SOUTH AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 3

SOUTH AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

I did nob journey to tho South Auckland Racing Club Meeting on Saturday last myself, bub all of the Auckland visitors are loud in praise of the meeting and the way ib was conducted. Our Waikato correspondent sends tho following notes anent the gathering : —Although your representative attended the meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club and gave the results of the races, I would like tb" intake a few remarks on tho day's proceedings-generally. First of all ; the weather was lovely, t'no courso'in ' beautiful order, and the attendance beyond all anticipations. The racing was sue!) as is nob seen every day, six races out of the eight furnishing finished that any handicapper might ba proud of, not only two horses fighting out a finish, oub three and four in it up to thirty yards from home, and in no instance (of the rix) did a horse win by a length. The exceptions were the Welter Handicap, which Helen McGregor won in a canter, being at least three chains ahead of the tail end of tho raco ; and the Steeplechase, in which Chance, making every post a winning post, led from start to finish, and cantered in by himself. Tho race for the Flying Stakes was a treat to see. A few hundred yards from home five horses were abreast, coming up tho straight like a section of cavalry on parade. Then out ehob Vieux Rose, closely followed by Tit. Vieux Rose wins ! ho, Tit ! Tit ! When j'jst as all seemed over, Priest brought Yattaglian up like an arrow from a bow, and in six strides all was over, Yattaglian by a neck being the verdict, whilst Vieux Ross was lying the same distance behind Tit, who is, undoubtedly, a smart bib of sbuiT. In the .Novel, too, a big pofc en Mistake waa upset by Tommy Taylor's splendid finish on 'Memorandum, "if ever a man won a race <un the second-best horse, ho did. Had jocks I been reversed it would have been 5 to 1 on Mistake, whoso rider hod the raco at his mercy once, but allowed both Memorandum and Duchess to beat him by halfa-length. Ticket* all day wore lO.a on tho tobali?ator, and although there were only 139 investors on tho first race, the sum of £1,741 was put through the machines, which wore splendidly'worked by Mr Blomfield and stafF. i 2sow a few words for the management. Everything worked liko clockwork. Hcices were run up to the minute, and there were no protests and no accidents. .Seven horses started for the Steeples, and they all finished. Four for the Hurdles', and they all finished also. The starting was pood ill six races, very mediocre in the Flying Stakes, and something teiribly bad in the Gallowny Race, •there being "nearly L'O lengths between Auntie (the first), and Gipsy Girl or Opal, the last pony, and many people thought that; Auntie was in front of the post when the flag fell. All the officials worked systematically, consequently all went merrily •on. The catering at tho luncheon room -was nob up to what it might have been. The special train was nob long enough. The carriages were far too crowded, and at least two more large coaches wore necessary. Another thing: The special brought up "and took away some eight or nine horse boxes, and in order to load the horses they had to be brought up on to the platform amongst the crowd of people, to the danger of life and limb. This wants rec--tifyiiif. Tho ground which is being pre■parod" for tho Pastoral and Agricultural Show in front of the stand shows up well, having been ploughed, levelled, and laid down nicely. Yards aro about to bo erected, and also sheds, right in front o the Grandstand, and the Club also intend to make a football and cricket ground for central mntche?. Altogether, the b. A. X may be said to bo in » moet flourishing condition, and is now firmly established on } a sound linancial basis , . ;