Sporting News

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 132, 4 December 1893, Page 2

Sporting News

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB SPRING MEETING. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Donedin, December 3. Fine weather attended the third day of the D.J.C. Spring meeting. The totalisator investments for the day amounted to £5203, making £14,768 for the meeting. The following are the results: — Pacific Hurdles, of 70 soys— Cajolery 1, Justice 2, Milton 8. Five others started. Won by a neck. Time, 4min 3secs. Dividend, £2 12s. President's Handicap, of 200 soys— Johnny Faa 1, Eangipuhi 2, Glanranald 3 Six others ran ; won by a length. Time, lmin 57Asecs. Dividend, £'16 13s. Glasgow Plate, of 200 soys. ; five furlongs— Hippomenes 1, Wqlfs'-Craig 2, Britomart 3. Time, lmin 3Hsecs ; dividend, £1 13s. Consolation Handicap, of 70 soys — Babell 1, Liberator 2, Dilemma 3. Won easily ; time, lmin 4Gsecs ; dividend, £20 17s. The following results out of the six races each day at the late Melbourne Gup Meeting show the super-excellence of New Zealand bred horses :— On the first day Alpine won the Maiden Plate ; Loyalty won the Melbourne Stakes ; and Carnage won the Derby, all these being New Zealand bred horses. Dreamland, a son of the New Zealand bred horse Trenton, won The Maribyrnong Plate. The Maiden Plate on the first day last rear was one by Attains, a son of our old champion Welcome Jack. On the second day Hova was third in The Bail way Handicap; Carnage was second and Loyalty fourth in the Cup, and Utter, a daughter of the New Zealand bred Martini-Henry, won the Van Yean Stakes. On the third day Loyalty won the Flying Stakes, and Bessie Macarty was second in the Oaks. On the fourth day Carnage won the Spring Stakes ; Donation, a son of the aforesaid M artini«Heury, won the Y.R C. Handicap, with Launceston (another New Zealnnder) third. Loyalty was second in the Canterbury Plate, and Hova, a New Zealand bred horse, won the Free Handicap. Carnage and Loyalty were undoubtedly the heroes of the Meeting.