AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9605, 21 December 1896, Page 6

AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB.

(press association telegram.) AUCKLAND, December 19. The first clay's racing of the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer Meeting was held to-day at Potter's paddock, Epsom. The sport was good and the attendance about 2500. The sum of £2896 passed through the totalisator in I,os tickets. Results :— MAIDEN PONY HANDICAP, of 20 soys; six furlongs and a half—Topsail, Bst 101b, 1; Topsy, Bat, 2; Si wash, Bst 21b, 3. Time, ltnin 2&»ec. Dividend, Si Be. MAIDEU TROT HANDICAP, of 25 sove; two miles—Okoroire, 2S»ec, 1; Bendigo, 28sec, 2; Lusitania, scr, 3. • Time, 4inin 46sec. Dividend, £1. . PONY CUP HANDICAP, of 70 soys ; one mile— Rit-o'-Fashion, 9st, 1; Romeo, 9at &b, 2 ; Sneak, Bst 61b, t; Topsail, 7st 121b, t6. Time .linin 29£aec« Dividend, £26. HANDICAP MAIDEN HURDI.ES, of 25 sove; one mile—The Dove, lOat 81b, .1; Frisco, lOst, 2; Penguin, &jt, 3. Time, linin 594 sec. Dividend, £12s. TELEPHONE HANDICAP, of 30 soys; live furlongs—Komeo, 99t 81b, 1; Cupid, 9sjt, 2; Siligls Barrel, 7st 101b, 3. Time, ltnin 7min. Dividend, Vfs. FIRST HANDICAP MAIDIiN TROT (in harness), of 25sovn; two miles— Lusitania, ssec, 1 ; Hazel wood, 30seo, 2 ; Wallace D, 25sec, 4. Time, smin 56sec. Dividend, 16s. DECEMBER HANDICAP, of 35 soys; six furlongs and a half—bneak, Bab 61b, 1; Cupid, Bst 121b, '6.; Effie, 7st, 3. Time, lmin 23sec. Dividend, £110 a. EPSOM TROT HANDICAP (in harness), of 40 soys; two miles—Little Ben, 7sec, 1 ; Duke C, spr, 2 ; Waihinepai, 7sec, 3. Time, smin 33sec. Dividend. 188.