SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10302, 30 April 1897, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING IN ENGLAND. At the Epsom spring meeting the City and Suburban Handicap resulted as follows : Duke of Devonshire's Balsano, 7.4 ... ... 1 Mr Brassey's Bayronald, 7.7 ... ... ... 2 Mr Miller's La Sagesse, 7.12 3 THE TIMARU MEETING. Factory Girl's dividend in the Two-mile Trot yesterday was £5 17s. Stockfish won the Selling Race very easily, paying a dividend of £1 19j in a field of four. The Flying Handicap resulted thus : Jewel (8.7) 1, Molly Darling (7.5) 2, Vanilla (8.5) 3. The dividend was £3 4s, and the time for the six furlongs was returned as lmin 15sec. WELLINGTON AUTUMN MEETING. Ooly 1,200 people attended the Hutt racecourse yesterday, and as a result speculation through the totalisator was limited, the sum of £4,977 only being handled. The Hack Flat Race was won by Stockade, who paid £l7. The concluding event resulted thus : RAILWAY HANDICAP, of 120 sovs. Second horse 15 sovs from the stakes. Six furloDgs. Mr J. Loughlin's br g Goldspur, by Rubezahl - Roseleaf. i yrs. 9.11 (W.Pine) 1 Mr Cave's On Dit, 7.1 (Hercock) 2 Mr Jorgensen's Strathbraan, 8.11 (M'Taggart) 3 Also started: Boreas (8.0, inc. 71b over), Arquebus (7.9), Sylvia Park (7.5), Umslopogaas (7.5), Undine (7.2). After some delay, occasioned by the fractiousness of Goldspur, Mr Piper got the field away on fairly even terms. Goldspur and On Dit were quickest on their legs and raced together for a hundred yards, whea the former drew out clear, and from that time never gave his backers any anxiety, winning easily by a length and a-half, Strathbraan a moderate third, with the others beaten off some distance away. Time, lmin 18 4-ssec. Totalisator, £947. Dividend, £2 13s. D.J.C. COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the D.J.C. Committee, held last evening, waß attended by the Hon. G. M'Lean (in the chair), Messrs Fleming, Taggart, Short, Miller, Stephenson, Meenan, Lintott, and Solomon. A trainer's license was granted to W. Fhelan with a caution. A jockey's license was granted to I. Toomey, A trainer's license was refused to James Hendry, ho already holding a jockey's license. A letter was received from several owners, trainers, and riders having trotting horses engaged in the trotting events at the May * meeting asking the Dunedin Jockey Club to run the trots under the rules of the South Island Trotting Association.—lt was decided to accede to the request. It was resolved that ladies' tickets for the May meeting be issued to members at halfprice (2s 6d); that the outside totalisator be worked at 10s for the May meeting; that all bookmakers, tote bettors, or agents be not admitted to the course. Transfer passed: Hon. G. M'Lein to S. J. Mercer, b f by St. Clair—Dione. It was resolved that £5 5s be voted towards the expenses of the publication of the ' New Zealand Stud Book.' A letter was received from the Riverton Racing Club stating that at their last meeting two horses—Peter Simple and Nimblefoot—ran a dead heat in the Steeplechase, and that the dead heat was run off next morning. In the run-off one of the horses (Nimblefoot) came to grief at the last fence, and the rider was assisted from the jump and did not weigh in. The club asked if the owner of Peter Simple could claim first and second money, or first only, or should second money go to Nimblefoot owing to his having run a dead* heat the first time.—lt was resolved to reply that Peter Simple, the winner in the run-off, is entitled to both first and second money.