LATE SPORTING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 214, 9 December 1925, Page 6

LATE SPORTING.

TO-DAY’S RACING. WOODVILLE MEETING OPENS. Woodville, Dec. 9. The Woodville summer meeting; opened in glorious weather. The attendance is large and the track fast. Results :— Manga-atua Hurdles.—Many Colours 1, Merry Singer 2, Uncle Dave 2. Won by five lengths, a neck between second and third horses. Time, 2.50. Trial Plate.—First Division: Black Mint (Keesing) 1, Pardon 2, Bank Draft 3. Scr: Golden Egg and Joy Bird. Won by half a length. Second Division: Kilbrowsyth (McCarten) 1, Windbag 2. Lampyre 3. Scr: Trance and Touchwood. Won by three lengths. Woodville Handicap. — Clarinda (Burns) 1. Olympic 2, Kilfaire 3. Scratched: Arch Salute. Won by a length, a length between second and third. Time ,2.7.

Hack Flying.—First Division: Sleet (Rosen) 1, Lin Arlington 2, Joy Bird 3. All started. Won by a head; half a length between second and third. Time 1.15. Second Division: Blue Jay (Hugh) I, West broke 2, Penman 3. Won by half a length, same distance between second and third. Time 1.14 1-5. MARTON J. C. SUMMER MEETING. Nominations for the above meeting, to be held on the Feilding Racecourse on Friday and Saturday, Ist and 2nd January, close on Friday next at 9 p.m. with the secretary at Marton. The stake for the Stewards’ Welter Handicap is £250, and not £2OO as printed in the “ Weekly Press,” and on the club’s programme. Two-year-olds are also eligible for the Junction Plate of 5 furlongs, on rhe second clay.

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

A. E. COOKE FOR NAPIER. WELLINGTON’S HOPES SQUASHED. Wellington, Dee. 9. A. E. Cooke, the Rugby All Black, who arrived in Wellington recently from Auckland, leaves to-morrow to take up a position in Napier.