SPORTING NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3207, 14 January 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

SPORTING NOTES.

•■ : -[By'Lb Noun.] Tin: Ngaruawahia Racing Club hold thoir annual mooting on Saturday next in Mr, W. Clow's padrlooks at Ngaruawahia, when a successful gathering should eventuate. _ Good entries have been received for tlie vitrious events, and should the weather keep fine, a large attendance will no doubt bo present. The programme* consists of seven events, the largest of which is thn Ngaruawahia Cup of Xafl. Mr L. Harris' well-known pony Antic, who was recently taken over to Australia, has been successful in passin" the M.l standard, It will be renumbered (hat he failed to get under the H'2 standard in Auckland a fow weeks back.

La Flechc won during this season £ 25,3n5, and her total winnings make lier take rank next to Donovan as the greatest stub earner of recent'years, Orme during his two seasons has won £21,198. ;■ The London Sportsman says :-ino season of 1892 has been; something of a triumph for breeding .theories, for the best; bred horses have all made thoirwaytotho'top. .' The Hawke's Bay Herald says:Hippoiia, the dam of St. Hippo, who is now the property of tho Hon. J, D, Orniond, has dropped a colt foal to St. Andrew at.that gentleman!s property on the Karamu,'. The youngster resembles in appearance his dam, as dpesSt. Hippo, As St. Andrew is by St.'Leger from Scottish Lassie, and St, Hippo is also by St.'Leger, the youngster is a three-quarterbrotherm blood to tho winner of tho Huwkes Bay Gnineiisv Hawko's Bay Spring Handicap, ;New Zealand Gup, and Auckland Cup, Derby and Plito, An Australian paper tells its readers that an .ox-MP., in South Australia, wild strenuously opposed tho totah-' su'tor on "moral' grounds," drew Yarran in tho Caulfield Cup swoop and nnnoxed. f3OOO, Perhaps this story if told to show that oi position to the totalisator is a certain forerunner of good luck. ' " ' , Mr E. Hobson, the...-owner of Burnaby, gave Doyle, the jockey, a present of £OOO for riding in lb" Cesurewitch. " Teddy " Uobson asked Doyle if be wool I have a cheque for the amount, " Sure," said the young Patlnnder, "I should prefer a Bank of England note," Whereupon Burnaby's owner got one for that sum and presented it to his jo'jlcoy, Mr J. B. Clarke, nominator of Trieste for the V.K/J. Oaks, is still dissatisfied with the verdict given by the Y.It.C. committee on the protest entered against. Etra Weenie, who won, and has written to the Sydney Morning Herald to the effect that the, decision practically, debars him from accepting the second money, £IOO. In conjunction with others interested in the filly, he has therefore determined to devote'the entire amount to a fund now being raised for the benefit of tho 'amateur rider, Mr A. E. Wicks, who met with such a serious accident!.at the last meeting of tho Sydney Turf Club as to necessitate the amputation of diis left leg.

■ConcerningLa Fleohc's victory in tho Cambridgeshire, the London Sportsmau lias tho following:—As the, vanpfiinrd meed into tho dip. a loud burst of cbcciing, that reminded one of the ovation which awaitci Onne after his Eclipse victory, proclaimed the appearance of La Fleclto on tho scene, and in a twinkling if became dear that Baron do Hirsoli's mare hud only to. reckon with Gen. Owen Williams', colt. Excitement was indeed at fever heat, as stride by sirido the St. Lexer heroine Rained on the light weight, and : wh'eii it was at length certain that she had caught and benteu him—not after a distressful battle, but in grand and decisive fashion—her triumph was announced in clarion tones, and a scene of more genuine rejoicing has never been wituessed on Newmarket Heath. The cheering lasted close upon a minute, and, inaquiotnr way, was repeated on her return to the! Birdcage. : How popular was La Heche's victory words would fail to properly describe, and I must leave her in her glory with the remark that sho can now churn to bo as much the mare of the century as once was Achievement, whose greatest admirers will no. longer begrudge yesterday's heroine the title she has so nobly earned.

Aii English exchange says :-A racehorse has just left England whoso pedigree, if one judges simply by the achievements of immediate ancestors, is: of nearly—perhaps quite-unex> airiplcd excellence. , This iis Oryillo,' whom the Duke.of Westminster has lately sold to an American purchaser, Or'villo's sire is Ormonde, and his dahi is Shotover, and both wero winners of tho Derby. This'' alone is an extraordinary distinction, but tlie pedigree of both Orville's sire and dairi ara remarkable,, and, run. on curiously: parallel, lines. , Ormonde (winner of the Derby) was by Bond .Or (winner of the Derby), by Doncaster (winner'of the Derby), by' Stockivell (winner of the St, Leger), by the Huron (winner of''the St. Leger); Shotover' (winner of tho Derby), was by Hermit (winner, of tho Derby),' by Nowminster (winnpr of the St,. Leger), by' Touchstone (winner'of the St, Leger).'The coincis : dence, it will beseen, isoxact, except that Ormonde' has one more Derby : winner in his nonr pedigree. Yot Orvillc will leave tins country quito: uuregretted, He is a roarer, and and otherwise not a good horso. .Tho. late Lord Falmouth's rule to breed from winners' only is undoubtedly a' good one, but Orville shows that it does not always lead to success.