EXTRA EDITION. LATE SPORTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION. LATE SPORTING.

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*~ TAKAPUNA RACES. fBT TEUGKAPH — PBiSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This DayThe Takapuna J. C. Summer Meeting commenced to-day. Results :—: — Cp-liiope Handicap, of 100 soys; five •' furlongs and a half .— Condamine, 6.13, - 1; Mai wa,' B.lo, 2; Cloudy Dawn, 7.5, " 3 Won by a neck, half a length be- /. tween second and third. Scratched— -, Harrigan and Gibson Girl. Time, lmin --" 12sec. * Zealandfa Handicap, of 100 soys; ~: four furlongs. — Miss Winnie, 8-13, 1 ; '-' Hikuaia, 8.5, 2 ; Elegance, 7.5, 3--Scratched: Wauchope, Miss Advance i Kanewara, Spectre, Taka. Won by a *: neck. Time, 51sec. ~ TROTTING. : CHRISTCHURCH, 'This Day. The weather is fine for the continua- *" tion of the New Zealand -Metropolitan V Trotting Club's meeting. Results: — »* Improvers' Handicap, of 100 soys; JT-one mile and a half. — Blackchild Boy, \ 16sec, 1 ; Lyonnaise, 18sec,' 2^ Ck>tah, *'<17sec, 3. Won by six lengtns. Time, !J 3min 45 3-ssec. •■"r Ladies' Braoelefc, of 60 soys; one ""mile and a half. — Chrysos, 4sec, 1; Red ?; Morn, 3sec, 2; Blitlie Lad, 2sec, 3. ~. 'Won by ten lengths. Time, 4min Bsec. TBLBGBAPH —^SPECIAL TO THE POST.] \ PALMERSTON X, This Day. -• At a meeting of the Manawatu Eacf ing Club committee a complaint was received from the public of the long delay -. in the trains running between the raceT course and Palmerston at the Christmas "^ meeting. One complainant stated that ,' a train leaving the course at 5.30 p.m. -*' took exactiy one hour to reach Palmers- ~ ton Norfeh. There was a great increase in the X totalisator taxation at the Christmas ''■ meeting. It amounted to jost under a *- thonsand •pounds, as compared -with. 2,ii500 at the 1909 meeting. » Mr. R. H. Skip with was. appointed '} otarter for the autumn meeting in April.