SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 609, 19 May 1891, Page 2

SPORTING.

Tha fifth year of the Kempton Park Great Jubilee Stakes, a handicap of 3000 sove., resulted as follows: —Nunthorpe 1, Martigon 2, Busticus 3. At Sydney the 25 mile championship walking handicap was won by McCune, of New Zealand, Harris, of Victoria, being second, and Morsebead, of Naw Zealand, third. Lord Arlington's colt Common is still favorite for the Derby at 6 to 4, but the Duke of Westminster’s representative, Orion, who is in the same stable as the favorite, has hardened in price, and is now quoted at 5 to 2. At a committee meetingof the Auckland Racing Club, held on Friday last, in answer to the secretary of the Gisborne Racing Club, it was agreed to reply that a trotting race could not be permitted on the Club’s programme. Messrs Pitt and Davies sold tbeprlvU leges in conneotion with the Queen’s Birthday race meeting on Saturday last, when the following prices were realised :— Gates £3l, Boyd; grandstand booth £5, Law; outside booth £2 10s. Craill; inside refreshment booth, £1 ss, Stevens; fruit stall and books were passed in; horses, £3 1O«, Boyd. At the Newmarket Second Spring Meeting last week the following was the result of the race for the Newmarket Stakes ,a sweepstakes of 30sovseach (118 subscribers value of the stakes, 4,500 sovs.) Mimi 1, Melody 2. The winner of this important event won the One Thousand Guineas Stakes last month, in which the Australia:} owned filly Melody acted as runner up. At Horowhsnua and Wairarapa, Ihsrs art football teams, between whom much rivalry exists, A match has been decided to tske place, and the stakes are to be £5O s-sids. The only circumstance preventing the game eventuating, is that the patties are unable to agree as to the ground on which the contest shall be played. One team wishes it played at Otaki, and the other would like it on the Palmerston ground, the reasrnt tfcsy assign being that the latter town has mors representatives ot the police force.