DUNEDIN RACES.
(bt telegraph.) Dt/kedix, May 24. The weather for the Birthday race meeting was splendid —just like a summer's day. There was a very large attendance. There were two totalisators on the ground, and they did a large business. I he principal event, the Birthday Handicap, was a great boil-over, Lady Emma, who was a warm favorite, coming in second.
HANDICAP HTJBDLE EACH. Of 40 soys ; 2 miles and a distance Smith's Isaac, Bst 121b (a. M'foy) ... 1 Mackay's Eobin Hood, lOst 51b (Owner) 2 M'Master's Bomance, 9st 21b (Mayne) 1 —Milo, Leap Year, and Turk also ran. MAIDEN PLATE. M'Lean's Legerdemain, 2 years, (M. Allen) 1 George's Boughleen Dhoun, aged (Waddell) ... 2 Danby's Mameluke, 2 years (Brown) ... 3 —Eour others started. Time, 2min 28secs. BIETHDAY HANDICAP, Of 100 soys ; 1» miles. Bates' The Poet, 3 years, 6st 61b (Ward) 1 Sir H. TJobinson's Lady Emma, 3 years, 7sb 131b (Alien) 2 Batos' Hilda, 3 years, 6st 51b (Webster) 3 —Atlantic, Sylvanus, and Jasper also ran. HANDICAP TEOT, 3 miles. Native Cat 1 Victor 2 Ten horsea ran. Time, 6mins. 42secs. NOVEL RACE Of 60 soys ; 1J miles. Dolly Barwon, 5 years, 6st 131b ... 1 Swede, 6 years, 6st 101b 2 Swagsman, aged, 6st 3 Wine started. Time, 2mins. 58secs. tradesman's handicap, Of 50 soys ; 1 mile and a distance. Lunn's Coldstream, 4 years, 7st 31b (Blanch) 1 George's Atlantic, 5 years, 7st 121 d (Thompson) 2 Bates' Hilda, 3 years, Bst 10lb (Ward) 3 CONSOLATION HANDICAP, Of 30 sots. Bates' Hilda 1
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3091, 25 May 1881, Page 4
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