WANGANUI STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 274, 26 May 1897, Page 2

WANGANUI STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

SECOND DAY. For the second day's racing, there was ; another fine day. The attendance was | not so laivc as on tlie previous <l:iy. i Owing to rain duriug the night tlie course was a trifle heavy, but notwithstanding this some Rood ntciag was witnessed. All the officials, especially tho well known secretary, Mr F. R Jackson, worked hard to please cveiyonc. The results were : — j Winter Oats Handicap, l.\ miles — Volligour a'nl Mano-War ran a dead | beat, Liglit being third. Bowshot also i started. A splendid finish, Voltigeur just catching Mano'.War on the post. Time, '2min 41 4-ssec. Dividend, Voltigeur 12 ] Is : Man o'-War 11 11s. Second Handicap Hurdles, 2 miles Troubadour 1, Brittania 2, Dummy '■'>■ Swift also ran. Won easily by :\ length. Tinip, 4iniu 13sec. Dividend, I' 4. Gr.iurlstand Steeplechase, 2i miles — liangipai 1, Claymore 2, Bradshaw 3. Violence, Tokauni, aud Glcnolg also ran. Violence was favorite but fell Rangipai led all the way, aud won easily by half a-dozen lengths, Titnc, smin 9hcc. Dividend, £1 lfis, Second Hunters' Steeplechase, 2.J miles- I-'lenfcwood 1, Dick 2, Telltale 3. j Sir Athol, Cad; (■ aivl Exchange a'so i ran, but were outpaced. Telltale led for two miles, wheu Fief twood made his run, widning easily by a length. Time, smin -iO 2 oscc Dividend, 12 19s. Second Hack Handicap, 1 mile - Emerald 1, Fireworks 2, St. Vincent !3. Msiinbanm, Klima, Aquatic, Moana and Lightning also started. This was the best raco of tlie mooting, the field being bunche'i till tlio straight was reached, when Emerald shot out mid br.-ai Firoworks by tlireo-quartcrs of a length. 'Tim , lmin 4S 2 ssi-c. Dividend, £o l'?s. Final Steeiilccliaso, 2 miles - Lcvantor 1, BnuMiaw 2, flan is mS. These wero the only start' rs. Once over t!ie last jump tlie top weigiit was ncv( . r troubled. Time, Imiu ■!!) 3 '>s(c. Dividend, £2.