SPORTING.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 54, 1 August 1874, Page 3

SPORTING.

.SPORTING NOTES.

Lurline and Papapa took their departure on the 23rd for Auckland, where they will be joined by Calumny, and go on for their Australian engagements. One could have wished that they had gone earlier, as the time for preparation is now very short. It only remains to wish them all luck, and to congratulate ourselves that we shall not have a walkover for the Cup, which would very possibly have been the case had the mare stopped. Waimea, Toi, and the Fair Puritan colt, with, of course, “ power to add to their number,” are now the representatives of the Great Northern stable. Tam is also in work and looking very well. Mr Delamain’s stable is thisycar especially strong. Ellin King, in the first box I interviewed, is looking very well. He has not grown so much as one would wish, but is a handsome little gentleman enough. Hercules, who, like the last mentioned, is a Derby candidate, is a big strong colt, over sixteen hands, and a well made ‘un too, but he looks more like the hurdles than the flat._ He can jump, I hear, and his make and size are a sufficient guarantee for carrying weight, while his very short pasterns seem rather against his appearance. Hercules is by Ravensworth, out of Malvina’s dam, and has been sent down from Blenheim to train for forthcoming meeting. He has furnished wonderfully since I saw him up there last summer, and is certainly what Mr Webb would call “ a very useful horse ” even should he not prove as fast as his sister, Templeton, who occupies the next box, has been enjoying the otlnm cum dig, which he certainly deserved, and has evidently wintered well. He looks blooming and is handsomer than ever. From his appearance and past performances, it is a pretty safe thing to predict that this colt will carry the blue-and-white stripes to more than one victory this season. In the next box is another Derby candidate, a chestnut colt by Mai ton out of Atalanta. He is a very powerful promising youngster, and looks a cut-and-come-again sort of gentleman. Belle, a very lady-like demoiselle, and a daughter of Belle of the Isles by Caledon, completes the team. This filly was in work for the autumn meeting, but went wrong. She is small, but should be fast if looks go for anything. Sara Haines is o f course master of the horse at Yaldhurst, and I hope will have all the luck during the season that he deserves. Before leaving 1 had a peep at the rest of the live stock, in the paddock. Miss Flat, with a very nice Traducer foal, looking very matronly indeed, as different as possible to the Miss Flat who used to make

the lives of starters a burden unto them ; her dam, Mountain Nymph, was also there, with a lilly Malton foal. The yearlings were, a very promising one by Ravcnsworth out of Belle of the Isles, and another big filly by Golden Grape out of Atalanta. The last foals by Tradueer out of Belle and Atalauta are, I regret to say, what Mr Twain would call “ very dead.” I hope Mr Del amain will have better luck next time. Talking of sires, I met Sam Piggott in my travels exercising Blueboy. This horse, who it will be remembered was one of the pair lately imported by Mr Griffiths, has wonderfully improved; his make and shape speak for themselves, and his blood is fashionable for anything. Sam informs me that 1 should not know Albany again. I must go and see shortly. At Mr Webb’s the team consists at present of Mr Lee’s Jen d’Esprit colt (by Malton), engaged in the Derby. He is a fine powerful chestnut colt, and if he only possesses pace there is no question about his being able to carry the weight. In the next box is a grey colt by Caledon out of Calista, who looks like going, and shows a good bit of quality too. He is the property of Mr Studholm, and, as far as looks go, is far in advance of that gentleman’s other Derby candidate in the same stable, a bay colt by Caledon out of Zig Zag. However, handsome is as handsome does, and the son of Zig Zag may turn out better than he looks. In the next box is a colt by Caledon out of Emmeline, who was such a hot favorite for the Champagne at the last Autumn Meeting. On that occasion he was fit to run for a man’s life, and the result proved that sprinting was not his form. He looks to me more like being in his place in a long race with big weights, but we shall doubtless know more about him before long. On the opposite side of the yard is a colt by Malton out of Ada, and a very nice colt too, but his education has only just commenced. Defaraer is going to the stud, but it is doubtful where he will be located. He looks remarkably well and has furnished into a really fashionable-looking horse, and has plenty of substance to back it up, two qualities by no means inseparable, By the way talking of sires, I hear Mr Webb has purchased Knottingly, so the “ old horse ” will be once more at his old quarters, and I only hope for his owner’s sake, he may be as good property for him in his role of sire, as he was when he scored so many wins for the Bush Inn stable. Knottingly has earned, I understand, a capital reputation down South and I feel sure he will sustain it here. Mr Webb’s yearlings are good. There are four colts by Tradueer out of Lady Florence, Kasper’s dam, Ada, and Tantrums respectively, all nice yearlings; the Ada colt being my fancy, but a filly by Tradueer out of Spray I like quite as well, and for quality she would be hard to beat anywhere. Bob Ray has established himself in very comfortable quarters close to Mr R. M. Morten’s. I cannot give the name of the road, but by keeping always to the right after passing the railway gates on the Riccarton Road beyond the Bush Inn, you may perhaps fetch it. Bob Ray has Mr P. Campbell’s filly by Towton, out of Opera, engaged in the Derby, and own sister to Tamburini, She is a great raking filly and has wonderfully improved, Whether she will be a second Tam or not remains to be proved. She looks well enough, and I hope Mr Campbell will at any rate be able to see what she is like at the forthcoming meeting. The Tadmoro colt in the next box is a low powerful horse with racing looking quarters, and has, as Colonel Brett says, no bar sinister?on his escutcheon. He looks well and is doing good work. Remnant has not grown much, but anyone who saw her performance in the Champagne when shinsore and not fit, as far as condition goes, to run for a saddle, will credit her with some merit. With ordinary luck Remnant ought to pay for her corn this season, and its dear enough just now goodness knows. Traitor, the “ coming horse,” looks magnificent. He stands a good bit over sixteen hands, and has furnished into a grand horse. Fit and well, he ought to be amongst them this season, and is certainly a dangerous horse to be on the wrong side of the book. Of the rest of the horses who put in an appearance on the course of a morning, Dick Richardson has Malvina in work, and Alice Grey and Kate Kearney are also to be seen by those who are enterprising enough to go and look at them. The new course is going on according to last advices very favorably, though it is more than doubtful if it will be fit for use next meeting. I observe by the last “ Australasian ” that the thoroughbred horse Gladiator, by Gladiatcur out of Nuncia, has been sold for 500 guineas, to come to New Zealand. Sinead.