AUCKLAND SUMMER RACES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3581, 3 January 1883, Page 3

AUCKLAND SUMMER RACES.

[by telegraph.] Aucklanl, This Day. The third clay's races took place yesterday. There was beautiful weather, and the attendance was large. The following are the events: — NURSERY HANDICAP, Of 100 soys ; for two-year-olds ; distance (j furlongs. Mr Smith's Robina, Sst 101b (Carrington) '. 1 Major George's Nelson, Sst 9lb (Wattle) 2 Mr Adams's Mitrailleuse, Sst Sib (Williams) 3 —Time, 1 niin lG;]sccs. AUCKLAND PLATE, A sweepstakes of 3 soys each, with 200 soys added ; the second horse to receive 30 soys and the third horse 13 soys out of the stakes ; for three-year-olds ; distance 2 miles. Mr Pilbrow's Welcome Jack, by Tracluccr, 7st I.llb (Butler) .. *.. .. 1 Mr Bates' Minerva, 7st 81b (Williams) 2 Mr Brown's Maori, Ost 31b (Clark .. 3 —Air Sims' Kalo, Tst lllb (T. Taylor), also ran. Virginia AVater, Tim WhifHer, and Kingask were scratched. Time, 3min 47sees. lIANDICP STEEPLECHASE, Of 200 soys, with a sweepstake of 10 soys each to go to the second horse, the third horse to receive 15 soys out of the sweep ; distance, about 'il miles, over a fair hunting country. Mr Pilbrow's Canard, by Anteros—Gossip, list 21b (Limn) ' 1 Mr Pilbrow's Clarence, 12st 101b (T. Lvford) 2 Mr Enderbv's Mount, lOst 71b (Revton) 3 —Mr T. ilalstead's Tricotrin, lOst Sib (Williams) ; Mr Pollock's New Year, lOst "lb (Potto) ; Mr Gallagher's Chandler, lOst Gib (Clifford) ; Mr H. N. Smith's St. Swithin, lOst -lib (Goodman) ; Mr R. T. Taylor's Misfortune, lOst (Trewin), also ran. Lone Hand and Angler were scratched. Time, 8 mm 37sees. STEWARDS HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP, For acceptors ; the amount accruing from the sweep to go to the second horse ; lnimmmn weight, 7st: distance, 1 \ miles. Mr Bates' The Poet, by Anteros—Fancy, Ost (Wattie) ..' ".. 1 Mr R. Wheeler's Lone Hand, Sst 71b (Farrell) 2 Mr Walters' Fishwoman, Sst 2lb (Rutler) 3 —Mr McDonald's Virginia Water, Ost (Carrington), and Mr D. McKinuon's Gilderoy, 7st 3lb (Williams), also ran. Time, 2mins 41seos. CONSOLATION HANDICAP, Of 30 soys ; distance, 1 mile. Merlin, by Totara, Sst 71b (Farrell) . . 1 Fishwoman, Sst Sib (Ritter) .. .. 2 Kingask, Tst 31b (G. AYilliams) .. .. 3 —Maori, Tst 2lb (Fergus) ; Kalo, Gst Tib (Thorpe) ; Tenambra, Gst 51b (P. Tyers) : and Gilderoy, Gst 31b (White) also ran. Yuba Bill and Paramena were scratched. Time, lmin -1G sees. This brought the A.R.C. Summer Meeting to a satisfactory close. Potto, the jockey, through the horse falling, whose leg -was broken in the steeplechase of New Year, was removed to the hospital, where the limb was set, and the patient is nowdoing well. Weston, the bookmaker, at once headed a subscription list on the course, and £100 was collected for the injured man. In the preliminary canter for the Consolation, Merlin knocked over a woman, whose injuries rendered it necessary to send her to the hospital.