SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 528, 6 November 1890, Page 3

SPORTING.

THE NEW ZE LaNDER LoWEBS THE uUP KEoORD. MelboVbne, Novemi er 4. There was beautiful weather for Cup day. and there was au enormous attendance, esti mated at over 50,000. Melbourne Cup, a handicap sweepstakes of 50 Bovs, each, 10ft., or 5 sovs. only if declared before 4 p.m. on the 4th of August, with 10.000 sovs , and a trophy value 150 sovs. added. The second horse to receive 2000, end the third 1000 sovs. out of the stake. Two miles. Hon. D. S. Wallace’s b h Carbine, syrs by Musket—Mersey, 10.5 (Ramage) 1 Mr E. A. Oatley’s bl g Highborn, syrs by Grandmas er—Her Ladyship, 6:8 2 Mr J. McLaughlan s ch c Correze, 3yrs by Neckorsgat Ada, 7.3 ... ... 3 Thirty nine started. Carb ne se< med safe from the beginning. He occupied a goon position the Whole way, genera y about 5 h. Entering the straight he quickly shot to the front, and Ramage took all the advantage he Could get. Halfway down the straight be held the race safe, but be all. wed no possible risk, and drew out to a had of fully three lengths Time, 3 28}. Enuo was 4th, the Derby winner Oth, Melos 6th, and Carrington 7ih. There was a wildly enthusiastic scene at the finish, the spectators cheering and shouting as if their life degmded on the noise they could make. Lord opotoun presented the trophy to the owner of the champion horse in Australia, and cheer after cheer was spontaneously given for the horse, the owner, tbe Governor, jockey, trainer, and others. The Hurdle Race was won by Freedom, the Railway Handicap by Teksum, the Kensington Handicap by The Baron, the Nursery Handicap by 8. phetta, and the Yau Yean Stakes by Teksum. HISTORY OF THE CUP. The following is the history of the Cup for the past five years, up to Tuesday's race, when the great Carbine came in victorious:— A rare good price—about 20 to 1 —could h»Ve been got about Wooomri, the winner Of 1173, when be hat the game liitle Richmond, with Goldsbrough third ; and One of the best mares that ever looked through a bridle (Briuis) electrified he 75,000 people who were present in 1876 by beating Sibyl and Timothy for the p aces. The field number, d ihiriy-tbree, the largest that had started up to that time. Sue Wen the double Derby and C p-a feat which was repeated m 1877, wneu the Viet riau public had the famous blue and White jacket of the la e Hon. J. White introduced to them. The hone that carried them Was Cheater, the famous eon of Valteadon and Lady Chester. Piggut rode him, and won, after a must brilliant finish, by bad a bead from the favorite, Savanaku, ridden by Peter St. Albans. Chr ■ er’s owner was a big winner over the doabe, Joe Tnumpsoa to hand over eome<.hmg like £25 000 on settling day—a fact that caused a great itnaaciuu ♦* under the verandah ” The good o»d Terraraequire, Mi De Mestre, was again to the fore in 1878 with Calamia, who went out •t 100 to 10 Tom Ktrk was secund, and Waxy, by Cruagh Pai nek, third. Waxy WM a neat«iowkiag brown horse, and met his death years after from a pistol bu»»e at Orange Many sdll think that Chester Wouid have been t>>e winner of the Cup of 187®» but he uufuriunatvly met with au *Ccidem through a hurse CaLed Glengarry Colliding with him and Tom Ktrk, Joe Morrison that day met with au accident Which eleven years after was the o»u»e of me death. One of the uuluukiest rarii on the turf has been Mr Thum «s Ivory, and he did hot expect to see anything beat {Sweetmeat in 1879, but little dam Or ckneu defeated him by half a length. Had Grand Flaneur never been foaled, Progress won a have been looked Upon as a Wundeifui b»rsr. He etaned Uvoilte at 2 to 1 On, w»ih G-i 1010 up, but When Tom Hales brought up Flanner alongside gt the distance post the son oi angler was outpaced, and only beat Loro Buighiej half a head for second place, au wen did Darcbin win the Derby, that 100 to 33 was his price for the Cup of 1881, in which he failed vo get a place, the wit ner turning up iu Zulu, who as be Went ou< 100 to 1 was >aid against him. The C2ar wa*> second, and bweattneai again ran ixuo api ace, It is said on no occasion was there such a display of dress as witnessed ths day The Assyrian won The morning Was a fearfully but one, which changed to a buiexiy acid wind, and iheu rain (ell just as th* horses went out fur the Cup. One Q<m of bookmakers—Miller, Jonds, and O'brhn—had laid §O,OOO to 500 against ihe double Xavigator and QudarZ. In (hi same stable, however, was Sweet and be went OUt favorite at 4io 1, As they raced up the Straight no one cuu d tell what had won, the colors being smo hered in mud and Water. The Assyrian won by a length from Stockwell, Gudaiz third, It is estimated £lOO,OOO would have been paid out by the books ” had McGrade got home with First Water in front of MartiniHenry in the year 1883. Commotion was third, a position which he improved to second in ihe following year, when Alec Bobertson drove Mama three-parts of a length in front of him. The juibi numerous field that ever faced the flag for the Melbourne Cup was that which went out in 1835. They numbered thirty—five; Nordenfeldt being favourite at 5 to 1. Sheet Anchor won, beating Ch ace Darling and the crack New Zealander Trenton. The latter was then handed over to Mr Tom Lamond, and caused the touts no end of trouble by always going lame in his work* Many said hs would not start, but he did face the flag and nearly won, as he ran second to Arsenal, Bobertson rode Trenton, and McQrade thg third horse, SilYermine. They were two of the best rider* of their day, and good cartful, steady Ude, who both lost their lives while doing their duty. As everyone knows, Boberteou was killed, as also Hilvermfhs, in go accident at Band wick; while McGrade Went down id ths ill-fated Keilawarra after her collision with the Helen Ntcoli, standing SM the &ead of a horse be wm taking over for Brisbane races. Smln. 28gsec, the best is on record for the Cup. w»e done when Saunders landed Dunlop home by a • length from Silvermine iu 1887, and Mentor’s win by half a length from the since disappointing Tradition and The Yeoman will be fresh in the mind of readers Mentor was heanly backed for the Caulfield Cup, and to the surprise of everyone withdrawn. Last year Braye got home from the migtny Carbine and tbe favourite, Meios, So the sm prise of the vast majority, for the horse, after run Bing third m th* Cau field Cup, was reported to b«en badly beaten in a tnai by Lonratef and something was amirs with one Of his forefeet, caused by treading on a piece of glass bottle —(‘ Hippoua.”) No other horse has carried the same weight to victory as Carbine hag now done. Indeed the only other winner that has had as much as ICtat up was which won the race two years in succession after it was first instituted iu 1861. Archer had 9st 71'< in 1861, time 3.62, and 10st 21 bs in the following year, time 3.47.

cpr WIXNEB AND ftVUMITB FBOJI 1872 TO 1890. Favorite. Position. Winner, Com'wa Nowhere Th* Quack Den Juan First D p Juan Go>d»b.irc»ugb Unplaced Hmico* Imperial Unp.aced W-fllnmai Feu d Artifice Nowhere Brains fitvsnaka Secund Chert er Melba N«n in let d o g Cbitcoia Sttwarrow Third Darriwelt Progress Second Giard Flaneur P<i*bin About tenth Zulu ■wee William Fourth The Adrian Marth.j.Hrnxy Fjr.i M,. d.u.Henry M4u& First Mblua g >rrfptjfe?dt Fourth Anchor Tndtnt Fourth Arunal Meteor Third Dunlop Chicago Nowhere Mentor Ms»oe Third Bravo Carbme Firet Carbine

CHBr-TCHUBOH. yesterday,—Spy won the fi It Hirdls* at the C.J.C, meeting; Lit'le Ar bh* Wm second. Thr New Zealand Cup far e a great bob over. Crackshot, the favourite, not even getting a p ace, though h* got eW»y in the lending divison and was We 4 in nnti be was fairly beaten on entering the Ittaight, Wolverine had then gone to

the front, and won comfortably, with two lengths from Dudu, Strepbon being third. The latter was ridden by young Banks, formerly of Gisborne. Occident finished fonr'h, and Crackshot fifth. Heather Bell won the Maiden Stakes; Namoa, tbe Welcome Stakes ; Redcrostt, the 'tewards' furse, with Cynisca second, and Ben Trovato third; Spy won the second Hurdles and Peerewick the Criterion Stakes. Tbe Derby was won by Medallion, Freedom second, and Crackshot third.