SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2274, 19 April 1886, Page 2

SPORTING.

[United Press Association.] WELLINGTONRACING CLUB'S AUTUMN MEETING. SECOND DAY. Racecourse, April 1?. There woro about 000 persons present, and others are arrivinp, The police are taking steps to see that no liquor is sold on tho course. WAIWEIC HANDICAP. Vanity Fair 1 Hagar 2 Revoke . , ... 3 Okato, The Shah, and Kakapo also started. Revoke hand the best of a straggling start, Kakapo boing two lengths away. Coining to tho straight the five horses woro all-in a bunch, Kakapo completly o.ufc of it. When fairly in tho straight, Vanity Fair Bhot out from tho ruck, and after a good race, won by half a length from Hagar, Revoko an indifferent third. Time, limn lOjsec. Dividend, £2l6s, ■-. ~_. jrUBDLES. ' Secretary ... .„ ,„ 1' Freebooter fell, but being remounted by Herd finished half a mile behind. Time,3min 2Gjsec. Dividend,. £1 Bs. A protest'was entered against Secretary forcroßsing, .-. ' Later. The stakes in the hurdle race have been awarded to Freebooter, Secretary was distanced and Mitchell, his rider, was disqualified from ridina on the oourse again to-day. Dividend on Freebooter, £2 9s. The Hack Hurdle race was won by Moorna, A-G., second. . -' Sydney, April 17. The second day's races of the flawkesbury Race Club's Autumn Mooting came off to-day. Tho principal event on the card was the Hawkesbury Autumn Handicap, mile and a half, for which a field of twelve horses faced tho starter. A great race took place, ending in Lancer securing first place by a length, Bonnie Bee second, and Cerise and Blue third ; time, 2min,' 38|sec.