SPORTING.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 544, 16 March 1876, Page 3

SPORTING.

HOKITIKA SUMMER MEETING. {West Coast Times.) First Day—Monday, March 13. The Trial Stakes of 20 sovs ; weight for age ; one and a half miles. Mr H. Redwood's b g John Stovel, 3 yrs, 9st Gibs 1 Mr W. Walters's b c Kingfisher, 5 yrs, 9st6lbs 2 Goldfiklds Handicap of 30 sovs; one mile and a half and a distance. Mr W. Walters's b c Isaac Walton, 3 yrs, 7stlllbs 1 Mr H. Redwood's b g John Stovel. 5 yrs, flstGlbs 2 John Stovel, leadiug, waited too long to make his advantage a certainty at the close, and Isaac Walton, by a few vigorous strides at the last, which brought him to the front as they passed the post, made what appeared to those at a distance to be a dead heat, but what was really the winning of the race by a difference that was but slight and momentary. Handicap Hurdle Race, of 40 sovs ; dis-

tance, two miles. T. ITungerford's b g Nero, aged, lOst 31b 1 D. Cameron's g g Septimus, aged, 10at 71b 2 J. Evan3* b g Dick Turpin, aged, lOst ... 0 Dick Turpin was simply a starter. The race lay between the other two, or would have lain had Septimus, who had the inside running, not got round the hurdles to the right of the grand stand, and in doing so fallen into the ditch, giving his rider, Dick Barton, rather an ugly fall. Hokitika Handicap, of 60 sovs, with sweep of 5 sovs added ; distance, two miles ; winner of Goldfields' Handicap to carry 51bs extra. H. Redwood's c c Banker. 7st 91b ... 1 W. Walters's b c Isaac Walton, 3 yrs, 7st 81b 2

Banker had a slight lead from the start, and the position was maintained nearly throughout. Three-quarters round the course for the second time the result seemed dubious, but Banker then drew ahead, and came in first by a short length.