SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8126, 4 June 1906, Page 3

SPORTING.

AUSTRALIAN RACING. Received 2, 8.9 p.m. Sydney, June 2. Up-to-date is now second to Auriculum in the hotting for the Steeplechase at Randwick. Melboubne, June 2. The Victorian Muring Club has in creased tho added money in the Maribyrang Plate to fifteen hundred. AUCKLAND GREAT NORTHERN MEETING, PES PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, June 2. The Auckland Ricing Club's Great Northern Meeting was commenced today. The weather was' ttno and the attendance good. In the Great Northern Hurdles, Hydrant fell at the first fence, bringing down Defendor, and Exmoor goiug to the front was never afterwards headed, winning by four lengths. The sum of 1112,950 10s put through the totalisator. Results: — Maidon Steeplechase: Catherine Gordon 1, Bautone 2, Rosenlot 3. Scratched: Weary Bill, Wellcast, Cutler. Time, 4.42. Divs., £2 17s and 13s. Maiden Welter: Ben 1, Pearl Necklot 2, Integrity 3. Scrif'hed : Haeremai, Pamperia, Mocassin, Chief Steward, Ladv Clements. Time, 1.35. Divs., £3 10s and £1 lis. Great Northern Hurdles, 2} miles. J. Monk's br g Exmoor, 6yrs (by Grafton—La Vivandiere), 10.3 (McConnor) 1 Romany King, 9.12 2 Cuiragno, 9.11 3 Scratched: Sol, Aka Aka, Convoy, Florio, Weary Bill, Medallius, Ability, Lady Hune, King Paul, Baritone, Oryx, Catherine Gordon. Exmoor assumed . command after jumping tho first hurdle, and was never afterwards headed, winning easily by four lengths, Cuirago a neck away third. Time, 4.34. Divs., £4 2s and £1 7s. Maiden Hurdles: Ability 1, Liberator 2,Corooral3. Scratched: Leßeau, Convoy. Timo, 3.30. Divs., £1 14s and £2 4s.

Cornwall Handicap: Eookby I, Geordie 2, Claremont 3. Scratched : Gold Crown, Convoy. Time, 1.47 2-5. Divs.. £5 10s and £2.

Pony Handicap: Lady Nannio 1, Fashionable 2, Merry Delaval 3 All started. Time, 1.34 3-5. Divs ,£2 ss. Ladies' Bracelet: Baltimore 1, Haeremai 2, Peregrine 3. Scratched: Hippowai, Irish, Kaimere. Time, 2.53 2-5. Divs., £2 13s and £1 lis.