SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Evening Star, Issue 11890, 19 May 1903, Page 8

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TAKAPUNA RACES. The following are the acceptances for the second day’s racing of the Takapuna J.C. meeting:— Britannia Handicap, of 150 sots. One mile.—Landlock 9.2, Formula 8.6, Durable 8.3, Putty 8.3, St. Olga 8.2, Marshal Soult 7.8, Jewellery 7.7, Paul Seaton 7.5, Idas 6.7. Welter Handicap, of 75-sovs. One mile. —St. Olga 9.3, Paul Seaton 8.12, Zuleika Annoyed 8.3, Bastion 8.0 Spalpeen 7.12, Swagsman 7.9, Queen Anne 7.7, Corporal 7.7, Blaircarrig 7.7, Mary Seaton Victoria Handicap, of 100 sovs. Six furlongs.—Numa 9.7, Scotty 9.3, Cygnet 9.2, j 9 £’ Austerlitz 8.13, Green and Gold 8.10, Formula 8.7. Orange and Blue 8.3, Bastion 8.3, Camille 7.0. Second Handicap Hurdles, of 100 sovs One mile and three-quarters—Bellman H. 5, Inchcape 9.7, Dolores 9.5, Lingard 9.5, Evermore 9.5, Gilnockie 9.2, Sirdar 9.0, Mokomoko 9.0, Sudden 9.0, Hippowai I Second Pony Handicap, of 60 Sovs. Six iariongs -Forth 10.0, Annoyed 9.5, Girton .id 8.12, Miami 8.3, St. Loanda 710 '.alpine 7.7, Sentinel 7.5, Whawhai 7 0 • »eet Marie 6.12, First Whisper 6.9, fsapid 6.7; Ouisne 6.7, Hack Handicap, of 60 sovs. Five furangs—lrish 80, Ambition 7.10. Rapid i 4. Kathleen 7.3, Bugle 7.3, Rona 6.12, .eport 6.12, Better Days (late May Day) • 12. Le Bean 6.12, Sugarcane 6.12. NOTES FROM CANTERBURY • Our Own ” at Christchurch wires Ow- ’ , t0 th ? wintry weather experienced last matters were at a standstill, ac weather cleared on Sunday, but the ,1 s at Eiccarton had received a thorough an 4 httl e fast work had been done to the time of writing. Most of the horses haying engagements 9 Ashburton will fulfil them. They are :.and to bo a little backward after their • weed idleness. I see no reason, howi, to alter my last week’s selections. Hewitt u out and able to get about on atchea, but necessarily it must be some ne before he will bo able to ride again. Pilgnms Progress and the mam pur'■ha**d, m Australia by Mr Friedlander reached Ashburton on Friday. They had stood the journey well. They came oyer in charge of H. Cripps, who won the Melbourne Gup on Tarcoola. The following business has been done locally on the Auckland Steeplechase and Hurdle Race;—2so to 8 against Cannongate and Mars, 200 to 7 Haydn and Glencoe, 200 to 6 Cannongate and Awahuri, 100 to 5 Haydn and Otairi, TOO to Z Awahuri and Glencoe, 100 to 3 Awahuri and Otairi, 100 to 3 Awahuri and Gilnockie, 100 to 3 Awahuri and Awahuri. Nirvana, whose death I recorded in my hut notes, -was in foal to St JUrin,