AUCKLAND RACE G CLUB. (BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Last Night. THE CHAMPION STAKTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1173, 3 January 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND RACE G CLUB. (BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Last Night.

THE CHAMPION STAKTS.

t the ra^es again to-day there was a large attendance and the Governor was? piesent. , Mares' Pkodttce Stakes. Billiu^Hgate . . . . . . 1 Miikman . . . . . . 2 libeller was acrat-hed. Billingsgate led all the w<iy, and won easily. Auckland Plate of iOtsova. Libeller 1 Templetm 2 Ariel 3 Hippocampus, Pinfirp, and M.iritana were all three 'Crashed. -*11 went together well fiom the tSdit to the outtiug, throuirh which Ray l^d on ctnplcton,th colt i-ecoud and riel third. fhi-, or.ler wa*> maintained until p.i.-t the stand ana round ihe btone", when Libeller went to the font,f ont, and was never cam-lit again, all the hoi'hC3 sroing at a terrifl j pace, the I jockeys whipping them up the >ti .light The colt has, however, out paced two celebrated cup winner^ running tho grandest colt in New Zealand- i.obson was weighed amid uppruarious cheering. I ime, 3uiias. 40~ecs. Handicap S people Chase of UOsovs. L jne H and . . . . 1 bp<>rtsmj,n . . . . .2 Lone Hand led over the double hurdlein front of the tirand Stand, Grey uaiib followed, with -portsmun .-lobe behind, all jumping \ve:l. Loch omond baulked at the water jump. 11 wnt into thf water. Lone Hand fnnabhi-d the fence down and made a clear pass ige, le<idid., r over the road and through BoA-inau.-gard°n, but refused the jump rising the hill. Sportsman then led aoioss the country until .stopped by a go .se tence on the cop of the hill. Here he wa-* joined by other steeplechasers all unaniinou^h declining 1o negotiute the go se. itei a very long delay Lone Hand cai«e f r'Viird aj^aiii, but systematically baulked at every jump, but came in the winner, distancing ftpoit-<inan which was second Stewards' Handicap. Hippocampus, 7st Tibs . . l Lara, 7st -;lbs . . . . . . 2 This race was won by a grand stuiggle on the post.

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