SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 507, 16 September 1890, Page 3

SPORTING.

Writing of a former Gisborne horse” the Melbourne Sportsman says :—Audacity made such a show of his horses in the Hurdle Race that he could have won quite easily with another stone on his back. Nothing was able to pace with him, and as he jumped “like a bird" Joe Gardner landed (be ex- , New Zealander the easiest winner we have -Seen for sometime. When many of the horses were finishing past the winning post Audacity had pulled up and was proudly walking back to meet the Clerk of the Course at Caulfield,

A Qu-ar,eland exchange aayaMr Clune, -of-Estr, hae a funny-fookfng four months old filly. She was born without a tail, and her romp andjquarten are exactly like those of a native bear. ’ “ The acceptances for |the Australian Derby are—Paris, Viator. Hugo, Titan, Bradte, Gibraltar, VYnimberel, Gatling, Our King, Megaphone leads in the quotations for the Metropolitan. The jockey “ Kaiser ” Myers, who was disqualified by the V.A.T.G. stewards recently, for suspicious riding on the mare Mercy Merreck, has petitioned that body to reopen his case. Some revelations eoncerhing others will, it is stated, be brought under notice ol the V.A.T.C. during the inquiry.