TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 35, 12 February 1890, Page 3

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

V -1 H — The party that backed Oransjeman wins tbo "wager. Mr .3. Rae ree-ired the third money «!. tbo payment of stakes. w'iS (Ponsonby).—V\'e cannot undertake to piiblisa the full performances of howoa.

The EgmontCupisrun to-morrow. Patch>wbrk and Montroseare the Auckland borefcS engaged. Occident and St. James are favourites for thf Dunedin Cup, run next Wednesday. Merxie Kn<»Jand is next fancied. During yesterday Mr E. D. Ilalstend made a pod mortem examination of the filly JMary. He 'ophres that s-he died from •fitra-ngulation of the intestines.

Papers to hand by the s.s. llingaroorna state that Rudolph 'is in most demand for the Newmarket Handicap afc 100 to U. Consequence and Dreadnought are quoted at 100 to 6 each ; 100 to 5 Fishwife, John g Apropos, and Gladstone. Dreadnought is''most fancied for the Australian Cup, and 6 to 1 is fcke best ofier on the iield.

The date fixed for the closing of tenders for the purchase of the N.Z. Stud Company's establishment is the 20th March.

According 16 a Wanganui paper, the Messrs Wilson Bros, Priced a n«m»er 7 °* well-performed horses, fc«t the prices assed by Waneariui owners v/ere much m excess of the amount the Silver" #ings cared to glln' Wanganni, Lady Florin is' the favourite for the Cup. Rosebud, the winner of the Poll"1 kup at Elieralie on Saturday, has won several races in and about Christchurch. She is by Castaway. The gross amount of the stakes won m England during the last season under Newmarket rules was about £480,000. It is proposed to hold the iirsfc coursing meeting of the season in Dunedin in April. dominations for Auckland Tnfetersall's Club race meeting close on Friday night, ■with klrYtayr. MrF. F. Bakin has been appointed to the office of judge to the Victoria Racing Club, during the absence of Mr R. S. Wakely in England. "Spectator " has been looking over the yearlings purchased by Mr Stead at the last Stud Company sale. He speaks highly of them, and concludes: —"Nordenfeldb promises to make as great, if not a greater, .liorse than his illustrious sire ; there is no mistake his gets are exceptionally high-class an appearance." Mr Frank Hill's Wanganui-owned brown gelding Montrose, by Vasco di Gama out of Primrose, will in future be known as Montrose 11.

The Hon. J. White has taken to Melbourne Abercorn, Dreadnought, Singapore, Titan, Prelude, Utter, Rudolph, and Marco to represent him at the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting. When some of the wiseacres of the turf propheeied that the totalisatoi' would soon ruin racing in Queensland, they made a terrible mistake (remarks "Augur"), for ever Stxice the instrument has been introduced to the land of the banana, the sport has gone steadilyahead until tlieQueensland Turf Club has nob only considerably increased its strikes, but ha9v also added a day to its spring and autumn meetings. Not only has it done abis, but it has this season expended some thousands of pounds in erecting a very handsome grandstand and otherwise improving the course.