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THE TURF.
I "POSTMASTER." -v,
Sliarjjslibolcr has been witLdrair^
from tiie Hurdle Uaee to be run at
Elwlek on Snturdtty.
In asking Ucluui.i to carry tlio snrnc
weight as Lttugioh !u two events to
lie decided at Saturday's T.R.C.
inccting, Mr. Weaver lias been ratbor
rough on tlie poorly peMoimod son of
I'oslianv)-
If Kalnuck jumps hurdles on Satm-
<laj-,-Iie M ill make H forry exliibitiou ot
•lie lot opposed to iiim in llin Uur>lle
Haco. I lather l'av.)r flaHerius iiandica))H,
but wlm will tbe owners oj>poscil
to Kalnuek Lave to sa.v.
Motal, site'-or J'arsee, was fount]
deafl in bis box at KiiU.haui (X.S.^V.)
on Wednesday last. He was foaU-'d iu
Ungland as Car back as ISS2, ijelug
by Sliiiiug from Fair Vesial, by Vcsliasinu,
and, after racing in Jntiih
(where lie won- the Viceroy's Cup in
1SS.1), came lo Australia. "lie was at
file time of brs'deatli owned liv Jlr.
Ijoweil lYiei:. '.
Lord Jtareus Beresford lias accepted
t!;e viee-presiUency o£ tlie Interuatioual
liai:ias Club • of Copi.'Uliageu, a
society which lias been formed for tbe
t'neourasemont ot' international races
to be 1'IIU ou a new course which is
to Ire lai'l out near J3eninarl;"s eajiital.
The well-knovvu Adelaide owner «Iio
races of Mr. J. Koweu, aud who won
tbe Gooawoutl ' Handicap with True
Scot, has decided in future to lace in
his own name—J. It. Osborn.
Tlie Newcastle Cup is down for decision
on the a2ud inst. Anicug Hie
seventy entries is P;,ivel. Tlie Tnsluauiiin-OK-nca
Colt is wei,rilled at 7.».
Tiio Cup distance Is lOue mile and
three furlongs..
The Newmarket .Stakes, of one mile
and a iiuarler, will be run at Newmarket,
Kngiand, to-juorroiv.
The lone-time crack horseman, P.
Pigott, who woo tbe Melbourne Cup
of KT'l, on Haricot, for Sir. Chirnside,
and the Cup and Derby double, on
Chester, in 18T7. for Hon. J. White,
has been engaged to train at Ipswich.
Queensland, for a sportsman of that
i)ity. ,j'igort has iatoiy been with
trainer Conquest, at Ilendra.
At the New .South Wales Trotting
Club's meeting Valor once again showed
what a great.horse he Is by giving
l'icaninnv !)sec. start, and being upsides
(villi that horse a furlong from
liorje, showing that up to the point of
the break he was cutting out a belter
111.™ limlu. ]7sc-e. clip. The merit of
tue performance is enhanced from the
fact' Hint Valor paces without hopples.
Valor, who is iiy Vancieve (imp j
front Whisper, by A fax (Imp.), was
foamed in ISIIU, and It remains to be
scon how many of the hoppled pacers
"ow wlnuing races as two and three
olds will be as sound and as fas!
as Valor when tliey reach his years.
Another great horse by Vancieve who
lias retained his soundness and speed
Is the fair and square trotter Vaunt
who was foaled in 1S9S. Medlow
Until Is anodier Instance that trotters
heget pacers, and vice-versa. Medlow
Hath' is a four-year-oia son of Emulator,
one of the fairest and squarest
trotters ever seen on a track, and Is
a hoppled pneer The crowd made a
lenseless demonstration against Medlow
.Hath when he won the lipping
Handicap, evidently thinking that because
lie was beateu in the l'lamway
Handicap lie lind no right to win the
Upplng However, had they known
nougli to couip.H'e the two performances,
lii"y would have seen there was
uothlu)! inconsistent la them. In the
Tramway Handicap he covered the
mile nnu a furlong at a gait three
lenglhs worse than 2mln. 25sie., whilst
111 tlieHjipilig Handicap he covered his
II:; and a half at a 2min. 27see..gait.
Mr. 3. A. BusklamVs adding Verax
Is one of the most popelar hersus in
Neis Zealand. At the .New Zealand
Metropolitan Trotting Club's rccent
meeting, although he failed to win, he
laced most consistently. On the first
day he finished fhird lu the principal
cnl, aud oil the other two days he
finished second. In the Metropolitan
Handicap of 200 sovs.. 2 miles, his
lime was six lengths worse thuu 4min.
12 3-5sec., whilst In the Champion's
Handicap of 2i0 wvs, his time in
raclag seeoud was 4 lengths worse
thiin -imlH. 43sec. Fusee, tlie Priuee
Harold gelding which left Sydney a
trotter, Is no\v a hoppled pacer In New
, Zealand, :iii<] how good he is mny hi?
.udgod from the fact (hat the New
Zealand handjeapper asks him to concede.
Yerax two second* start JTI two
miles. The Sydney owner, Mr. IV. J.
Borley. had .no cause t«> regret lii«
pluck hi sending Onward to New
Zealand to race. Following up his
rictorv on the first day. Onward won
1 he .'Flyers' Handicap of 1:15 sovs., ou
the second day. Iiis time in ihe lattc*-
event was 2miu. -24 l-5sec.
Tattersall's sweeps tie at least conducted
on a .foil- huainobs basis, a
feature of which is that many sub-
scribers at so much eairh. know exactly
hat the odds are against their wining
a prize, whereas Ihe sale of
tickets tor the Eight Hours lottery
being unlimited, the greater the number
of tickets sold the greater is the
promoters' profit, and the more remote
the chauce held by each Individual
subscriber of .winning a prize. The
tickets iu this legalised and gigantic
gnmble cost 1/ each, and the value of
the first prize is CHM. It would not
be easy to approximate the number of
tickets that will be paid for. but three
weeks before the date ef drawing I
saw one purchased in tiie street, the
number on which exceeded 232.000.
One ot the best comic f-ongs I ever
heard had for its refrain. "What jolly
old humbugs are we'"' J commend It
to tlie antl-gamhling section of the
Victorian Legislature.—"Javelin."
Mr. Mandaras," tlie owner of Duke
of Sparta (winner of the 7,lucolnshIre.
writes Mr. John' CoWott) Is a Greekmerchant
established in London wl'-o
has made a fortune out of Turkish tobacco.
Like Mr. John Hill, the owner
of Mintagou; be Is entirely blind. It
is curious to note hoy keen many
bllii'd men have been ou racing, and
what good judges they are as a rule:
and we. remember that on the occasion
of Mintagon winning the Cesarcwitch
his ' owner declared that he
"sri»v" he had just won. When a man
is deprived of his eyesight a kindly
Providence seems to give him a new
sense In its place. Mr. Mandarns
atched the Lincolnshire Handicap
froui the lower steps of the Owners'
Stand, and appeared to lcr.ow exactly
ho<r liis'horse was poJn.~ without asfcing.any
question. We remember when
Lord Glasgow was going round old
Jim 'Goddlng's stables at Newmarket^
years ago. the tralot'r pointed out a
horse, and said, "That, my lord, is old.
Volunteer. He has won 17 races, and
his owner has never seen him run
once/' ."Dear me," said Lord Glasgow.
"A beautiful horse, a beautiful
horse. I should have thought: a man
would have taken Relight in . seeing
him run. And what is'tht reason, Sfr.
Godding, -why bis owner -has never
seen him run? - ' "Beanuse Tie's blind,
my lord," said Jim, with beaming
face; but his lordship dill notTseetn^to
appreciate the joke, and Godding always
declared that this little pleasantry
was ihe cause of Lord Glasgow's
taking iiis horses away." There b:i
been several blind sportsmen: in Australia.
One of our most successful
breeders is, uufortuuutely, blind, yet
is one of the best judges of horse
shape "we know. - ;
At the recent meeting of the Auckland
R.c. flic fees paid to the clubby
bookmakers ("tailed IIOUO/IO/.
Mr. Francis Foy lies decided to send
his brood mure Colors (dam of Tartan)
on a visit to Posits no. Lord Uliin's
Daughter, winner of-1 be Australian
Cup lu ISO j. and Au.d J,aug Syne nve
oilier mares hooked for the same sire
nexl season.
ill-. Thomas Power, or the "Sydney
Morning Herald" staff, was successfully
opei-nieil upon a fortnight ago,
and his frienus will be glad to hear
he is doing well and almost recovered,
though the operation was a complicated
and dungcrous one.
Sir liiehard Baker, who "hafe been
chairman of the K.A.3.C. since its
formation hi 1RSS. has tendered Ills
resignation to the couiffiittee. ' The
committee has deferred acceptance of
It. hut if is understood that Sir
llickard will not seelrf re-election.
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