SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10236, 29 June 1883, Page 3

SPORTING.

THE HAWKE'S BAY JOCKEY CLUB .STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

(PER UNITED PBES3 ASSOCIATION.) Napier, June 28. The weather is splendid. There is a large attendance at the races. Maiden Steeplechase, of 80 soys. Distance, 2 miles. Entrance, 4 soys, w.f.a. for all horses that have never won an advertised Steeplechase exceeding 20 soys in value. Fashion 1 Dhudeen 2 Diomedes . . 3 . Eight started. Fear Not and Come , A gain were scratched. A.G. took the lead-, closely followed by Calamity. For the first time round. this position was maintained, Diomedes and Dayrill beinS stern .chasers.: -••■. All- the jiirhps.^'were safelynegotiated jtill' at the baok'of the course, when there was some baulking, which brought Fashion, Diomedes, and Dhudeen to the front. At the torn into the strigh't',' Heretauhga joined the leaders, and a splendid struggle ensued, the four taking the last.hurdle together, when Heretaunga fell. Dividend in the totilisator, £6 Jl2s ; 45 on the winner. Ladxe's Bkacelet, value of 30 soys, with 20 soys in specie added, for. horses that have never won- a race exceeding, 20 soys in value, i Dis- • 'tarice, lj, mile on tha flat.. Weights, '.3yrs, JOst; 4yrs, list; syrs,,J2st; : " '6yrs and aged, 12st 71b. Gentlemen riders. All horses to be nominated. by ladies. Entrance, 2 soys. . Frederica .... . ...-., ... -. ;. . i Buttercup ; -'-'.'..- ' ... '' ... * "... 2 Qnamby 3 Hawke's Bay Steeplechase. A Handicap of 200 soys. Second horse to receive 20 soys "from 'the stakes. Distance, 2J miles. Nomination, 2 soys ; accptance, 6 boys, ■ Clarence ... ... 1 .Quamby ' ... ... 2 Loch Lomond... ... 3 [Owing to an unaccoutabl omissione on the part of tbe Napier agent of the Press Association, the remainder of the SteeplchaEe has not come to hand.]