ALEXANDRA RACES.
SPRING HACK RACE MEETING. Tuesday and "Wednesday, Septembeb
7th and Stii, 1869.
FIRST DAY. FIRST KA.CE. Sweepstake of 10s each, with £10 added ; open to all horses that never won an advertised race (hack or other) ; threequarter mile heats ; no weight less than lOst lOlbs ; professional riders to carry 71bs penalty. Stewart's b m Miss Gray (King) Crossan's blk g Blackbird (owner) Iverson's c h Rosetta (Taggart) Glassford's b h Wallaby (Brook) Taylor's eh h Off-she-goes (BrittonC Glassford's Wallaby won the first and second heats. SECOND RACE. Sweepstake of £1 each, with £10 added ; three-quarter mile heats, over three flights of hurdles ; no weight under 10a t lOlbs; professional riders 7lbs penalty. Jones's c h Pasha (Foot) Cox's b g Tonic (Laverty) Samson's b g Dr Black (Brook) First Heat.— Pasha, Ist; 2nd, Tonic. Second Heat. — Ist, Dr Blac* ; 2nd, Tonic. Final Heat.— lst, Pasha. THIHD BACE. Sweepstake of £1 each, vrith £19 added ; open to all ; one mile heats ; no weight less that lOst ; professional ridera to carry 71 bs extra. Brough's b g Traveller (Walsh) M 'Donald's c g Excelsior (Taggart) Taylor's b g Stanly (Goodman,) King's g m Jeanie (King) Beresford's c g Young Alma (Britton) Jones's eh Pa3ha (Foot) First and second Heats -Ist, Excelsior. SECOND DAY. FIRST BACE. Sweepstake of £1 each, with £10 added ; no weight less than 9st 61bs ; professional riders 51bs extra ; one mile heats ; second horse to receive entrance money. Cox's c m Madam (Goodman) Beresford's c g Young Alma (Britton) Wrightson's b g Doodlem Buck (Swan) Jones's c g Piisha (Foot) First Heat.— lst, Doodlem Buck ; 2nd, Madam. Second Heat -Ist, Young Alma. Final Heat — Won by Doodlem Buck by two lengths. Betting, five to one on Young Alma for the final heat. SECOND BACE — HOSPITAL BACE. For this race there were six entries ; won by Dr Shaw'a Idle Boy. THIBD BACE. Handicap Trotting Race. Sweepstake of £1 each, with £4 added. For this event three started Jones's c g Pasha, at scratch, (Foot) do. r m Mayday, 150 yds. (Pickering) King's g m Jeanie, 200 yds. (King) Won by Pasha.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 18 September 1869, Page 3
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353ALEXANDRA RACES. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 18 September 1869, Page 3
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