OTAGO HUNT CLUB MEETING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9812, 23 August 1897, Page 6

OTAGO HUNT CLUB MEETING.

(PRKSS ASSOCIATION TRLKORAM.)

DUNEDIN, August 22. Tiie following nominations were received for the Hunt Club meeting :— HUNTEK.' HURDLES, of 30 soys. Oue mile and a

half. Saunterer I Nancy Lee I Come Away Dundee I Jaffa j Nat Oberou „ Rebel ( Masterpiece Puriri I Border Lad | Roslyn KENSINGTON HANDICAP, of 50 soya. One mile

and a distance. Venus Lord Rosslyu Maremma Hipponous Eur iclydoii . Pitch and Toss Alder-shot Dun Joseph Hippomenes Jane Kyre WINTER HU RDIJ3S, of 50 soys. Two miles. Saunterer | Musket I Puriri Ulysses 1 Belmont Ulster Nat I Roslyn | MAIDBN HUNTEUB' STEEPLECHASE, of 25 soys. Two miles. Captain | Punraven | Double or Quits SHORTS HANDICAP, of 40sovs. Six furlong* Venus Maremma I St. Ouida Fulmen Victim 1 Decoy Pitt.li and Toss Mountebank | Quick-hot IL Lo d Zetland A rline j Sequin !*riy Lear Jane Kyre | HUNT CLUB CUP, of 50 soys. About two mile, and

a half. Come Away I Dundee | Fairy King Jaffa J Nat 1 Oberou Rebel | Masterpiece | Border Lad WELTER HANDICAP, ot <X) soys. Seven furlongs. St. Ouida I Victim I Musket Alder-hot j Dun Joseph ] Lady Somnus Ulster (Jane Eyre { As New Headford's name appears in the forfeit list his nomination was refused for the Hunters' Hurdles.

Nominations for the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Spring Meeting close tonight.

A number of summonses taken out by the Canterbury Trotting Club will be heard at the S.M. Court to-morrow.

Messrs Tonka, Norton and Co. report having sold privately the champion trotting three-year old record-holder, Dictator (smin 12sec), to a private syndicate of sporting gentlemen. The horse was placed on board the steamer Takapuna, on his return home to Auckland, when, at the last minute, the sale was effected and urgent telegrams had to be forwarded to Lytteiton, requesting the ship's agents to return the horse to terra firma. Dictator will remain in the hand, of his trainer, M. Edwards.