SPORTING.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1249, 8 March 1878, Page 3

SPORTING.

VICTORIAN RACING CLUB'S AUTUMN MEETING. [Br Submarine Cable.] [BEUTEE'S TELEGEAMB TO THE rEESS AGENCY.] Second Day. Hurdle Bace, a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added. About two miles. Red Gauntlet and Flinders ran a dead heat. Corinthian Cup, a gold cup, value 150 sovs, added to a welter handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft. For three-year-old and upwards. To be ridden by members of the Victorian Racing Club, Amateur Turf Club, or Melbourne Hunt Club. One mile and a half and a distance. Jakes 1 Terrick 2 Columbus 3 This was won easily. Time—3min. 2.Jsccs. Australian Cup, a sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10ft., or 5 if declared, with 300 added. For three-year-olds and upwards. The winner of aDy handicap of the value of 100 sovs after the declaration of the weights to carry 31b extra ; of two or more such races, 51b extra. The second horse to receive 50 sovs and the third 20 sovs out of the stake. Two miles and a quarter. (Entries closed with twenty-nine nominations.) First King 1 Swiveller 2 Pardon 3 Thirteen started. This was a grand race, won by half a length. Time —4min. 2isec. Sires' Produce Stakes, the V.B.C. (Sires) Produce Stakes, of 10 sovs each, h. ft., 2-J----only if declared on or before 4 p.m. on Friday, Ist February, 1878, with ISOadded, and 4-10 subscribed by owners of sires. For then two-year-olds—-colts, Bst lOlbs ; fillies, Bst 71b. No allowance to geldings. Second horse to receive 10 per cent, on the gross amount of the stake. Three-quarters of a mile. His I ordship 1 Boodee 2 Eiverton 3 Won by a length and a half. Time—lmin. 20scc. The Grand Stand Stakes, a sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, with 200 added. For three-year-olds and upwards. Weight for age. The winner of any race of the value of 100 sovs to carry 5.b extra; if of 200 sovs, 71b extra; if of 300 sovs, 101 b extra; if of 400 or over, 141 b extra. Once round the course. Lock-Up 1 Explosion 2 Flying Fish 3 Time—2min. 38} sec. Plate of .£IOO, weight for ago. Entrance, 1 sov. The winner to be sold for .£SO. No selling allowance. One mile. Gratis 1 Sir Knight 2 Sheriff o Time —lmin. 48|>sec.