SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 598, 23 April 1891, Page 3

SPORTING.

Marvel, when be smarted for the Sydney Cup, was handicapped at 81b more than weight for age. The V.A.T.C. have decided that the value of the next Cau'field Cup shall be 3000 Bovs., instead of 2000 eovs. as formerly. Messrs Currie and Hogan’s Caitiff has been nominated for the Wanganui Steeplechase Handicap, to be held on the 25th of May, 1891. It is stated that the settlement of accounts in connection with the third and fourth days of the A J.C. Autumn Meeting was not quite so satisfactory as usual, owing to the absence of several of the backers. It is said that Bravo will shortly return from India to Melbourne, to undergo another preparation, and see if the son of Grand Flaneur cannot once more annex a Melbourne Cup. Audacity, having recovered from his recent accident, has again been put into active work. The little son of Randwick— Elea has once more changed hands, the figure tbis time being 300 guineas. Here are a few big-priced horses who never won a race since they were knocked down at the sensational figures quoted :— Titan, £4830; Tradition, £3152 ; Warwick, £2100; Dreadnought, £2205; Singapore, £2100; and Gatling £2lOO. Total, £16,487. Bob Derritt, who was suspended for a month for suspicious riding on Prime Warden in the Sockburn Handicap, avers that there was no suspicious running. He says that the horse tripped in the straight, and he immediately took a pull at him to steady him, and then immediately Bet Bail after the leaders. The horse has been disqualified for six months. Wally Clifford, the well-known New Zealand Archer, contemplates a visit to Australia after the Wellington races are over, for the purpose of medical consultation, his back being still bad from the effects of a fall in Napier some time ago. “Freelance” in the Melbourne Sportsman says:—Carbine has won twice £16,000 in stakes alone, but Carbines aren't foaled every year, and on the rare occasions on which they do blossom they don’t always drop into the bands of a Donald Wallace or the stable of a Walter Hickeubotham.