AUCKLAND NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7878, 1 June 1891, Page 2

AUCKLAND NOTES.

(TBOH OUR COa»BSrONDBNT.) Without doubt the Wintor Meotfag oj the Takapuna Jockey Club yesterday wal j the moat successful over brought otrattill ! Marine racoaourse, There were no protests of any kind, and fortunately no accidents or bad falls in the jamping events. Mr Bloomfleld passed £$,600 through the totalisator, the dive mostly being large. The racing track was in a very heavy state. The Uirthday Handicap fell to the outsider Tamora, who up*et a strong favourite Lochness, while Coal* scuttle was another great fancy. Jlto alto upset aU calculations by winning the Steeplechase, the dividend being Ml 7s. In tho Pony race Antic rocorded a splendid performance by winning under the weight of lost filha (including 71b penalty), and boat a large field, The meeting was wound up by Leoiina getting home first ia the Welter Handicap, with WatAlbio. the saddle, paying £0 9* dividend. There was a good number at tho trotting and pony meeting, held at Potter's paddock on Saturday, iv aid of the Huntley disaster fuud. Nellie, with 45secs stall, the winner of the big Handicap Trot, 60»ovs, three miles, was ridden by IK Edwards, formerly of Christchurch; Chili, 7oseoß, was second, and Zaoharlah, 735e08, •» third. Other starters were Sandgato (lat? * / Lord William), Hard Times, Commodore, < Kate, Midnight, Maud S., Dolly, Laddie, Rover, and BUI. Chill led for a consider, able distance, but was caught by Nellie In the third round, and the latter was nerei afterwards headed, winning easily. Time, Bmm 41sec Dividend. £1 life (10s tickets). Ferguson's Dolly (8»cc) won the Maiden Trot, Rambuster (B*ec) second, Laddie (30sec) third. Dividend, £3 17s. Meteor got home first in the Handicap Pony race, and Antic (Oat 7ib) beat Pica (9st 71b), Cocoa (Ott 121b) and six others in the Epsom Stakes Handicap, for ponies, Divl< dend,£llßs. i \f There is no truth in tho statement fi#> lishod that W. R. Wilson, of Victoria, hsd bought tho Pah grounds. Ouchunga, for a stud farm ; it was a mere rumour. One of the largest dividends in coaneo tlon with the totalisator In the colony we* paid at Potter's paddock on Saturday, on the occasion of the Huutley disaster fend meeting. This was In the Selling Trot, which went, after being contented the second time through a wrong saddle cloth being carried, to a horse named Disappointment, owned by Mr A. Uohsrtscß. There was only one ticket on Disappointment, and this was conjointly held by Mr E. W, Alison and Chas. BaUly, tkofßgttfr men receiving tbe nice amount of £139 luj fo.- their 10s investment. Sailor Boy, tha horse thac won the first contest, but wat) disqualified for carrying a wrong saddle olotb, would have paid the three aolw&ry investors who held tickets on aim (Sal each. . I hear that Mr W.H. Hayr Iritendi keeping Tekapau at Waoganui till wm short time bsforo the day of .tho A. B. J* Wintor Meeting next week, I ana wd tbe cracks on tho Wangaaui coarse are perfect and rain has little effect on shew owing to their sandy formation, r Another addition has been made to om local racehorses in the shape of a jumpes named Chance, bought by Mr J. CofflrM while on a visit to Hawera. Tho hQfi has gone into Williamson's stable, and tall trainer has purchased the hurdle horse at Wanganui named x"arduian, by Don«•* - It will Interest Southerners to know that old Lonehand is si ill in the land ol the living. Ho is being used as plW* hack in a country district near Auokmm arid his owner, Mr Laxon, toUa-aiBIHM? sound enough to win welter races, JUw* baud is 22 years old, • . , „,„_„-» Mr B. Thompson tolls roe fchalTarn«* will not be raced after this season, «* Eoen to the stud. ' , „». Tbos, Taylor, the well &?!%&£ jockey. Is aspiring to cross country |»W* iieraadehls W who ran fifth.-Mr M. S. owner of Priscilia, has a Pro«»« n £."s|f two-year-old colt in vffc-.ft.gßS' named- Cannibal, by King Cole-ape* 5 * & Mx J. Morrin telle mc .&»L Q VJ!_ifi_ Onyx, and Alda (the dam of tope^ were each served by Hotcnktss. ,_ OBrien'smareßaWna, 9toA*&g££ Wellington Park, has tnW «o *asai»* In view of -future jumping •™ n ,J I 'g Bcasou, a word may not be oat °'fSS" garding the condition that; some horg that ran at the Takapuna Meeting WJ. in. Bit-o'-JrJluestillhasabad' V.»«AIHf was not seen at hb best. Bryan O gjg» who in in Jas. Keen's a \ ist . n x l°f a % fully Improved, and really well j«t«W£ Theorem is one of the beat w« have here. He is a big, wP»t*gl! horse. Try § Fluke is also ajiggHg.jumper, and improving, proah«®PP|*« n iPatcLiup again, and dieted Wgjg ! the Steeplechase races. Rao Good Day and honei]/, and %?!s*ff%biIn his stable that ran were Gtaboroe *» Kapai, with W. Walfield In too »»««% who jumped well, ««'™^ I S*JSHS I looks very well, and 1 hear if WmW Australia.