and on August 17th at Washington Park, Chicago, she broke the trotting record in 2min. 7-Jsec. At Independence, la., over the famous kite track, she reduced her record to 2min. ojsec. Her latest achievement at Terre Haute proves that the shape of tho track makes little differance, if any, to the queen, and that her superb speed and magnificent trotting qualities enable her to maintain her highest ratio, irrespective of it. Budd Doble has done nobly in keeping the queen on such perfect edge, and that grand master of his craft is fairly entitled to his share of the honour. The trotting world will congratulate him and Naucy Hanks' owner, Mr Forbes, upon her latest and greatest triumph.—Spiric of the Times.