SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 354, 21 September 1889, Page 3

SPORTING.

Sydney, September IS.. • At Tattersall’s this evening there was a fair amount of wagering over the Metropolitan Stakes. Abercorn was backed tn win a couple of thousand at 4 to 1, and Wycombe and EHerdale were supported to the extent of £5OOO each at sto 1. A’l the money in the market was taken about West Lynne at 100 to 7. Tradition was backed for a small amount at 100 to 4, and £lOOO at the same price was taken about Locksley. Keith was nibbled at 100 to 10. Christchurch, last nigh. Engagement was scratched yesterday for the New Zealand Cup.

Mr Arthur Devery announces in another column that his well-known thoroughbred stallion New Chum will again stand the season at Kaiteratabi. New Chum’s stock are well-known throughout the district as being grand topped one. and good weight 'Carriere besides. Particulars as to pedigree, terms, etc., may be found in the advertisement. Mr R. C. Veyner has sustained a serious loss by the death, at a comparatively early age, of the thoroughbred Camballo, who won for him the Two Thousand Guineas and many valuable two-year-old prizes, including the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. Camballo was hardly himself when unplaced to Galopin in the Derby, and he shortly afterwards went to the stud, where he became the sire of The Lambkin, winner of the St Leger in 1884, and of many other horses which ran well, mostly in the North. The last of his progeny which has achieved any distinction is Mr Vyner’s Minthe, sister to The Lambkin, who won the One Thousand Guineas and ran second for the Oaks this year. A traveller in New England saw the following sign on a board that was nailed to a fence near a village :—“ Horses taken into grass. Long tails. Idol. 50c.; short tails, Idol.” The traveller halted, and asked the owner of the land why there was such a difference in the price of. board for horses. •• Well, you see,” said the man, “ the long tails can brush away the flies but the short ones are so tormented by them that they can hardly eat at aIL” Ellerdale, the winner of the Hawkesbury Handicap, hails from the coaly city of New castle, where she showed fair form on several occasions. The best performances to her credit, though, were at Rand wick on the Ist of January last, when she won Tattersall's Cup of two miles, and beat a good field in the time of 3min 36secs. Ellerdale’s party were very heavy winners over the Hawkesbury win. According to a late paper to hand, Carbine was backed for the Melbourne Cup to win £3,000, at 100 tn 5, For »he Caulfield Cup, a wager of 2000 to 100 was laid about Cranbrook.

A. report was current in Gisborne some ftAirt time ago, that Mr C Abbott had dis of his thoroughbred stallion Daniel O’Rorke to Mr O. Bnderby, of Wanganui, a -former owner. On reference to our adver tiling columns it will be found that this is not the case, and that the handsome little son of Bledmere—Brunette is to again stand the season in this district, thereby giving owners of wellbred mares a chance of getting another Recluse, or something equally as good, it not better,

The Italians have evidently produced a clinking 2 year old in Signorina by the English horse St. Simon from Star of Portice, the property of Chevalier Ginistrelli. Up to the latest dates this filly was unbeaten and had won amongst other races the Manchester Whitsuntide Plate of 4000 sovs., Kempton Park Grand Two Year Old Stakes, of 2000 sovs., and the Sandown Park British Dominion Two Year Old Stakes. In getting two such exceptional fillies as Semolina and Signorina in one season, St Simon has established a record seldom achieved jby a sire in any pert of the world. Stimulated doubtless by tbe success of Ringmaster, Mr Jones, who is now on a visit to England, has cabled to Australia for his horse Bravo to ba sent at once, Bravo is a real flyer over a distance of ground, and has won several races.