WANGANUI SPRING RACES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3826, 20 October 1883, Page 3

WANGANUI SPRING RACES.

[IIV TELEGRAPH.] AVanganui, This day. I Tho AV.J.C. Spring mooting avrs hold yesterday in heavy rain from morning till night. Tho course was very heavy, and there was slow racing time in consequence. Notwithstanding the Aveather, thcro Avas a large attendance, including a good sprinkling of ladies, but the total number Avas at least 500 less than at the last spring meeting. There Avas scarcely any betting', and only one totalisator, through which £970 passed, the dividends being fair on nearly every event. The racing- was j_-ood throug-liout-The victories in the Hurdles and Handicap Avorc both very popular, and Mr J. 0. Evett, tho handicapper, Avith Avhosc handicaps great fault Avas found in the district, avus cheered by the crowd after tho race for the big money. The followiug arc the results of the several events : — MAIDEN- PLATE, Of 50 soys ; Aveight for ago; 1_- miles. Mr Scott's Alma, 3yrs, 7st 71b (T.Scott) 1 Mr PoavcH's Leonossa, 3yrs, 7st lllb (M'Cormick) 2 Mr Standish's AVitiora, oyrs, Ost 21b (Hope) -.3 —Mr Smith's AVaxy, Mr AATlson's Sweet Homo, and Mr Newland's Patience also ran. AVon by a length. Time, 3inin -1 2-oth sees. There Avere 109 in'the totalisator, 20 on Ahua; dividend, £5 17s. HANDICAP HURDLE RACE, 2 miles and a distance. Mr Nugent'a Chevalier, aged, Ost (Hope) 1 iMr Hapeta Pitamoni's Hitvu, Oyrs, lOst

(MII wain) 2 Mr Keith's Bugler, aged, lOst 3lb (Stuart) 3 —Mr O'Brien's Reliance also ran. Won easily by three lengths. Time, _ 4min 50 3-sth sees. There wore 140 in tho totalisator, 28 on tho Avinner; dividend £1 13s. HACK HURDLE RACE, Of £10 : once round and a distance. Mr Fletcher Harrison's The Druid (Lee) 1 Mr M'Elwain's Blucskm (oAvner) .. 2 Mr M'Hwain's Grey Douglas (Gardiner) 3 —Mr Bell's Ivohiro aud Mr Stuart's Patuapuatua also ran. AVon easily. There Avere 03 in tlic totalisator, 12 on the winner; dividend, £4 Its, AVANG-ANUI STAKES HANDICAP, Of 150 soys, the second horse to receive 20 soys out of the stakes, tho third horse to save his stake ; 2 miles. Mr Powell's bg Bayard, -lyrs, 7st 111b (M'Corniick) . . . . . • . . 1 Mr Keith's h m Hippona, 3yrs, 7st Gib (T. Scott) 2 Mr Chitham's b g Dan, aged, 7-t 121b (Kaiser) .. 3 —Mr Standish's AVitiora (Enderby, jun.), Mr Chitham's eh f Lady Florence (R, Reed), Mr NoAvland'sbm Patience M'Taggait), and Mr Nugent's b f Ngata (Edgecombo) also ran. A good race, the horses passing the post, Bayard first by a length and a half ahead of Hippona, Avith Dana length behind the latter for third place. AVitiora avus fourth, Patience fifth, Ngata sixth, and Lady Florence ten chains behind Ngata, a bad last. Time, imin. 1 2-sth"see.«. There avc re 297 in the totalisator, 00 on Bayard; dividend, £1.

ladies' bracelet, Of the value of £20 for tho Avinner, and one of the value of £5 for the second horse ; I.} miles; nomination 2 soys, to be made by ladies' ; gentleman riders. Mrs Scott's b cAhua, 3yrs, 9st 71b (Mr T. Scott). . . . " 1 Mrs Pane's eh f Leoncssa, Gyrs, 9st 71b (Mr AY. Nicholson) 2 Mrs AVilliamson's b g Reliance, aged, 12st (Mr Chevanne) 3 —Mrs Smith's AVaxy, Miss Olliver's Ruby Ring, and Miss Connolly's b g Logic also ran. A Yon by about two lengths. Time, 2niin 32 1-sth sees. There Avere 220 in the totalisator, 70 on Alma ; dividend, £2 18s. CONSOLATION STAKES, A handicap of £30 : one mile and a distance. Dan, Bst (Kaiser) 1 Sweet Home, Ost 10lb (Reid) .. ..2 Hippona, 7st ] 21b (Stuart) .. ..3 A Yon by a length. Time, 2min 10 2-oth sees. There Avere 71 in the totalisator, 30 on Dan ; dividend, £2 18s.