SPORTING.
The second day's racing of the Wellington 'Racing Club's Spring meeting took place yesterday. The weather was excellent and about 1000 persons were present. The racing was very good throughout, the biggest dividend being paid out on Rumour in the Railway Handicap viz., £2l ss. The following are the results :
Local Handicap of 40 sovs. 1 mile. Fabrication, 6st 101b 1 The Shah 9st 71b 2 Smooth 7st 111b ... 8 Giriri (Bst 71b), Cloud (Bst 51b), Voltigeur (7stßlb)alsoran. Time, lmin. 47sec. Dividend £2 10s. Hurdle Handicap of 40 sovs; 1 mile and three-quarters. Rata, aged, 9st 71b 1 Reputation lOst 21b 2 Reputation ran off and Eata cantered in. Time 4min, SGsecs. Dividend £l lßs. Hack Hurdle-Race of 15 sovs; one milo and a half. Halicore .'. 1 Time'Smin. Gisec. Dividend L2 17s. ■;
St. Andrew's Handicap, of 100 sovs; One-mile and a quarter. Laurel, Bst 101b ... (Clifford) 1 Little Scrub, GstlOlb (Hockley) 2 Rumour, 7st 521b ,„ (D.Herd 3
.' Strenuous, Bst 121b; Administrator, Bst 41b; Langaroo, 7st 21b, also ran. Administrator was fourth, Strenuous fifth, and Kangaroo last. Time, 2mih 42fsec. Dividend £2 ss, Selling Eace, of 40 boys, weight for age. One milo and a distance. Scraps, 7st 71b 1
Fabrication, 7st 71b 2 Torohunga, 7stlllb 8 Molvillo, 9st, also ran. Time, 2 mm 4 sec. Dividend, £2 18. Novel Race of 25 sovs. Minimum weight Bst 71b. Three quarters of a mile. Crossbow ...- 1 Malamau ... ... .... ~. 2
Te Wliiti ... ... .... 3 Three others ran. Won easily by half a length. Time, 1 mill 22sec, Dividend £2 17s. Railway Handicap, of 40 sovs. Humour, 7st 41b "■ ... ... 1 Little Scrub, 7st 21b 2 Tougariro, Bst 91b ... ... 8 Forester, 9st 21b; Smooth/7st 71b; and Kangaroo, 7st 21b, also rau. Won by two,lengths, the Scrub beating Tougariro for second place by a quarter pf a length, Time, lniiu lfjsec. Dividend, £2l ss,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2764, 2 December 1887, Page 2
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307SPORTING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2764, 2 December 1887, Page 2
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