SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 207, 6 September 1901, Page 2

SPORTING.

(Br Emotbio Tbl jobaph.—Copyright.) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received C, 0.56 a.m. Sydney, September 5. _ The Epsom Handicap eard reads tonight:— Abington is a strong favourite at 6 to 1, but it is difficult to got anything beyond sto 1; Kenley, Bto 1; Cretonne and Sequence, 10 to 1. For the Metropolitan Handicap Bir Leonard is favourite at 100 to 7; Cyanide and Bruntwood, 100 to 8. Womerah waa bicVed for .£4OOO and Caraval for £2500, at 100 to 3. i MARTON MEETING.

SECOND DAf. Mabton Rackooubbe, September 5. Heavy rain fell all and the course was much worse than on the first day. Results : Trial Hurdles: MoreUi 1, Nectar 2, Peter Osbeck 3. Scratched: Maraoni and Telegram. Won easily. Divs., £i and 19*. Time 3min 30aec. Electric: Detonator 1, Ocean. 2, Mongonui 3. Scratched: Breeze and Katoa. Won by a bead. Di«|. ( £ll 2i >nd XI Is. Time lmin 13sec. Bracelet: Phantom 1, Hokowhitu 2, Jones 3. All started. Won by a good length. Divs., X 3 3« and XI 4«. Time smia lOsec. Hack Steeplechase,—Hokowhitu 1, Nectar 2, Hutana 3. Telegram and Kahu were scratched. Time, 6min Wee. Divs., X 3 12s and 10c. Welter.—Tirea 1, Tokatoa 2, Pttanga 3, Time lmin i7a*o, Div*., £2 2s and 16s. RANGITIKI R.O. SPRING MEETING. NOMINATIONS. The following nomiaatioas have bean received for the meeting to be brld tbi-i mouth:

Fl>iig: Ringle*-, Melwood, Fakir, Perfection, O.boine, Seieebrcok, Toa, Waionui, C ilceohria, Gipsy Qn«x>r )l Lauroftina, Whitirra, Aquina'do. Maiden Hack: Arawa, Out*, Faittapu, Oriental, fcunmos, Reolaimer, Weheoga, Cobra, Waimoe, DsrMWagb, The Gifr, Lum Kee. Hack Hurdlts: Coielli, Tokooui, Meerschaum, Bonfg, Elfgant, Gannon* ade, Great Soot*, Cos*ack, Garnet, Mnrelli, Auralin*, Nat Goald.

Hack Flying: Tirea, Poataniwha, Tutua, Black wing, Laureate, Mtriui' thus, In the Van, Coma, First Light, Reolaimar, Nioiti, Wehtnga, Moreen, Outci'a, Horoeka, LordaU, Breext, Beau Ideal, Bispplot, Ocean. Bangitikei Steeplechase: Hutana, Sir Atbo', Silver Bay, Claymore, - K Jam, Hinau, Stanley, tjylvanua, Siilor Lad, Hokowhitu, Lochade, Oiiro.

| Spring Handicap.— Raukura, Melwood, Toa, Daphne, Gipsy Queen, Laurentina, Whitiret, Hack Fiat Tirea, Poataniwha, Blaekwinjr, Cure, Bones, Velocity, First Ligh , Nioiti, Myra, Tokatea, St. Lyra, Bean Ideal, Omm, Culri'a, Lum Kee.

Hack Hurdles.—Bame m first day, with the addition of Net. Kilhnuj, Last Spec, Snapshot, and the exception of Tokonui, Great Boott and Ooisack. Telegraph Handicap.—Ringlet, Fakir, Osb™\ Mel wood, Sedge brook, Waionui, Calceolaria, Liuriatina, Aquina!do. Arataomatari Bteeplech»s». —Bun* as Ringitikei Steeplechase, with tbe excep'ion of Sailor Lad and Hokowhitu, Electric.—Same as Hack Flying, with the addition of Lam Kee, velocity, Oriental, Sunmos, Tokote*, Oobrs, and Ohura,and the exception o' Blackwing, Mariiothus, and Lordale.

Hack St^eplaohasf.—Tokonui, Mttique, Great Seott, Cinders, Couuk, Sailor Lid, Lochade, Jones, Nat Gould, Te'egram, Hokowbitii, Killeymoon Hack.—Same as First Hack Flat, with the addition ®f Poatafiwha and Velooity, and the exoeption of R'-seplot.

Septan.bwr Handicap. —Stmt m Spring Handicap, with the addition at Fakir, Porfotioo, Sedgebrook, Aquinaldo, and Waionui.

Hack Scurry,—Ssme aa'Kleetrlq, with the addition of Mcrianthua, Puketapu, Kobi, Ooesack, Waimoe, Lordals, Sportsman, KV«&, and Slippery,