SPORTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 3

SPORTING.

X API PA UK MF:KT!XC. (by TELEGRAPH PR ESP ASSOCIATION.) NAPIER, June 21. The Napier Park .Racing Club's winter meeting concluded to-dav in fine weather, the course being heavy. Fields were large and the racing good. The sum of £13,020- was handled by the totaii-ator, making :£23,K02 for the two days, decrease of £207! on last year’s total. Results: ■Muni Club Steeplechase, two miles. — Kovno (Bowden) 1, Teopai 2, Diamond Nap 3. Also started: Stmclee, Gaze, Cambric, Ethiopian, Tarakete, Waioska Jack, Gay Bobbie. Strthpan,'Kaupara. Gaze and Gay Bobbie fell and Waioeka

-Jack lost its rider. Won by five lengths, with two lengths between second and third. Time. 4.38 2-5. Meanee Hack Handicap, five furlongs.—Guardania (Waddell) 1, White Ensign 2, Sunny Roe 3. Also started: Ma Bough al, Merry Imp, Bonlita, Bonrina, Huikai, Damar, Hiwinni. A head separated the first three horses. Time 1.6 4-5. Waiohiki Hack Hurdles, one mile and a half. —Jovial (J. Nixon) 1. Molyneaux 2, Laudbird 3. Also started: Earthshine, Vindictive, Mosthenes, Lady Hill, Empyrean, Goldpiece. Won by four lengths, with half a length between second and third'. Time 2.59 3-5. Park Stec-plech ase Handicap, two

miles and a half.—Mahurn (A. McDonald) 1, Buckeye 2, Oak Rose 8. Also- started: San Forte, Pa-sain' through, First Lino, Loci Cent, Kipling, Te Maire, (lane; Awa’. Won by four lengths, with two lengths between *eeond and third. jTime, 5.36 2-5. Poraite Hurdle-' Race, one mile- and three-quarters.—Alteration (Ivaan) 1. Vagabond 2. Admiral Codrington 3. Also started: Kohu. Woden," Birka. Won by four lengths, with two lengths between second and third. Time. 3.3 3-5. News lead Hack Handicap, six furlongs—Tino -Maunga, (P. Hatch) I, Ivillaii’e 2, r \ reathvell 3. Also started: Puketoi, Sensible. Kilroe, Itoyal Heather, Ajax. Monby a neck, with two lengths between second and third.

Time, 1.21 2-5. ASHBURTON RACES—SECOND DAY. ASHBURTON. June 21. The weather was fine and the track heavy for the concluding day of the Ashburton steeplechase meeting. There "as a large attendance, and the totalisator handled £10,845, against £15,348 ior the eight races on the corresponding day of last year. The total tor the meeting was £20.916. Result? : Second Hurdles, one mile and a half. -Roya! Star 1, Likelihood 2, Agnola 3. W'on by a head. Time, 2.54. W inchmore Hack Handicap, seven iurlongs.—Alarkie 1, Thorndale 2. Adopted 3. Won hy half a length. I.4'}. 5\ inter Steeplechase, two miles and a quarter;—Sherlock 1. Tigerhuid 2. Clalway 3. Aon hy three lengths. Woodrow and Taiiuii IT. fell, and Intolerance ran olf. I'inie, 3.45. Melrose Trot, one mile.—Rebel 1. Nelson 3l.ac 2, Logic 3. Won by four length?. Time, 2.59 4-5. County Handicap, seven furlongs.— Paddy’s Hope 1, Carmine 2, Will Oakland 3. Won bv three lengths. Time 1.31 2-5. IM. ore ton Had: Handicap, five fur-' longs.— liicmsio 1. Queen' Balboa 2. Proliliman 3. Won by a head. Time 1.9 2-5. , Wakanui Handicap, six furlongs.— Radial 1, Prosperity 2. Solferite 3. Won by half a length. Time, 1.17 1-5. TWO YEARS’ DISQUALIFICATION. NAPIER. June 21. Antler, the jockey (K. Baker), and the owner (Thompson Bros.) have been disqualified for two year? for malpractice in connection with the running in the Moteo Hack Hurdle Race on the first day of the Napier Park Racing Club’s winter meeting. RACING TN AUSTRALIA. ■•:Y cable-press ASSOCIATION —COPY EIGHT SYDNEY. June 2i. At Rosehill the Three-vear-old Handicap resulted: 'l’he Cheat 1, Chatterbox 2. Broiminb’s Dream 3. Sixteen started. A .great, finish. Won bv a head. Time, 1.28. MELBOURNE, June 21. The Wanda Steeple? resulted: Chrysostom 1, Someworth 2, Rroodsoinde 3. Chrvsostoni won easily hy three lengths.' Time, 3.44.’.. Eleven started.