LATE SPORTING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10554, 9 February 1912, Page 5

LATE SPORTING

POVERTY BAY RACES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Last Night. Good weather and a good attendance greeted the Poverty Bay Turf Club's summer meeting to-day. The going was good and the racing interesting. The totalisator figures were £8785, as against £7117 for the corresponding day last year. Results:— Welter Handicap, of 60 sovs., one. mile..~ Ardfert". 1, Master. Stead 2, Donzel -3. Also: .started Oally Bridge. Won easily, by a length and a half. Time, lmin. 46 1-osecs. First Handicap Hurdles of 70 "sovs, one mile and threequarters.— Stourton I, Lamsdorff'" 2, Himakaka 3. Also started— Game, Te 'Kaunui, Appelles, Terahui. Terahui fell at the first hurdle, and Game at the last when going strong just behind the' winner. Appellas was pulled up. Won by several lengths. Time, 2. mm. l 5 3-osecg: Telephone 'Handicap, of 86 sovs., 1 five furlongs.— Wee Rose 1, Easy 2, Lord ..-Possible 3. Also started—Waio-, rewa, Goldemar, Miss Jewel, Terakato. Won by a neck. Time, lmin. 1 2-osecs. Turanga Stakes Handicap, of 200 sovs., one mile and a quarter.— Te Puia and Ariom (dead heat) 1, Birkline 3. Also started Sublime, Cork, Sea Pink, Compliment. Dead heat. Third a length away. Time, 2min. 9secs. Maiden Scurry, of 50 sors., four furlongs.- Pot Luck 1, Our King 2, Killdeer 3. Also started— Mrs Beeton, Presentation, Chief Marshall, Player, Field Fare, Pasadena, Multiply. Won by a length and a half. Time, A&hucb. County Stakes Handicap, of 60 sovs., six furlongs.— Auldearn 1, Hirini 2. Rising Sun. 3. Also started—Tripoli. Tyne Lass, Colleen Dhu, First..Mil-shall. . Santiago. Won by threequarters of a length. Time, 1 min. ICsecs. I First Hack Flat Handicap, of 50 sovs., one mile.— Composed 1, Stellaris 2. Master Stead 3. Also started— Merrie Valet. Durability, Omntere. Quandary. W<>n by a length. Time. lmin. -14 3-o-secs. Flying Handicap, of 100 sovs., six furlongs.— Our Queen 1, Ea,sy 2, Winning Post 3. Also started— Scorch. Won all the way by four lengths. Time, lmin. 15secs.