NEW ZEALAND GRAND NATIONAL MEETING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8557, 10 August 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND GRAND NATIONAL MEETING.

There Is every prospect of fine weather for the opening day of the Grand Natioual Meeting, and the drying wiud of yesterday should leave the course in capital order. There is a great number of visitors in town, and the attendance promises to be quite as large as on recent former occasions. The following is ihe programme of eveuts to be oecided, together with tbe hour at which the several races are timed to start: —

1 p.m.—First Hunters' Hurdle Racb Handicap, or 50 soys, Sdcond horde to receive 10 soys out of the stake; for qualified nnnters that have never won an Op_n Hurdle K_.ce. Minimum weight of handicap list. Once round and a distance. st lb, stlb Black Hawk __. 12 7 Billy -11 0 Matariki ... 11 7 Wild Fire _. H 0 wad-Irishman.. 11 7 St. Barba . 11 0 Silver Tail „ 11 . Jaffa. _ 11 0 luvader ..11 3 JLaurence .11 0 Beilßlrd .. 11 Oj 1.40 p.m.—Maiden Hu-idle Race Handicap, of 100 soys; second nurse to receive 15 soys out of the stake. For horses that have never won a Hurdle Kace of the value of 30 soys at the time of nomination. Oue mile and three-quarters. Freeman -. 11 9 f B.a Trovato _. 9 3 liberator _ 10 11 j < Uquitaer _ 9 3 Jack .. 10 3 Biuia _ 9 3 Jacob Faithful 9 9| 2.3op.m.—New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase handicap, of 500 soys; socoud. horde to receive 75 aovs, and third horss 25 soys out of the stake. About three miles and a half. st lb sfc lb Norton _ 1212 Waterbury .10 8 Empire ..11 5 Mutiny _ 10 7 Go i-ulier _» 11 3 Despised .10 5 Ciarence „ 11 fl Re«aiia .98 Tiritea .11 i> Bide-a-Wee .97 Magpie .. 10 12 Jacob .97 Viccrix .. 10 lv 3.15 p.m.—The T-llt-ho Plate Steeplechase, of 50 soys ; second horse to receive 10 sjvs out of the stik.. Four-year-olds, 11.t; five-year-oid., i2.t'; six-year-olds and aged, 12st 71b. About two miles. Ronald . 12 7 Muckross . 12 1 Opera „ 12 7 Amalgam «. 12 7 Uiliie .. 12 7 Victor .12 0 Mount Cook -. 12 7 3.45 p.m.—Ladies' Bracelet, of 75 soys. A Bracelet of the vatue of tiUsovs for tne first, and a Bracelet of the value of 15_ovs for the second horse. Two miles on the flat. Lord Hopetoun 1110, Sheelah _ 11 8 Solomon ..11 8 Whirligig .11 0 Radical .-. 11 81 Abel Tasman .110 Master Royal .. 11 8 J 4.15 p.m.—Maiden Steeplechase, of 75 boys; second hone to roc. ive 10 soys out of the stake. About two miles. Robin . 11 7 Mutiny . 11 7 Matarika ... 11 7 Bljodsucker ..11 7 Jacob ..11 7 Tornado .11 7 Wild Irishman 11 7 5 p.m_—Winter Handicap (Flat), of 115sovs; second horse to receive 10 soys out of the stake. One mile and a quarter. Young Cheviot 11 12 \ First King . 10 6 liberator .. 11 9 Specton .. 10 I Th Idler ..11 8 M lusina . 10 1 V. gut-gang .11 . JJunoun . 10 1 Caj .lery .. 11 5 VVayland . 10 0 Galtee _. 11 5 Despised . 10 0 Awaruaßose ..10 13 Maria Martin ..10 0 Uora .. 10 7 NewHeadford .. 10 0