SPORTING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1828, 8 August 1906, Page 2

SPORTING.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT _ Melbourne, August 7. Decoration, the Steeplechase winner, has been sold for India at a high figure. The Viotoriau Rscing Club’s annual re* port shows that the year yielded a credit balance of £3132, The fact that Chevally has the mount on General led to a giod deal of business. The pr ee has shortened down to 6 to 1. Belts is quoted at sixes, Syrinca at sevens. s

I’RESS ASSOCIATION . , Auokland. last night. A' the annual meeting of the Auckland “ ac 'S the Ron. E Mitcbelson pres.lßd. annual report of the I committee s’a'ed that during the 1 past season tho Reus) four meetin'g-rof thirteen days were held, and notwiuhstandn g’tbe faot that a reduction of £lOls was tnaco in the value of stakts git on (£20.655) each ot the meetings was most suooeseful, ifo o *o 0 i!" Bator mveßtmen t’' amounted to ±1 Jo b 64, as against £150,117 last year, an inoreasc of £48,747 The profit in the | four rßco rmetings, viz, spring, summer, autnmu and winter, after deducing all expenses of every charaoser, totalled £4280 fsk j 7 h i loh ’ after Wfi,in S 'he whole or cue defalcation account (£2412 2s 4d), 1U per cent depreciation (£959 Is lid), u.P r i oVldiDg a reset vs fund against (f 15°). leaves a balance of£t64 163 81 to bo carried to capital account, a result which sheu’d be gratify* mg to members.

m Cliriatchurch, last night, ■tooro was a hard frost, but it Was-tt fine morning at Eiccarton "Cbry’eeis' End signalman operiod the proceedings, and there was nothing to choose between them at the end of a mile, run in 1.51, Bulawayo went twioe round at ha : f speed. 1 US Wa ? extended over a mile in 1.56 3-5 ; it.was not a pleaeiog exhibition, irnaetonitis finished strongly a mile and a half in 312 5. Slow Tom ran a mile, the last seven furlongs in 138. Sal beat Cuiragno by three lerg.hs, with Irish ten lengths away, doing 6! mile and ti balf'iri 25, Shrapnel defeated Cavalry and Waikato over a mile in 1.50 45. Tirole beat Rorgoa over a mile and a quarter; JHabaroff ran seven furlongs comfortably In 1.35 ; Swimmer was too good for Banana or or a mile and a quarter in 2,20, a creditable performance. Kremlin ran the last mile of a mile and a quarter in 02, finishing stroDgly. IJadador jamped the post and rail and donblp, and then ap» peared to have Kiatere beaten at the end of onoe round in 2.56 1-5. Pipi ran a mile and a half, the last mile in 1,59,