SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Evening Star, Issue 11694, 27 September 1902, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

AVONDALE SPRING MEETING. The weather is extremely cold for the second day's- racing. Heavy rain fell during the night, and the course is again bad. Results:— SECOND HURDLES, of 80 eovs. One mile and three-quarters.—Bellman (10 3) 1. Mars (12.2) 2, Canongate (10.7) 3. Tim was scratched. Time, 3min 41£ sec. Dividends, £1 15s and £2 10s. PRESIDENT'S HANDICAP, of 100 sovs. Seven furlongs.—Maroon and Gold (7.4) 1, Maro (6.8) 2, Solo (7.10) 3. Won easily by three lengths. Time, Imin 40sec Dividend, £2 6s. ' AVONDALE GUINEAS, of 1.50 sovs One mile.—Wairiki 1, Idas 2, Gladisla 3. Also started : Kelburn, Mary Seaton. Won by three lengths. Time, lmin 55sec. Dividend, £5 ss. OTAGO CYCLING CLUB'S RUN. About seventy persons took part in the Utago Cycling Cub's opening run this afternoon. The weather was ejood at three o'clock, but a shower of rain fell soon after, preventing the cyclists from going far. Our Own " thus comments on the Geraldine meeting:—These races suffered owing t<> the weather. On Thursday the sun snore, but the atmosphere was bitterly cold, while yesterday a heivy gale, accompanied by rain and 'sleet, did its best to make the lot of the race-goer as unhappy as pofsible. The New Zealand Cup candidate Magnificent scored an easy victory in the Squatters' Handicap on Thursday, jr-d scrambled in half a head in front of Cameo •m the Spring Handicap yesterday. Lady Lillian took advantage of the consideration shown her by the handicapper in the Belfield Handicap, and smothered her opponents in capital style, while Terrapin gave Cameo 51b and a beating in the Geraldine Racing Club. Rosemere gave further indication of improvement by defeating Cora Linn at a difference of 101b in the Plying Handicap, and the latter subsequmtlv won the Railway Handicap, but the merit of her victory was discounted bv the fact that her solitary opponent was the moderate Flame. Shooting Star—not the Artillery gelding of that name, but a son of Pinfire and Polish —appropriated the Hunters' Hurdle Race, but went down before the Artillery gelding Mainstay in the Coronation Hunters' Hurdh yesterday. -The Stewards' Stakes produced a tremendous struggle between First Shot and Slow Tom, of which the former got the better by a head. Satisfactory entries have been received for th-i principal.handicaps at the ChrHchurch meeting in November. The Metropolitan has attracted twenty-seven horses, the J.C. Handicap forty-five, and the Ranfurly Handicap fifty. At the Geraldine races yerterday Cora Linn (9.9) easily defeated Flame in the Railway Handicap, and paid her backers £1 6s; Cyclamen (7.2) accounted for the Shorts, and paid £3. Cerise and Blue (7.7), who was a poor second, payin? 14s; Daisv (15sec) accounted for the Electric Trof. with Silver Sash (12sec) second (dividend. £1 4s); and Punamu managed to eet home in the Farewell n neck in front of Wentine. The marhine receipts were £774, a<rainst £933 last year, nnd the nvetin.? showed a shortage of £306 compared with last year. Simile has been scratched for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The spring meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club will beheld at Wmgatui on. October 8 and 1L -V-