Sporting News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 65, 14 September 1893, Page 2

Sporting News

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, September 13. Melinite was absent from the track yesterday, bul did walking exercise todaj and showed signs of lameness. The latest quotations for the Metro* politan Stakes are 8 to 1 Stepniak, 10 to Sunshine and Paris, 11 to 1 Ducrow, 12 to 2 Anteus and Donation. Timaru, This Day. Hurdles — Invader 1, Jacob Faithful 2, Empire 3. Dividend £6 19s, NAPIER PARK SPRING MEETING. Napieb, September 13. The following nominations were received last night for the Napier Park Racing Club's Spring meeting : — Park Stakes Handicap, 200 soys, LV miles. — Knna, St Katherine, Noyade, Haeata, Ua, Rosefeldt, Riversdale, Stannioor, Miss Letty, Lochness, St. Anthony, Pegasus, Queen of Trumps, Tussock, Scot Free, Gun Cotton, Mystic, Mystical, Westmere, Eve, Dreamland, Purepo. Hurdles. — Eclipse, Vasco, Kapua, Quilt, Couranto, Jack, Chester, Disturbance, The Joker, Victrix, Satyr, Auckland, Premium, Oddfellow, Despised, Dromedary. Railway Handicap. — Krina, Haeata, St Katherine, Fleta, Strephon, Goosander, Riversdale, Ua, The Parson, Thame, North Atlantic, Spinaway, Stan* moor, Miss Letty, Lochness, Dingo, Gun Cotton, Mystical, Mystic, Dryhash, Weßtmere, Rangiatea, Eve, Swivel, Scot Free, Purepo. Racing Club Handicap. — Same as Spring Handicap with the omission of St. Anthony and the addition of Fleta and Penrose. Second Hurdles. — Same as first with the addition of Avis, Natatrix and Danity. (Br Cbackshot.) In mv notes of a few days ago, I did the Palnierston Jockey Club an injustice, for which I now sincerely apologise, and quote the following from the Rules of Racing : — No. 23— Iu no such programme shall the amount of added money be less than the net commission estimated to be received from the totalisator (having regard to the amount received as com* mission at any corresponding meeting) exclusive of all amounts received from, owners for nominations and acceptances. The intention of this rule being that the minimum net amount giTen to owners in the way offtakes, shall be, at least, equal to the sum received from the totalisator." It will thus be seen that the Palmerston Club were obliged to give the extra amount; in stakes to comply with the above rule. In tact the Metropolitan Club referred their programme back for revision, and it had nothing whatever to do with the auiouut of stakes given by the Feildiug Club.