SPORTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8152, 30 May 1906, Page 7

SPORTING.

SENSATIONAL DIVIDENDS. The Takapuaa Jockey Club's coarse has been responsible for many sensational surprises, and on Saturday, May 19th, another was recorded, and as £513 18? was the amount paid on each of two tickets issued the incident can be depended upon to claim muoh talk for some time to come. In the double—Empire and Royal Handicaps—the winning horses were Waipuna and Ben Blair; and though only two tickets were issued on the number represented by those two horses it was not actually the outside selection. Only one ticket was issued against the combination of Waipuna and Miss Winnie, and as the latter was les9 than half a-neok away from the two leaders it will be readily recognised that it was only by a narrow shave that a dividend twice the extent of that paid was not recorded. The following is a list of the biggest dividends paid in New Zealand:— £322 4s—Leo Delaval, January, 1302, Hack Handicap Takapuna. ' £306— Crummy, February, 1886, Fire Brigade Handicap, Town and Suburban, Napier. £285 17s—lpswlob, December, 1893, Electric Stakes Trot, Canterbury Trotting Club. *£2s9—Louie, March, 1882, Napier Handicap. £251 14s—Kalo, April, 1885, Hhorts Handicap, Auckland. *£223 4s—Mavis, March, 1881, Tradesmen's Handicap, Hawke's Bay. £174 12s—Lavender, April, 1886, Ashley Plate, New Brighton. £169 4s—Silver Bell, March, 1889, Trot, Dunedin. £l62—Waimarama, December, 1893, Christmas Handicap, Porangabau. £159 6s-Polly, May, 1883, Trot, Dunediu. £153 9s and £lO3 10s—Liberty, October, 1890, Hurdle Handicap, Hawke's Bay. £147 12s—Minnie 11., October, 1894, District Race, Oboka and Eyreton. £139 10s—Tristan, December 1885, County Plate, Cromwell. £137 3s— Sebastapol, May, 1892, Welter Handicap, Geraldiue. £136 16s—Disappointment, May, 1891, Trot, Auckland. £l3s—Dead Shot, December, 1894, Nursery Handicap, Auckland. £134 2b—Moderation, April, 1895, Welter Handicap, Soutn Canterbury. £l3l ss—Moonee, January, 1890, Hack Raoe, Wellington. £123 18s—Dorothy, February, 1891, Hack Hurdle Race, Manawatu. £122 8s Dundonald, January, 1892, Maiden Plate, Waikouaiti. *£l2o lTs-'Adamanfc, February, 1883, Dunedin Cup. £ll4 6s—Malvina, March, 1887, District Handicap, Peninsula. £ll3 Bs-Sly Sam, May, 1885, Trot, New Brignton. £lO3 19s—Little Tom, March, 1894, Pony Race, Auckland. £lO3 10s— Oatesby, June, 1888, Winter Handicap, Auckland. £lO2 12s—Frances, April, 1895, Flying Handicap, Beaumont. £lOl 14s—Love Shot, November, 1894, Juvenile , Stake, Chnstohurcn. £lOl 2s—Blackthorn, January, 1892, Trot, Vincent. £lool6s—Hanlan, October, 1889, Haok Race, Low hum. **£l22 4s—Ballistite, 1902, Settlers' Hack Handicap, Napier Park. *£2 ticket. **Dividends paid on first and second horses. At the South Australian Jockey Club's Annual Meeting, held in May, 1881, a horse who raced under the initials of his owner, "D.0.D.", won the Goodwood Handicap, and a dividend of £836 was the result. An exohange commenting on the matter stated:—"Great excitement was caused owing to a mistake made in working the totalisator. When the Goodwood Handicap was over the machine fih'owed that of £904 invested no one had backed the winner. Directly afterwards, however, a winning ticket was presented, duly embossei, and Mr Barnard endeavoured, to explain to the crowd that the mistake arose in consequence of the number being suown in- the wrong compartment. The crowd refused to hear him at first, but eventually they were partially satisfied, Mr Smith, a farmer, was the lucky holder of the tioket, and he received £836 for the £1 which be invested.''