THE TOKOMAIRIRO RACES.

Evening Star, Issue 4091, 6 April 1876, Page 3

THE TOKOMAIRIRO RACES.

(From our Special Reporter.) SECOND DAY WEDNESDAY. ■ ii ■■ .1. v The weather was-, again all that could be desired on the second day, .and the racing as exciting as on Tuesday. Mystery was very fretful, and Sweating a good deal before the Publicans’ Handicap, but she won it pretty easily from Wee Lad and Sir William. Since he has changed hands Wee Lad appears to have been allowed to get too much flesh on him. Another certainty was upset in the IJovel Handicap, Empress beating Border Lad with the greatest ease. The Members’ Handicap was looted for withgreat interest, as Kiog Philip gave Bight Bower 61bs more than' on Tuesday, and in consequence the latter Had slightly the call in the betting; hut a good many still stuck to the King. A few people thought Glengarry did not do his best, in the J.O. Handicap on Tuesday, or that the Tibs less weight would give mm a show, and they put a little money on him quietly. He won the race from end to end, but the rivalry was so great between the partisans of King Philip and Bight Bower that little notice was taken of Glengarry's victory. The two ran a fine race, King Philip being ridden hard three-quarters of a wile from home. The Hack Bace was a very ludicrous affair, No Gentleman bolting all the way round and running two miles anda-half before he was stopped. In the Consolation Bight Bower was most fancied, but although he took severe punishment up the straight very kindly, he could only get his head to Wee Lad’s quarters, so that Mr Coombe did not pull off a single event. The whole meeting was a very great success, and everybody was delighted with the capital sport provided. The following races did niot appear in our yesterday’s issue : Hack Back, of 10 sovs. One mile. JfrJ. M’Qregor’s hg No Gentleman , (H. Goorley) 1 2£rD. Conan’s bmKate ... 2 No Gentleman was beyond his rider’s control from the start, but, though bolting, he managed to keep to the track and won by a quarter of a mile, his opponent being about the worst-looking animal ever seen on a racecourse.

Consolation Handicap, of 20 so vs. One Mr J. Smith’s bhj Wee Lad, 7st ... (T. Allen) 1 I&r G. Goombes’s b hj Bight Bower, 7st 101b (S. Smith) 2 Mr H. Pollock’s hj hj Bothwell, 6et 101b t

** (C. Bndens) 8 Mr M'Laren’s hi hj Darkie, 6st7lb ... (Gourley) 0 Betting: 3to 2on Bight Bower; 2to 1 against Wee Lad; 4to 1 Bothwell. . Darkie darted off with the lead. Wee Lad second, Bight Bower third; but after hall-a-mile was gone, Darkie was passed by all the horses one after another. Wee Lad then assumed the lead, followed closely by the Bower; but although the latter did h ; s utmost, he could no? get on terms with Mr Smith’s horse, who won by three-quarters of a length. Bothwell was third. Time, Imin 63sec.