[Written Specially for the "Star," by ;■ : ' '; "Augur."] I gladly comply with your request that] I should throughout 1877 supply you with a monthly quota of such sporting news as I think may interest Colonial readers. Tho commencement of the year is the dull season as far as racing is concerned. With tho exception of some paltry hm-dle racing at suburban Kingsbury, there has not been a single meeting- of note during tlie last month. Tho snorting.papers are consequently extremely hard up for subjects to descant upon, and as hotting.ls'a- dead letter, are perforce obliged to fall back on the statistics of last season. The list of winning owners is interesting, but scarcely gratifying, for a Frenchman, Count J. de Lagrange^ heads it, Avith a total nearing £18,000. When Aye remember that only one race across the Channel, viz., the Grand Prizo of Paris, is open to British horses, it is really annoying to see so much good English gold carried over to France every year. Nor is the prospect before us consoling. Chamant, a French! colt, is .favourite for this year's Derby, and had Jongleur and Verncuil—first and second in the Criterion Stakes—boen entered, it would he a fact that the first, second, and third favourites for the blue riband of 1877 hailed from France. Three English noblemen arc next on the list of triumphant owners, and can all boast of having Avon over £10,000 in stakes. They are Lord Dupplin, Viscount Falmouth, and Lord Rosebery. The two last-named aro the most popular men on the turf, and Avith good cause. They race fairly and squarely, and their backers always knoAV they Avail get a run for their money. Potratch tops the li&tof winning horses, thanks to his three great A'ictorics at N ewmarkel, Ascot, Bnd Doncastcr. His total is over £11,000. Next comes Chamant with £6000, a grand sum for a two-year old to have won, and v/ven if bis career next year should prove a failure, he will yet be a cheap horse to his owner. The defunct Lord Olifden h'-ads the column of Winning sires Avith Macaroni second. So much for statistics. The gallant Captain Avho opened an early book on the Derby has done so well that he is almost '■round," as the saying is; i.e., he avill not much care what horse wins. 