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Tui Cakobau should have' won the Hauturu Hurdles on the second day tif the Takapuna Meeting only for his rider thinking there was another round to go. For this carelessness Jones was fiueel Z~i by the stewards.

When com|ieting in the Hauturu Hurdles on the second day of th? Takapuna J.C. Meeting, Hoanga and Luscombe tell, and tfi<" formers rider, W. Wilson, had hi., collarbone fractured. lor the first day's events to be decided on the first day of the Dunedin J.C'."*-* Winter Meeting e\ose this evening. Acceptances for the Auckland E.C.s Gieat Northern Steeplechase Meeting, which commences on Friday next, also close to-night. The Lord Rosslyn—Komuri gelding Store C'niger. win- won the two hurdle races it the North Ota'tro J.C.s Me?ting this wejlc, wa> owned at one time b) Mr St. J. Buckley, but he disposed ol him for the modest turn of £16, £*-> l.c must proved a rare bargain to Mr T. Twomey, Ins present owner. At the Dunedin J.C.s Autumn Meeting in Februiry he finished seoond in the hurdle rates on the first two days, and won on the concluding day. and at tho South Canterbury J.C 's Meetins

last month he aetcd ar. runner-up in both hurellc race**,, while now he -ia-. annexcl the double at Oaiitan-. On tlie score of breeding he ought to be able to gallop, as his sire, Lord Itossiyn, who himself was no mean performer on tho Turf, is by St Clair (son of Musket) from Lady Emma, a dual Dunedin Cup winner, while hir; dam, Komuri, is nil! siister to Euroclydon, who won the New Zealand Cup, Derby, and Canterbury Cup in 1890, being by Gorton from Lady Gertrude.