SPORTING.
WELLINGTON EACES.
(Pee Pbbss Association.) J Wellington, Saturday.'
Racing Club Handicap: Salvage 1, Poet 2, Refrigerator 3. Leonata and Nbrmanby also ran. Poet had all the best of the race until a few yards from the straight, when Salvage challenged, and answering gamely the call of his jockey, won with ease, Refrigerator being a length behind second horse. Notice of Motion took the Hack Race, and Loch Lomond the Consolation ; the other starters in the latter race being Administrator, Witiora, and Refrigerator. £8600 was put through the totalisator in both days. Dtjnedin, Friday. At last night's meeting of the Jockey Club the Secretary was instructed to communicate with the Committee of the New Zealand National Steeplechase Club stating that the D. J.C. would be willing to enter into negotiations with them for holding tbe Grand National Meeting, together with the May Meeting at Forbury, on the Queen's Birthday and She following day ; the affair to be con* nsucted as a joint venture,—the programme to be made up of flat races and steeplechases alternately.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4704, 4 February 1884, Page 3
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174SPORTING. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4704, 4 February 1884, Page 3
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