SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2502, 17 January 1887, Page 2

SPORTING.

The acceptances' and general entries of the Jftratahi-Carterton Jockey Club's Anniversary Day meeting' closed this evening at nine o'clock at: the. Secretary's office, Carterton. Tho Wellington . correspondent of the; N.Z.- Eeferee writes the Masterton-Opaki ; races, and it was one of the most successful' race' meet-. 'rags. that I have atteaded .this season. The course was in good order and the •racing excellent, Th'S r®cretary,'Mr. Fitton, was | ably supported =" By the stewards, feature of themee|ng,fl.u'tot ajut'choccmredduring 'the* pleasing forme to report that /fiiiartoially the-eipeiitations of the stowardfi were lfiove'. than realised, and I must oomplitrfeiit' them oil' the souiidsenae' they most of their attention, to the ; Wprpvement of the racecourse and training ground iu preference to devoting their profits to ornamental stands, offices;- fa.*. It is only just to horse-owners that proper 1 facilities should be provided' for their convenience, • and I•" commend the action of theMasterton folks to a-nu'm-ber of their elders that I- could, name. Eeferring to the racing he say's;— "The two-year-old race, the Champagne Stakes, six furlongs, served to introduce to the public,r Orator," a full brother to Bevoke and- half-brother to Forester. He is a perfect' gentleman to look at. Cupid, a half-brother to Pasha, a plain but serviceable looking colt, divided favoritism • with . Orator.' The partisans of each colt were, sanguine of sitccess,.but much to their surprise they both went; down-'before the-Outsider, Minnie.Palmer, a daughter of Danebury and Sweethept (Hollo's dam.) Cupid should have won, but.his rider allowed him to run rather wide at the turn for home, and young Willie Laing on the filly made 1 the most of his mount, and .sneaking ■ next the rails 'got home .before:',the • colt, who was gaining 011 her at tho 1 finish, Orator was a fair : third, '-The win was a very popular and' -no 1 one cheered louder than those cojinec- ! ted with the two vanquished favorites. [, The evening of the second'day's racing 1 wa's.' : appointed' Settling night, "each 1 wiper thus b.qing paid within a : -few. [ hours of tho completion of the meeting,: . and scl,droppedthe curtain- on ..one of t, the'most ple^anCfa^o-gatherin^s' of • the season." .: y-