RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3187, 12 May 1909, Page 6

RACING.

OTAKI NOMINATIONS. Nominations for all events except the Maiden Flat and Final Hack Scurry to be run at, the Otaki Maori Racing Club's winter meeting on June 3rd and 4th- nest, close with the secretary Mr Hema R. Te Ao, Otaki, at 8.30 p.m. on Friday next. The telegraph office at Otaki is closed at 5 p.m

PROVOCATION THE BRILLIANT. 1 That Provocation is entitled to all the enthusiastic encomiums passed upon his prowess he gave further proof on Thursday last at Hastings, when he romped home in front of his opponents for the Hawke's Bay ' Stakes, in which event he was called upon to carry the mamimum penalty of 181b. With Provocation's success- ' ful assault on Hastings last week we ! may assume that the bay son of I Birkenhead and Stepfeldt has run his last race as a two-year-old. The i ■ <i ; statement of Provocation's exploits 1 as a youngster is a highly interesting I document; and with six wins out of jlO starts down against his name, it ' can be stoutly argued that he has put 'up a record entitling him to a place ' with the best colts of his age that j have graced the New Zealand turf. The following is a full statement of Provocation's performances: —Second in Hastings Stakes, four furlongs, Bst 51b, won by Elysian, Bst 121b. Won Wellesley Stakes, four furlongs, Bst 71b. Time, 49 l-ss. Second C.J.C. Welcome Stakes, four furlongs, 9st lib, won by Nautiform, Bst 51b. Time 49 2-3 sec. Second Feilding Stakes, five furlongs, 6st 91b, won by Gold Crest, 9st 51b. Time, lm. 0 3-ss. Won Jackson Stakes, six furlongs, 7at 21b. Time, lm. 13 3-ss. Won C.J.C. Champagne Stakes, six furlongs, Bst 101b. Time lm 14 l-ss. Third' in C.J.C. Challenge Stakes, seven furlongs, 7st 111b, won by Flitaway, Bst 91b. Time lm. 28 4-ss. Won North Island Challenge Stakes, seven fulrongs, Bst lib. Time lrm 29a. Won Manawatu Stakes, six furlongs Bst. Time, lm. 14 3-ss. Won Hawke's Bay Stakes, six furlongs and(a-half, Bst 71b. Time lm. 211s.