HAWKES BAY MEETING.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 38, 12 September 1889, Page 3

HAWKES BAY MEETING.

» Kapieb, September 10. The following weights were declared for the Hawkes Bay Club's Spring Meeting. Spring Handicap, one mile and a half.— Silence Bst 101 b, Whisper Bst 91b, Lady Norah Bst 61b, Lady Florin «st 31b, Corunna and Leopold Bst 21b, Scots Grey and Tongariro Bst, Kotuku 7st 111 b, Partner 7st 101 b, Strephon, Itenata and Fabulous 7st 71b, Tirailleur 7st 61b, Prince of Wales 7st 41b, Omaha 7st 3lb, Cyclone 6st 81b, Dauphine 6st slb, Tit 6st 21b, Thyme 6st. Hurdles Handicap, two miles. — Chemist 12sc 12lb, Uranus lOst 121 b, Premium lOst 101 b, Waterfall lOst 71b, Akatea 9st 12lb, The Dove 9st 61b, Purataki, Marshall, Ney and Taurekaitai 9st. Flying Handicap, three-quarters of a mile.— Eecluse 9st 9lb, Whisper 9st, lady Florin Bst 101 b, Tongariro Bst ■61b, Leopold Bst 41b, Corunna Bst 3lb, Scots Grey & Kotuku Bst2lb, Fusee Bst, Strephon and Eenata 7st lOlh, Omaha and Boulanger 7st 71b, Waterbaby 7st 61b, Man Friday 7st sib, Cyclone 7st 41b, Dauphine 6st 71b, Tit and Tutanekai 6st.

(Notes by " Maxim." Last season's racing is no sooner ended when the season of 1889-90 begins in earnest. Coming events are the talk of the day among sporting scribes. A start will be made with the Hawkesbury Handicap on Saturday. Then comes the Metropolitan, Caulfield, Melbourne, and !New Zealand Cup meetings, and then the great racing carniyal at Dunedin, viz. : the Dunedin Exhibition meeting. The first meeting that attracts owners attention in this Island is the Hawkes Bay J.C. on September 30 and October 1. It is pleasing to see so many New Zealand horses engaged in the principal events on the other side, notwithstanding the large amounts wh'ch will be given away by the Canterbury and Dunedin Clubs. Mr D. O'Brien is the first that has made a move. He is determined to try his fortunes on Australian shores once more. Dunkeld is the colt that he has selected to do battle for him against the heroes and heroines of the Australian turf world He in engaged in the V.R.C. Derby, Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, and several other minor events. Immediately on his arrival he was heavily backed for the V.R.C. Derby, and the best price to be obtained about him now is 100 to 12. I hardly think that he will turn out as good as either Trenton or Carbine did for MiO'Brien, but I hope that I am wrong, and I shall only be too glad to hear of Dunield being returned as winner of the V.R.C. of 1889, more especially after the hard luck Dan had with the mighty Carbine in the last V.R.C, when he was beaten by a head by Ensign. The result of the conference of d.-le-gates at the meeting held in Wellington over 6ix' weeks ago has now become known. In rule 39" the frarners evidently mean to make a close season during the winter months, of fiat racing. From the 31st May to the Ist September the lowest weight in any flat race shall not be less than 10 stone. The totally ignoring trotting and pony races I consider is a step in the wrong direction, and I shall expect the Conference to rectify this grave mistake at the next meeting of delegates. Both of these branches of sport have been getting more popular every season, and on the average they produce larger fields. The breeding of trotting and pony stock is attracting breeders' attention at present as much as any other class, which, no doubt, is owing to the large number of trotters, ponies and galloways, that have left the shores of New Zealand for Australia and India during the last twelve months. Among the cargo of horses Mr J. Stevens left for India with last week were all fhe best pony racers we had on the coast last season, and I doubt, much if he left two winners behind him, and one of the ponies he purchased I know he had to pay JISO for, and I have good reason to believe that he would have given £100 for her if the owner had demanded it. The annual meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will be held this evening, and I hope to see a large attendance. I learn that the Club are endeavoring to obtain a course on Mr Turner's ground. Should they succeed in the same, it will be the means of making the Feilding Club one of the premier clubs on the coast, as they could boast of, in a very short time, of having a racecourse second to none in New Zealand by expending a few hundred pounds on improvements. Mr C. W. McLean, the popular secretary of the Rangitikei Racing Club, has forwarded me a very neat card of the programme of the club's annual meeting, to be held on the Ist and 2nd of January. j-700 will be given away in stakes divided among 14 events. The principal events are the Rangitikei Handicap of i=2oo, and the Railway Handicap of JIOO. This is the largest amount of stakes the club has ever offered, and they will, no doubt, be rewarded with large entries. & At the annual meeting of the Marton Jockey Club Hack Meeting, held on Saturday, they decided to give away in stakes at their meeting on the 19th December, and Mr J. E. Henry was appointed haudicapper for the club.