SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2534, 23 May 1882, Page 3

SPORTING.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ADELAIDE, May 16. The meeting of the South Australian Jockey Club was in every way successful. The racing was excellent, and most of the finishes were very close and interesting. Besult won the Goodwood Handicap, the next principal race to the Adelaide Cup, but a protest was entered on the ground that Result should have carried a penalty for winning the Free Handicap at Bandwiok, but it is said this cannot be sustained, ASHBURTON RACING CLUB. The committee of this Club met on Saturday evening, when the sub-committee reported on the condition of the running course, and recommended that it should be ploughed and cleared of stones preparatory to sowing it down in grass in the spring. The secretary reported that the profits on the autumn meeting amounted to £67 6s 9d, and there was at present a credit balance in hand of £57 18s 3d. It was decided that the reserve be leased for cropping purposes, and that the money in hand be expended in purchasing grass seed. QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY RACES. DUNEDIN, May 22. Most of the horses engaged for the Queen’s birthday meeting have now arrived. There is little straight out betting, but a good deal has been done in doubles. Mokarakara and Haricot are the leading favorites for the Hurdle Race; Sir Modred, the Envy filly, Adamant, and Legerdemain, for the Birthday Handicap. Amulet has been scratched for all engagements at the meeting.