Special Sporting News.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 390, 13 December 1889, Page 2

Special Sporting News.

THE CHAMPION STAKES. Of Capital qnd Ltbqt; distance jiffintrteiiMable, owners up; weight tbit they can . carry. -No allowance made tot know, league ■' A. Squatter, Esq b h Autocrat, by Aristc. erat—Lady, 17 yrs. Mr A. Working Man’s bh Progress, bylotslli, genes—Determlqiffion. The two oaslMaios tor the bls event stepping on the training track, on the first occasion I saw them, presented an esaelteot appearance. The first to take a preliminary was Progress, and from his style of going I judged that hia younger opponent would have to move. His traiMr is a namesake of a well known Victorian topree owner who has on several occasions sent the pot bailing over, and scalding' the knowing division. Tbs second in command wee Mr Barriater, who is clever and painstaking, and who also is aq excellent general. Shortly afterwards Autocrat appeared, bat although showing all the points of a thoroughly good goer, ho looked as it Mr Rasper and his assistant, Mr Ssori. totre had fined (mem. for ths comp,—don't set this up as ** filed ■’) him down too much, He seemed wssk, and qertainly one of his hind legs was oonsldsralbv affected, Alio, gather I felt Inclined to discard Mm, bnt remembering hie breeding, I besitatad to back my previously formed opinion. Binoe their advent, I have diMoverad that first thoughts are generally best, and oq every oossuoq when I base seen Progress on the track Ihaeq felt more and mdrt'eonvinosd that be is fas and away ths better of the pair, and shall up him to win, “ r [The following is apparently written pro. phetically, because I found It on th* floor.—Pj).] . I'- ; It »ot a dream? Was I Mid distant in that far away dssoribad as dreamland; I know not,, but e«ssything seemed vivid and rsoollsctiuo clear, jtSoopht or knew, I know qot which, J had watstiod a contest between t*o hbrsas; one wdi,' fart certain, Autocrat, the other first-named made the '• ranafosi: ru iTSw. lieve they term it when u, lo g eVteg Mat " under the guidance of Oi«S, bm it soon “e! came etideoi that Kemiu was riding a wdt? ing rasa on Progress. The leader was m’eriy allowed to rsMh the half-mile post whan Progress came with each a rush that the numbers want up— “

0(0. 2.—toogtsM* — kj-”’ .. 1 No, I.—Autocrat .. du. Ths dividend was not declared.