SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1314, 9 June 1883, Page 3

SPORTING.

“ Beacon ” says ; — In “ Ada Man" tua’s ” first consultation on the Dun” edin meeting, the £6OO prize went to an Armed Constabulary man stationed at Cambridge, Waikato ; Adamant went to two enginedrivers resident in Dunedin ; Coupon to Masterton, and Coldstream to Franklin. In the second consultation all four horses in the Birthday Handicap were drawn in Dunedin. A somewhat curious totalisator dispute, arose out of the late Autumn meeting at Timaru. The circumstances as related to us (Timaru Herald), are these :—On the first day a Selling Hack Race was run, and on the second day a Selling Hack Hurdle Race formed part of the programme. On the first day, by a simple mistake, the managers of the paddock totalisator took out a bundle of tickets printed for the Hack Hurdle Race of the second day, instead of the proper ones, and did not find out the mistake till too late to remedy it. The tickets for the Hurdle Race were used for the flat race, each one issued being stamped “ first day,” or something to that effect, and with the date. The horse whose number was 2 won the race. Next day this horse ran as No. 4 in the sell-

ing Hack Hurdle Bace, and won. Some days afterwards a person presented a ticket to the secretary of the Club marked “ Paddock Totalizator, No, 4, selling Hack Hurdle Bace,” and claimed the dividend payable on that race. The secretary thereupon communicated with Messrs Hobbs and and Goodwin, the proprietors of the machine, and the latter, under the circumstances detailed above, declined to pay, but are called upon to explain. In order to be enabled to do so more satisfactorily they, by advertisement request anyone having a ticket issued on'the first day, and marked •* Selling Hack Hurdle Bace,’’ to assist them by producing the ticketeither to them selves or the Club, when the difference in the stamp used on the first and second day may sustain their explana tion of the mistake made on the first day.