RACING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 162, 9 July 1907, Page 3

RACING NEWS.

THE WELLINGTON STEEPLECHASE."

(By Telegraph.—Press Association:) WELLINGTON. Monday. The following weights have" been declared by Mr J. H. Pollock :tTHE WELLINGTON STEEPLECHASE. About three miles and a-quarter. St. lb. rt. Ib. Kiatere 13 3 Khama 913 Phaetonitis .. 12 0 Silica 910 Haydn 10 33 Comfort 9 !) Eclair 10 10 Rangitoto ... 9 9 Waitarere ... 10 9 Evenlode ... 9 9 Irish 10 9 Romany King 9 9 Nadador .... 10 8 Pawa 9 7 Romany Lad 10 5 Needlework 9 7 Loch Fyne ..10 5 Cavalcade .. 9 7 Inniskillen ..10 4 St. Carona ..9 7

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB.

jßy Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. The annual meeting ot the Dunedin Jockey Club was held to-night, the Hon. G. McLean, M.L.C., presiding. The receipts toalled £11,479, and the expenditure amounted to £10,898; balance at the bank being £SSO. The sum of £882 had been spent on improvements and new buildings, and £270 on painting. The chairman said he regarded the present situation as most satisfactory, and remarked that it was proposed to raise the stakes to £1000. Such a step would draw a larger number of horses. He condemned the petition for the abolition of the totalisator, and believed that those who agitated foe its abolition would be the first to clamour foe it to be reinstated. As for roguery on the course," reports were very much exaggerated. '• Mr J. Hazlett (vice-president) stated that the double line wonld soon reach the course, and be of great benefit to the club and to the public. The following were re-elected:—Hon Geo. McLean, president; Mr 3. Hazlett, vice-president; Messrs Charters, K. Ewinz, P. Miller, S. Myers, A. S. Orbell, and J. Thomson, committee. " -

LION HEART.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, July 8. It is not intended to start Lion Heart at Flemington to-morrow. He shows no 111-effects of his run in the Grand National Hurdle Race on Saturday.