RACING.
Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.j REKKTON RACES. REEETON. April 27. Recftcm. Jockey Club’s autumn meeting opened with showery weather, course soft and attendance good. Diggers’ Handicap—(2) Royal Gam: 1 I. (3) King Cheops 2. (li Birthmark 3. Also ran; (5) Corn Rigs, (10) Cali--I,uni. (6) Gaslight, (4) Motion. (7) Snrtolite, (8) Rapid Eire. (9) Prince Charleroi. Won by half a length. I inie 1.21 3-5. Progress Trot—(2) No Fear 1. (3) Great Abdallah 2. (5) Wee Audubon 3. Also ran: (7) Spotlight. (f>) Rothbcll, (l) Acliray. (4) Hnrina. (3)’ Thistle. (8) General Thorpe. Won by three lengths. Time 2.34 3-5. Hurdles—(2) Lord Leslie 1.(1) Rod Heather 2. (I) E’lali 3. Also ran: (3) Flying-Master. Won by half a length. Irving Memorial :—(3) Halloivnoon I. (1) Goosestep 2, (2) Ring Quin 3. Also ran : (4) Steel Bar. Won by ten lengths. Time 2.16 1-5.
BAND WICK RACES. SYDNEY. April 26. Randwiek race results are as follows : Second Hurdles—May Day 1 Pompone 2. L.C. 3. Ten started including Knighthood. Won easing up h.v five lengths. Time 4.22. All-Aged Stakes.—Fujisan 1, Top Gallant 2. Amounts 3. Time 1.39',. Brewery 2. Bicolour 3. Won by half a head. Time 1.53. Champagne Stakes.—Cannon 1. Royal Feast 2, Trivalve 3. Won by two and a half lengths. Time 1.23}. Cumberland Stakes. —Limerick 1. Pantheon 2, Yalamita 3. Won by two and a half lengths, with Yalamita a length and a half away, third.. Time 3.7. < City Handicap.—Rawhetu 1. Tibbie and Battlement a dead heat for second place. Won by three-quarters of a length. Time 3.18. RACING COMMENT. SYDNEY. April 27. The “Herald” commenting on the Cumberland Stakes says a featmc ol the race was the brilliant win of the. New Zealand gelding Limerick. It also proved Heroic is not the formidable opponent he was. It was a slow run race and Limerick ran past the field in a few strides. McCarten appeared to have a good hold of him as he passed the post two and a half lengths ahead of Pantheon. The ■•Herald” refers to the City Handicap as a belated win by Rawhetu and compares the race to the M averlej Handicap of 1925. when Rawhetu showed an unusual hurst of speed in
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