SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4967, 3 February 1879, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DUNEDIN AUTUMN MEETING. 9 The following nominations were -declared on Saturday evening : Handicap Hurdle Race, of ■BO so vs.;' the second horse to receive 10 sovs from -the.stakes.. Nomination, 2 sovs ; .acceptance, 2 sovs.. Two miles and a distance, over ten flights of hurdles,' 3ft oin high.' Loyalty (late Shillelagh) 'Agent” Larrikin ~, Eyersley Te Whetu - ••• Dalesman • Dandy Kildare. Novel RACE,a handicap of 80 sovs. Nomination, ■ 2 sovs. , One mile and a quarter.'. The winner to be sold by'auction, with his engagements, and the whole proceeds of the sale of the horse to go to the funds. Exile Rosemary Jack the Flat > Swede Larrikin , Duntroon Moose Tommy. NnmaHandicap Steeplechase, of 100, sovs. Nomination, 3 sovs ; acceptance, 3 sovs; the second horse to leceive 20 sovs from the stakes. About three miles, over such fences as ohe stewards may appoint. Loyalty " Te Kooti Te'Whetu • - ..'.Dalesman .. Agent • •••■■- ; -Kildare -• Eversley Forburt Handicap, of 200. , 50v5, with.a" sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; the second horse to. receive the amount accruing from the sweepstakes. Nomination, 3 sovs; acceptance, 4 sovs. One mile and ahalf, ‘ ■ _ > ' Chancellor "■'Dundee” York ! ■ " ' Fallacy Vampire Sapphira- ' Fishhook -Laertes Natator - ■ Sir James Venus Transit , . -King Philip Templeton Cloth o*f Gold Titania Dead Heat " Sinking Fund, - ; •r - Nemo Mata Foul Play Maroro Oberon I?ara ' Atlantic. Boiardo’ " ■ ■ Flying Handicap, of 100 sovs, with a sweepstakes of 2 sovs each; the amount accruing from the sweepstakes to go to the second horse.. One mile and a distance. Nomination, 3 sovs ; acceptance, 2 sovs. The winner of the Forbury Handicap to carry 81b extra.- • -- , • - . . , Chancellor' ' '. Tpndine York Blue Peter > atnpire Boadicea Fishhook • 'Sapphira' • Natator • Laertes Venus Transit ". 1 ; r-Henjifoo -' 1 Templeton . , -: - v Foul Play.' ,/ Maritana Drone ' Sinking Fund- ".Oberon Marofo. .. Atlantic. ;r■ ; The above. entries ■ exceed those of- last year by fourteen, being, sixty njue. ; against fifty-five. There is a decrease of three nominations in the Hurdleißace arid.of two in the Steeplechase j-Auit - the Novel Dace shows 'ah . increase 'of ’ three, the Forbury' Handicap of eleven, and the Flying Handicap of fiVe., /. ’ A Dress Agency , telegram states that Fishhook was sqratched for.'all his Wellington engagements at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. THE WAIRARAPA RACES. The following are the entries for the principal events 7" STARES.— Lara, Harkaway, Bribery, Mufti, Dauebury,-Laertes. Y Ladies’ Purse—Diver, Ada, Bribery,. Eversley, Merlin, Agent. ,» .... • T Handicap..—Roebuck,- Kangaroo/Blue Jacket,-Harkaway,Ada, Eversley, Agent.' ' ' y . " WAmARAPA J.c; Handicap. Laertes Ada * Briber y> Mu£ti » Danebury,... Lady District., Handicap.. .Lara, ,Ida, Barbelle, Blue Jacket, Diver,., Orphan, Lady Ellen,’ Pretty-Girl Harkaway, Ada. • •.»