RACING ITEMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 30, 1 June 1896, Page 3

RACING ITEMS.

Nominations for the Now Zealand Cup ni\t Friday. \\ eights are due to-night for the minor ol tlie Auckland Grand National meeting. J lie l-.iiLilish Derby is run on Wednesday next. Pasha (Mute-llosc d"Amour) died in Sydney recently. Is trotting goiiiir to outdo racing '? Look! The amount put through the machines at tlie Duncdin Birthday meeting was .£9..30-3. and the same day at Takapvma <£8.5580 was invested, while the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting on the same day registered £"10,035. Gillie has been scratched for the Great Northern Steeplechase. His non-success in the big race at Wanganui was a severe disappointment to his backers in the South Island. Mr T. Mot rin lias thirty-one mares in foal at Wellington Park. St. Kilda has won the Britannia Handicap at the Takapuna winter meeting three years in succession. Twenty-nine entries have been received for the T&ranaki Hack Derby, to be run on Boxing Pay, 1807. Very general interest is being centred in the North New Zealand Grand National

meeting, which takes place nest Sattir«W and Monday. The acceptances for the two big races —Hnr<Ues and Stc p!i ..]i:isf —arc very numerous. soin« «>f tlic best fencers in tile colony being engaged. An excellent two ila\*' sport should be witnessed. and everything point- u> th" most successful meeting the Club has yet had.