LATE SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9821, 21 July 1900, Page 8

LATE SPORTING.

Wellington E.G. Winter Meeting. [per press association.] Hutt R.C., This day. The weather is fine for the second day's races, and the course is much drier than on the first day. There is again a good attendance. HUTT FLYING HANDICAP, Of 100 soys ; 6 furlongs. Quiltina, 9-0 1 Sundial, 10-9 2 St. Peier, 11-0 3 All started. Won by two lengths. Time, 1.22 l-sth. Dividend, £6 7s. After this race a terrific hailstorm broke over the course, and the elements for the rest of the day promise to be even worse than on Wednesday. HACK AND HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE, Of 70 soys ; about 2 miles. Menaderva, 11-0 ... ... 1 Master Prince, 9-7 2 Czarina, 9-7 ... ... ... Z

All started. The others fell. Won easily by twenty lengths. Time, 4.47. Dividend, £7 3s.

WELLINGTON STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP, Of 350 soys ; about 3 miles. Plain Bill, 12-0 (Cochrane)... 1 Kauri Gum, 10-12 (Watts)... 2 Coin, 10-5 (Galhraith) ... 3 Scratched —Tataramoa, Silver Ray. Blackberry, Sylvanus, The Guard, and Black Dust fell, and Nor'-west pulled up. Plain Bill came up from fourth position at the back of the course the last time round, took the letd just before entering the straight, and won comfortably by six lengths, four lengths between second aud thud. Time, 7.4. Dividend, £10 14s. WINTER OATS HANDICAP, Of 125 sov3 ; 1 mile. Crusoe, 11-10 1 Sundial, 10-4 2 Volley, 10-2 3 Scratched—Ruamahanga. Won by a neck. Time, 1.54. Dividend, £6 Is. FINAL HURDLES, Of 150 soys; 1| miles. Hauriri, 10-6 ... ... 1 * Haydn, 9 7 2 Voltaire, 10-6 3 Scratched—Sundial, Coin. Won by a length. Time, 3.0. Dividend, £3 lis.