SPORTING.
~ i telegram from Wellington states that Mr J. Douglas Gordon’s well-known horse Boreas died at Poritna on Sunday, of pleurisy and pneumonia.
AUCKLAND E.C. SUMMER MEETING.
[Br TKI.K9BAPH.]
Auckland, Monday, This morning the owner of Battleaxe accepted from the Auckland ting about .£I3OO at 10 to 1 for the Auckland Cap. On Saturday night for the double. Cup and Railway Handicap, St, Michael and Cruciform were backed down to as short a price as hundreds to eight. The following are the prices on offer on the Auckland Cup to-day 4 to 1 Nonette, 5 to I St. Michael, 6 to 1 Blue Jacket and Beddingten, 8 to 1 Ideal, Battleaxe. and Coronet, 16 to 1 Djin Djiu, 20 to 1 Formula, St. Ursula, Materoa, and Defender, 25 to 1 Volee and Mars. Nonette and St. Michael in the Cup, and Cruciform and Jewellery in the Railway Handicap, ate the most heavily supported in the doubles, about £ISOO having boon taken during the past week locally. In the acceptances for the A.S.C. Railway Handicap Hikapene and Deadlock were omitted. Tigress appeared in the list of acceptors for the Auckland Cup by mistake.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12024, 10 December 1901, Page 4
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