RACING INTELLIGENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 264, 28 March 1874, Page 3

RACING INTELLIGENCE.

(Condensed from the ' Dunstan Times' ancli ' Oromwell Argus.') black's BACES. The Back's- annual races came off" on the 17th and 18th iiist. Other attractions considered, the attendance of visitors aud competing horses was good. The following is the result of the several events :

FIRST DAY. Maiden Plate, of 10 aovs. Distance, 1| mile.

-..: Miss King-'' ' - l Magenta - - - 2. ■ District Handicap, of 15 sovs. Distance, 14 mile. Turpin - - . 1 . Hurry Scurry, of 10 sovs. Distanc-i, 1 mile. . Maggie - - - 1 Hurry Scurry, of 5 sovs. Distance, three' l .. quarters of a mile. Pickpocket - 1 second day. Flying Handicap, of 10 sovs. Distance, I._ mile. . Pickpocket " - 1 Bismarck - - - 2 Turpin - - - 3 Selling Race, of 10 sovs. Distance, three- • quarters of a mile heats. Beeswing - - - 1 Darkle - - - 2 Turpin - - - 3 - Hack "Race, of 10 sovs. Pickpocket - 1 Bismarck - ' • 1 Consolation Stakes, of 5 sovs. Distance, three-quarters of a mile. Miss Grant - - 1 Bismarck - - - 2 CABDBOXA RACES. The annual race meeting was held on the 1.7t1j and ISth Jlarch. Notwithstanding >an attractive programme had been issued, the attendance of Horses was very poor, and the meeting has been'described as..a/failure. The details of the various races are as Tinder : first day. Maiden Plate, of 10 sovs. Weight for age. Distance, 1 mile. Little Dick - r , - 1 Garryowen •'-'-,])»' "- 2 -v Nellie - . ' '.-:• 3 District Handicap, of 15 sovs. Distance, one mile and a half. Port Philip Buck;"" ' - \ Lady Pembroke ■-.' ..... 2 - Ladies' Purse, of 15 sovs. Welter weights--for age. Distance, one mile and a quarter. Little Hawea - - l?- «■ Cissy - - - '" 2' Port Philip Buck- - 3 Handicap Trotting Race, of £7 10s. Distance, three miles. Jessie (250 yards)- - 1 Smoothy Jack (300 yards) 2 Bendigo (scratch) - S SECOND DAY. Miners' Purse, of 10 sovs. No weight less than lOst. Black Bess - - i Nelly Gray - . & Cardrona Handicap, of 30 sovs.Little Hawea - - • 1 Matilda - - -2 Hack Race, of £7 10s. Tbree-quarter mifov heats. No weight under lOst. Cotter's Jennie - - 3 1 1 M'Gregor's Garrvowen- 12 2 Welsh's Little Dick - 23 0; Hurry Scurry, of 5 sovs. Port Philip Buck- - \ Jennie .-'■'" - . g. Lady Pembroke - - S NEYIS BACEB. On St. Patrick's Day, the first meeting of the newly-formed Jockey Club-= was held, and was a great success, re-, suiting as follows -. FIRST DAY: Maiden Piath, of 10: sots. Marie Stuart - J; Swell ' - . ■•■■■'■■ 2 District Flying Handicap of 20 sovs. „ Pillbox, 9st -;.'.■■- l Marie Stuart, Bst 21b - 2 Swell, 7st lOlbs - - 3 HacK Celling Race, of 10 sova. Jenny Lynd -. . 1 Wallaby - -. - 2' Spec - ■ ... - s.. Nevis Handicap, of 25 sovs. Fenian - •■■■■" .' i Wexford - r. - 2Pillhox - - 3 Hurry Scurry, of 5 bovs. Schoolboy - - 1 Faugh-a-ballagh - - 2 Kate - - 2, BECOND DAY. District Miners' and, Packers' Purse, of? 10 sovs. Wexford -. - -1 Spec - . 2Marie Stuait - - 3 ; Trotting. Race, of 5 sovs. Nellie Grey • - l Wildboy ... .. 2■" ' Kate ... 3 Nbvis..Jockey' Club Handicap, of 25 Roderick, 7st* - - --\ -1 Fenian, lOst. 81b.- '■ - ' 2Wexford, 7st. Bl\ -.. 3; . • . • Open Race, of 5. sovs. r.. ".".'•; "-V ■ Shepherd's Daughter.- . - '-' I "' ■ "■ "' Pillbox . -. --'• - .. .= 2 . ' , Wexford - - -..- .'.W3 " Consolation Handicap,'of 10'sqvacrMerrythought - - " iV/(-J- '-.'? Spec _ ..,.. . - ,&V £_/ •- An .Hospital.fiace for £ll >t w,pifc"3>jK Fenian t closed, the meeting.. ' K"'"~ --.