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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1464, 25 September 1885, Page 2

(UNITfID PRKSS ASSSOGXATftMI.) -■ OhristchurCh, Thursday. Mr P. Butler's coljriHanlan has.been scratched for all hts engagements. At the C: J.C Spring Meeting: training? has commenced, and is going on m full swing." '.:.,., -..-... The horses at the coming 1 Geraldine Spring Meeting are being * pushed forwanK ; - - --- There is not much stirring m the betting market, but .soijbe steady business has been done. "Wapiti" has hardened for the New Zealand Cud to 100 to 10, taken as fast as , offered. Moana also 1 has been supported for the Derby generally, coupled iwith. Captains-Webster, Lady Emnia, Locliiel, or Ike/ . One of tho Christcliurch.metallicians put £40 or .£'so m his book, chiefly. . on account of , the double Melbourne and New Zealand Cups— for which 500 to 2 was offered about nearly all sorts of goods. .- Trenton/ was supported straight oiit at 100 to 6 ,' : IQO to 40 was booked about Stoneyhurst for the New Zealand Derby. •■■■•"•;. • . . Napier. Thursday. . The following acceptances and nominations' were receive! .on Tuesday night for the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club Spring meeting :— • '•-'•■; ■ .. Sprih? Handicap (acceptances). — Soudan, Pearl, Christina, Administrator, Invoke, The. Bard, Speculation, Strebu--ous, Ugly Buck, Bayard, Pasha, Hercularieum. ■ Flying Handicap (acceptances). — Christina, Miss Dargon, Pearl, Comet, Administrator, Consul, Speculation, Strenuous, Brown Bess, The Bard, Yankee, Aaime, Herculaneum, Pasha. Hawkes Bay Guineas (acceptances). — Sofidan, Waitiri, Bonny Blink, Revoke. .Handicap Hurdles (nominations^) — Claude, Macaroni,- Director, Assegai, Mangaohane,. Mountaineer, The Druid, Lock Lomond,' Romeo, Rinin, Faugh-a-Ballagh, Denbigh, Dhudeen, Gipsy Grayling,: Flemington.