SPORTING. Wellington Races. [ BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 2

SPORTING. Wellington Races. [ BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Friday, Thornton St.\kem Handicw, of 200dova., li miles. Mi Mai tin's cli in Pearl, 4yis., 8->t 121b (Cliifoid) ... . 1 Mr O'Brion's eh h Hermit ige, 2yiB., Bst 121b ..2 Messrs Stock and Conroys eh m Miss Darcron, 7st 21b . .... 3 Trickster, Hermitage, Tit-Bit, Revoke, F.iy, Little Scrub, Vanity Fair, and Cock-of-thc-W.ilk also staited. Rumour wu scratched. The bntti'ig was e\en on Pearl. Of the lest Heimitage and Tit-Bit were most fancied. There- wn* a lot of jibbing at the post, and sn.ne halt do/.en false st.u th were made before Mr lit ace got the ten away. Passing the st.md a sheet would li.ivo covered the lot, Little Scrub svas ahead. At the bick cf t!;o course they were in a cluster except that Cock-of-the Walk had fallen behind. Tit-Bit and Revoke had displaced Little Scrub and Hermitage with the miula running was holding his own, the favourite being behind. The h<>i-,es presented a fine bight as they swept along locked together m a manner which muit have been extieinely gr.itrful to ti.o feelings of the handicapped. The pace was very fast, and ci-es began to aiisu that Pearl w«« beaten. Turning into the straight her chance! seemed gone. Tit Bit looked like the winner, and Hermitage, with Derntt to help him home, was decidedly dangorouH. When fairly in the straight Mjui Dargon's colours were momentarily seen in fiont, but only for a moment, as Hermitage drew ahead, and the raceaj'paientlyresohed it^olf intoa struggle betweon him and Butler's colt. At tnis moment Clifford Haw his time had come and moving on, Pearl tLfl marc dashed up on thn outside, and in a few minutes had fairly collared Dargon aud Tit-Ait. A splendid >et to followed between the leader*. Derritt was doing all he knew, but the Pearl surely forged ahead, and the game nnre flashed past a length clear of Hermitage, Miss Dargon a good third ; close by followed Tit-Bit, the n;-.t cloaß up. Tim« — 2.nins. 12sec?. Dividend— lnside, £1 13s ; outside, £2 2*.

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