WELLINGTON.
This day
Hawkes Bay Races. The following is the continuation of yesterday's races:—
The PisTßicr Plate.—Mavis, 1; Matau, 2; Primrose, 3 Hailstorm was the favorite at cv.en money, but was beaten by half the distance. Mavis won by a neck, but a protest was entered on the ground that the rider is a professional jockey. -
A nico sort of a Man. The owner and jockey of a horse engaged in the Hack Hurdle Race have been disqualified under peculiar circumstances. The owner backed him in the totalisator on learning that the money was paid on the first horse past the post, and then instructed the boy who rode him to run across the course, so as to get in first. The totalisator man refused to pay, which led to an inrestigation, when the boy I stated his instructions.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3765, 21 January 1881, Page 2
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139WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3765, 21 January 1881, Page 2
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