RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 22 June 1907, Page 6

RACING.

■CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB'S GRAND NATIONAL MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 21. The following are the nominations for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National Meeting : Grand National Steeplechase, 3 \ miles.— Romany Lad, Phaetonitis, Corrona, Inniskillen, Silicia, Styoringa, Kiatere, Romany King, Comfort, Eclair, Hutana, Nadador, No Shot, Needlework, Waitarere. Pawa, Slow Tom, Evenlode, Haydn, Hikairoa. Knnaka. Grand National Hurdle Race, 2 milts. Magical, The Mohican, Uranium, Pushful, Lady Hune, Assayer, Roolcby, Kremlin, Lull, Exmoor, Bonheur, Shrapnel, Regulation, Cuiragno, Alluvial, Gold Dust, Kiatere, Romany King, Aura tus, Stormant. Aroha, Oasis. Toprose, Black Reynard, Kaipetipeti, Pretty Maid, Creusot, Prospector, • Idasa, Stronghold, Probable, Dulcinea, Levant, Mahoe, Montigo, Sen Sim, Stayboy, Ben Johnson, Landlock, Cavalry, Le Beau, Aqua Regia, Irish, Fleka, Te Uira, Southern Cross, Sardonyx, Florio, Nestator, Ability, Evenlode, Le«side, Maui, Starbent, Merriwai, Needlework, Royal Shell, and Paritutu. ASCOT GOLD CUP. By Telegraph—Press Association. LONDON. June 20. Following is the result of the race for the Ascot Gold Cup, value 500 B3Vs, with 3,500 sovs in specie, 2£ miles :-- Colonel T. Z. L. Kirkwood's The White Knight, by Desmond— Pella, 4yrs, 9.0 1 Mr J. S. do Rothschild's Beppo, 4yrs, 9.0. ... ;.. 2 Lord Derby's Bridge of Canny, 4yrs, 9.0. 3 The winner and Eider ran a deadheat, but Eider was disqualified for boring. THE THEFT AT ASCOT. By Telegraph+-Press Association. Received June 21, 10.12 a.m. LONDON, June 20. Four men were implicated in the theft of the Ascot Gold Cup. They escaped in a motor car at the "rear of the grandstand. The intrinsic value of the cup was £3OO, The police suspect a colonial gang of thieves.