PIAKO COUNTY TURF CLUB RACES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1779, 29 November 1883, Page 2

PIAKO COUNTY TURF CLUB RACES.

[»V TEIiHGKAPJI.— OWN COUHKSI>OXI)i:NT.] Auckland, Labt Night. m.ui)r,i<>>. Mfc. lb. sb. IV. .lodwater . 11 7 Quilp 10 0 Whalebone 10 7 Old li eland 10 0 C'Ul'. bt. lb. sfc. lb. Lany . D 3 Victory ... 0 0 "Rewi . !) 3 Kat ... (5 (5 Lnckpcnny 8 5 Agont . 0 0 Robert -the- Jou 0 0 ])evil 7 i» Welcome Victoiia 7 0 Davy . . 6 (5 Moonstone 7 0

No general entries ha^e come to hand from the secretary, so I am not aware of what hoioe^ ai c going for the vai ious events. This neglect in giving information to the general public is not ci editable to the management, and I would recommend the hon. sec. in future to be better up to time. As for the handicaps, they beeni to have been made in a happy-go-lucky sort of style. Tim of cour»e ib due in a great measure to the fact that the handicapper cannot possibly know anything of the merits of the purely local horses, but even then lie seems to have takeu no account of the Cambridge running at all. Quilp ran third at Cambridge ; Whalebone nowheie. Yet the difference in their weights is now the same. Why this ? Old Ireland too, in his Cambridge running, is clean out of it. He has to carry the same weight as Quilp. Jedwater is well in, and ought to win, with Quilp second. For the Cup, the handicap is still worse than for the hurdles. Larry may as well stay at home and Kewi also, as I expect he will. Luckpenny on the Piako course I cannot stand, and I expect he will not be able to stand it either— comers are too sharp. Kobert-the-Devil is right in it, albeit the distance is a little long, but I expect that Hodgson has got him very fit, and hia condition wjll probably carry him through. Moonstone is out of it, Victoria and Victory belong to the same owner, and I expect only one to. run. Whichever is the choseu one will go' Very .near winning. Of the'rest X-TfinQWfifiety litftje,- Scj does; the, /' \* >\ kv *";■■*_-. > f -l*^v"s *"*',» "-, ','." > •

handicapper. 13-it otic thing" is, I believe, well known, that ib Joe can give ll.it a btone at any distance, and if ever Welcome D<i\y means to win a race he ought to g-> for this, but I am afraid he cannot do it. 1 fah.ill g) for IloßKitr-THt-DEViL, Victoria or Victoiy 2, and Joe 3. Blue Gown.