SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 2

SPORTING.

HACKS AT (JOKE.

(Per Press Association.) mu INVE »CAUGILL, Jan. 18. Tho Gore Racing .Club's meeting opened to-day in lair weather. The course was heavy. Results :

Trial Stakes.—Black and Drown 1 rrincess 2, Silver Blaze 3. Dividend, *<3 165.:

Croydon .Handicap.— Lady Soult 1, Mariposaii 2, ICoputai 3. Dividend *3 lis.

Hurdles.—Wonderful 1, Miss May 2 Snapshot 3. Dividend, £1 7s. Gore Cup.— Stephen 1, Tugela 2 Flower o' Clulhu 3. Dividend £(> Ss! Now Year Trot.—Jet i, j,- m o Waikai 3. Dividends, £l3 Is und

County Handicap.—Yseuli 1, Hawmore 3, Juggler 3. Dividends, £3 10s and £3 3 7s.

| Summer Handicap.— Lady Soult 1 'Tugolu, 2, Heirloom 3. IMvidend £1 18s.

Tiot(saddle).—Violetto jr. I, Dreyfus 13, Strathmore 3. Dividend's, £5 8s and £3 14s.

The Hon. J. D. Ormontl lost two valuable brood mares during the week—Queen of Trumps and Nixie. The former broke his leg and had to bo destroyed. The latter succumbed to the effects of blood-poisoning. The totalisnlor receipts iit Adelaide for tho year just ended show a falling-off of £19,000 us compared with those for IUO3.

Bright Beauty, in the same slaWe as Gladsome, won the llagot Handicap at Flominglon on Boxing Day The Sydney Referee is responsible for the following :—The three-year-old filly Culroy (Wallace-Hortensc), who ran so well in the Perth Derbv recently, was subsequently sold by Mr E. Darlot for 250gs to Mr O. 0. Stead, of New Zealand.