DUNEDIN-COURSING CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 2

DUNEDIN-COURSING CLUB

Second Da*.—Satut.dat. Ceaseless li<?ht rain made the Forbury Plumpton fatiguing for the. greyhounds and .worse for tho iLaxes, but no water could. *bo seen on the surface except a puddle near one end of tho escapes. The sport began at 1.60, and ended at 4.40. Mr J. Smith was slipper a.nd Mr J. Ronald judge. Their duties -were canned out satisfactorily, and Mr T. I.eo attended carefully to the secretarial work. We again call attention to the need of an announcer so as to let the people know what is immediately coming on, and also -what the results are. All sorts of guesses were made as to how the dogs would meet in various rounds, and when the jvdge was down by tho escapes it took sharp eyes to tell what result ho was signalling. GRAND CHALLENGE STAKE; winner, £25 and Miss Watt's medal; run-ner-up, £10; third dog, £5; three dogs at £3 each. —Third Round.— Mrs W. Clarke's Seaplane {Pirate. Cantain—Miss Bonka) beat Mr J. Bowling's Sunbeam. Mr W. E. Goodaill's Quickstep (Nightlight—Quick March) beat Mr A Sellers's Erin's Isle. Men-si's Jackson and Howard's Full Hand (Western Star—Nine o' Diamonds) beat Mr R. Bland's Dorothy. Seaplsiie led three lengths, and did everything till towards the end of a long course, winding up with, a kill.—Quickstep turned three lengths in front, and the kill came at once.-—Full Hand beat Dorothy four lengths for speed, then steadied for a wrench, and after he had turned the hare got away. Dorothy beaten pointless. —'Fourth Round.— beat Quickstep. Full Hand a bye. Seaplane and Quickstep had a no-course after a galloper that wont quite straight to tho escapes. Being clipped again at once, Seaplane beat Quickstep three lengths till nearly up, when Quickstep spurted' almost level, but Seaplane secured the cnly turn. —Final.— Sea-plane beat Full Hand. A no-courso was run, in which Seaplane led by a trifle. In the real trial Seaplane led a length and -wrenched j then Full Hand got a oonplo of turns; then there was a bit of swift work in the centre, Seaplane turning twice to Full Hand's once, and the slut rushed in for a clever kill. SAPLING STAKE; first dog, £3 10s; second, 15s. Mr W. Everart's Goldfield (Norman Tuckfield—Golden Heath er) beat Miss D. Mowat's Verbena. Mr C. R. Marks's First Home (Comedy King—Silveen) beat Mr W. GoodaH's Loyalty. Verbena led a length and secured a couple of turns, then stood off, and Goldfield won cleverly.—Loyalty stumbled as alio was are-leased, and" this gave First Home a lead of about three lengths. Each scored equally after the first turn. —Final.— First Home beat Goldfield. Goldfield led three lengths, but overran tho hare every time, and First Home scored fairly well for a sapling. SUPLEMENTARY STAKE; winner, £5 and trophy presented by Mr Lewis; runner-up, £2 10s; third dog, £1 la. —First Round.— Mr C. R. Marks's Norman Tuckfield (Persimmon —-Bride's Veil) boat Mrs W. Clarke's Night Attack. Mr O. R.. Marks's Grand March. (Soldiers' Ghoiruo—Silveen) beat Mr H. Divers's Croix d'Ov. Mr R. Ross's New Choim (Pride of the West.—Blue Bonnet) beat Messrs Lee and Millier'a Dash Kaka. Messrs Boyle and Jenkins's Bright Alice (Star of Papaniui—Miss M'Nab) boat Measra Opie and Bennett's Midnight March.. Messrs Opie and> Bennett's Queen Card (Last Gird—Erin's Queen) teat Mr G. Young's Nigger Minstrel. Mrs Kelly's Springfield Lass (Glenfinnan —Beauty) a bye. Norman Tuckfield led a length, and showed much-improved form by comparison with that of the previous "day; then Night Attack had a short innin?s, and Norman Tuckfield fell.—Grand March led and ; turned, and a kill in tho centre ended a short course.—Dash Kaka led to a hare : which neither could turn, and the judge • signalled a no-course. Being slipped again, New Chum led by a trifle and did everything till Dash Kaka killed—Bright Alice, ,up two lengths in front, turned and '. wrenched, and Midnight March killed.— j Queen Card led two lengths, and after tho I turn each wrenched.—Springfield Lass had ' to run twice in her bye, the first pair not providing a proper*trial. —Second Round. — New Chum beat Norman Tuckfield. Blight Alice beat Grand March. Queen Card beat Sprin.fieid Lass. Now Chum just .got first turn after a good race up, and plainly had tho best of the exchanges.—Bright Alice led two lengths, and fairly shared the after work. Queen Card "led three lengths, and Soringneld Lass got only an occasional look in. ■ —Third Round.— New Chum beat Bright Alice. Queen Card a bye.

New Oram.drew ahead in the race up, and turned twice, and that was all there was in it. —Final.— Now drum beat Queen C-ard. New Chum got first turn with, nothing to spare, and then began the dodgiest course of the meeting after a very strong and clever hare. Both dogs shaped well, but New Chum probably scored about thrice to tire other's twioe. The judging was quite fair both day*. Seaplane survived a most trying tss4 in tho Challenge Stake. Sho had to show smartness in each of her courses on the first dav ; and on Saturday she first had a long course in the third round, two runs m tho fourth round, and two runs in the final. Seapkmo belongs to Wa-ngamii, her owner being a lady who formerly lived in DunFull Hand, runner-up in the Challenge Stake, is owned at Qirmmie's Bueh. First Home belongs to Diuiedin, l\cw Chum to Kaitangata, Queen Card to A elson. SMOKE CONCERT. Members of the Danedin Coursing Chib entertained the visiting owners at a sinoko concert on Saturday night, iur B S Irwin (president) occupied _ the chair, and presented the prizes, specially congratulating Mrs Clarke on her success in the Grand Challenge Stake. The toast of "The Winning Owners was proposed by Mr J. Deaker and responded to by Mr Clarke and Mr Jackson. Ihe chairman gave the toast of lho Visitors." Mr Goodall, an responding, said ho would like to see the Waterloo Cup run at Dnnedin next year. Ho would guarantee two nominations, and would also give £2 2s as a trophy to the winner of tie Sapling Stake. Mr Jaofeson advocated a puppy stake in lieu ot a sapling stake, and said ho would be willing to give a £2 2s trophy for a puppy stake. Mr Irwin, in proposing the toast to the secretary (Mr T. Lea), made reference to his valuablo services to the club Several capitally-rendered selections on tho concertina by Mr W. Johnson were amongst the it-ems on the programme.