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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7914, 1 December 1887, Page 3

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< . Nominations for the principal events of the Napier Park Racing Club's New Year's Day meeting will close with the secretary at 10. p.m. to-morrow (Friday) ' evening. The following are the stakes for which entries will he received :— Handicap Hurdle Race, nomination 1 soy j New -Year's Handicap, nomination lsovyHigh Weight Handicap, nomination 1 soy.; Flying Handicap, nomination' 1 soy ; Selling Race, nomination 2 soys j and Greenmeadows Handicap, nomination 1 soy; : By a misprint the name of Mr Chas. Harron's b g Cheviot appeared among the nominations for the Handicap Hurdle Race at the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's meeting instead of Mr Chas. H. Arrow's b g Chemist. The New Zealand racing season is now ' in full swing and every available holiday 13 seized with avidity as being a legitimate day on which to hold a race meeting. St. Andrew's Day is no exception to the rule, though this day is scarcely a regular * holiday. Ths Wellington Racing Club and. the Dunedin Jockey Club both held race meetings yesterday. At the former meeting Tongariro again showed himself to be in a winning vein by easily appropriating the Flying Stakes, for whioli he went out a hot favorite. Kangaroo placed the Hurdle Race to his owner's credit, and then Laurel secured the Hutt Park Spring Handicap, by a neck from Rivulet, with Administrator occupying third place. At the Dnnedin meeting the Hurdle Race went to Garibaldi, who was tipped by neatly all the Southern sporting prophets, r . but contrary to general expectations he paid a very good dividend on the totalisator. This is in a measure accounted for by the fact that his jockey had received a severe spill in the morning and the public confidence in him was shaken. The Maiden Plate was won by Kimberley, with Ruby's brother, Springston, second. The. principal event, the St. Andrew's Handicap, fell to the last Great Autumn Handicap winner, Quibble, and he pul down a good favorite in Beresford, while the good looking, and fashionably bred Ravenscraig carried 12lb over weight anc ran third. The Selling Race for two yeai olds" saw Chic pull through easily "am thns score another win for her owner, M G. G. Stead. '