MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Te Arolia J.C. annual race, meeting takes place on Saturday and Monday nest. Acceptances for the first clay's racing- fair due on Tuesday at Mr W. Blomfield's office, Durhamstreet. . ' At a meeting- of New Zealand Tattersall's, .held last night, it was decided to raise the entrance fee^ for bookmakers to 50 guineas. . ' [ Sequence started., favourite for the Challenge Stakes at. the, Sydney. Turf Clvb1 meeting with 8.8 in the saddle, but he failed to gain, a place. ;. The good looking Dargaville owned horse Chancellor 11. possesses a "leg." Acceptances for the Otahuhu Trotting Club meeting (first day)'are due on Fridajr night next with Mr W. L. Lockhart at. the Metropolitan Hotel.; ; Aleger and Kissmary, the winners of the 2-year-old races at the T.J.C. meeting were bred at Wellington Park.

. J. Chaafe, jun., got an early return at the Takapuna J.C. meeting on Monday with his recent purchase Cadiz, by Nelson—Hestia, who won the Hack Handicap. He only cost the 'young Ellerslie trainer-rider 27 guineas'■' at Major George's sale. '. The Lochiel horse Cherry, winner of the Viceroy's Cup in India, was owned and raced by M. McAuliffe in Australia. He won five races in his' colours. McAuliffe picked Cherry up for £60, and sold him to Mr. Trahan on behalf cf an Indian-.buyer for £300. , . ■ ..-■■•■ •' , Mr 11. H.-Hayr leaves for Taranaki and Hawera to-morrow. He has charge of the totalisator at Hawera, and he will be pleased to receive commissions for both meetings. ■• According to an exchange Se"ahorse was backed in Melbourne for the Australian Cup some days- before the weights appeared. One ring-man wagered a thousand to seventy against him. : ' '■'■:■] •■ ! Nominations for the Paeroa Druids annual race meeting close, with Mr H. Poland, al#Paeroa, on -February 10. The Druids' Cup, 1J; mile, is the leading race of the programme.- v The full programme of the • Olrinemuri Jockey Club annual race. meeting to be held on the1 Paeroa racecourse on Saturday -and 'Monday, March 17 and 19, appears in our business columns this . evening. Nominations for all events close at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21, \yith the secretary, Mr J. N. Dalston, Paeroa, or at the office of Mr W. Blomfield, Diirham-street, Auckland. - Nominations for the Bay; of Plenty Jockey Club meeting, to be held on March 1 next, close to-night (Saturday) with Mr Chas. F. Hulmej- secretary.'" ■' ":■'■■ ' ' ':; ' ' " . A notification in reference to ponies being measured at Potter's Paddock on 7th February, Tjy'the Otahuhu Trotting Club, appears elsewhere.