AROWHENUA STEEPLECHASES.

Press, Volume X, Issue 1144, 9 July 1866, Page 3

AROWHENUA STEEPLECHASES.

ihafoUowing account of these steeplechases kas bean kindly forwarded to us for publication;— TWa little local affair came off on Thursday ™*»?a*lsortof sequitnr to the recent crossbar sweepstakes at Timaru, but the result bat satisfactory. The promoters *~«»a welded mistake by first making the ftSL* 8 ■- pen oTse to - 11 horses 5 then keeping »n7rt?- ei>?9 tf the y w »nted to have the fun «»» Hiemsel-es; and, finally, not haviug the »_^V? tef the ma J or number of borses had been in preparation so soon as it 2 *? OWn foat Sinking Fund and Larrie had Bl »e-pectedly from Christchurch to chance in the race. The large fields -Lj??,* l "* general success which have fended the painstaking stewards and officials 8*J»? r? Qrand Provincial and Riccarton 2™«s (and whioh promise to be well 3 U k_ *sfc5 fc thf} coming Kaiapoi events), JJj* oe a lesson to those districts who fancy « I^ Btt Ps Wß »' eo «ntry raoes to always have wwestncted programme and experienced It seeraa. that the Arowhenua undjer ikhe delusion that a • JJjWni. added 'to a very small sum of srai mcmey, would ensme aa good a prize to *•maer a? if a positive amount, well worth f» $ ' e . rß for by a proportionate S£ T T*i to ky their own p ,an > » the y d fiiQ ™& at before running as LfffWMi the race being nommallv *Q -_? - but no Btr& nger ß expected »(>or&. l - an W 6 *" However, the e-mentioned animals happened to come, Km-tR° mrch > both of th * m havin & **!-» w»"^ rtOQ barely a wee| k previous—and oldsfawii. s Why—only one . ,aßlow " coach ' y« l «Pt "Tommy," otMtT* make a third nomination, the *ctiTeW«w • 88Teral oth ers that had been to-_J.2!? lo * B ' ,nonlh or more declining tf ft?_Ks_ y ** oTe r-rated. The result fteir ( _ ? P OPt ifc ran *» «H«d) proved te-J^snd should be a future warning 8W0lf! " Sinking Fund (hte feJw®" 16 *' once a hot fworite, and *W*W at evens to win in a **» <wl aU *f»e coming it was odds on ' *•»«. «L ""$ mox *™t before starting. fen «^hS;^! l3tll ?," hullaballo o" when the latest S\*^ Buddenl y scratohed, and tbe lo_, OT jj 0 .* PMr only, viz.-Larrie and 10 ■* o-ce elected as acer- * m awft y wnt the two over the chosen

? line of fences, most of which were post- - and-rails of rather a rotten description. Larrie - soon gat to tbe front, and it seemed a guinea F to a dump on him, as Tommy i 9 rather slower I than a merely ordinary man ; but within f about three leaps of home he took an obstinate i fit of baulking, and no persuasion of Mr i Moorhouse could get him over the jump i until the old steady-going stock-horse had , passed and won. Had any nag of a tolerable ; turn of hack speed been iii the affair Tommy would have had no chance, and the proper winner of the Arowhenua Steeplechase was undoubtedly amongst the local tits so unadvisedly left out by their ownere. May next season's running bo more gratifying to all concerned.