SECOND DAY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 420, 23 December 1884, Page 6

SECOND DAY.

A light drizzling rain set in early on Friday morning, and continued almost without intermission during the afternoon The consequence of this unt'avorab'e state of the elements was that the attendance was not so large as even the poor one of the previous day, there not being more than 400 people present on, the course. The various events were as a rule, well contested, and the most lively interest was taken in each race. Hurdle Rage, of. 30 sovs. — Two milei and a half, over 8 nights. Gault and Evans's Mokoreta, list ... 1 Copgin's Clmkerina, KM 71b 2 Tntfgart's Cigarette, Ost 71b, also ran. Flying Handicap, of 30 sovs.— Six furlongs Brown's Molly Bawn, Bst. 7ib 1 Gault and Evan's Warwick, 7st filbs ... 2 Southland Handicap of 40 sovs. One mile and a half.. Mortimer's Blue Jacket, Sst 41b 1 Cotton's A(laraant,9.st 71 b 2 Brown's Molly Bawn, H-it 41b, also ran. Blue Jacket started the fftvojiie. Southlakd Deeby of 40 Hovs. One railr and a half. Swain's First Try, Bst 5 b 1 Hewii.L'a Laburnum, #st Mb ... ... 2 , Finn's All Pours (S-t 51b) al-r, ran. Vim I Try took the lead from ihc an 1 k-.-f>t it till the finish, being ha;d held all '.he ■way. Commercial Handicap, of 35-;ov3. Oa& mile and a naif. Goodman's Billy. 9st 71b 1 Mortimer's Blue Jacket 2 The Hack selling race was won by Hewitt's Snip, and the Consolation by i Bridge's Pathfinder.