SPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2746, 10 November 1887, Page 2

SPORTING.

FEATHERSTON HACK RACE MEETING. '■'

A good day's sport was provided by the Featherston Town and Suburban Hack Racing Club, which held its first meeting yesterday on a very convenient course adjoining the railway lino about two miles south of Featherston. Some three hundred and fifty persons were present, a large number travelling by rail from the north" end of the Valley. The course good order though the: going was father heavy owing to thewet weather! The racing throughout was excellent. The fields were large and the winners difficult to spot,'there;'being "as fine a collection of hacks, is it'was possible to get together'in the district. .The officers carried "out :tlie arrangements in a J satisfactory" 5 manner, there being only one protest—and that a trivial one—tb.'delay the proceedings. MrA,,R. Maofarlane's totalisator was on the ground and put through a good round sum, there being, some.very, good dividends paid over. The following are the events of the. day arid; the,; names of the winners:-* - : ';■,.;• Handicap Hubdles, £2O, second horse £5 from the,stakes; ■: Hill's Rata, lOst 71b „. j Iraia's Pake, lOst 61b ~-.. 2-' Gillot's Trooper, llsfc 81b 8 ;.

Seven started. Ivo : started off with the lead, all the horses, with the exception of Minnie, clearing the first hurdle. At the Ithird jhfiap Ivo ran off, causingExchangetpJcomedowijaoropper, who was consequently putout of the race. Rata now had it all his own way. and won easily., Time Bmin 16$ sees. Dividend £2.:

Maiden Plate£ls;. about 1 mile; weight for age. "" • '-.. - . Whiteman's Right Bower, fist 111b' 1 O'Callaghah's Speculator, Bst lllb 2 Cundy's Sir Roger, ;',, 8 ; Eleven started. "From a.bad; start, the. winner jumped away, and-,was never collared. Time, lmin 68$secs. Dividend'£B -Bs. A protest was entered by the owner of Speculator for an alleged .cross in the straight, but the Stewards did not uphold it. Town and Bubdeban Handicap £80; \secohd horse £5 from the stakes;

about 1J miles. McKenzie's. Othello, 7st ; lib - : ... • 1 Thompson's.Lazy', ,6st 181b '-, .;. 2Mj Mj 81b: 8 Eight started. After! a long delay at the startmg.pOint.' Highland Mary went away '.with the lead and kept it till entering the ;straight, when want: of condition told upon her, Othello and Lazy made a good finish, the latter

coming through very fast in the last X fifty yards, After Dark. was. fancied,but finished about a chainß in the rear, pumped out, Tjinf ; 2min 58$ sec. Dividend £6 2s. •:.' .. Ladies Pubse Handioap,£ls ; about IJmiles;. gentlemen' riders,.,mini* , ■' mum.'weight 9st. ..:..;•; - . Eight Bower, 9st. W 11 Htsßata;iost;6lb.- ..,': -I i :\ Cundy's Susan, 10st v ... '':■■•». $.-... Eight started, Rigl\t,BowM;ha«| . all hid own way from start nifHL. and won by three lengths.. Mp^ £5-2s. ; .. V; ; ; V;- ■ -:'("Ws.\ Flying Hasmoap,,£2o, Becond-horw •£5 from the stakes; about f mil*. McKenzie's Jumbo, 7st 61b., jv-" I . '■■;,■'.■■• ■»•<;■« ■ Buiok's Mariner, 7st 101b ■s; 8 Ten started. After about. twenty attemps to get the field away,.the flag dropped to a- rather bad start. Th«*. horses' kept fairly .well, together tiaL' entering the straight, when : -the firsp three shot out from the .-reslland > splendid 'finish ensued,- not more than half a length separating;, tb'ejtfio; as thoy passed the judge's stand,' Time ,lmin 22Jsecs, ; Dividend J65 4b, Smisa Race, 410, about one mile, Ostnp;- : -%;.. Cundy's Sir Roger ... wwy Pobced Handicap LiO; about I mile, :McKenzie's Jumbo Bst2lb- ..... J BuicW Mariner, 7st-71b .'..: ■; :,: 2 Dbnald> Torea, Bst 71b .., v „','■;. 8 • Won .eaßilyV, , ■':'." CHRISTOHURCH DERBY, .(United Press Association.) Maxim ... ... ..'. : 1 Gipsy King ...., • <.. 2" '■ Sextant... ... .-:... 8