Hβ won and could do no more, but he was a class above the cattle opposed to him, and anyone who could hold out hopes of him running forward in the New Zea land Cup. could hardly have expected a horse of the class of Little Shamrock to put him down. Sultan's form, up Wel lington way, must have been quite over looked by those who made Little Sham rock a favourite, but I rather suspect that their love and patriotism for the Emerald Isle, of which the "dear little shamrock" is emblematical, accounted, to some extent, for the enthusiasm and want of Judgment of my Geraldine friends. The Killarney Incident of the Autumn meeting is still " gwfen " in my memory. In its report of the Australian Jockey Club's meeting the Sunday Times has the following:—The importance of our Derby cannot be too highly estimated. From it we expect to get a very fair line of the great three year-old event of the year In Melbourne. Be that as it may, we are not of opinion that a fair index was afforded the public on Saturday last, for undoubtedly the heavy rains which fell on Friday night and for some time previous put the course in anything but a proper condition to guage what the various abilities of the contestants were like. On Friday night a very heavy downpour took place, which made the roads to and from the course very muddy and sloppy, but this incon venience, when once got over, was not experienced in the saddling paddock, owing to the sandy nature of the soil. Nevertheless, the going was extremely heavy, though all things considered the various times recorded were good. The attendance was by no means up to what might have been expected, but this was excusable, seeing the cloudy state of the weather. For years past Derby Day has been looked forward to with a great amount of interest, but the one under con sideration lacked much of the enthusiasm of its predecessors for more reasons than one, and in no small measure to the cause that it was badly advertised. With the Exhibition in full bloom, and the fact that there were no other attractions of an opposing description, a far larger audience might have been expected, had it been universally known that it was "Blue Kiband Day." .... 