TROTTING MATCH.
The trotting mateh tor LSO a-si tic, run at Wanganui on Saturday, between Mr W. Kirkwood’s Our Pony and Mr Chavannes’s Little Nell, was won rather easily by Our Pony. Both horses got away nicely. Little Nell made good use ef her 25 seconds, and at the end of tho first mile Our Pony was still 23 seconds in tho rear, and offers of 3 to 1 against her were plentiful. In the next mile Little Noll overreached and cut herself badly. The result was that she broke onco or twice, and then trotted very indifferently. At two miles and a-quarter Our Pony passed Little Nell, and won comfortably in 9rnin 2sec. Little Nell was Heeding profusely at tho finish of the race. Had she kept up tho pace she was going tho first mile she must nave won.
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Evening Star, Issue 6030, 10 July 1882, Page 3
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141TROTTING MATCH. Evening Star, Issue 6030, 10 July 1882, Page 3
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