LATE SPORTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 September 1926, Page 9

LATE SPORTING.

DANNEVIRKE HUNT CLUB

ANNUAL MEETING

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DANNEVIRKE, Sept. 16. The Daimevirke Hunt Club’s annual meeting is being held in boisterous, showery weather. The track is heavy and the attendance small. Results': ASHCOTT HUNTERS’ HURDLES. Of 80 sows-; -1J miles. 2 Tam alcana 1 6 Haumariri 2 1 Mixed Heather 3 Scratched: Revel and 'Mount Clyde. Won by three lengths, 12 -lengths- between second and .third. 3 Miss Fairpeed took no -part in the race owing to- a stirrup- leather breaking. S ORIN'GI HURDLES. Of 100 sovs; li miles. 7 Handy 1 4 Arch. Salute .".. A 2 1 Lady Passenger 3 Scratched: Revel, Glament, and! Me-m-olio. Won hv a length, half a length between second and third. Time. 2.59 2-5. Kail lost its rider and Labour Morn fell. TAKAPAU NOVICE STAKES. Of 80 so-vs; five furlongs. 1 Starboard Light 1 7 P-owhiri i 4 6 Rakaupongo 3 Also .started: Star Chamber, La-dy Or by, Limonite, Tr.uney, Gordon, Swift, and* Taranto. Won 'by two lengths, with three lengths between, -second and th-i-id. Time, 1.6 2-5. HUNT CLUB STEEPLES. Of 100 sovs; 2J miles. 6 Gay Bobbie 1 2 Oneroa 2 1 Aotea Roa 3 'Scratched: Donaghue. Won by two lengths, three lengths between second and third. Time, 5.17. •

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB

ANNUAL MEETING.

WELLINGTON, Sept. IG. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Racing Club, the balance-sheet showed that £43,900 had been paid out in stakes and £49,289 in taxes. Interest totalled £8689. The total receipts were £95,842 of which .£61,197 came from totalisator, gates and railway £1849, fees from owners £9679.

The report mentioned that the. work on the new grandstands was still going on and power had now been secured for running the electric totalisator. Mr J. B. Hareourt was re-elected president.